My Heart and other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga The book My Heart and other Black Holes opens up with the main character, Aysel, a depressed and suicidal sixteen year old girl. Aysel is depressed due to the fact that she has to face the town full of people who tease her and are scared of her everyday. Aysel lives in Langston, Kentucky. In the town that Aysel lives her father committed a great crime. Aysel spends the majority of her time at studying physics, listening to classical music, and working. Aysel works at the phone bank at Tucker’s Marketing Concepts where she spends her time making collect calls offering free paradise vacations. Aysel also spends a lot of her free time on a website called Smooth Passages; a website where depressed
The protagonist in the book is a teenager named Nikki Maxwell. Nikki is always complaining. She complains about everything to her diary. Also, she is a little hateful. She is crazy. Also, she not mature at all.,She also thinks she is better than everyone. This story takes place in 2000’s. Also, it just a normal town.
The book I read this summer and one of my all-time favorite novels is November Blues. The book is the second part of the Jericho series. It was written by a phenomenal author Sharon M. Draper. November Blues follows two characters. November Nelson is a 16 year old girl who finds out she is pregnant by her late boyfriend who recently passed away in a hazing accident. Jericho Prescott, a 16 year old boy, who is depressed because he just lost his cousin who was like a brother to him in the same hazing prank he was in. I adore this book because it deals with real life adolescent problems; like relationships, bullying, school, and pregnancy.
The protagonist in the novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson is high schooler Melinda Sordino. In the summer before her freshman year, Melinda is abused by an older student. This traumatizing experience turns her friends away from her and drives her into depression. Melinda enters high school at Merryweather High and struggles to find friends, perform well in classes, and even speak. She becomes the school’s freak. Melinda becomes an extremely powerful character as she muddles through depression for nearly a year before finding a way to cope with her mental illness.
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver, is a romantic and mysterious type book. Two girls, who used to be best friends, get in a car accident. It wasn’t deadly, but one was seriously hurt. After recovery, their world seemed to fall apart. They were farther apart than they had ever been, and can’t even talk to each other without getting angry. Next, their parents get a divorce, and the dad gets a new girlfriend. Their mom has to take sleeping and eating pills or she would go crazy. In this book it seems like nothing is going right for them.
Currently in the novel,”Counting by 7’s”, by Holly Goldberg Sloan, middle school girl, Willow Chance lost her parents in a car crash. Willow is a weird genius but she doesn’t have much friends. She usually has weekly meetings with the school counselor, Dell Duke. After her parents passed away, she stayed with her very close friend, Mai and her brother Quang-Ha. Currently, she is still searching for a permanent foster family and she still talks to her special taxi driver, Jairo Hernandez. For Willow, she’s been on a roller coaster of emotions.
For summer reading, i read the book "Thrown A Curve" by Sara Griffiths. It was a nonfiction book around the the present time in school amd at home. This book is about a girl named taylor, who has an alcoholic dad amd has two brothers. One day she drinks a beer at school and breaks the new science labs windows; she gets in trouble and makes a deal with the guidance counselor to join the baseball team. she tries out amd joins the team, but shes the only girl. Every Friday she goes to the guidance counselor's office to talk about her problems. Later in the book she makes friends her best friend turns into a love interest at the end. She also wins a game for her school. Then when her father gets into an accident, he is opening up and starts listening
Blackbox by Julie Schumacher is such a complex book that talks about an unstable family that goes through a struggle to become normal. In the book Elena the youngest daughter is trying to cop with her sister not being with her all the time like how she used to; her parents ignore her and focus on her sister Dora who is fighting a battle with depression, but little did they know that their family was so dependent on each other and that the absence of some members caused their daughter Elena to turn into new different person.
“ I drove despite the broken promises and heartache and all the lying and stealing and flimsy, sorry-as-hell excuses” (4). Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser is a very intriguing fiction book. I read half my book and already have a great understanding of it. This book is about a 16 year old girl, Percy, in search of her mother. Percy’s mother, Carletta, chose drugs over her kids. Percy hasn’t given up on her mother yet though, she still has hope in her mother.
Where The Heart Is by Billie Letts is a lighthearted read that follows the life of a girl named Novalee Nation from the age of 17. Novalee is 17 and 7 months pregnant when her no-good boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens, abandons her at a Walmart in Sequoyah Oklahoma. Jobless and homeless with nowhere to go, Novalee finds herself stranded and helpless until a handful of kind strangers come to her rescue. In this small Southwest town, Novalee finds herself a makeshift family within the tight knit community of people she makes her acquaintance with. The premise of the novel was quirky and unusual to me since Novalee is put in an unforeseen circumstance and the situation is actually quite scary and serious, however she isn’t as concerned as she should be.
Under the lights by Abbie Glines. There are three teens that grew up together in a southern small town. Willa’s mom had her when she was a teenager. Willa had gotten into some trouble at a young age and had to stay with her Nonna. Willa’s two best friends were Gunner and Brady. Willa has made some bad choices in her past life which made her go down the wrong path in life. Brady’s a high school quarter back now and with the choices Willa has made Brady sees Willa as a different person. Gunner is also a football star in high school. Gunner is living a good rich life the only matter though he cares about himself only, except for Willa. He understands the person she has grown into over her time. As they were known to be child hood friends secrets start to come out and the truth may be the reason of them losing each other.
The novel that I am reading is All we have left and it’s by Wendy Mills. Aila is a Muslim and she got caught with cigarette in her hand. Her parents don’t trust her anymore and she wants to go to a program that is a NYU and it’s for drawing program she just can’t go because of her mistake. Alia told her mom that she hates and her mom and runs out of the building and the reason why they don’t trust her because the last time she ran away from home. Now, Jesse is going to Nick’s house and her friends are telling that he’s not right for her but she thinks he is. She goes to his house and he tells her about the bombing of 9/11 and she remembers her brother’s death in the twin
Has a vulture eye cause mental disorder on someone? First off, The tell-tale heart by Edgar Allen Poe explains about a murder an unmade narrator committed and convince all readers about his sanity. The unnamed narrator start off by explaining the story that he’s is nervous but not mad. Next, the author uses plot, theme to create the story with anxiety by saying he want to kill the old man. The narrator wants to kill the old man because he can’t stand to see his ugly evil eye of a vulture. In the tell tall heart it illustrates that a person may act and talk normal but in the inside of his body he acts in a mental illness state of mind. By simply answering these question, how is the story relevant in historical, social,
News media is supposed to serve the purpose of informing their listeners of current and upcoming events that affect the audience. Very few viewers actually take into account how valid these news reports actually are. More or less, the news is accept. The same could be said about any news releases on war. However, in the documentary, “War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” the narrator speaks to the audience about how the media such as news reporters and presidential speeches influenced Americans to become advocates for the war. Presidents play a large role in propaganda because they showed means of justification for their immoral military actions during these wars. The film discuss several wars in which America contributed in unethical acts.
Consequences of statistical inferences providing a result rather than an answer could include researchers incorrectly applying related management implications to their studies, when in reality they are applying a treatment that was not correctly interpreted. This could result in the new study producing a non-significant result when a biologically significant result should have been detected. Researchers desperate for a significant P value may claim an observation that was not present in the study, or perform researchers degrees of freedom, which is defined as decision making as researchers conduct the study, and not beforehand.
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