This week I am reading chapters 3-6 of “The Tomorrow Girls ‘Run For Cover’” by Eva Gray. I think she is trying to say that the girls HAVE to get back to their home, or something bad could happen to them. I think the main message is that sometimes teachers aren’t always nice, and sometimes you have to do some risky things to get away from people you don’t like. It starts off while all the kids are in the forest, looking for shelter to keep dry from the rainstorm that happened. While they were in the forest, they find this cabin, so they decide to go inside to stay safe. So they go in the cabin and see that it was no ordinary cabin that you find in the woods where there is a cozy couch and a fireplace, it looked like a giant conference room!
While they were there…Mrs. Brewster comes into the cabin. The teacher at the girls boarding school! She wanted to go and take the girls back to their school. Mrs. Brewster is not a very nice teacher. Because she was there, the kids wanted to go underground and escape. While they were under the ground then they ended up at a door. When they go through the door, they find out that they ended up in an Alliance Military Camp!! And then the chapters end!! This book is so interesting. I wonder what is going to happen next. I think that Eva Gray did a good job at showing Mrs. Brewster’s personality, and what kind of a teacher she is. I think she has a mean personality because at the beginning of my book,it talked about how she is a teacher who isn’t so nice, and then in this book, she enters in with a mean kind of way. Here is a part that Rosie says, “Mrs. Brewster comes in, looking so furious, cross armed, and ready to get me and my friends”Another part where she is acting mean is where one of the lines she said was “Idiot Kids…” And that shows that she has a small act of kindness for them, because, Teachers are supposed to teach!!! Not be rude to their students like that. She is a teacher, and she should treat kids nicely, because she needs to teach them things to learn to get good grades. Another thing that I think she did well was explaining the setting, like how they were underground, and why, because Rosie said “I try craning around, squinting through the small gap between the trapdoor.” Then before that Rosie says, “Fascinating as this is,it can’t be long before Mrs. Brewster notices something-” you can tell that she could be mean and strict. You can tell that she is strict because all of the kids are scared of her. And Rosie wouldn’t say something like that unless something was really scary to her, because she said that she wasn’t scared of anything because she grew up on the islands with lots of volcanoes and wild animals. The last thing that I think Eva did well was introducing new characters. When she introduces Mrs. Brewster, she explains really well how her personality is. Especially when she says “...I’ll get them, whatever it takes…” you can tell that she isn’t such a nice person, and she wants to do something to them. That is very scary and mean thing to say because she is saying “I’ll get you” and that means that she might want to do something to them. I think the moral of these 3 chapters is that sometimes you have to take risks to get away from someone who you think can do something to you, and that if you decide to go underground to get away from something, you never know where you will end up. And also, teachers have to treat their kids nicely, and give them respect. “The Tomorrow Girls Book #2 ‘Run For Cover’” is a very good novel.
In “The Weekend,” George cheats on Lenore with Sarah, and she still chooses to stay with him and work out their issues. The story by Ann Beattie can relate to “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin because Edna cheats on Leonce with Robert and Alcee Arobin. After learning Edna cheats on him, Leonce decides to stay with Edna to work their relationship out. While nothing is wrong with their significant others, they cheat because something in them is unfulfilled. Lenore knows George cheats because he spends much of his time with the other women, but she never acknowledges it, until she talks with Julie one day; “she’s really the best friend I’ve ever had. We understand things—we don’t always have to talk about them. ‘Like her relationship with George,’
When Marie tries to ask the protagonist to take a walk, this action shows that she is trying to achieve Pauline’s dream by getting her outside of the house. Therefore, she could finally feel the true meaning of freedom. Nevertheless, Pauline’s mother’s response demonstrates that she wants her daughter’s safety more than anything. The mother tries to keep Pauline away from the danger, so the protagonist can at last have a healthier life. However, Agathe’s reply shows that her mother is willing to sacrifice Pauline’s dream to keep her secure.
In her book On the Run: Fugitive Live in an American City, Alice Goffman points out that law enforcement interferes with the lives of people in the crime-stricken area of 6th street. Their overwhelming activity causes the residents of 6th street to react differently with one another. They have to factor in the police during their daily life, especially when it comes to couple’s relationships. Sometimes, the residents use the police in ways that they’re unintended such as to control one’s partner. In other cases, they use the police to protect one’s significant other, but only when necessary. More often than not, the police complicate relationships by inadvertently causing men to use their women as a way to avoid getting caught. Unfortunately,
Using the murder of Dee Ann’s mother as a means to intertwine the lives of the characters together, Steve Yarbrough examines the nature of relationships in “The Rest of Her Life.” The relationships in the story take a turn after Dee Ann’s mother is killed, with characters seeking to act more on their own, creating distance between many relationships throughout the story. Independent lifestyles prevent emotional bonds that hold relationships together from forming, thus preventing the characters from maintaining healthy relationships. The dysfunctional relationship present between Dee Ann and Chuckie in “The Rest of Her Life” is the result of the characters ' desire for self-gratification.
