Monster Family Research Paper

This years theme is “Leadership and Legacy in Georgia History.” Our topic is the Bradley-Turner Family. The Bradley-Turner family has been very influential in Columbus and Georgia’s history.

In today’s society there are violent people. Some of these people can be found in the book Monster by Walter dean Myers. The main character is Steve Harmon and he is facing trial for murder. Steve was the lookout but wasn’t responsible for Mr.Nesbitt's death. Steve is on trial for murder because he was in the store that day

The Winchester family, John (44), Mary (43), Dean (17), and Sam (15), have come to therapy to seek help for various issues. John and Mary are on the verge of divorce; Dean is skipping school, fighting, and shoplifting, and Sam has withdrawn completely from the family. The family was ordered to attend therapy after the Military Police (MPs) responded to a call from neighbors after an especially loud verbal altercation between John and Dean, in which John threatened to physically harm Dean if he did not leave the premises. John was order to move into the barracks and Mary is threatening to file for divorce.

How would you feel to be put on trial for a crime you did not commit? In the book, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, this is the case for a sixteen-year-old Harlem boy named Steve Harmon. Steve is on trial for felony murder because he has been accused of being involved in being the lookout for a robbery that took place on December 22nd in an uptown convenience store that resulted in the shooting of Alguinaldo Nesbitt, the convenience store clerk. Steve Harmon is innocent for the reasoning’s of he does not know who Richard Evans is, the convenience store was not empty, and there was no signal.

In today’s society, there a lot of young men put in bad situations. In the book Monster there are several young men who has committed a crime. Steve Harmon are one of those young men who is facing life in prison on trial due to a robbery and led to a shooting. Steve was not responsible for Mr. Nesbitt’s death, because he said wasn’t there. Also, he didn’t give a signal and he didn’t kill Mr. Nesbitt.

Imagine the punches, the kicks, the smashing on the table, just to realize the character traits can change everything. Monster by Walter Dean Myers evolves on the fact that being tough is key within life. Steve Harmon, 16 year old boy, black male, is being accused of felony murder. A court case involving James King and Steve Harmon is taking place to see who is not guilty. Steve writes in his journal of the experiences in jail. Through Steve’s writing it is clear that one must be strong and avoid showing weakness.

The novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers is the book I chose to read and do my essay on. The genre Walter chose for the book Monster is realistic fiction. The novel was published in 1999 which is a year after I was borning. The reason why I chose this Novel is because a teacher recommended the book to me a couple year ago but, I never got a chance to read it. I always assumed the book was good because it won three awards. The first award the book won was the National Book Award for young people’s literature. The second award the book won was the Michael L. Printz Awards. The third award the book won was called the Coretta Scott King Award Honor all in which the book won in the same year 2000. The book is told from the perspective of a young african american teenager named steve harmon. Steve lives in harlem where the story takes place. One night steve chose to hang with a bad group of friends and was in a robbery. During the robbery one of Steve’s friend kills the cashier. Now Steve is in jail and going back and forth to court hoping to be proven not guilty of felony murder. Steve and I lives are alike in many different ways although we come from different backgrounds.

In the book Monster, written by Walter Dean Myers, a young boy named Steve Harmon was accused of taking part of a crime. In a real life trial called Murder on a Sunday Morning, a young boy named Brenton Butler was also accused of being a part of a crime. The main reason of those false accusations is because of their skin color, the witnesses notice color instead of physical appearance.

“Monster”, a 1999 novel by Walter Dean Myers, is an incredible story told through the fictional movie script of a boy on trial for murder and robbery. It’s an intriguing read that triggers deep thought and empowers the hearts within all. A book notable for its messages against implicit bias, encouraging the notion of truth within yourself, you can speculate on its events from start to finish and beyond. But it’s worth pondering of its connection to real life. Does “Monster” truly reflect the criminal justice system of our country’s society today? Read on to discover the shocking answer.

The study I chose was the Monster Study, it was a study that took place at the University of Iowa in 1939 by two female researchers named Wendell Johnson and Mary Tudor. They conducted an experiment on stuttering. This experiment was done on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa. The children were separated into two groups, the first group received positive speech therapy where the children were praised for how good their speech was. In the second group the children were taught bad speech therapy and the children were belittled for every time they did not speak the right way. At the end of the experiment the normal-speaking children from group two that was belittled developed negative psychological effects, and

Family structure has been changed and there is about one and a quarter million single parents. A family making up to 19% of all families with children, the number of single parents has almost doubled since the early 1970s. According to census 2001 report and labor force survey, the rate of married couple (marriages) has decreased over the last ten years, (accounting for 71 per cent of families in 2006, compared with 76 per cent in 1996). In the same period, the proportion of cohabiting couple increased to 14 per cent from 9 per cent. The proportion of lone parent families increased by less than one per cent over this period, but the

Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father, and a full family raised solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical "ghetto" life, a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year's old. The allure of the respect and "glory" that "bangers" got, along with the unity of the "set"(name for the specific gang) is what drew him into the gang. Once joined, he vowed to stay in the "set" for life, and claimed that banging was his life. After many years of still believing this, he

“Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria” - Alan Greenspan. New York author, Alan Greenspan, here is explaining that the threat fear presents is really no different than the state of intensity caused by euphoria. In Andrew J. Hoffman’s anthology, Monsters, there is substantial evidence that both fear and euphoria are inflicted upon men, by female monsters. The two threats men typically face against women are temptation and emasculation. Thus, in mythology and folklore, female monsters exemplify the impulse of desire (sexually) for men, and male weakness. These are creature that are lusted after and yet, still feared because of their power. Men find female monsters both fearsome and euphoric and will always threaten their dominance and control.

“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook…” The Babadook is a non-traditional horror movie that challenges conventional notions motherhood. The Babadook protests the notion that single mothers are incapable of raising children alone, and that there always needs to be a male dominant figure present for a family to be considered complete. In American society the conventional notion of motherhood is perpetuated by the image of a White, middle-class heterosexual couple with children (Barrie 3). In this family model the father acts as the dominant figure in the marriage, while the mother is tasked with childrearing and submitting to the males desires (Devor 673-674). Although the roles of father and mother are becoming blurred, the majority in every culture still believe in the classic model. Amelia is a widow whose husband died in a car crash while taking her to the hospital to have their son, Samuel. Amelia struggles with her role as a single parent due to her difficult, erratic, and increasingly destructive son. Throughout the movie Amelia craves for male attention as it grows increasingly difficult for her to deal with Samuel; however, it is not until she regains control of her life that she is able to repel the monster. The Babadook

Monsters (2010) is a modern-day fictional monster film which, acts as a social commentary, touching upon political dilemmas, science fiction, romance and public anxieties. The narrative of the film- based in Mexico- is a world in which the monsters are huge octopus-like aliens. For the past 6 years they have lived in a large area of Mexico that has now been confined as an 'infected zone' however, a huge wall has been built on the Mexico-USA border to keep the aliens out. The film follows a photographer; one of the main characters, Andrew, and his boss’ daughter (Sam) - the other main character - as he warily attempts to escort her safely back to her father in the USA after a rogue alien attack left her injured, and the romance between the two throughout their journey. This film uses these aliens with dramatic, symbolic effect to also act as a metaphorical narrative for current societal issues; offering a pragmatic analysis of these underlying