Brief Summary Of The Book 'Spilled Milk'

The story that I am telling you today is about Lita Morgan. A little girl who was adopted at the age of two by a cruel woman, who turns into a torturous nightmare in her childhood and adolescence. Christine Morgan forced her daughter from 4 years old to countless of cruel situations which broke her little soul and body. The abuse included: make her drink bleach from a cloth used to clean toilets, holding her head under the bath water until she felt breathless, and the constant threat to kill her.

For this book analysis, I read the book A Piece of Cake by Cupcake brown. It is a memoir told by Cupcake about her life. She starts the book at age 11, when she was living a normal and pleasant life with her mother in San Diego. She was quite close to her along with her step father (who, at the time, she thought was her biological father), and her uncle. Then out of nowhere, she finds her mother dead in her room and her life is shaken into disaster. The court system had to turn both her and her brother over to her biological father whom she never met, instead of giving her to the man she was raised by. Her father then sent her to a foster home where she was raped and beaten constantly. When she

The 2008 film Milk is based on a true story about a political leader who desired to see a change in America, specifically the freedom of choice and speech towards homosexuals. The motion picture takes place after Harvey Milk’s 40th birthday and captures the rest of his life as he strives to convince America to let the gay community out of the closet. The movie portrays the historical activist very well, including the surrounding characters as well as the actual events that took place during his time in office.

I haven’t even started!” (Randis. Pg.45). With this being said, we are able to distinguish the type of individual Earl is by screaming and hurting his kids by not just his hands, but with items as well. This type of abuse was not treated by no one other than Brooke herself. Brooke would take in all the abuse to protect her siblings. During the beatings, she would talk to her mind with thoughts like; “As long as they are safe. Hopefully he doesn’t go and find them next”. Although the mother knew the abuse that was occurring she would ignore it to not create any problems with Earl. The mother then not only fails herself for not reporting the abuse, but her family as well. Throughout the novel many instances take place where the mom does not report any of the abuse because Earl is their main support of money. “Never mind, Brooke. I’ll just have to beg your father for more money. Nothing can ever be easy” (Randis. Pg.66). Regarding this, her father keeps a majority of their income, leading to Brooke selling drugs for her mom. The best way to prevent this abusive cycle from occurring was for the mom or anybody in the household to go to a family resource center where she would be provided with all the resources to stop the abuse and get them back on their

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” This beginning to the novel “Ellen Foster” by Kaye Gibbons, prepares readers to enter the world of one of the most influential and appealing young woman protagonists in modern fiction. Ellen Foster, the main character of the book by Gibbons, is, in my view, the most fascinating and remarkable character in the story. Readers are introduced to the narrator Ellen, a determined, yet mature and individualistic eleven-year-old, who lives in the South during the 1970s. She lives with an alcoholic father and a sick mother. Ellen must go through many hardships and face much trauma, when she foreshadows her mother’s death and the long journey in front of her by saying that a storm is coming- “I can smell the storm and see the air thick with the rain coming.” (p.7). Young Ellen must go through much more than the average child her age, but she knows that she will get her happy ending. After dealing with her abusive father and depressed mother, Ellen deserves to go to a happy family, one that will accept her with smiles on their faces and joy in their eyes. Even if it means jumping from foster home to foster home, from a cruel grandmother to a condescending aunt and cousin, Ellen will find the people that will love her, even if it means first having to go to those who don’t.

(INTRODUCTION)Being abused and neglected should not be occupying a ten year old’s mind. In the the book Ellen Foster written by kaye Gibbons, a young girl undergoes abuse from her alcoholic father after her mother commits suicide. Ellen is then left to fend for herself and along the way she becomes mature and responsible . Eventually she ends up finding herself a loving home and a family to take her in. Being abused and neglected by people who should have loved her , Ellen is traumatized; she ends up fending for herself causing her to become more responsible, and becomes mature.

Growing up lower middle class looking up to her cousins like Micheal Owens, whom seems to have life handed to them, there is a burning anger that dwells within her. There is a rage that can only be quells once she’s taken what is owe to her.

A trait that stands out in the book is the symptom of bodily memories. In Melinda’s case, during a frog dissection in her science class, she remembers the opening up and even says, “She doesn’t say a word. She is already dead. A scream starts in my gut – I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, feel the leaves in my hair.” (81). One of the other symptoms that Melinda has is self-harm. The first time that this is shown in the book, Melinda says this, “I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep?” (87). Melinda also has a hard time talking to her parents about the rape to which she says, “How can I talk to them about that night? How can I start?” (72). Some victims recover from such a traumatic experience, while others don’t and live a lifetime of depression and must undergo intense therapy. In Melinda’s case, she finds redemption by talking to her parents and the guidance counselor, and putting her faith into her teachers, friends, and her art project at school. Because rape can affect anybody anywhere, everyone should be aware of the circumstances, and how to deal with it.

The book I read was Dairy of a Wimpy Kid The Long Haul, author and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. The book is about a family road trip, but not typically the normal road trip. Greg Heffley was looking forward for an enjoyable long summer and right when he sat down to play video games his mother interrupted him and spoke "Turn the TV off, pack your bags, were going on a family road trip". I'm interested in this book the reason for this is I have read an amount of Jeff Kinney's other books and I enjoy his style. He adds a large amount of realistic situations and he creates them funny way as well, which inspires me want to read more of his books. He also made the images appealing in a way where it is part of the story and funny.

Harvey Milk said, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”(Aretha 83). Harvey Milk was the first gay politician that moved people’s hearts. He changed the way people thought about gay people back in the 1970’s. Defending homosexuals from criticism, he civilized them with the people. Since the background of homosexuality was harsh which affected Harvey Milk’s early life, he took the action to process of becoming civilized as an officer, and he left many legacies.

The Milkmaid, painted by Johannes Vermeer, shows a woman working in the corner of, what looks like, a kitchen. There is a large window that starts at the top and ends about halfway down the wall that the woman is facing. To the right of the window, there is a small black frame near the top of the wall and a woven basket hanging under it. On the other wall, there is a metal basket with a long handle hanging a little behind and below the woven basket. The walls are a creamy, off-white color that make it easier to see the nails and stains on them, and the small portion of the floor that can be seen in the bottom right corner is a reddish-brown color. The woman is standing behind a table against the wall with a blue table cloth draped over it and is in the middle of the

Rhonda is aware from a young age that when an adult speaks even a lie, a child “couldn’t resist nodding your head in agreement or in a wish to be liked or loved for agreeing”. This suggests an explanation for the excuse of the hesitance experienced even today when considering questioning an elder or someone respected. This also shows the beginning of Rhonda’s internal conflict of whether to actually say anything or not that may result in being shunned. Rhonda later hears her new step mom, Brooke, telling the story of the stabbing which is littered with lies. Brooke’s version of the story upsets Rhonda and she wishes to say something to Brooke but resists because “Daddy could be harsh and hurtful if Daddy was displeased with his sweet pretty girl.”

the woman is doing all of the cooking. Why is she the only one in the

During the Cold War, the Soviets were trying to spread communism throughout Europe and Asia by exalting its achievements, and undermining democracy. Part of their approach was by launching ‘Hate-America’ propaganda. “As the Cold War intensified, the Truman administration launched an aggressive “Campaign of Truth” […] to counter the Soviet Union propaganda machine (Ubah, 2012).” The Campaign of Truth was created to help convince the world that the United States has “no purpose of going to war, except in the defense of freedom. (Vaccaro, 1950)” Truman encouraged the media to show the world that the United States was ‘wholly dedicated to the cause of peace (Vaccaro,