All The Lovely Bad Ones Book Report

Bad Boy: A memoir by Walter Dean Myers is about racism, isolation,and value of education. Racism is a big part throughout this book because of how Walter acts and thinks. Isolation is a big role in this book because it reaches many of his family members. Value of education changes dramatically throughout his life.

Shirley Jackson emphasizes appearance vs. reality in the short story “The Possibility of Evil” because looks can be deceiving. Looks can shape how we think of people and in reality they could be the opposite.

The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon is a mystery novel about how a teenage girl learns about the brave women in her family who did not even go near their famous haunted plantation, Graymoss. Fifteen year old Lia Starling just received the message that her great grandmother is giving her mother Anne, the property of Graymoss plantation. It has been kept in good care since Charlotte Blevin’s, (Lia’s great, great, great grandmother) grandfather died during the Civil War. Her parents dreamed of having a large family with a dozen unadopted children. But her parents refuse to listen to anyone about the evil spirits that haunts Graymoss. Lia gives her all to find out who or what the spirits wants even when she is scared to death. In the end, she solves

When it comes to the topic of obesity, most of us will readily agree that fast food is one of the main causes. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of readily available cheap food on the go. Whereas some are convinced that only unhealthy foods can be fast food, others maintain that fast food can be healthy too. Someone who believes that is Anthony Bourdain. Anthony Bourdain is not only a widely known chef and TV personality, but he is also an author. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978. He has traveled often for his various television shows, which has made him well informed about other parts of the world. Since he has traveled all around the world, been added to the New York Times bestseller

This book report is over Haunted Houses by Patricia D. Netzley. The book is part of a series called The Mystery Library. The main goal of the series is to examine strange and often unbelieveable or unexplainable events. The author’s writes this series and her other books for the age range of kids to young adults. This book in particular goes into depth about the history of haunted house and everything surrounding them like sightings, ghosts, poltergeist, speaking to spirits, and investigation.

People are always getting into situations that have two possible ways to go. That person can choose the right thing to do or the worse. There have been numerous amounts of people asking the question “what is good and evil?” Many have tried conducting experiments to try and find the roots of what makes people good/evil? Evil acts and evil itself can be shown through the social, economic, and mental environment.

This month I read Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, by Sheila Turnage. This is a science fiction book and the second in the series. This book is about three kids who set out to communicate with the oldest person in town, a ghost named Nellie Blake.

In the book by Nicholas Carr, The Shallows, he is arguing how the internet has changed our brains. The thoughts, mental processes, and even the physical brains is being restructured to fit into the new technology that we are being the guinea pig of the testing. Carr informs us that it’s more to it than just knowing that are brains and the human condition are changing, but that the internet isn’t this evil machine. As the people we are making a choice to use this new technology knowing we are losing but also gaining new benefits that the internet provides us.

Often when the younger generation catches wind of their elders criticizing technology they chalk it up to their inability to adapt to new environments, or being “stuck in their ways”. They think, “ I have no problem surfing the web, so why can’t grandma send a simple email without getting hung up on spam?”. Perhaps, some of Grandma’s difficulty come from not being able to locate internet explorer on her desktop, however it is very much possible that it is the computer rather than the person that is making it troublesome to concentrate on the task at hand. In his book The Shallows:What The Internet is Doing to Out Brains Nicholas Carr writes about the effects of the Interest’s distracting environment

In many ways I am like Thelma Arnold of Lilburn, Georgia (pg. 59). The book states that Thelma had not realized that her search browser, AOL, had kept and released records of what she had searched. When her records along with others records, were released complete strangers were able to identify her and find where she lived by what she had searched. Another man’s records were released with Thelma’s and the reports showed that he had searched for things like how to kill his wife (pg. 60). I personally had no idea that there is a “big brother” out there watching what we search and look at on our electronic devices (pg. 48). Of course I had known that even the things we delete off the internet are never really deleted. Although, I feel that our

From bad to worse, or from bad to cursed? I always love a good play on words, which is what made this book catch my eye. From Bad to Cursed, by Katie Alender, is the second book in her three part series that is one of my favorites to read. From Bad to Cursed is the continuation of the first book, Bad Girls Don’t Die. It shares the bizarre life Lexi and her sister, Kasey, have gotten themselves into. Kasey, once again, goes ballistic when she makes an unbelievable decision to basically become sired to a possessed book with a group of girls. They call it, “The Sunshine Club.” This book has to be my number one choice out of the three, and you are about to find out exactly why. The main aspect that will be focused on relates to what we have been learning in class, archetypes; I found three in this book that I particularly want to drill on which are the outcast or rebel, sidekick, and the innocent.

In the book Bad Boys, Ann Arnett Feruson originally sets out to look at how institutions create and preserve a sort of racial order, and also how the idea of what race is influences how people view themselves as individuals and as part of a larger community. This leads her into a more specific topic, and a close look at young black males in the education system. What she finds is that black boys are looked at differently than boys in general, and they often looked upon in a negative manner. Teachers treat them differently, and are quicker to punish them for things. This is partially due to the concept of adultification. Rather than looking at actions as childish or naïve, the teachers look at the boys as “adults.” They assume

The theme of “The Possibility of Evil” is “What goes around, comes around.” Miss. Strangeworth writes mean letters towards other members of the town, then is caught with misfortune when she is discovered, and an anonymous town member destroys her roses, which are her grandmother's. She had wrote letters for a while, for over a year, and as often as two or three a day. She wrote letters, such as accusing Mrs Foster of being blackmailed by her nephew with her upcoming surgery, and would address them anonymously.

Foulata and Captain Good’s relationship play a huge role in this novel. Captain Good would never have thought by assisting Foulata and standing up for her against Gagool and Twala would he benefit from her. Good defended Foulata from being killed from Gagool for no reason. Good sang to Foulata,"All right, my hearty, I'll look after you...Come, get up, there's a good girl.” He shows compassion and shows that he has sympathy towards Foulata by saying this. Captain Good shows bravery as well, for he had to stand up for Foulata in front of the king Twala. Foulata showed similar characteristics by crying out to Good, Twala, and Gagool that she has done nothing wrong. She says,” Oh, cruel! and I so young! What have I done that I should never again

I read Warriors A vision of shadows #4 Darkest Night. It is written by Erin Hunter. It is fantasy and also it is written in 3rd person. The main Characters are Twigpaw,Violetpaw,and AlderHeart. AlderHeart is a medicine cat which is a cat who heals his clanmates and shares dreams with their ancestors. Twigpaw and Violetpaw are Apprentices, they learn from their mentors and will soon become warriors. They were adopted however and never knew their parents, until now.