Final Assignment ‘Thirteen’ Case Description and Theoretical Analysis Section 1: Case Description Tracy Freeland is a thirteen year old Caucasian female. She is a seventh grader at a Los Angeles‚ CA middle school. Tracey has recently begun a pattern of stealing money from individuals‚ as well merchandise from stores. She has started to experiment with drugs‚ alcohol‚ and sexual activities. Over a four month period that these activities took place; Tracy has also started to act out her emotional
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“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life‚ you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately‚ you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life‚ you’re messing with their entire life.” (Asher 108). After reading this passage immediately I interpreted this as the message or lesson of the novel. This is true because Hannah experienced this first hand. Everyone in this book had no idea that
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with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections are the heard melodies (the whistling of the blackbird) and the innuendoes
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After attending Tracy Fessenden presentation on “Haunted America: Reading the Spiritual Turn”‚ I have a new outlook on spiritual renewal. Prior to listening to Fessenden’s speech‚ I did not have an understanding of the meaning “spiritual revival”. Once Fessenden mention the modern-day example of George Bush’s speech after 9/11‚ I began to follow along more. After the 9/11 tragedy‚ Bush spoke to the public advising the United States to carry on with their lives and “get down to Disney World in Florida
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The Miracle of Self-Discipline REPORT By Brian Tracy © B rian Tracy. All rights reserved. The contents‚ or parts thereof‚ may not be reproduced in any form for any purpose without the written permission of Brian Tracy. Y our ability to develop the habit of self-discipline will contribute more to your success than any other quality of character. Some years ago‚ I met Kop Kopmeyer‚ a noted success authority who had discovered one thousand success principles which he had published
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English 12 Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher Jay Asher grew up in California‚ and has always had a thing for books. Growing up‚ he worked in several different book stores and libraries. He attended Cuesta college right after he graduated high school‚ majoring in elementary education. He then transferred to California Polytechnic State University where he left in his senior year. He decided he wanted to pursue a career as a serious writer. Thirteen Reasons Why is Jay’s first
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school student who committed suicide. No one saw it coming‚ no one expected it‚ no one noticed or determined the signs of thoughts of suicide that Hannah portrayed. Before she committed this tragic event‚ Hannah left behind thirteen recorded messages that explained the thirteen reasons to why she killed herself; the reasons to why she was driven over the edge. Each of these messages were copied to tapes‚ each side of the tape was directed towards one specific person in which caused one of the reasons
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Suicide is a very touchy topic in young adult literature; people often debate that the book is inappropriate for the targeted audience. The book Thirteen Reasons Why‚ By: Jay Asher‚ is about a young man‚ Clay Jensen‚ who returns home from school one day to find mysterious box with his name on it sitting on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes with thirteen reasons why his school crush‚ Hannah Baker‚ committed suicide and he’s one of them. Parents‚ and teachers complain that a book containing sexually
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There are thirteen barrier islands in the United States called Cumberland Island‚ Golden Isles of Georgia‚ Jekyll Island‚ Little St. Simons Georgia‚ Little Tybee Island‚ Ossabaw Island‚ Sapelo Island‚ Sea Island Georgia‚ Skidaway Island Georgia‚ St. Catherines Island‚ St. Simons Georgia‚ Tybee Island Georgia and Wassaw Island. All of these islands have many different types of histories. Cumberland Island has three major ecosystem regions along the western edge of the island there
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a major problem to the people who worked on farms and who lived in mainly the mid-west. Therefore the high winds and dust killed many plants and left people out of work for days. In “Living through the Great Depression” by Tracy Collins.
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