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Walter Dean Myers’ memoir Bad Boy is about how he traveled back to his past. This book that he wrote is, funny, and unforgettable. As a boy, Myers had a quick-temper, was physically strong, and was always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously, as he would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. He aspired to be a writer.

Cormac McCarthy’s brain child “The Road” is a postapocalyptic novel that illustrates the harsh reality of the world. This story serves as a truth that humans, when stripped of their humanity will take desperate measures in order to survive. The reader learns; however even when it seems all hope is lost good can still be found in the world. The son character of this story illuminates this philosophy. He is a foil of his father and shows how even a person never accustomed to the luxury of a normal life can still see goodness.

A man and his son travelling alone amidst the ruins of a previously prosperous nation; a young man venturing into a treacherous land to tie up the loose ends in his life; a broken ranch hand that suspects he had a conversation with death: in the most desolate and uncertain environments, the surrounding world can lend a bleak and lifeless perspective to one’s struggle to survive. In lands without accompaniment from other humans, the will to live can be as difficult to muster as shelter for the night or the first meal in days. Cormac McCarthy explores the difficulties of survival under the tension of barren landscapes and youthful inexperience and their effects on the loss of innocence. Gained maturity enables humans to persist and stay hopeful, even in the least hopeful situations. These environments and mindsets play an important role in the messages of three novels by Cormac McCarthy: The Road, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain.

When it comes to bullying in schools it has plenty of negative effects on some individual students. There are some kids who don’t have a problem with bullying because they are the problem.

Throughout Grit, Angela Duckworth argues that grit is the single most important factor in determining success of an individual. She splits the argument into three parts: the concept of grit and why it matters, the proper use and understanding of the goal hierarchy, and how an individual can develop grit. Duckworth’s argument is important because it replaces the traditional viewpoint of success being determined by talent to one which sees success as a result of passion and perseverance.

Maniac Magee written by Jerry Spinelli, is a book about Jeffrey “Maniac” Magee’s life in Two Mills, Pennsylvania. When Jeffrey was young, his parents died in a trolley crash and Jeffery was shipped off to his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan who absolutely hated each other. They stayed married because of their beliefs in the Catholic Religion, which advises its followers not to divorce. He lived with these relatives for eight years until he runs away to Two Mills, a divided city two hundred miles from Bridgeport, where he previously lived. Two Mills is racially segregated, and has an East Side and a West Side, with the blacks living on the east, and the whites on the west. Throughout this book, Jeffrey learns the reality of discriminatory life in Two Mills, Pennsylvania, by facing conflict versus other people, versus society, and versus himself.

In Maniac Magee, the theme thus far, is that you shouldn’t be judged by what color your skin is/ you shouldn’t judge others by what color your skin. This is because, in the book the town in divided in half, and on the East side lives the black people, and the West lives the white. They base where they live by the color of their skin, and if you are one color, and you go into the side of the town of the different color, you will judged. By the end of the book, I believe Maniac will fix this problem. He will show that it doesn’t matter what you look like, it matters how you act. How kind you are, or how rude you are. By this reasoning, the theme of this book is equality.

The author of Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli, uses delineate details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to evolve the character, Amanda Beale.

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Cognitive development can be defined as a field of study in neuroscience and psychology revolving around the growth of the brain (Schacter & Woods 2009). This development is the evolution of skills such as, information processing, perceptual skills, conceptual resourcing, language knowledge and other brain development traits (ibid).

In the story Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli Maniac meets a forty-year-old man named Grayson. Grayson is a very caring man. One example of this is when Maniac falls off the fence and is hurt badly. Grayson happens to be driving around when he sees a body (Maniac’s Body) on the ground. Instead of taking him somewhere like the police department Grayson brought him back with him to the Y where he lives.

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to develop one of the main characters, Jeffrey Lionel Magee ( I’ll call him Maniac). Maniac is a middle school aged boy who was born in Hollidaysburg, but who lost his parents to the P&W high-speed trolley at three years old, then lived with relatives for 8 years then ran away to find a new town. The town he ended up in was called two mills, which was divided by west (white) and east (black). Maniac was not afraid of the blacks in town, he had thought of them as normal people, and he treated them as normal people. I know this because of multiple evidence in the text. The first example is,“Before Maniac answered, "A book," Mars Bar had snatched it from his hand.

Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, takes on a tough topic of figuring out what components enable a child to succeed. Throughout the book he makes several claims that are related to poverty, attachment, and character. We believe all three of these items play a critical role in how children succeed. We will provide evidence to support these claims as well as critique them.

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to develop one of the main characters, Maniac Magee. Maniac is good with other people as shown in this example “By the time Maniac and the rest of the vacant lot regulars got there, Chestnut and Green was a cross between a block party and a swimming pool. Radios blaring. People blaring. Somebody selling lemonade. Somebody selling Kool-Aid ice cubes on toothpicks. Bodies. Skin. Colors. Water. Gleaming. Buttery. Warm. Cool. Wet. Screaming. Happy.” You can also notice he uses many different words to show the amount of partying that is going on. Another piece of evidence is “Little kids, especially preschoolers, came from all over, bringing him their

stories, madness again is playing a key role in the plot. In this short story Poe used