Ela Dialectical Journal

December 14, 1924 was a bright, beautiful winter morning, the sky a vibrant blue without a cloud roaming around. The previous night, a heavy snowfall had powdered and blanketed the ground. Children all around town were enjoying playing, skipping, and laughing in the city of Paris, France.

Paragraph 1 tone : He seems nervous about this trip He says ,“We’ve all been up since midnight, starting our predive checks after a couple of restless hours of sleep, and the whole team is running on adrenaline. These are the roughest conditions I’ve dived in so far on the expedition” The way he says that they’ve been up the whole night doing checks without sleep and how this is one of the roughest conditions he has dived in so far just gives the sense of nervousness if he will make the challenge.

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy,” This significant quote from Brave New World had moved innumerable readers’ heart, so do I. Exaggeration? No. It’s the satire to the false meaning of the universal happiness, and it’s this quote which made me had rethink what do I really want and the way of living I want to choose. Because the deep influence and rumination brought by the book, I would like to say

“‘Why do you say Africa instead of just saying the country you mean?’…‘You don’t know America. You say Senegal and American people, they say, Where is that...’” (Adichie 15).

Kayla- The morning of April 19, 1775 , Britain’s General Gage would send out squadrons of British soldiers stationed in Boston .

1.) The ending did not surprise me; I think it may have if we hadn’t discussed it in class. I think I would have been very surprised and confused, if I hadn’t known the ending prior to reading it.

4. She went into the store and she didn’t find anything she wanted to buy.

The underworld seemed to be getting colder and I couldn’t tell if it was because I’d fled the room that was lit or because Hades’s heart had been nearly ripped out. I was weeping pretty hard by now, feeling awfully betrayed and as lonely as my injurer. I felt my way around in the darkness for a while, thankful to the slight bluish glow that seemed to at least partially lighten ones way down in the underworld.

“Would it be scarier if I told you that I would kill you or just hurt you really bad?”

What stood out to me in these chapters, when I read the first page which reads, “Abena, my mother was raped by…?” (Page 1). Her body was taken advantage of against her will and at the tender age of about 16. Even Abena’s friend Jennifer was taken advantage of as she was forced to marry a man that she didn’t want to. It seemed as though men were an evil that plagued the lives of women and young girls. Second example is, when talking to the spirits of Abena and Mama Yaya, they often said to her, “Why can’t women do without men?”(Page 15). Every time Tituba was with another man they slept with her. Even though it was voluntary and never against her will, it seemed like the respect level for women and their bodies was very low. The night that Tituba

PER REPORTER: The reporter said today Adien spoke with his teacher and wrote her a about his grandfather (Roger) verbally abusing him. According to Adien, every other day his grandfather calls him “dumb ass and shit for brain”, and he said he does not feel good about the way Roger treats him. He said just yesterday while he was at home in the kitchen his Roger threatened to push him onto the bed and break the bed. Adien said he does not know if his grandmother heard his grandfather threaten him due to her being near by. However, he said he does not think his grandmother is aware of the way Roger treats him. He said Roger does not treat the other children in the home like he treats him and he does not understand why Roger treats him bad. Adien

Madelyn Ravy Mrs. Schmidt Pre-AP English 10, Period 3 9 February 2015 Reading Log #3 Part 1 Stephenie Meyer, The Host, page 448 “He wrapped both arms around me, as if we were embracing rather than locked in a killing struggle. Then he grabbed my waist from both sides and heaved with all his strength against my hold. His hair started to come out in my hands, but he just grunted and pulled harder. I could hear the streaming water rushing close by, right below me, it seemed. The steam billowed up in a thick cloud, and for a minute, I couldn’t see anything but Kyle’s face, twisted with rage into something beast-

Seaspray splashes onto his cheeks, glistening under the moonlight. Water pools around his ankles as waves ebb back and forth over the rough shore. It's early in the summer—the dreaded Japanese humidity is not yet at its peak—but the monsoon season has begun. So far, this year's summer rain, the everlasting tsuyu, is the same as it's always been.

Rasha wakes up everyday knowing that this day may be the day he will see nothing but darkness. Everyday Rasha fights for survival, ¨Raaaassshhhaaaa” yelled his mum ¨Time for school!”. Rasha is a very ordinary and a handsome Syrian that adores school and study very much. Its part of syrian culture to study hard, get a good job, get married and have kids. That´s the story that most follow but lately itś been very hard for Rasha, well ever since the war started. His mother and father always talk about leaving Syria but Rasha is always against that. Well anyways Rasha comes down to have his breakfast and sees his mum packing. He asks ¨Mum why are you packing¨ and she says ¨Rasha this will be your last day at school, we are leaving to go to a nearby

One frosty morning,Shelly woke up as a Rottweiler. Shelly went to go put on her makeup found out she was a dog, Shelly and her friends was dogs. Shelly always wonder how it would be to be a dog. She wonder if it was fun. After a while she thought it was a dream so she told her friends to hit her so she wake up, but it wasn’t a dream.