Miss Popularity is a fantastic book for young teen girls who are growing up, making their own decisions, as well as developing a sense of self confidence and respect. This book could serve as a good pep talk to those younger girls who might need reassurance that they are in charge of their own happiness. The main character is fresh, original, and has one huge personality. You’ll see for yourself through this summary.
Cassie Knight has everything a girl wants: popularity, best friends, great personality, and, of course, a fabulous fashion sense. Her dad eventually gets a promotion, and Cassie will move from sunny Houston to the frozen lands of Maine. However, being Cassie, she doesn't let this get her down. Cassie is the kind to always remain
positive. She believes that everything would be just fine. However, things don’t seem to be that case when her new classmates at Oak Grove Middle School turn out to be total party poopers. They're rude, they make fun of her accent, but worst of all, they weren’t impressed by bright, happy wardrobe choices. Nonetheless, Cassie steps right in to search for that same fabulous lifestyle she had back in Houston, even with Mary Ellen McGinty, Queen Bee of Oak Grove, in the way. Will Cassie succeed? Or will the peer pressure and insults get to her and break her down? This is but yet, fluffy book with lots of smiles, laughter and cheers. The only factor that I didn’t like in it was that Cassie, the main character, didn’t end up learning anything herself. She may have developed and changed the environment around her with a positive attitude, but it would have been more meaningful for some kind of lesson of her own as well. However, despite this, I think young readers are able to get one message and that is to always stay positive and keep being motivated. Simple, but it’s enough. I recommend this for young teens looking for some everyday middle school experience, as well as a little more sweetness to their day! Again this is Miss Popularity by Francesco Sedita.
In the Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria both display straightforward, hardworking, and stubborn character traits. Firstly, Homer and Mother Maria both display a straightforward personality by being brutally honest about their opinions. For example, when Mother Maria asks Homer to build a chapel, Homer speaks his mind by telling her he does not want to build it. Mother Maria shows her straightforward behavior during Homer’s stay at the convent. One morning, when Homer sleeps in late, Mother to becomes extremely upset and is not afraid to show how she feels about him. Secondly, both Homer and Mother Maria display a hardworking spirit. Homer is a hardworking man because after finally agreeing to build the chapel,
In The Big Field, author Mike Lupica explores the theme, "Success uses motivation as fuel." Lupica portrays this theme through the main character, Hutch. Throughout the entire book, Hutch, a young boy that has just recently joined a highly talented baseball team, displays moments that exemplify this main theme. Hutch and his team have a chance to play in the stadium of the Miami Marlins, a Major League Baseball team, as long as they can keep winning games and advancing through a challenging tournament; however, Hutch's favorite position on the field, shortstop, the position located between 2nd and 3rd base, has already been filled on the team. Unfortunately, Hutch gets a demotion from shortstop, to second base, the position located between 1st base and 2nd base. Although Hutch was disappointed and melancholy about the switch in position, he was even more upset about the downgrading of leadership, since the
AP English Literature and Composition MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET Title: A Raisin In the Sun Author: Lorraine Hansberry Date of Publication: 1951 Genre: Realistic Drama Biographical Information about the Author Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. She grew up as the youngest in her family. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a real estate broker.
Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help
In this book therapist Mary Pipher writes about her experiences at work with adolescent girls. It is intended to make the reader aware of the perils of being a teenager in today's sexualized and media-saturated culture. She talks about how this new and more hostile environment affects adolescent girls' emotional growth and development, and how hard it is to stay true to yourself while trying to fit in with peers. For the most part this book is Dr. Pipher's attempt to reach out to adolescents, as well as their parents and teachers, and tell them that this "problem without a name" is not a death sentence but rather a journey to adulthood, and tells adults how to help these impressionable young girls through what might be the most trying period of their lives.
We don't see many people in the world who express individuality. However, we see popularity and amount of followers we have on our Instagram to represent our reputation in the public. In the novel, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, we can see that individuality can still be expressed even if the whole school despises you. The main character, Stargirl, demonstrates how to be yourself and how it's better to be yourself than to become someone else.
