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The author of the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is Avi. Avi has a twin sister which means that he is a fraternal twin. In addition to having a twin sister, Avi now has a wife named Linda Cruise Wright. Avi is not his real name, that is his nickname that his sister gave him and so now he uses that name instead. He doesn’t put his real name on his books because Avi’s parents don’t like that he is an author. They disapprove of him being a writer. Avi was born on December 23, 1937 in New York City. His teachers used to call him “daydreamer”. He was not very good when he was in school and he also decided he wanted to be a writer when he was in highschool in his senior year. Avi also has a hobby that he likes to do when he’s not writing

Julie Powell, the author of her own memoir, was a distraught secretary working at a bureaucratic organization led primarily by Republicans in order to build a memorial to the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. To further this misery, she was told that she may be unable to have children in the future. After hearing this news, she and her husband Eric went to her mother’s house in Texas where Powell found an old copy of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking which reminded her of childhood memories of sneaking looks at and moments with books about sex and cooking she knew she should not read. She was inspired by these memories to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s historic and expansive cookbook, in one year.

In their book, Patricia and Marcia provide a reliable telling of the unique art scene that is present in Sarasota. These well-known Sarasota residents trace the origins of the city's identity including the arrival of John Ringling and his cultural impact there. This book is a reliable source and could be used for my final paper because it provides information about John Ringling, his circus, and the school created in his name. (45-68). These historians provide a vibrant background about the effect of the museum on the city which will be crucial to the structure of my research paper. It is looking like it will be one of my stronger sources.

The novel My Story by Elizabeth Smart is a nonfiction book that tells Smart’s experience as she was kidnapped and stolen away from her family for nine months. A man named Brian David Mitchell took Elizabeth out of her own bed one June night in 2002. This story displays how Elizabeth felt in these moments and all of those after the initial kidnapping in the nine months following. Elizabeth is forced into doing things that oppose her religion and her own morals and is moved out of her state and back before she is finally returned to her family. The reader is able to feel her pain and encounter the horrors that Mitchell and his wife inflict upon Elizabeth.

Victoria Dickerson is a second year teacher at Carolina High School teaching in the Self-Contained special education classroom. Victoria’s expectations for her students are high and she often uses innovative techniques which include project-based learning strategies. Her students are always solving real world problems that will not only prepare them for work but provides them with the necessary life skills they need to be productive after high school. The students in the classroom range from being low-functioning intellectually disabled students to students how are on the middle school level in reading and are categorized as learning disabled. Even with the population she serves, she still challenges her students to be excellent. During

Her feelings towards her father- ‘the man she describes as a monster’ (Carrie Bailee). – are profoundly conflicted.

In poems it is essential to be a creative writer. The author uses many techniques from from exposing deep thoughts to giving humorous jokes throughout the sentence. As a human being, we may have difficult times in understanding what is trying to be said. We may agree or disagree depending our viewpoints on life. One of my Favorite poems is “The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield” by Robert Hayden. My favorite poem is the type of poem that has some history and confusion. When getting the audience confused, it makes them want to know more and reread the whole passage again. Hayden’s poem is a fresh new opening that brought an old dimension, his creativity to open the minds of others and look back to the past.

After studying women and gender history in early America for the past semester, my views about American history have changed tremendously. Having very little prior experience with history, I had many assumptions and preconceived notions from high school history classes. Women were never even mentioned in my previous learning about U.S. history, so I assumed they took on unimportant roles and had little, if any, impact on shaping our country’s history. However, after this semester of delving deeply into the women of early America, I could not have been more incorrect. Although they were not typically in the public realm, we cannot fully understand history without studying women. The following readings uncovered the roles of women in the private sphere and were crucial to my new understanding of the importance of women in American history by bringing women to the forefront.

It’s necessary for people to get out of their comfort zone so you can be more open to change and interact or do different things with people. In the book “True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle”, the author, Avi, explains how Charlotte changes throughout her treacherous voyage on the ship. First, Charlotte has to go on a ship with a crew and captain so she gets used to men more. Second, Charlotte develops a kind of toughness after she is put in many situations like whipping the capattin. Third, after Charlotte’s voyage she goes back to her parents and realizes that she doesn’t want the proper and perfect life. Charlotte changes a lot at the end of the voyage.

In the Story Marigolds Lizabeth starts off as a child and ends up close to being an adult. Lizabeth figures out that there is more to life than yourself and you should be aware of it. Lizabeth learns from her mistakes in this story from her childhood, which will make her a better person in adultery.

In Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee reveals Miss Maudie’s tender tone toward Scout through her use of detail. One instance in which Miss Maudie’s tender tone is revealed through Lee’s careful use of detail is after Maudie’s house burns down. Scout is clearly troubled because of the fire and is curious as to why Maudie is not the least bit fazed. Scout expresses her concerns about the damage and inquires what Miss Maudie will do about it. Miss Maudie responds by stating, “Don’t you worry about me Jean Louise Finch. There are many ways of doing things you don’t know about” (73). In this situation, Miss Maudie attempts to rid Scout of her anxieties as she knows having Scout agonize over the problem will do no good. She is aware that Scout is already exceptionally distraught by the imminent trial, and considering this, Maudie decides not to lay another burden onto Scout. She instead lists the positive effects of the fire to improve Scout’s state of mind, and make her feel at ease about the whole situation. More than anything, Miss Maudie wants Scout to know that there is no reason to fret about anything else than she already has on her plate. She wants the best for Scout and for her to enjoy a life that is not plagued by the problems of the adult-world. Miss Maudie’s consideration and selflessness show her tender tone toward Scout. Another time in which Lee’s use of detail illustrates Miss Maudie’s tender tone toward Scout is at the town ladies’ meeting. Scout,

The story "Suzy and Leah" was written by Jane Yolen, and it took place in the U.S with the main characters as Leah and Suzy. The story was originally two series of diary entries written from August 5, 1944 until October 12, 1944 by the two girls. Over the entire story, both of the girls evolved. They evened by going from hating each other to really understanding the other person. In the end they both got to know the other person a little bit better and started to form a relationship out of the things they had in common.

In poems it is essential to be a creative writer. The author uses many techniques from from exposing deep thoughts to giving humorous jokes throughout the sentence. As human beings, we all have a difficult time understanding others .We may agree or disagree depending our viewpoints on life. One of my Favorite poems is “The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield” by Robert Hayden. My favorite poem is the type of poem that has some history and confusion. When getting the audience confused, it makes them want to know more and reread the whole passage again. Hayden’s poem is a fresh new opening that brought an old dimension, his creativity to open the minds of others and look back to the past.

However, the pride of those few farmers is overcome by an even stronger element of Japanese ideology- the collectivist and utilitarian nature of society. The village’s general way of life illustrates this, as all of the individuals work together to plant and harvest the crops, and

Oral birth control in the United States has a long history of controversy. For many years after it was legalized for married couples it was still considered taboo to talk about. So of course, Loretta Lynn, appropriately named Queen of Country, wrote and performed a song about it. This spunky, out spoken, record setting country goddess saw absolutely no qualm when it came to discussing, “the pill”. Although this ground-breaking song on the birth control forefront might seem revolutionary, it was nothing new for an artist like Lynn, who characteristically wrote songs about the hushed aspects of domestic life. Loretta Lynn’s song, “The Pill”, pushed social boundaries in the 1970’s by encouraging married women, especially in rural areas, to take control of their lives with the use of oral birth control. Lynn did so by informing rural women of the normalcy of oral birth control.