“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is about a boy named Victor Rodriguez, and his first day of school in seventh grade. It is realistic-fiction short story. The people/children that might like this short story are people that don’t like to change, people in seventh grade, or people who have just started a new school year and feel uncomfortable. This particular short story is a really good piece for the genre because of the way it expresses the feeling of a seventh grader. It is told in a third person…
Friendships are symbiotic relationships, where people share their talents and qualities to help each other through life. The novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, exhibits many forms of these two-way relationships, the strongest, between the characters George and Lennie, and the other friendships between Crooks and Lennie, and George and Slim. These relationships show how each pair benefit from each other’s companionship, and help each other in the harder times of life, the most important…
When many people think about the qualities that define a great friend, they think of someone who is trustworthy, kind, and humble. Ruth, however, is none of these things, unless she wants to be. But, to Kathy, she is a great friend. Ruth should not be thought of as a domineering control-freak, but rather a character who reveals the humanistic traits that the clones in this alternate reality have. The combination of Ruth’s personality traits, life experiences and completion at the end of the…
This piece of artwork is based upon the book, A Separate Peace by John Knowles. A Separate Peace is a story of two best friends, Gene and Finny. The two friends differ in the way that Gene excels at academics, while Finny thrives in athletics. Although it seems that the contrasting fields of excellence would allow their to be harmony between the boys, Gene becomes envious of Finny and grows to resent him due to his athletic capabilities. Finny is oblivious to Gene’s hatred and still thinks of…
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS In English class, we have watched a movie called “The boy in the striped pyjamas”. The boy in the striped pajamas is about a boy called Bruno, who is son of the main officer for the concentration camp in Auschwitz. He live in Berlin, but have to move with his family to Auschwitz, because of his dad’s job. First in this essay, I am going to characterize Bruno. Bruno is the main character in the movie. He lives with His dad (Ralf) his mom (Elsa) and his sister…
The High Plains Drifter seemed to hang in space: illusion, of course; it was actually traveling at a high rate of speed. Despite its ornate appearance, it was classified as an intra-system barge, and they could move, not as fast as an inter-system cruiser but they could still move. Its owner was the Royal Duchess of Spine, Kaitlin Caitlin Adderlink; it was chartered out of the Broxun system; and it could easily carry 50 people, in luxury. At the moment there were only three people aboard.…
school grounds to impress Rosemary. After trying to build an aquarium on school grounds, Max is expelled from Rushmore Academy and has to attend a public school. Though Max and Herman Blume don’t seem to have much in common, they build an unlikely friendship based on their fascination…
The song I picked which best illustrates my adolescence is “Best Years of Our Lives” by Evan Taubenfeld. This song is about friendship changes happen during adolescence and teenagers have to accept those changes with regret and sadness. The lyrics are about a boy’s best friend leaves and everything changes, he has to accept her leaving and adjust the life without her beside. “Everything is different now, can we stop the world from turning” repeats over and over again, the boy never thinks he…
Reflective Essay It started off on a wednesday afternoon when my cousin had told me about this club called latinos unidos. It was this club about latinos getting together and helping out communities and just generally the environment. When my cousin told me about this club I generally thought that it would be just a bunch of nonsense work for the greater good. I chose the place I volunteered at because I couldn't find anything else at the moment. This was my first time volunteering and I…
Personal Reaction to Article I agree with the author’s interpretation of the “Third-Party Forgiveness Effect”, as they show reasonable and reliable data to back up their hypothesis. Also they seem to have quite a few examples to help support their thesis. One example is when Lerner proposed a “heroic motive” that may be activated in situations where a close relative is hurt or wronged. Perhaps this heroic motive can lead to vengeful motivations as one tries to protect or save their close friend…