June just yelled at the Glorious Elector of The Republic, to be a better politician. She brought up the topic of separating emotions of going into war, “You have to make decisions that break your heart, that hurt and deceive, that no one else will understand. It’s your duty”. That isn’t always the case, where you have to rise up the courage to tell someone in power, that they are doing their job wrong and even if they are living their life wrong. June Iparis explains how to use justification “When emotion fails, logic will save you.” (177)
In Champion, by Marie Lu, the world has become overpopulated and apocalyptic. The setting is placed on the western side of futuristic United States. The United States has been split into two sides, The Republic and The Colonies. It was divided because most of the southeastern part of the county is underwater, due to Global Warming and sea levels rising. The people, whose homes were destroyed, wanted to move west towards dry livable land. The nation on the west side didn’t want that many people on their land, so to stop them from coming after them; they put up giant walls to divide the two sides. This caused a war. June Iparis lived in one of the “Ruby” sectors of the Republic’s Los Angeles with her older brother, Metias. Her parents died in a car accident years before, but before that her mom and dad worked for the Republic’s medical research. Metias was a captain in the Republics’ military and absolutely perfect in everything he did. June was in the top school learning to also become a high military official. But everything changed when Metias was murdered. June became paranoid to find out what actually happened, and needed to seek information and possibly revenge.
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...skills and critical thinking. This helps get June through a lot, but also sets her back because, “Without emotion, what’s the point of being human?” (204) That’s what makes us people. When June has to cope with the information about her government betraying her it makes her question her reality, just like it makes me question mine. It makes me question like, how important is school? Not the actually learning, but how it is taught with discipline and average grading systems. Should I feel bad for the smart kids because they aren’t being pushed enough by getting 100% on everything or the kids who struggle with getting C’s who actually need more help? June uses the analytical view, and learns to use the human emotions too. By doing this she was able to end up with Day. This shows that no matter the problem, nothing is ever over but instead a new beginning is emerging.
It had seemed that ambiguity was arise in the forming nation, and was still establishing a central ideal for political issues to which it had no precedent. Would the strategy be to declare to the public a message of brutal warfare against a savage nation? Or the protection of the United States and its freedoms by a self-defensive action of declaring war against its former ally? Both would be approached vigorously by Ames to attempt to inform the public and gather a central and nationalized view in order to succeed against these heinous a...
“I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”, by Erika L. Sanchez is a novel of shattering stereotype, Mexican teenager coming-of-age. Introducing Julia Reyes, fifteen-year-old teenager who desperately wants to go to college She’s a very outspoken sarcastic feminist with big dreams and a real hunger for art. The daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants Ama and Apa, living in a apartment infested with roaches. She’s filled with anger almost all the time and perpetually bitter because she is poor. Suffering from the loss of her prude older sister, Olga, who died by being run over by a semi-truck. Julia battless with the death of her sister Olga, her parents are having a challenging time with Julia not wanting to be a perfect Mexican daughter. However, for Julia her life needs more than being your traditional Mexican daughter have a good office job, marrying a Mexican, raising children, and preparing tortilla until the day she dies. In which, Ama struggles with daily, on why Julia just can’t be perfect like her dead sister Olga. Even though families are based on culture and
This book teaches the importance of self-expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful of what is going on. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
In order to succeed in something, you must know what is expected, have the materials needed and give fourth the effort to do the best of your ability. According to the English 111 syllabus, this course is designed to develop student’s writing ability so that they can portray a clearer message within their writing.
In the essay, “Move over Boys, Make Room in the Crease,” the author, Sarah Maratta, explains the bias against women’s involvement in sports. Maratta states the claim that women should be treated as equal in their aspirations to be involved in sports. Maratta grew up her entire life loving sports; in particular, she was quite fond of hockey. In this essay, we find out that not only does she have a passion for the icy and mostly Canadian sport, but that she has a desire to see women treated fairly in all aspects of the sporting world. While discussing the flaws and ill-treatments of women in the sports industry and society, she conveys a sense of urgency in making sports completely unbiased toward gender and about the true love of the games.
