Series synopsis: Noah and Saskia is an innovative series mixing animation and visual effects with actors in a story about two teenagers from opposite sides of the world who find each other on the internet and change each other’s lives – without ever meeting in real life. Australian Saskia (Hannah Greenwood) goes into an internet chat room seeking revenge on Max Hammer (Cameron Nugent) who stole her music to use on his website. But when they meet online, as their avatars, they quickly become good friends. Saskia’s online alter ego, Indy, is everything Saskia isn’t – cool, gorgeous and carefree. And Saskia thinks that if Max found out who she really is, the most fantastic friendship of her life would be all over in an instant.
Rebecca Wagner Book Report One English 9 Block 4 9/14/11 Ride Like The Wind True Colors by Kristen Hannah is about a crime that shocks a small town, a terrible mistake made by our legal system, sisters who have lost their way, a boy who doesn’t know how to be a man without his father, and true love. I went on a journey to a corner of Washington State, 1992 where girls look forward to the County Fair and sleep in a dusty stall every once and a while. I loved this book and I could relate to a lot of the characters. It was compelling, passionate, and inspiring. It shows that even through hardships, your family will always be there for you.
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.” –S.E. Hinton. (quotes) Hinton herself is a rebel. She couldn’t stand the books wrote for young adults so, she began writing her own novel when she was a freshman in high school.
With scathingly sharp dialogue and intangible character chemistry, Junois a coming-of-age film that is consistently funny and effortlessly cool. Sixteen-year-old Minnesota high-school student Juno Maguff (Ellen Page) is a rebellious, outwardly confident and highly articulate teenager with a penchant for seventies punk and Dario Argento horror. Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, the result of an experimental encounter with calm, amiable, and sweetly reserved best friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), Juno has to make the biggest decision of her life. Weighing up
Let me tell you a little bit about Patty. She was a bright, outgoing, young woman who had intentions of going to Chapman University in the fall. Unfortunately, Patty struggled with an eating disorder since she was in middle school. She, like many, went to food to take away her stress. Earlier this year, Patty Desolatia tried to help her fellow classmates when she reported Kyle for having prescription drugs.
Remy Mermelstein March 25, 2014 English 9 Honors/K. O’Connor Period 4 A&P/Brain Essay Remy Mermelstein - March 2014 In John Updikes short story, A&P, the impulsive and rebellious behavior of Sammy and the girls is highlighted in relation to the logical and more socially un-awkward adults. A normal day at an A&P is punctured by the rash and unexpected decisions of teenagers in a sort of coming of age story of a boy [Sammy] realizing his stance in the world working in an A&P in the middle of nowhere, with no sign of a really good future while he admires three girls who to him seem to be way out. Three girls walk into the A&P, wearing nothing but bathing suits in a place far from any water or beach and immediately captivated nearly everyone in sight. The girl’s decision to walk into a public store in bikinis suggests that they really do not care what other people think about them, almost as if they are at the top of the
This has become a very real situation for some people. And the proof is piling, there are ghosts and they do like to go bump in the night . For the masses out there of believers all you have to do is talk about something eerie and out of place, an the spirit world is dumped into your lap in forms of photos and stories by the truckload. As you explain it was just a chill but “Some people sense spirit energy reacting with goosebumps, feeling a chill up their spine or even seeing the hair on their arms or back of the neck stand on end” (Doherty,J.)(2004). Many skeptics this caused by a breeze maybe the wind or someone moving a bit fast past the person.
Stories of apparitions, poltergeist disturbances, sounds, unexplained voices and even odors are being reported. Both the believers and the non-believers are using scientific theories and tools to try to figure it out. Ghosts can appear in several different ways. There is evidence of ghosts appearing just as they were when they were alive, but transparent. They can also appear as flashes of light or mists.
Or, are ghosts just figments of our imagination, something we dream up, in hopes of excitement in our boring lives? Ghosts are questionably true visions, believed to emerge from humans or animals that were once alive, but are now dead, usually represented by the sight of something unexpected or remarkable, but often indicated their presence through sound, smell, or touch (Ghosts 2007). We have all heard many ghost stories in our lifetime and the purpose of this paper is to educate the readers of the truth behind ‘ghosts.’ The idea of ghosts exists in all cultures. Ghost sightings have been happening, and have been reported and have been documented, since one of the first notable ghost stories was reported in the first century A.D. Pliney the Younger was a well-respected Roman statesman and author. In the first century A.D., he reported seeing the ghost of an old man with rattling chains and a long beard at his house in Athens (History Channel 2012).
Research Paper: “Ghosts: Believers and Non believers Come Forth.” Ghosts and spirits have haunted the world for centuries or so some believe. Christian theology talks of the transcending of certain ghostly imitations also known as demons or poltergeists. ( Wiebe,p.1). Although the origin of ghosts descends far back into time the belief of ghost varies from person to person. There are endless sightings, photographs, and unexplained mysteries.