Lies My Boyfriend Told Me

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a tragic play set in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, where Miller uses the Salem Trials as a metaphor for the 1950s McCarthy hearings. In Salem, people value their good names. The Puritan community acts as a theocracy in which there appears to be no right to privacy, and people must conform to a strict moral code. The theme of reputation, lying, and deceit are shown in Abigail, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Warren, and other characters. In the play’s dialogue, Miller uses Biblical allusions, situational irony, and dramatic irony to develop these themes.

I highly recommend Gabi A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero to people of all ages and genders, especially to teenagers. I enjoyed this novel because it was non fiction and really showed a relatable take on a teenager’s life and the struggles teens face.

The novel that I chose was Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. The main characters include Molly, Brooke, and Brick Berlin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Molly Dix, who, after the death of her mother, moves to Los Angeles, California to live with her biological father, Hollywood movie star, Brick Berlin and her half-sister Brooke. Molly isn’t used to living the life of a rich girl, so when she arrives, she is both excited and terrified; not only that, she’s meeting her dad for the very first time. Brooke welcomes Molly to high fashion and fame with an overwhelming dose of “sisterly love”. But in this town, no one is ever what they seem. I think that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan built the story in a way that would

All history comes with contradictions. With every moment in history comes a corresponding moment which can take the accuracy and understanding and change them forever. Throughout time people add small pieces of information to great events in our past. This is where we get the misinterpretation of history. In chapter five of the book Lies My Teacher Told Me, these contradictions are brought into light and force us to look at them again. As I have learned in my history courses we can always question the accuracy of a story but we may never fully understand the truth. There have been three important times I have been through that have shaped my understanding of history today, specifically the part of history dealing with slavery and racism.

Though this book is written from a young girl’s point of view, even in the first hundred pages there are various forms of

The book Lies My Teacher Told me, by James W. Loewen, was written with the intention to inform anybody that has ever learned about history, in the United States, using a textbook that they have, most likely, been given false information. The books and information that has been in Elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and even college classes are skewed, by mostly telling stories in the United States favor. Loewen wrote the book to tell the real stories of our nation 's history. The book is extremely beneficial to the contribution to our collective knowledge and understanding, in view of the fact that American’s need to realize that not everything has worked out for the best for the United States, and for our country to have

American history is taught in high schools all over the country. It is held as a core curriculum for every American student because of the importance found in teaching our youth of our “perfect nation” and our “perfect past”. However, contrary to popular belief, James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, has found American history to be taught with a completely nationalistic approach. Not only is the history of our country taught with a horribly strong patriotic sentiment, but generally with a misunderstood concept of the history of America by the writers themselves. America has never lived a lie as ruinous as that in which happens in classrooms every day.

As stated in the subtitle, Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen is about what American history textbooks get wrong. As a rule people assume when reading textbooks they are getting raw facts, but that is not the case. Lies My Teacher Told Me really enlightens readers about how corrupt and biased textbook authors truly are. Loewen’s thesis is that textbook authors sugar coat and white wash history while trying to make America and it’s leaders look perfect on their pedestals. Loewen said “Textbooks have trouble acknowledging that anything might be wrong with white Americans or with the United States as a whole”(p.142). Throughout the book he defends this with many viable examples. Most students are told many romanticized myths about the “first

The book I read this summer and one of my all-time favorite novels is November Blues. The book is the second part of the Jericho series. It was written by a phenomenal author Sharon M. Draper. November Blues follows two characters. November Nelson is a 16 year old girl who finds out she is pregnant by her late boyfriend who recently passed away in a hazing accident. Jericho Prescott, a 16 year old boy, who is depressed because he just lost his cousin who was like a brother to him in the same hazing prank he was in. I adore this book because it deals with real life adolescent problems; like relationships, bullying, school, and pregnancy.

“Watch me now. Pay close attention. Survival of the fittest, baby.” Never fully trust someone, always pay close attention to every detail and that’s how you will survive in life. Beware that Girl by Teresa Toten is a thriller fiction young adult novel about Kate O’Brien, a senior at Waverly Academy, who has been the scholarship kid who has the best grades for her entire life. She lies to anyone in order to get where she wants which is Yale. On her journey she targets Olivia Sumner in order to get out of poverty and in the popular girls group but she finds her cold calculations ruined when she actually finds out how good it feels to have a person you can at least somewhat trust and have them trust you back.

The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. The two main characters are Oscar and Paige best friends. Both Oscar and Paige have a close bond which seemed unbreakable until the Paige has to move to New Zealand and leave Oscar for a couple of months, which takes a turn for the worst leading to a broken friendship. In this book, it gives good lessons about trust and honesty.

'd tell you I love you but then I'd have to kill you is about a girl named Cammie who is in training to become a spy at the gallagher girls academy.  My favorite part of the book is when Cammie and her friends are put on their first spy mission.  To find out what their teacher drinks with his funnel cake at the carnival.  She spends the whole night watching him when she sees him eating a funnel cake and drinking a slurpee.  Once he throws away the trash, she goes to the trash can for the evidence, when she runs into a boy named Josh. One character from the novel is Cammie Morgan.  She is very daring.  She is not afraid of a challenge, like when her friends helped her spy on Josh to make sure she was a good person.They followed him around town

Gabi A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero proves that just because life can be hard, that it can be painful, that it can be full of problems; teens should never stop following their dreams. Cindy, although having a baby was still able to graduate. Sebastian, who was rejected for being gay by his family found someone who loved him for him and supported him. Gabi came to realize that no matter what she looked like, she was still beautiful. Young adult novels may be sometimes harsh and have strong context, but they teach a lesson to those in need of help and serve as a purpose to relate to their readers. It teaches teenagers who are just looking for a meaning in life. Like Sherman Alexie said, “I write books to give teenagers weapons-in form of words and ideas- that will help them fight their monster.” Teenagers will always find troubles in life, no matter who they maybe, but there will always be a path of light leading

Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland was a good book but unfortunately had a lot of typical cliches for young adult romance novels. It was about Henry Page and how he fell in love with a girl who was just overcoming her boyfriend's death, and although she gave him a chance she couldn't end up loving him because she was still hanging onto her boyfriend. It was a fine book with certain parts I loved, yet some parts I got easily disinterested in and started daydreaming having to drag myself out of my thoughts to keep on reading the book. Overall, I would not recommend this book to anybody, but if you would like to check it out you may find something in this book that's interesting that I hadn't found

In life you will come across many obstacles, some of these you may have caused, others you may have not. How do we determine which is which? How do we determine what is the truth and what is a lie? In 1917, William M. Marston would say the polygraph test or lie detector as it is often called. In the twenty-first century, it would probably be witnesses and physical evidence. Which is more accurate and efficient? Is it fair to determine a person 's life sentence just by asking a few questions regarding whether or not they are lying? In this modern day, we not only need to focus on the “victims” but the “criminals” as well. Not saying that we should cater to criminals, but give them a chance. The old saying goes that a defendant is innocent