Piaget believed that a child’s development is neither intrinsic (learning based on interest) or extrinsic (learning from an outside force, such as a parent). He believed that a child develops based on his or hers interactions in the environment (Mooney 2000). Piaget created four stages of cognitive development, some of which can be seen in the film “Cheaper by the Dozen”. A few examples of characters that display Piaget’s theory are the twins, who are in the preoperational stage and lack the concept of conservatism, and the mastermind, who is in the concrete operational stage and show's the concept of decentralism. These characters will have Piaget’s theory applied to them in the following paragraphs.
“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brothers brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” (p.27)
This book is trying to show the struggle that many young girls experience and the reasons to why the adolescence years to prove to be such a period of, underachievement, anger, and pain in the lives of girls who can be bright and talented girls. A few of Mary Piphers points that she stresses throughout the book are, girls today are much more distressed, anxious, and uncomfortable than before. The society in which they are coming of age is more dangerous, sexualized, and media saturated, the culture is indeed a girl poisoning one.
Miss Representation, a documentary film produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom released in 2011, presents a contemporary issue which is the misrepresentation of women’s portrayal in mass media. The media is powerful in shaping audience’s belief in how to be feminine. Women are expected to be beautiful, attractive, and even sexual on the media to attract audience’s attention. Also, the film points out the existence of social system in which men are considered more powerful and dominant than women. Finally, the film tries to increase the awareness of female real value including capability, educational achievement, and leadership. Consuming the media wisely to eliminate gendered stereotypes can help young women build their confidence and be successful.
The protagonist of Most Likely to Succeed is Katherine “Kaye” Beale Gordon. She is a senior in high school, vice-president of student council, and head cheerleader at her high school. She is the epitome of what every high school girl imagines: popular and in control. Kaye exhibits the two character traits of proactiveness and prestigiousness. Kaye exemplifies proactiveness by already having her life planned out, for after high school. Throughout Most Likely to Succeed, Kaye continuously talks about what she planned. At the beginning, she talks about having plans with her highschool sweetheart, Aidan. They planned to “establish [their] banking careers, and then getting married,” for which she had known the plan for “three
What would you do if you found out that your sister had mailed out your secret love letters to all of your past crushes and suddenly they’re all comforting you for it? That’s exactly what Lara Jean experienced in Jenny Han’s young adult novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. The setting of the story takes place in modern time in Montpelier, Virginia and there it mentions their school, home, ski resort, etc. The main characters in this book are Lara Jean, Peter, Kitty, Josh and Margot. LJ is our antisocial goody-two-shoes protagonist who’s “cute in a quirky way.” She’s the exactly the type of person to spend time at home baking with her family than going to the party, that everyone’s been raving about. Peter is described as popular, cocky,
In the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, Dr. Rank is not one of the main characters in the play. Even though he does not partake in a big role in the play, some of his actions and words have a great effect on the characters and the play’s outcomes. Dr. Rank is somewhat ignored and is an undervalued character because of his reduced role and line numbers, but his very small actions do have direct impact on the play. His relationships with Nora and Torvald play a big part, because he helps to reveal their true characters. Dr. Rank is also used as a symbolic device, to help the reader look deeper into the plot. It may seem as though he is just a friend and admirer from afar, but his role has a deeper meaning. Dr. Rank’s role in the play is to reveal the true individuals in the play and he is important in helping the reader discover the true personalities of the main characters.
Even though during this time Miss America Corporation had tried to changed their idea of pageants to be more of a prestigious and empowering competition, they still created false hope. The hope that one day a young girl: a daughter, a friend or relative would amount to Miss America; however kept families watching. Popular culture wanted people to t...
It seems as though that popularity is a main issue to teens. The need to feel accepted by others in order to be the center of attention, and the need to be distinguished greatly from everyone else is a strong force that exposes itself to nearly all teens at school. We spend most of our years at school, and begin well-known can almost seem to complete an emptyness that we feel.