In our modern world, sociology has a tremendous impact on our culture, mainly through the processes and decisions we make everyday. For movies and television shows especially, sociological references are incorporated throughout the storyline. A movie which includes many sociological examples is Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a movie based on the life of home-schooled teenage girl, Cady Heron, who moves to the United States from Africa and is placed in a public school for the first time. Cady finds herself in many uncomfortable scenarios and has to deal with the trials and tribulations pertaining to everyday high school issues. Her experiences involve interacting with high school cliques, such as ‘the plastics’, weird high school teachers, relationships,
I believe that every message has a real meaning behind it, whether the message is important or not. The older I get the more I started to understand the true meaning about the different shows I’ve watched. It’s one of those topics we’re all too afraid to touch, which is exactly why it’s so important to talk about. I still find it very hard to talk about race, and how it is still a very important topic in today’s society especially in criminal justice system. Prison is designed to install fear in us, imagining evil men who were put there for doing crimes unsuitable by law. Prison is known to be the worst place to end up. Orange Is the New Black showed prison all in a new light. Many critics found Orange Is the New Black to be very racist. In
Scared Straight: Praises, Critiques, and Alternatives Beginning in the late 1970’s, the Scared Straight program and programs modelled after it have been a popular method of rehabilitation for juvenile delinquents. The programs typically include a jail tour and presentations from inmates with the intention of frightening participants into turning their lives around. The original pilot program was featured in a 1978 documentary called Scared Straight, which was directed by Arnold Shapiro and narrated by Peter Falk. The documentary followed 19 juvenile delinquents as they participated in the program. Today, the A&E series Beyond Scared Straight follows participants through these programs all over the United States.
Singer Joan Jett is know as a punk pioneer for aggressive and popular music and a women’s role model. Joan once said, “People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.” Joan was apart of the 70’s all girl teen rock group know as The Runaways. Feminists filled the 1970s with the women’s movement, Females had worked hard to make room for women in male-dominated fields ranging from medical, law, national secuirity, and even rock and roll. The main argument was that there is no reason that a women can’t do the same work as a man in any field of work. To be able to fit in with a male-dominated field, the women had to act like the men in their attitueds and approaches to do well. If the women showed any vulnrtablity or femininity at all the womens stautus might fall. Even after all this there was still an unseen boundry perventing women from suceeding in a male’s world. This bountry continues to cut of wmen from really entering the male dominated carreers. In the film Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling is a trainee at the FBI academy. She faces being one of the only women in the male ran field of national secierity. Although she is seen as a vunrable and is seen as having no athority around the men she has to work with, Clarice’s character is smart and has what it takes to work in a male dominated world. Clarice has to constantly prove that she can work in a male domineted world without having to rely on her feminity. Women are able to hold jobs like men and become leaders like Calrice has done while being a female in a male-dominated world.
...a seat next to me on the soft, blue rug. “It’s okay, I know how you feel. I felt the same way when I was forced out of my book and left in a new world”, Abby said sympathetically. “You mean I was right?” I said, slowly lifting my face to the light, my cheeks red and my face damp from my salty tears. “Yes, and you must help me get out of this place. I don’t belong here. It’s just that every time somebody reads my book, I am forced out of it. You see, my book wants me to leave for a while. That reason I do not know why. But I do know that you are the only one that can help me back to my home. I will need three stars, four tears of a puppy and a monkey’s paw. That is what my book requires from me at this dimension. So will you help me?” Abby says, her eyes glittering of hope. “Sure,” I say. After all, she is now my friend and she did confess so I see no problem there.
Green Lantern is a science Fiction movie directed by Martin Campbell. This movie is about a police force called Green Lantern Intergalactic Corps that uses green rings which feeds on their willpower and has a mission to protect the universe from evil. The main Character, Hal Jordan played by Ryan Reynolds is chosen by the ring and protects his planet from Parallax. His childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris played by Blake Lively supports him throughout the movie. Dr. Amanda Waller played by Angela Bassett appears a few times and brings Hector Hammond played by Peter Sarsgaard to perform an autopsy on Abin Sur’s body played by Temuera Morrison.
In order to complete an analysis of a television show through six basic theoretical approaches, I chose to use the pilot episode of Gossip Girl due to its strong representation of class differences. In this episode, the interesting characters of the Upper East Side are introduced and viewers begin to get a sense of the lifestyles that they live. From the elite, to the middle class, issues and attitudes are established. All of the main characters attend an established private high school and seem to backstab each other as a form of entertainment. The main issues of this first episode are Serena sleeping with her best friend’s boyfriend, Lower class Dan’s infatuation with the upper class Serena, and Chuck being an overall bad person and predator
In America women have gone through so many social norms that has affected them throughout a lifetime. Since then with the changes, mass media got involved in this type of movement. American culture shifted where women where becoming professionals in the work force, more independent and less likely to marry. As a result, television networks created a series of shows to expose and associate the female audience to the TV shows. From Charlies Angels to Sex in the City and for our present time Nashville show, incorporate feminism to be shown in the small screen, in every decade shows exhibited the 3 feminist movement waves. For instance, during the 90s the 3rd wave of feminism was represented through Television by revealing female sexuality
Bridget Jones does not live like the typical thirty-two-year old women. From trying to control her bad habits and trying to find potential partners, people might say Jones is not a feminist. According to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, there are many different kinds of feminist (Haslanger 1). You do not have to follow any guidelines to consider being a feminist. Even though Bridget may be struggling with things from drinking to her self-image, I still consider her to be a feminist.
1. In the most recent estimates, there are roughly 28,000 active gangs with roughly 731,000 members in the United States.
...dig a deep cave in the straw so they all could fit inside. May kept taking roll call to assure herself that all the students were still alive. That is to say, May showed courage by her ability to do something that frightened her: to keep the children alive by seeking shelter.