Lindsay Cummings Summary

On the other hand, Rebecca Cox’s believes that student’s anxiety and fear are taking away their success in college. Although, she also has the similar beliefs to Paulo Freire, teachers not being approachable for the students in need. For example, the student would rather not do the assignments, or ask for help, resulting into failure. Changing from high school into college is challenging but students should not be afraid to approach the professor with questions. Though, professors obtain that high title, they are there to help students understand each section without any issues. Cox justifies this statement by explaining,

In Joan Morgan’s article “Fly-Girls, Bitches and Hoes: Notes of a Hip Hop Feminist”, she shows the way rap music has changed through it popularity. The widespread appreciation of rap had negative impacts upon the black community. Morgan talks about this through her Feminist point of view. She focuses the topic on what rap music says about the African American culture in Hip Hop. Rap music and Hip Hop were invented through the pain of African Americans. Hip Hop and the Rap industry use sexism and machoism to express the long years of oppressive pain they went through by the hands of the white people. Especially for the black brothers who continue that oppression by using provocative words that degrade the black sisters. Morgan states that blame isn’t only on the brothers

1. Carrie Mac is an award winning author who wrote the Droughtlanders series. Carrie is a writer, storyteller and an artist. She’s written countless books, many that are award winning her very first book ‘The Beckoners’ won the Arthur Ellis YA Award, is a CLA Honour book, and is being adapted for film. Carrie is able to hold the interest of many teenagers with her griping novels.

readers feel the same joy. One of her readers by the name of Claudia Rankine writes on an

figure in society. The woman wants so badly to get better and she knows her writing will

Today in class Melinda Laprade came to discuss how our resume should be, and how we should prepare for an interview. Melinda Laprade gave us some helpful insight on how we would go about getting a job and they tools we can use. She went over what to wear and what not to wear to an interview. Also, how you to uphold yourself. A helpful tip that I will be using is creating a mock interview with a friend before the interview. Another one is getting to know the company beforehand so that you can know what they are looking for. I really enjoyed her presentation and there was a lot I didn’t know that she cover. I am glad that she came.

Eighth grade is when I discovered Ellen Hopkins’ books, I started reading her novel “Flirtin’ with the monster”, which is the whole reason why she wrote the “Crank” trilogy. Finding out about Ellen Hopkins’ books has really inspired me to write to a greater extent. My freshman year my grandmother passed away and to help me deal with my depression I wrote a story. Ellen Hopkins quoted, “I didn’t start it looking for publication, let alone expecting the book to become the phenom it has”. This was found on her website; EllenHopkins.com; this website is used to find all of her books, also a question and answer section for her fans to ask questions about her books and about how she and her family is doing. There are also other tabs on her website

When I was younger, the amount of obligations upon me fewer and less likely to affect life in the long term, it was far easier to pursue my passion for fiction. School consumed less time, and the classes were introductions to various principles rather than in depth study. The books contained within the library of my elementary school weren’t great works of literature either. They were simple stories, with simple characters and events, but I loved them anyways. These simple things made sense, a comfort blanket that I simply had to reach into a basket on a shelf to find. When library time rolled around every week, I always managed to find three or four new ones to take home, and then read them all within a day or two. I had never been a particularly athletic child; I had the time and the will to devour as many stories as I possibly could.

When Emma Poimboeuf was just 5 years old, she began her soccer career and was introduced to several of her good friends today. Although her passion for the sport quickly faded, she continued to play in order to spend time with her friends. Before long, she became intrigued by what the world of literature had to offer. Her passion for literature grew as quickly as a fire and seemed never-ending. Poimboeuf could often be found reading or writing as a child. At just 10 years old, she began writing her first book, a Sci-Fi piece about secret organizations and genetic modifications. Emma recalls, “When I was younger, I thought I would be this world class writer.” At this point in her life, she remembers being “an imaginative child who thought she had everything in front of her.”

