Ruben Zelaya BMC Class B1 28 June 2013 True Notebook Book Report I am reading the book “True Notebooks” by Mark Salzman. It is about a teacher who teaches a writing class in a juvenile detention center. The student wrote about their life and some of the things they wrote were interesting and deep. For example one of the students wrote about hate and how it been through his life “hate taught me how to speak‚ hate taught me how to love‚ and eventually hate taught me how to hate. This kid
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“Can you ever escape your past?” Can any of us escape our past? No matter bitter or sweet‚ we will never be able to forget what happened in the past of our lives or escape from what has happened in the past. This is the caption that drew my attention to this achingly tender love story about the power of love and a story of miracles that will stay with me forever. The author‚ Nicholas Sparks has weaved this story around two lovers who face many barriers to win their true love and be together. Even
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Kristina Roberts June 7‚ 2011 Furey-EN 305 Notebook Assignment 7. Research and identify people –not necessarily local or U.S. based—who hold what you consider the “ideal job”. What does the job entail? Can you find the person’s resume/vita somewhere? Write a brief summary of the persons training and career‚ using as many real statics as you can find. Explain what you admire about this person. What kind of worker is he? What were his greatest accomplishments? Setbacks? How did the field
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1.) What is Didion proving in this essay? What does she want to change? Didion’s purpose for the essay is trying to convey the seriousness of migraines. To her‚ migraines are a medical condition as opposed to just a headache. She compares migraines to other serious conditions such as diabetes to change the stigma most people have on migraines. 2.) What is her ethos? Provide specific examples of her credibility. Her ethos is her personal experience with the subject as demonstrated in the first
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“Holy Water” by Didion was a wonderful and informative essay on the importance and lack of water in Western America‚ especially focusing on California and New Mexico. This essay was intended to show us the importance of water and how quickly we can run out of it. Didion wanted to show us that water is an everyday item that most people‚ myself included take for granted amongst many other things. Holy water is not about church‚ however‚ Didion has a religious view of her water and she encourages
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isolation. This whole essay is about the Hoover Dam and why Joan Didion believes it has such an enchanting beauty. “At the Dam” begins by explaining the first time Didion saw the Dam and why it shall be remembered for all time. Then she informs us on the history of the alien-like Dam. Finally‚ she states that the Dam itself is not beautiful; it’s the isolation of it. Since 1967 Joan Didion has not been able to forget the Hoover Dam. Didion could be in a totally different place and the Dam will suddenly
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In the essay “Santa Ana” by Joan Didion‚ the author was very descriptive with imagery‚ tone‚ objective description‚ and subjective description. The way she spoke to the reader about the weather in Los Angeles actually drew an illustration in my head due to the great description by the author. She portrayed an image of how disturbing the winds were and how society was affected by the Santa Ana. The Santa Ana winds in Los Angeles are disturbing because they cause people to act in ways they normally
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justify their wrongdoing. In Joan Didion’s piece On Morality‚ she claims that there is no such thing as a moral code that everyone should abide by; we each have our own individual set of morals that we believe is right. The problem with this idea that Didion expresses is that the word moral is often used in an abundance and with an incorrect meaning. In Didion’s piece‚ she suggests that we are using the word morality so frequently we seem to lose the meaning of it. It seems that today that everyone
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“Marrying Absurd” is that customs and traditions of typical marriages do not apply in Las Vegas. Didion begins her essay describing the lack of requirements to obtain a marriage license in Las Vegas. She states that one can marry at almost any time or day‚ it just might cost a little more. Las Vegas has transformed the traditional wedding industry into a 24 hour seven day a week instant wedding industry. Didion quoted justice of the peace‚ Mr. James A. Brennan as stating‚ “I got it down to from five minutes
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The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks Major Characters * Allison Hamilton – seventeen year old heiress‚ who shared an epic summer romance to Noah. * Noah Calhoun – local country boy who fell in love to a city girl‚ Allison. * Anne Hamilton – Allison’s mother. * Lon Hammond – Allison’s fiancé. Minor Characters * Martha Saw – a war widow‚ Noah’s girlfriend. * Frank Calhoun – Noah’s father. * John Hamilton – Allison’s father. * Fin – Noah’s friend. * Nurse Esther
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