Melinda is very perceptive and bright, but her vision is sometimes clouded by her suffering. She's only fourteen-years-old, and she's dealing with one of the worst things that can happen to a person: rape. Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman, was abused by a senior student, Andy Evans. She calls the cops to report the rape, but leaves before they show up. The party is busted and everybody thinks Melinda got them in trouble on purpose. Nobody at school will talk to Melinda, including Rachel Bruin, who's been her best friend forever. Worse, just about everyone bullies her. She wants to explain why she called the cops but she can't find the words. Due to her trauma and inability to tell anyone about what happened, Melinda spirals into a dark
Melinda debates whether to tell Rachel that her current boyfriend was an assaulter. “I could talk to Rachel. (Yeah, right.) I could say I'd heard bad things about Andy. (It would only make him more attractive.) I could maybe tell her what happened. (As if she'd listen. What if she told Andy? What would he do?) (…) I need to do something about Rachel, something for her. Maya tells me without saying anything. I stall. Rachel will hate me. (She already hates me.) She won't listen. (I have to try.) I groan and rip out a piece of notebook paper. I write her a note, a left-handed note, so she won't know it's from me.” (151-152). Melinda finally confronts Rachel and tells her what exactly happened to her, but Rachel did not believe Melinda as she really liked Andy. Rachel apologizes to Melinda when she realizes when Andy attacks Melinda again because he got to know what she told Rachel. Melinda was brave even though she was unexpectedly attacked by Andy for the second time. This time, she fought back before Andy could do anything that was seriously harmful to her and she threatened to stab him with a piece of sharp broken glass. This shows us how Melinda developed from a scared girl to a person who threatened to kill her
During the summer as Melinda was approaching 9th grade year, she was raped at an end of summer party by a very popular upper class man named Andy Evans. After the incident, Melinda called the cops on the party
Welcome to our first stop on this tour, NAU, also known as Northern Arizona University! Most of you guys go to school here, but for those of you who come from somewhere else, here's a brief geologic description of this area, the amazing city of Flagstaff. Flagstaff has many geologic wonders and is found on the southern part of the Colorado Plateau. A small portion of Flagstaff's northeastern rocks are sedimentary, like limestone, dolostone, quartzite, and shale, which were all deposited in the Paleozoic Era. The north region of Flagstaff is mostly volcanic rocks, like basalt. However, the west region of Flagstaff is mostly made up of limestone and again, basalt. Some of the geologic wonders that you can see here in Flagstaff are the San Francisco
Kathleen Blanco Hurricane Katrina Speech The speech by Kathleen Blanco is about Hurricane Katrina. The speech is about how they are planning to fix it and trying to motivate them to not give up and rebuild. Kathleen Blanco's speech about Hurricane Katrina uses pathos and ethos to inform the people of Louisiana so they know what they will do about the hurricane. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest hurricane ever, killing over 2000 people and causing over $125 billion in damage.
A year later, in 1960, nine-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Similar to the experience of the Little Rock Nine, The National Guard had to escort Bridges into the school. White parents yanked their children out of William Frantz Elementary, and only one teacher agreed to teach Bridges.
My wife and I are planning a trip to Las Vegas the week of March 27th to look for homes. Since our last conversation, we have been casually searching for listings to gather a sense of the type of properties and areas we would like to live in. In addition, we researched schools within the areas where we would like to live. My wife and I have some questions as to what we should be doing now to prepare for a productive visit of viewing potential homes. Please see below...
On the first day of school everyone Melinda had no friends; she was seen as a snitch and untrustworthy. Because of emotional trauma she faced regarding her
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Ladies and gentlemen, allow me the honor to persuade to you vote Katlyn for President of the United States. There are multiple explanations as to why she would make such a remarkable leader, so get comfortable while I acknowledge a few. One quality most voters look for in a potential candidate is honesty, since it’s not prominent in countless politicians. If honesty is what you’re looking for, then Katlyn’s powerful confidence in her beliefs proves she is not stricken to swerve away from the truth. Her self-assurance enables her to stand up for what she deems is true and serves as an armor to fight the urge to abandon her beliefs to please others. Another characteristic that promotes Katlyn as a good candidate is her ability to relate to the
Rylee Lucian was born and raised in the city of Santa Cruz, California. He is the only son of Carl and Rebecca Lucian. Growing up Rylee was a always a quiet, creative, kind & well mannered young man. Starting from a very young age Rylee could see people others could not. At first the sightings frightened him. He did not know what to do often waking his parents in the middle of the night to make the scary people go away. His parents didnt think too much into it believing it was just his wild imagination or dreams. As Rylee grew older he became more comfortable with his gift of being able to see people who had passed. While he attended school he mostly kept to himself as most of his peers thought he was strange. He would get teased and bullied a lot for
2017 recently became volumes better for 25-year-old actress, philanthropist and singer Selena Gomez. She has been named Billboard’s Woman of The Year and will be presented with the award on November, 30, in Los Angeles, at the annual Women in Music dinner and awards gala.
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It has been 2 years since Chloe has been gone. Chloe was my best friend we did everything together. She disappeared one night after a sleepover with all five of us. We had a small group of friends that we told everything to. When Chloe disappeared it was a huge impact on all of our lives.