Patricia McCormick believes that everyone should enjoy her books. She feels that “fiction is a very powerful thing and could be very personal if you read it rights”. “I believe that if you're smart enough to understand what the power writing can do, you can read my books.”

Mrs. Song changed the way I view the world, and encouraged the transition from childhood to adulthood within my culture. She was my tenth grade English tutor, and though her main job was to instruct us through literature, she used movies, hands-on experiences, and personal stories to teach us just how relevant the books’ topics were to everyday life. Mrs. Song introduced me to a new way of viewing society, and taught me I can make a change in the world, even with limited resources. Because of her mentoring, I am changed, and I will continue to change. I have not only come to adore multiple varieties of literature, but I also have come to understand the value of communication, perseverance, and redemption.

Throughout childhood and adolescence, there are numerous events and situations that impact the rest of the person’s life. While these experiences can leave impressions on the individual's life ranging from future profession to possible criminal record, the way an author creates his work is almost always related to their childhood upbringing. Between topics, symbols, motifs, and themes, authors are more than likely to write from prior experience, which in most cases comes from youth life. Rick Riordan for example, author of numerous children’s literary series demonstrates various examples of how his early life affected numerous aspects of his literature.

Lynn White Jr. is a medieval historian. He talks about how the western world change how we treat the environment, especially by western religion. White starts by giving the history of technology around the world, for example, the clock. He also talks about the different people who were involved with helping technology growing into what we know now. He goes into his subject of Medieval and it View of Man and Nature. He explain, “This, distribution of land was based no longer on the needs of a family but, rather, on the capacity of a power machine to till the earth. "Man's relation to the soil was profoundly changed. Formerly man had been part of nature; now he was the exploiter of nature." Pg four because of technology men was no longer part of Nature anymore. White has also say that religions especially Christianity change how men think. He explains “ If so, then modern Western science was cast in a matrix of Christian theology.” pg 5 That Western Christian is how people will see the environment. White believed to solve this problem is to think of an alternative

Rebecca Stead is fame as an American writer of fiction for children and teens. The achievement of her novels is not doubtful. She was born on January 16, 1968 and raised in New York City. Vassar College was the institution where she acquired her bachelor’s degree in 1989. Moreover, she has started to write since she was a child but she altered her career to become a lawyer. However, Stead started to become of writing subsequent to the birth of her two children. Her inspiration of writing children’s novel was from her son and her collections of story stories on her laptop. One day, her 4-year-old son by chance pushed her laptop out off the dining-room table and destroyed her piece of writing. Stead was very angry with her son and she went to the bookstore to find books which can inspire her to write. From that moment, her motivation and loving in writing began to boost up, and her debut novel was First Light which won The New York Best Times. Due to her great spirit in writing, she won The American Newbery Medal in 2010, Winner of the Boston Globe –Horn Book Award for Fiction, IRA Children’s Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner and A National Parenting Publications Gold Award for her second novel, When You Reach Me, followed by achieving Guardian Prize in 2013 as the first winner for her third novel, Liar & Spy.

Robin Morgan is thought of as a truly inspiring woman. When she was just a couple of months old, she starred in prize baby contests and transitioned into modeling as a toddler. In 1945, at a young age, she had a nationally syndicated radio show before she delved in acting where she became immensely successful. Against the will of her mother, at the young age of fourteen, she left acting to pursue a career in writing, having had the dream of being a writer since she was four years old. At the age of seventeen, she published several of her poems in various literary magazines. She went on to write numerous diverse styles of successful works and quickly became highly regarded by several organizations. Our such organization, The Women 's Media Center, stated, “An award-winning author, feminist activist, political analyst, and journalist, and a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry) with a host of other honors, Robin Morgan has published more than twenty books, including poetry, fiction, and the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever. Her work has been translated into 13 languages.” In the year 2010, Morgan was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Since that diagnosis, she has dedicated herself to not only continuing her writing, but to “…applying her intellect and organizing skills to Parkinson’s research and gender bias”. In her speech, 4 Powerful Poems About Parkinson’s and Growing Older, Robin