In the year 3000, the planet Earth is a desolate wasteland. It has been a little over a half a century since the “big one” hit the Earth. The majority of the human race has been eliminated with only a few hundred remaining. The only ones who have survived barely made it on to the spaceship as the big one smashed the Earth. Marcus is one of the many survivors coping with solar winds and debris floating around the Moon. After half a century, the survivors are running out of supplies on the moon. The crew must go back to post-apocalyptic Earth and explore the wasteland. Marcus knows that this journey will not be an easy one. They encounter different
Many students think their general education classes are going to be easy. This assumption is usually made because they are the basis of all of the advanced classes. When students sign up for classes for their degree, English 101 is often a requirement. Therefore, students put it on their schedule without a second thought. Most students do not realize how hard such a basic class could be. Mrs. Fox’s English 101 class is hard because it is time consuming, requires a lot of responsibility, and contains a difficult grading system.
Carl von Clausewitz, “What is War?” On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, 89-112. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
This particular English 102 class pertains to going in depth of the heroic. This means to me that we will discuss what characteristics it takes to be a hero and how those characteristics have evolved in classic stories that many of us all know in today’s society. This course will help me develop better research skills, different and more efficient writing styles, and how to communicate with others. The objective is to be able to research a specific topic from a certain academic aspect that inspires myself, which in my case is nursing. For example, nurses have a duty like heroes and they are much alike, to help save people from something that is endangering that specific person whether it be a disease or a villain. The goals for English 102
People do not like to believe they are puppets on strings, as free will is more fun, exciting and empowering. But sadly it does not matter what people think, for their futures have already been decided. Especially if you are a hero, chances are, your destiny has already been made. As dramatic and mystical as it may sound, but fate overpowers free will. No matter what route one takes, and what type of extreme measure a person is willing to go through, if it is ones destiny to achieve something or lose something or do something, they will do it. However, free will does have a role to play.
One of the first things we have learned about politics this semester is that there is a constant struggle over the true definition, especially in how broad or narrow the definition is. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that “Politics are such torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with them.” it is understood that he is referring to the electoral and governmental aspects of politics. If Dr. Michael Rivage-Seul and Leslie Cagan were to read this quote, they would argue that Jefferson has an extremely narrow view of politics and that if one were to desire a more accurate definition, they would have to look further than the restrictive culturally accepted definition. Martin Luther King, Jr. would also disagree with this definition but he I think he would have a bigger problem with the advice that Jefferson is giving. All three of the authors that we have looked at would, in one way or another, be forced to disagree with Jefferson based on the principles that they try to uphold and emphasize in their writings and speeches.
When get involved in a class room as a teacher or a practitioner you will see many different instructional strategies that teachers may use. These strategies may change from teacher to teacher and grade level to grade level because not all strategies work for everyone. That is one that that Mrs. Franzmeier told me was that I need to find instructional strategies that work for me and for the way I teach. She told me that it is something that sitting in a classroom listening to a professor all day can teach you. She said that you need to be in the classroom getting hands on experience to gain the knowledge. During this time I saw three different instructional strategies used. She had the use of whole group instruction, co teaching, and cooperative learning.
“The Claremont Hotel gym on 3rd street is reserved for NFL players playing in the Super Bowl.” When it comes to difficult and complex sentences similar to the preceding one, it is often difficult for me to distinguish whether a prepositional phrase is acting as an adverb or an adjective. In the introductory sentence, it is challenging for me to tell whether the prepositional phrase “in the Super Bowl” acts as an adverb of place for the verb “playing” or as an adjective for the noun phrase “NFL players”. Furthermore, complex sentences can make identify the function of the prepositional phrase even more challenging by adding multiple noun phrases and verb phrases in the subject and predicate of the sentence. In these situations, it is often difficult for me to distinguish whether the prepositional phrase functions as an adjective embedded in a matrix noun phrase or an adverb embedded in a verb phrase.
New York City, gleams with the lights that inspires you to follow your heart as you walk across the sidewalk. The roads leads to many different opportunities so, choose wisely. My first ever plane ride was 8 years ago when, I was traveling all the way from India to the big apple. Being a 7 year old, I had absolutely no idea where I would end up today. First day of school comes and I am surprised by the new language, English. Everyone could speak it so properly expect me which, made me have less confident than others. However, my whole third class was super friendly who always tried to correct when, I struggled with my English. I would go home and say, “Mommy, look what I learned today.” Everyday was a new adventure filled with new words; English soon became the more comfortable to me than my