Beautiful Boy David Sheff

It is amazing, ridiculous, and sometimes scary how the brain deals with trauma. It is also ludicrous to believe that your environment and how you are treated are not always believed to strongly affect children. The first story in this book is a very moving one. I thought it interesting and appropriate that that was his first child patient.

Beautiful Boy was a powerful story that used different aspects of rhetoric to help establish connections with the audience. Sheff used pathos effectively to the point that his audience cannot help, but constantly relate to his situation. Like many parents, Sheff blamed himself for Nic’s mistakes. He cannot help but question his upbringing and decisions. He says, “Did I spoil me? Was I too lenient? If only his mother and I stayed together” (145). He also says, “If only I had never used drugs” (145). Not only does Sheff battle against his son, he also fought against remorse. It is in parenthood where he sees repercussions for his previous actions. If he had not experimented with drugs, he could at least be a decent example for Nic.

The novel Hope Was Here is a perfect representation of mine and many other peoples lives. I have lost someone important in my life, had to meet new people once or twice and especially had to work hard for the things that I want. The main characters especially Braverman and Addie, have struggles in their life that are very difficult to overcome.

I read The Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Vanduyn made us read a book of our own choice and I had read the book within six hours. This book is not that catchy but it makes a lot more sense if I continue to read it more. It is a beautiful and a sad story of a fourteen-year-old boy. His name is Reese and he’s African American. His father is not always there for him and his mother is a drug addict.

The novel that I have decided to make a report on is the book Ashfall by Mike Mullin. My reaction to the book Ashfall was "Wow, Alex is really brave". If I was in his situation , I don't think I would have reacted the way he reacted. Alex took control and focused on one thing and that was finding his family.

When David Bligh joined Dexter Southfield last September he brought the love of art, teaching, and experimentation with him. Bligh teaches upper school art with a focus on printmaking. He has shown work in numerous exhibitions, including UNC's Crossover and Composites: Hybrid Forms, Techniques & Media, The Color of Thin Air at Sculpture Fix Gallery -Two by Two: Small Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial at Eastern Washington State and The Future at Scuola Internationale di Grafica in Venice, Italy.

The book A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer is an exquisite book. It is Mr. Pelzers’ way of dealing with the dark night of his soul. He tells his journey through extreme child abuse, and how he overcame his past and now uses it for good. When I was younger and going through a rough time I picked up this book and read it in one day, I was overwhelmed with the fact that someone made it out of all that ,this great man did and he still continued to have a positive attitude. Seeing that he could face his past, now as an adult I know I can face mine. As I read his story tears poured down my face

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I really made me think about my life, how I’ve got to where I am today and how the people in my life have influenced me both for better and for worse. It highlighted that you never know when a moment is going to be your last, so you have to take advantage of it while it’s there and work it to your advantage. I also connected with it on a much deeper level because I know people who have been tied up in drugs at points of their lives, so I understand how hard it would have been for Wes to just “get out”. It is very well written and jumping between the similar times of the two boys lives really helps build up and show the reader the moments that defined the futures of these two men and how external influences played such a large factor into the people they became. While Wes commited a horrible crime, the author Wes Moore was able to use it along with this own experiences to teach his reader many valuable lessons about life, fate and the choices we stumble upon, “…even the worst decisions we make don’t necessarily remove us from the circle of humanity (Moore,

The story of Patricia Hann was a emotional impact to myself in a ways it was described. Reading a long the descriptive paragraph on how it described how she sat in her back of her truck with only the items she was able to save made me feel horrible. Kept reading and said she cried as she hold what she had left that

The Lost Boy, written by Dave Pelzer is a heartwarming story of a young nine-year-old boy, David, who has family issues and is constantly being abused by his mother. Dave Pelzer is a New York Times Bestseller and a #1 International Bestseller. He has written other books such as A Child Called “It”, My Story, and A Man Named Dave, etc. This is my first story read by this author however, I will read more of his work in the near future. The genre of this book I would say is self-help, psychology and inspirational because it sends out such a strong statement of what this young boy and probably many other children are dealing with, in other words, it helps raise awareness. I myself did not imagine to be reading this type of book since I’m more

Beautiful Boy is a memoir told through the eyes of a father, David Sheff, whose son, Nic, struggles with a serious drug addiction throughout his late teens and early twenties. As Nic was growing up he was clearly a very intelligent child. He won prizes for his writing at school and was involved in sports. Nic was destined for great things ahead of him until he started smoking pot at the age of eleven. His father let him off with more or less of a warning because as a teen Sheff himself has experimented with it as well. His father begins to notice that it may be a bigger problem than he thought when Nic starts slacking in school. Skipping class, dropping grades, things that were out of character for Nic. When he was seventeen his father became aware that he was abusing alcohol as well as much more harmful drugs such as meth. Sheff, his late wife, Karen, and Nic’s mother, Vicki, put everything on the line to get Nic into various facilities throughout the course of several years. Sheff and the rest of Nics family begin to find it increasingly difficult to deal with Nics addiction. David Sheff informs people the hardships of being the parent of an addict who struggles to get his life back on track. He explains that not only is it a financial battle but an emotional battle as well.

This book is basically about a young man who got addicted to drugs and alcohol and eventually recovered in the end after so many failures. William Cope Moyers had everything. This kid had a better childhood than others and family. He was raised in a very “proper” family where they would say grace during dinner and believed in God. Anyways, he had so many advantages and he tuned into a drug/alcohol addict which i couldn’t understand why at first. He began smoking marijuana, using alcohol, moved onto cocaine. He even left his wife and kids. That’s how obsessed he was. In the end, when he recovered and all became well he actually started helping other people who were addicts just like him.

This is really good book. This book contains about facing adversity, love and the mistakes that happen in life while raising children or grandchildren. This book inspiring the grandchildren by a man. This story also involves the GOD . Truly a heartwarming book. McQueen has dedicated advice-packed letter after letter to Ethan in this compilation of life lessons, personal experiences, instructions and guidance. We can all gain from Ethan's letters and McQueen's contribution to parenting and grand parenting because we've all said it before If only life came with a manual"..."If only kids came with instructions. This book will inspire the reader young and old in their ongoing personal growth and development. One of the things I loved the most

In May 2007 I co-founded this enterprise with my colleague, David Garofalo, a national dental corporation owning and operating dental practices throughout Australia. I served as the CEO for over 5 years, building the organisation from the ground up experiencing rapid growth. I was responsible for dental practices and clinics in over 60 locations across metro and regional Australia and a sophisticated head office and operations call centre. I led and motivated a successful executive management team, a national team comprised of more than 700 employees and managed P&L for business divisions exceeding $100 million revenue.