Cassie Wells Research Paper

Cassie Dawin Campbell was born on November 22, 1973 in Richmond hill, Ontario, Canada. In the early 1990’s she was a defensemen in hockey and was the captain for the University of Guelph’s team. During the time that Cassie played for this team she took them to a collegiate championship in 1995. She was also a member of the Canadian women’s national ice hockey team, and played for both teams respectively at the same time. She won her first international gold medal at the World Championships in 1994, and after she graduated university with a degree in sociology, she won her second gold medal at the 1997 World Championships.

Cassie Logan followed her convictions when she knew what her and her classmates were being called wasn’t right. In the beginning of the book, Cassie Logan and her brother, Little Man, started school. They were put in the same class this year. They finally got somewhat “new books”. Little Man, being the clean freak he is, noticed how dirty the books were. When he opened it, he screamed with anger. On the inside of the front cover there was a word, a word that was very offensive to all blacks. Cassie saw what Little Man was upset about, and she and Little Man both refused to take the books. Miz Crocker did not like their behavior, so she decided to talk to their mother. Miz Crocker threatened to whip Little Man. When she did this, Cassie stepped in and said “Miz Crocker, don’t, please!” I cried. Miss Crocker’s dark eyes warned me not to say another word. “ I know why he done it.” (Taylor, Chap. 5)This quote shows that Cassie wasn’t afraid to get a whipping as long as Little Man wouldn’t get whipped as well. After Miz Crocker got done talking to Mama, Cassie wanted to go tell Mama about what really happened. When she walked in the classroom, she saw and felt this, “Mama remained at her desk, sitting very still. For a long time she did not move. When she did, she picked up the seventh grade books and began to glue again. I wanted to go and help her, but something warned me that now was not the time to make my

Cassie Logan is a black, nine year old girl living in rural Mississippi. Throughout her life Cassie displays many different qualities, she can be feisty, sassy, and clever, but most of all she is courageous. This does not just mean she is plucky or tenacious, it means she is “brave and/or fearless” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). Whenever she shows this quality, she stands up for herself, as well as others. Being courageous is so important simply because she is a black girl living in 1933. Racism was very common at that time, and standing up for yourself was the only way you would get respect. However, in some incidents described in the book, Cassie changed her life for the better and took one step closer towards a fairer world. There are three

An example of this is when Papa and Mama were talking about going to Vicksburg and taking Stacey with Papa. This was during the night when all the kids were asleep but Cassie she was on the closest window listening to what they were saying (Page 206). There are more examples like the time she was spying on Mrs. Cocker and Mama talking. The second thing is that she is naive meaning she shows a lack of knowledge and experience in her life.

In the glass castle, Jeannette Wells lives with such parents that she was much of the time homeless. She had no idea that her father’s drinking abuse was so wrong, or that living in such run down homes with animals that came and go could be seemed as unfit for a family with children. So young, with her three siblings, they wouldn’t know at the time they were being treated poorly by the people they believed loved them the most. Scroungy and dirty, but tough from living in such horrible conditions as a child. Growing up has shown difficulty for the young girl.

To continue, he gave away a piece of himself that many would say: he wouldn’t get back, because tomorrow is never a certainty, and that’s especially true for them now. But a 5-year-old, a little 5-year-old, gave away a piece of himself, for someone that was the bigger piece of himself. Most kids, would never surrender their childhood, because they want to hold on, but as long as Sammy had the promise by Cassie herself; he had hope, and because of that: he wouldn’t let himself believe the world was going to fall, at least not yet, ”How old is Cassie? ' Cassie’s sixteen. They’re going back to get her,' '

Cassie has lost her mother, but has found someone potentially able to help her find her mother. Agent Locke has lost the person she trusted the most, but has found something to replace her hurt of abandonment. Michael lost to Lia’s goading, but he found a way to get even. Throughout the book, Barnes subtly explored the contrast between lost and found, giving her story a smooth flow from the beginning to the resolution. Making a point that everyone has lost something, she seems to support that everyone has found a replacement of sorts as well. Cassie experiences several losses throughout The Naturals, but Barnes’ ability to provide a satisfying and strong conclusion brings Cassie’s first months of being a Natural to a

shown to like Jeremy to a certain extent for who he is and not just

As time went on she became more involved in church, and religious activities. She got baptized and saved at the church that she always attended. She grew to love the black church that she grew up mocking. The old lady that always sat in the front row made her realize how deep the roots of her church were.

She had help from Mama and kept asking her mother to help her and her brothers understand why blacks were being treated in this manner. The book takes place nine years before the start of World War ll. Throughout the rest of the book she started to understand why people didn't treat them right even though blacks were free. She realizes this when she was in the middle of the market place with Mama and bumped into Lillian Jean and was being screamed at by everyone to apologize and when she finally did apologize she asked Mama on the way home why she was being screamed at by the white people to apologize, mama told cassie that it was because the whites didn’t see blacks as actual people. (CItation) Why are you telling me this? What does it have to do with your

Before Cassie Bernall became a Christian, she was an outsider at school. Cassie had written letters to a friend about how she could kill her parents, Brad and Misty Bernall, and end all of her problems. Cassie's parents found the letters, made copies of them, and gave them to the police department. When Cassie got home from school, her parents confronted her. After the confrontation, the Bernall's broke all of Cassie's ties with her friends. The Bernall's enrolled Cassie in a Christian school. Cassie was not allowed to answer the phone and no longer had any privileges. She was allowed to go to a youth group, but that was all she could do. Her parents even went as far to put a monitor on their phone so they could know what she was doing when they weren't home. Cassie had lost all of the trust that she earned from her parents. Misty Bernall didn't go back to work so that she could watch over Cassie. Cassie had her backpack searched, her phone calls monitored, and her bedroom searched. Furtively investigating their daughter, they say,

The further ‘off the rails’ Cassie goes, the more extreme the sexual situations, at one point ‘courting’ a female and then a few minutes after the female leaves a male arrives. “Sexuality strongly influences people’s identity.” (Op. cit. p.22) And at this point in the series we find that Cassie has a very mixed up idea about who she is and what she wants.

Finally, Cassie had little-to-no human contact before she was shot in the leg and saved by Evan Walker but she still did not hesitate to kiss him, cuddle, fight, or anything that a normal couple would do. After fighting with each other, “Evan Walker kisses me. Holding my hand against his chest, his other hand sliding across my neck…” Despite Cassie being shot in the leg by an unknown shooter, aliens trying to take over the Earth, her brother being taken, and her family being dead, she is still a teenage girl who enjoys male interaction.

If you only had a few months left to live due to a disease how would you choose to live? Would you let it take control of you and wither away, or would you make the most out of your final days by doing all you could? In the novel Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom gains a new understanding of life’s greatest lessons through his dying professor’s, Morrie Schwartz, eyes. This book helped open my eyes as well and realize what is truly important in your life and the things you should make a priority. Between our textbook, Social Gerontology, and the novel, Tuesday’s with Morrie, they both touched a lot of important key points of aging and what a person is ultimately faced with as they are nearing their death. The top three

Near the end of the book Cassie bumps into Jeremy Simms sister and her dad comes and pushes Cassie off the sidewalk.“It was then that I bumped into Lillian Jean Simms… Mr. Simms glared down at me “When my gal Lillian Jean says for you to get yo’self off the sidewalk, you get, your hear.” This shows her losing innocence because she now sees how terrible white people are to push a 9 year old girl off the sidewalk because someone bumped into her. Lillian and her dad are very racist so now she knows not to mess with her and not to talk back.