Beijing BISS International School Grade 10 School Year: 2012-2013 To what degree was Vladek’s survival based on luck, and to what degree was his survival based on his considerable resourcefulness? URL: http://majorspoilers.com/2011/10/20/digital-comics-maus-getting-digital-treatment/ Student’s Name: Julia Li Teacher’s Name: A. Geralis Class: M.Y.P. – English A Rationale “Maus” is a graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman based on a true story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman. The story is about Vladek’s experience and survival in the Holocaust that happened during 1939-1945 in Poland. In this essay I’m going to discuss about Vladek’s survival.
Jacob McBride Period 4 10/23/12 Choice book write up The book that I read was Octavian nothing: traitor to the nation; vol. 1: the pox party, by M.T. Anderson, This book is a description of the life of a boy who lives is unusual circumstances. He has grown up in the house hold of scientists who withhold their real names and use a numerical code instead. They record everything that he and his mother do from their daily emotional states to how much they are eating.
Kick Ass: The Hero’s Journey “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” Joseph Campbell was the author who identified the concept of the hero’s journey. This quote can be interpreted as meaning that when hard times are forced upon people, people are often forced to look within themselves and find the strength to power through it all. In the movie Kick Ass, released on June 7th 2010, Dave Lizewski is a teenage boy whose story exemplifies this idea perfectly. Lizewski was nothing more than a social misfit hiding from the brutality of high school in his world of comic books and superheroes. Living in an impoverish and crime filled city, he learns early on that, since he’s not a tough kid, the safest thing to do is be invisible and back down from any sort of trouble without asking questions.
In The Know, Public Relations 1100 Pemberton Trails Suite 100 Apex, North Carolina 27502 (919)389-4239 “Always in the know since 1988” Memorandum February 17, 2012 TO: In The Know Firm FROM: Chief of PR, Ryan T. McLaughlin SUBJECT: Using the past to tailor the future Looking back at the No. 1 comedy television show for years, Two and a Half Men, with the now unemployed Charlie Sheen, exemplified true success. Charlie Sheen has made multiple mistakes in his personal life with family, drugs, and women but, his actions moving forward should speak louder than the past. Since the termination from Men, Sheens focus is the future of his career with the new show Anger Management, which will be aired on FX in 2012. As a result of Sheen’s hiring In The Know, his aspiration is to recreate the damaged image he has portrayed to the public and fans.
Jasper Jones Essay How does Craig Silvey use language to create images of family and families issues, and how do they resolve them in the end? Jasper Jones, by Craig Silvey is a novel about Charlie Bucktin, a 14-year-old boy who hears a knock on his window, only to find out it is Japer Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. After Jasper shows Charlie the horrible discovery of Laura Wishart, both boys are forced to keep the secret from other. As the whole town soon finds out, both boys try to find out the truth. Craig Silvey uses many different language techniques to portray the images of family.
The Canterbury Tales. Geoffery Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is an example of an extremely complicated and wondrous piece of fictional work. This story is a fourteenth frame narrative from Britain. The main story line's plot is a contest between thirty pilgrims on their way to Thomas Becket's Canterbury shrine tell tales. Harry Baily is the lead pilgrim and is identified as "the host," states that in order to win the contest the pilgrim must tell “tales of best sentence and moost solaas,” this means that the pilgrim which tells the tale with a moral lesson and must be entertaining to the group during the few days that it took to make their way from London to their destination (800).
Fast-talking, fourteen and fresh from boot-camp, Jack Harold Lucas was bound for glory. He was a fire plug of a kid who wanted to fight so badly, that he lied about his age in order to enlist, stowed away on a troopship to get into the war, and was technically missing when he got his first shot at combat. However, this two-fisted punk managed to become the youngest American in history to receive the Medal of Honor. “On February 20, 1945, while fighting Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, the day after the invasion and a week after his seventeenth birthday, Lucas’ life was changed forever.”(Standring Pg.1) Quick to act under fire, Lucas purposely absorbed the shock of two enemy grenades in order to shield his companions. “By his inspiring action and
Banned Book Project The Giver by Lois Lowry, tells the story of Jonas, a 12-year old boy, living in a future utopian society where poverty, crime, sickness, and unemployment are a thing of the past. These idyllic communities were set up after some vaguely referenced dark period in human history. The communities lived by a strict set of rules that robbed citizens of their ability to see in color and feel emotion, but it saved them from war and famine. Each baby is assigned to a family according to his or her needs, and each adult is given a role in society according to his or her abilities. The role that Jonas receives is the Receiver of Memories, which assigns him the task to store all the memories of life before the “sameness”.
The Lord of the Flies During the course of William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, there were three significant symbols that influenced the overall outcome of the novel. The storyline revolves around a group of young boys that were stranded on a deserted island and must figure out ways of adapting to their surroundings and surviving. The first symbol that was introduced and affected the entire novel was the conch that represented power and order on the island. The following symbol was an older kid known as Roger who was portrayed by the author as evil and brutality. The final symbol is the signal fire since measured the connection that was left to the real world and would be the kids’ only way to be rescued off the island.
Pascal decided to learn about geometry, a topic he had only heard of but never studied, in his spare time. By age thirteen, he had proven the 32nd proposition of Euclid and discovered an error in Rene Descartes geometry. His father put Pascal’s knowledge in mathematics towards hand totaling long columns of numbers to his job. Pascal later went on the create the pascaline, a device fourteen by five by three inches that could do calculations, which can now be considered the first mechanical calculator. In 1650, Pascal suddenly decided to avidly study religion, but returned to his previous lifestyle three years later, conducting experiments on the pressure exerted by gases and liquids, inventing the arithmetical triangle, and created the calculus of probabilities together with Fermat.