How Does Ms. Gruwell Earn Her Students’ Respect? In the movie Freedom Writers1‚ the most serious problem in the class is lacking of respect. Students don’t have respect for each other. And their teacher‚ Ms. Gruwell‚ they even hate her. This story happened at Woodrow Wilson High School2 in USA California’s Long Beach3 during 1990s. At that period racial discrimination still prevailed. Gangs4‚ violence‚ poverty were full of most people’s life. Erin Gruwell5‚ a 23-year-old first time teacher‚ was trying
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complex. C. the Oedipus complex. D. defense mechanisms. Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: C Your Response: C 2. Bonnie is afraid to express anger toward her overbearing and irritating supervisor. Instead‚ she is critical of her children. A psychoanalyst would suggest that Bonnie’s reaction to her children illustrates: A. identification. B. reaction formation. C. displacement. D. projection. Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Correct Answer: C Your Response: C
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rhyme * You can see that this poem‚ like most of Dickinson’s poems‚ has an ABCB rhyme scheme. Here‚ our rhyming pairs are "saw/raw" and "grass/pass." Extra note: Dickinson wasn’t strict in her rhyming. Though she did take steps to fit her feelings into the rhyme (she kept a dictionary by her bed‚ to help her find just the right word)‚ if she couldn’t find the rhyme‚ she came close. * "Ballad-like" meter * "Ballad-like" implies song-like‚ and many folks have put Dickinson’s words to
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Cima and her father are isolated from the rest of the world. They do not have contact with other humans and forgot what it was like to talk with other people. When someone does not have contact with other people outside their home‚ it can change them into a very different person. Cima and her father got along fairly well in their little house‚ despite all they had been through since their world changed. The circumstances that they had to prevail only brought them closer to one another and they both
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figurative language to express her message. Evidently‚ there is no specific pattern of rhythm and rhyme‚ so therefore we can conclude that this poem is written in free verse. This highlights the fact that love has no order or pattern. Throughout ‘Valentine‚’ we not only receive how ignorant we are when it comes to love‚ but also love is an emotion with two separate sides‚ we can experience both happiness‚ and grief. Duffy introduces her famous love poem with a short sentence as her first stanza to create
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“Her Second Career” vs. “Knight King” These two stories were very similar “Her Second Career” is about a woman named Claire Nash who believed that she has talent. The talent she has is acting‚ acting she said could not be learned or at least made it seem that way. She is very conceded and thinks highly of herself. She learns a lesson that becoming an actress is not as easy as she thought‚ even though she had once been a famous actress. The second time around was not so easy. In the story the
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Pride and Prejudice Pride and prejudice is a novel wrote by Jane Austen. The book was published in 1819‚ is based in the English society of the XIX century‚ when the dream of every mother was to see her daughter engaged. The book‚ tells the story of Elizabeth Bennett and her family‚ a family composed by a mother‚ a father and fife daughters. After the arrival of the nobles Mr Bingley‚ his sister and his best friend Mr Darcy‚ Mrs Bennet decides that the time has came to have a married daughter
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NOUN What is Noun? A noun is a word used to name a person‚ animal‚ place‚ thing‚ and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns: Late last year our neighbours bought a goat. Portia White was an opera singer. The bus inspector looked at all the passengers’ passes. According to Plutarch‚ the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C. Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving. Types Of
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vanquishes her dragon through her resourcefulness. There are 3 different times Pearl was resourceful in To Vanquish the Dragon. One is where she helped save her best friend from the cruel and appalling prisons of the Nazis. They held her friend hostage and tortured her for the information regarding the whereabouts of her father. It bothered Pearl so much that she decided to take matters into her own hands to help her friend. With the German that she knew and learned in school she helped save her friend
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley endured many hardships during her life. Some of these included her mother dieing during childbirth‚ her loathing stepmother‚ and later in life‚ the death of her beloved husband. Although she maintained a strong relationship with her father‚ it did not cover-up the absence of a strong maternal figure. Mary Shelley ’s novel Frankenstein‚ was influenced by the pain she encountered in her life. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on August 30‚ 1797 to the couple of Mary Wollstonecraft
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