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A Complicated Kindness: The Journey to Adulthood The importance of reading novels throughout English courses has become highly crucial, as it allows students to understand current issues and develop strong literature skills. The fictional novel, A Complicated Kindness, written by Miriam Toews is about a sixteen year old girl who lives in a Mennonite community and is eventually kicked out of the society by the end of the book due to her rebellious attitude. A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews is a novel that should be integrated in the grade eleven English curriculum due to the strong connections with the adolescent struggle to find one’s self. Toews’ credibility as an author and relevance for a teenage audience is clear through her overcoming of personal obstacles being transferred through the protagonist, Nomi; whose coming of age closely resembles that of Vittorio Innocente in Lives of the Saints which is already an existent course work. The author, Miriam Toews, is a positive figure for youth as she overcame many life obstacles and eventually earned many awards, displaying her hard work being paid off. Toews wrote this novel and knows what she was writing about, since she was raised in a Mennonite community as well. The protagonist in the novel seems to continuously talk about punishments and penalties in the town for committing minor offenses. Miriam Toews states, “But the emphasis in the town on punishment and shame, and joylessness, the degree of severity and…

In the Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness, the irony is used throughout the book to get deeper meanings across. Toews’s even uses dark and adolescent humor to not only to show the gap between reality and the ideal but also to bridge that gap. An example of this ironically laced humor would be Nomi explaining what there is to do in East Village ‘”Golf was another one because it consisted of using a rod to hit something much, much smaller than yourself and a lot of men in this town enjoyed that…

There are many programs for children and families happening around Steinbach. I am connected with community members like Eastman Immigration and Opening Doors to success. We have good referral relationship with each other. Eastman Immigration Centre offers swimming for families, sowing classes, sports classes and immigration assistance for the families. Opening Doors to Success offers essential skill workshops and assists individuals with their resume and assist in finding jobs. Jake Epp…

through eleven of “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbach, tells of the Dust Bowl drought that swept through Oklahoma and how it affected the homes and livelihood of the sharecroppers (Steinbach 2-4). Tom Joad, in chapter two, finds himself riding with a truck driver after having served four years in prison at a place called McAlester. He had been locked up after being in a drunken brawl and killing a man (Steinbach 4-12). Chapter three tell of a turtle crossing the highway and how a truck…

sunset that concludes each day. That one idea— to pay attention— is what drives Alice Steinbach 's philosophy on writing along with a collection of other tactics taught to her by her ninth grade creative writing teacher Miss Dennis, which is showcased in her essay "The Miss Dennis School of Writing". Steinbach creates a well-rounded philosophy consisting of many elements throughout the essay. However, some components neglect the state of mind of many young writers, and even adults, who struggle…

Introduction The case, Comcast Corporation v. Federal Communication Commission and Steinbach v. Village of Forest Park discusses important aspects of utilizing the Internet for business and potential technology and privacy concerns. The Internet is growing rapidly. A growing concern to manage the growth and reliability of the Internet is net neutrality. It is important to understand how it can be regulated by the Federal Communication Commission and what authority Internet service providers…

The concept of ‘fair play’ relates to cycling today. People are simply cycling for the benefits it brings like convenience and health. They don’t need to invest a substantial amount of time and money in buying the most expensive bicycle and gear or watching competitive cycling on television. What results from different attitudes towards cycling is a number of sub-groups within the sport. Steinbach et al (2011) to a certain extent found a number of different ‘types’ of cyclists through the…

associated to a stimulus different from the one intended; thus, leading to misanchoring which occurs when the stimulus, which can have more than one meaning, is different from that the listener perceives. The process of anchoring is basically a mental one since “NLP also teaches that the unconscious stores conditioned responses and calls this process anchoring (Bandler and Grinder, 1979 p.70 qtd. in Rowan). In his article “Neurolinguistic Programming: A Systematic Approach to Change”, A. M.…

First, there is very little money to spend on the Olympics after Brazil’s economy plummeted in correlation with China’s (Steinback). Alison Steinbach on Harvard’s International Review states that, “Rio plans to spend less public money on all of the Olympics than London spent on its main stadium.” (Steinbach). With hardly any money being spent on the infrastructure in Brazil for the upcoming games, Rio will not be prepared for the expected minimum of 350,000 spectators or for the athletes who…

Steinbach (2012), charges the constitutional elitism of education in Trinidad and Tobago to its neo-colonialist past. This according to Steinbach (2012) governs many structures of the society. The education system of the country is believed to give credence to the high academic criteria set to sift students for admission to the 71% of schools which are managed by denominational boards (National Report on the Development of Education in Trinidad and Tobago: Inclusive Education, 2008) which are…