Summary Of Drop The Ball By Tiffany Durfu

Courage is seeing the light and acting on it despite all the darkness. Invitation To The Game by Monica Hughes, is about a group of eight teenagers. Lisse, Scylla, Alden, Brad, Trent, Karen, Paul, and Katie, who live in the year 2154 when the world is overpopulated, and robots have taken over most jobs. After being released as unemployed from a government school, they learn about ‘The Game’ which is only by invitation and considered an honor. They start getting interested and interacting with the other groups of unemployed until one day when they come back to their home to find eight white envelopes, each addressed to one of them, inviting them to join.

“Summer Ball” by Mike Lupica is a children’s literature story of particular interest and young boys. It follows a 13 year-old boy named Danny Walker. Danny is a basketball player who is attending an elite basketball camp called “Right Way” in Maine during the summer. Danny is a very good basketball player but there is a small problem, he is really small. Now he is going to the camp to find out will his lack of height prevent him from playing with the big boys.

“Your Move” is a short story written by Eve Bunting. In“Your Move” a boy named James lives in a shay part of Los Angeles with his brother Isaac, and he also lives with his mother who works the night shift at a cafe. With no one watching the two boys at night, James has to watch over is brother and himself. He is very protective when he is watching over both his reputation, and his brother.

The book "8 Ball Chicks," written by Gini Sikes is a thrilling yet shocking book about girls in gangs. The book explains in horrific detail the roles and existences of the girls in these gangs. Sikes traveled to several different cities to experience the life of girl gangsters. She traveled to Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. Through these travels, she became immersed in the lifestyles of each gang and had first hand accounts on what it was like to be in a gang.

“Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis’s Radha of 1906” was written by Jane Desmond. In her dance career, she was a modern dancer and choreographer. Desmond is now a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois. “Dancing Out the Difference: Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis’s Radha of 1906” was published in 2001 as a part of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader.

I read the first chapter in the book and immediately Ms Thompson came to mind. I worked with Ms Thompson my first year as a intern.   She had a group called Dolls and Dolls, that consisted of the most troubled young black girls.  The girls Ms Thompson worked with were a mirror image of the characters in the novel Pushout written by Monique Morris.  A lot of what Ms Thompson used to communicate with her  girls were very same as the book.    When I read  the  the line written by Manning Marable, “Freedom is the fragile flower that must constantly be protected-not from those at the bottom of the social order but from the whims and desires of those at the top”.  I remember these girls would get in trouble and Ms Thompson would say,” Remember you are a rose”.  Black girls are being criminalized by beliefs, policies, and actions that degrade, and  marginalize black girls in their learning environments and their humanity- relegating many to an inferior quality of education because they are perceived as defiant, delinquent, aggressive, too sexy, too proud, and too loud to be treated with dignity in their schools and  leading them to conditions  that is pushing black girls out of schools and render them vulnerable to even more harm.(Morris)I was blessed to have a great support from my mother.  My mother was very strong and believed in education.  She grew up in North Carolina when schools were segregated, and  all of her teachers were african american.  In her final year of school

The memoir that I chose to read was All But My Life written by Gerda Weissmann Klein. Klein’s memoir begins in 1939 in Bielsko, Poland, she was 15 years old at the time. The war had just begun and her family was only beginning to feel the effects. Klein’s family consisted of her brother Arthur Weissmann, mother Helena referred to throughout the book as “Mama”, and her father Julius referred to as “Papa”. The memoir starts in 1939, but the first major changes for Klein and her family do not come until April 19, 1942. The Weissmanns were moved into a ghetto and then, 18 years old at the time, Klein’s journey of survival during the Holocaust truly beings.

The interviews in Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and Joshua Reno’s Waste Away both have their fair share of barriers to overcome, even though their research could not be more different. Anne Fadiman conducts interviews in two drastically different topics, Hmong culture and medicine. Joshua Reno favors a landfill in Michigan; interviewing residents living next to Four Corners Landfill. However different these two areas of research may be, both books show that interviewing individuals is a research method incredibly valuable when working to determine a person or group’s feelings and ideas. Both anthropologists use interviewing as a method to gain information, but are careful to align with the culture of each of the

In the essay "Don't Just Stand There", Diana Cole explains her views on speaking up against prejudice and offensive jokes or phrases. Cole's essay explains how she believes that speaking out against prejudice always makes a differences, even if it is not an immediate one. Cole explains the proper ways of speaking up, stating that lashing out usually ends badly but remaining calm can put a person in control. Cole discusses the proper way to respond to something offensive, how to handle speaking to an unresponsive person, how to handle peer pressure, and the best way to go about dealing with the prejudice of a superior. In Abigail's opinion, Cole's views on how best to deal with offensive comments are very wise. In Abigail's opinion, remaining

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstances, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

A few more. Just a few more and then you are done. Let’s go. Five. That last one was not the best. A little bit more hip rotation and that should fix it. Four. Okay, so that was not right. Pull more to the glove side, but keep the front shoulder closed. Three. That’s better. Maybe try a breaking ball? No; need to repeat the mechanics and not get fancy. Two. Alright, that was about the same. Focus. This will pay off in the end. Keep working. One. Woah! Do not want to be there. Get it down. Pull down more. Okay, maybe two more-- hit the spot—get it right. Better. One more. End it right. Finish strong; keep working. Not going to be able to finish on that. Another. Keep working. Excellent. Let’s get some water and call it a day.

Within Jenna Wortham's article, "Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)," Wortham discusses the impact that social media possesses, in which Wortham believes that technology is responsible for shaping people's lives negatively. From Wortham's previous experiences, she shares a moment in her life that made her realize that people often compare their lives to others excessively- one of the reasons why people have social media attachment issues. Wortham also expresses how social media users brag about their lives being better than others through exaggerated posts- something that shouldn't be encouraged. With effort to resolve this issue, Wortham considers and suggests Mr. Hofmann's advice to readers: go screenless for a certain

In the book Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the author describes what her reactions and feelings are to the racial hatred and discrimination she and eight other African-American teenagers received in Little Rock, Arkansas during the desegregation period in 1957. She tells the story of the nine students from the time she turned sixteen years old and began keeping a diary until her final days at Central High School in Little Rock. The story begins by Melba talking about the anger, hatred, and sadness that is brought up upon her first return to Central High for a reunion with her eight other classmates. As she walks through the halls and rooms of the old school, she recalls the

In order to learn more about myself and how to improve who I am, I was encouraged to gather “best self” stories from those close to me. The stories that I was able to gather described my strengths and who I am at my best. There were a few common themes that were present in multiple stories, including my confidence, levelheadedness, work ethic, and helpfulness. In reading through all of the stories and seeing them describe strengths in me such as these, I was truly humbled. Two of the stories that I wrote about myself matched up with what others said about me. In these two stories I described my levelheadedness and my helpfulness. While it was a great experience to learn about all of the different strengths that people see

There are three very important aspects that play a major rule in my life. They can be categorized as intellectual, social, and spiritual. My intellectual self is interesting because I am mainly right-brained which means that I tend to use my creativity more than my mathematical skills, also making me a visual learner. My social self consists of friends, family, and my surroundings. I spend most of my time at home with my family. Whenever I am with my friends, I observe their behaviors and listen to their opinions. I am more of an independent type of person. Being with different people has influenced me into appreciating different cultures and beliefs. I have learned things that have now been incorporated into my own set of beliefs and