It described in great detail all the long nights of drug use and partying. I felt like I had been up all night with Kristina. The ending was not at all predictable. When Kristina returns to her mom's house to get clean from the drugs and to have the baby you believe that she will succeed. After she talks to her mother about not being able to provide for the baby and how difficult it was to love him, she decides to give the baby to her mother to adopt and raise.
It is more common that street gangs are made of males, but the author takes in the prospective views of a street gang made of females. The story revolves around Noemi hanging around her little sister Olivia and the gang Las Chicas Chuecas. In the short story the character named Olivia is one of the gang members that is very tough, which is a character portrayed having masculine dominance. Secondly, another issue with living in East L.A. are the drugs. In the short story it shows that their mother is a recovering addict.
Leah Hardy Kidder English 9 Honors 20 March 2013 A question commonly asked by frustrated parents to their teenagers: why don’t you just grow up and start acting like an adult? Although it is a rhetorical question, there is an answer. Research has shown that the human brain does not reach full development until people are in their 20s. Teenage brains are strikingly unlike adults’, explaining their often rash, immature behavior exemplified in Mary E. Pearson’s novel The Adoration of Jenna Fox and William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. In The Adoration of Jenna Fox, 17 year old Jenna Fox struggles to recover from an 18 month-long coma that left her with complete amnesia.
Her only solution at this moment is to be alone. Bullying does not only happens to Melinda but other people. It was the day of the pep rally; Melinda was not so exited as her only friend Heather, she was scared someone gets next to her and claims her about what happened in the summer party, .and it happened, to girls got next to her and claim her about it. “The girl pokes me harder. “Aren’t you the one who called the cops at Kyle Rodger’s party at the end of the summer?” .
By having such harsh drug laws in place, rather than deterring drug use the government is actually deterring those from seeking help when they most need it. Take the case of Anna Wood for example; just a regular fifteen year old girl at a party with a group of friends that made the mistake of taking ecstasy. She began throwing up, convulsing and drifting in and out of consciousness. Her friends had two options, take her home with the hope she got better or take her to hospital so she could get the help she needed. Take a guess which one they chose, home of course.
She lost all her friends and has no one to talk to and share her feelings to, besides Heather. Heather is a girl who comes from Ohio and moved to Syracuse New York. She is a student from a different middle school and is unaware of the incident that just took place. Heather becomes her friend, but she soon backs off from being Melinda’s friend because she thinks that Melinda is the most depressed girl she ever met and she is not so cool so she goes and hangs out with the cool girls. Leaving, Melinda everyone turns there back on Melinda, but her lab partner who tells her and encourages her to speak up and not to remain silent.
For example, over the summer, Melinda decides to go to an unsupervised party involving underage drinking. This is an example the character’s action. While Melinda was at the party she decided to drink until she was drunk, resulting in her vulnerability to predators. Melinda’s victimization was not chosen or desired, it was unexpected due to her actions. Another example is when Melinda declining David’s invitation to an after school pizza party at his house.
The Endless Cycle of Crime The movie Freeway, which was written and directed by Matthew Bright, is about a young girl Vanessa Lutz and her life as a juvenile delinquent. Vanessa Lutz, who is played be Reese Witherspoon, was in and out of juvenile detention centers and very familiar with “blue lights”. There were many factors in Vanessa’s life that led her to interactions with men in uniform and a future on the wrong side of the system. Scientists and Psychologists have proven that the environment someone grows up in does influence the way that they react to external factors. Vanessa dealt with many extremely hard situations that many normal children at her age do not have to undergo, and it forced here to assume more responsibility and grow up more quickly.
Brooke Murphy Literary analysis for Speak How would it feel to walk into your first year of high school and have everyone give you a hard time? In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is a freshman at Mayweather high school who was raped at a party in the summer. She calls the police for help, but they arrive to find a teen party with alcohol. Everyone thinks she did it on purpose because nobody knows the truth. Melinda sees The Marthas as an exclusive group of girls with bad attitudes, while the teachers see the exact opposite.
She didn’t care about the sledging by the other team. She cared desperately that her dad yelled at her for failing to shoot the goal’. This is a clear example of toxic parents poisoning the clubs and how bad sportsmanship can affect a careless 8 year old. Which positions