Mrs. Beale In Maniac Magee By Jerry Spinelli

In the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of the story, meets a girl named Cherry Valance. Through Ponyboy’s observations of her the reader learns that Cherry is a confident young woman. During chapter two, the way in which Cherry reacts to Dally showcases her personality. “She gives him an incredulous look; and then she threw her Coke in his face” (24). This bold move made by Cherry shows that she will not stand for harassment or mistreatment of her from anybody. She will talk back and protect herself and her friend. This line, said by Cherry, displays how she thinks of herself. “’It’s not my idea of a good time to sit in a drive-in and watch people get drunk’” (27). Cherry holds herself at a high standard, and

In the She’s The Man (2006), Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) cross dresses for the majority of the film, pretending to be her twin brother Sebastian. She does this in order to play for Illyria’s men’s soccer team as her school, Cornwall, cut the women’s soccer team and wouldn’t allow her to play for the men’s team. Her main motivation is to beat her former schools team and prove to them that even though she is a girl, she can play on the same field as the boys. While pretending to be Sebastian, Viola initially struggles to hide her femininity, such as when it is discovered that she has tampons in her bag. As the movie progresses her ability to hide this femininity and express masculinity becomes easier. Her cross dressing has an effect on everything and everyone around her and it pushes the line on the comfort people feel when stereotypical gender norms are challenged/ She becomes interested in her roommate, Duke (Channing Tatum) and throughout the movie the two become closer on an intimate level even though Viola is still masked as Sebastian. Duke is obviously uncomfortable with this as made evident by the end of the movie, when it is revealed that Viola was pretending to be Sebastian the entire time. His look of relief reinforces this idea of stereotypical, heterosexual gender roles, as now that Viola is revealed as a female, it is socially acceptable to be attracted to her. She’s The Man reinforces the stereotypical gender roles that society expects out of

Nellie Bly was born May 5th, 1864 in a small town called Cochran Mills in Pennsylvania. Nellie’s real name is Elizabeth Cochrane. Nellie was a Journalist; she began her newspaper career at the age of 18. Nellie got her pseudonym from her editor, who refused to openly allow a female to write for his paper.

Ida Wells-Barnett was born on July 16. 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just months before her plantation slave parents were declared free when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1st, 1863. Although all slaves in the South were freed, all blacks were met with prejudice in every way possible. Because of the deeply rooted racism and dehumanization of blacks in the “new South”, and the lynching’s of some of her closest friends, Wells-Barnett was compelled to write and publish Southern Horrors in 1892. This was written to educate and enlighten the public of the countless lynching’s taking place and other acts of injustice occurring throughout the south against blacks. Wells-Barnett sought to reveal the true, root cause of

I Knew a Woman is about a woman who has more than just beauty. Theodore Roethke explains what he sees in this woman and the joy and pain about loving her. Roethke uses a

Strong. Independent. Smart. All describe Mattie Cook, the main character of Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Yellow fever rages throughout the colonies, and nobody can escape it, Mattie Cook faces hardships and worse as the yellow fever attacks her home city and the newly hatched America. Mattie faces near-death experiences, loved one’s deaths, and a lot more, changing her from a lazy and dependent little girl to a hard-working and independent young woman. Mattie changes because of some characteristics that have helped her survive the destructive and malicious yellow fever.

We first hear about Curley’s wife when Candy Tells George about her, "He got married a couple of weeks ago. Wife lives over in the boss’s house, seems like Curley 's even cockier since he got married" Candy doesn’t seem to like the way Curley’s wife is making his job even more difficult.

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to develop one of the main characters, Amanda Beale. Amanda Beale is a very helpful person. In the book Amanda, “If you go up there and untie Cobble’s Knot- which I know you can you’ll get your picture in the paper and you’ll be the biggest her ever around and nobody will mess with you them.” This shows how Amanda is helpful because Manic got bullied and she thought what can he do that no one will mess with him. So she thought if unties Cobble’s Knot he will get his picture and be famous. Another way Amanda was helpful is, “Amanda was happy to give up her room to Maniac.” This shows how Amanda gave her room to Manic instead of him sleeping on

The novel “Killing Mr. Griffin” is about a group of high school students from Del Norte High who decide to scare their strict English teacher but ends up in a suspenseful accident. Mr. Griffin is probably one of the strictest teachers ever. He won’t accept anything late, not even from the class president Dave Rutters; he won’t help Betsy Cline when she doesn’t understand an assignment; and Mark Kinney had to beg for a second chance in his class. When Mark’s best friend Jeff makes a careless comment about wanting to kill Mr. Griffin, he begins to make a plan to scare him.

From the book, The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, the main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster, is a person to admire. Foremost, she is a person to admire since she is selfless and caring. First, Hazel is a person to admire since she is selfless. For example, Hazel parents are excited by Hazel trip to Amsterdam as they talk about it for dinner, but notice that Hazel is unusually quiet, and they confront her about it. Hazel responds that she is like a grenade and that she’ll someday explode so she’ll like to reduce any casualties. “’I’m a grenade,’ I said again, ‘I just want to stay from away people and read books and think and be with you guys because there’s nothing I can do about hurting you; you’re too invested, so just please let me

The book: The Maid’s Daughter was an amazing account and it was a very fascinating read that talks about the life of a Mexican woman whose journey from Mexico to the United States by becoming a maid for the wealthy elites and in turn raising a daughter at the same time which is quite a story to read about. The author is Mary Romero who is currently a professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. She has received several awards and has written many novels about Latino Culture. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from Regis College. I think the main reason why this author chose to write the Maid’s Daughter was because she wanted to talk about what it may be like for immigrant families that come to the United States and the struggles they may face. The Maid’s Daughter focuses on mainly the 1980s in Los Angeles where started working as a Maid and raising her daughter. There are many themes that show what life was like for the Maid’s Daughter such as the life of Carmen, life of Oliva and Carmen’s role as a mom and a maid. If it wasn’t for Carmen’s will to survive it would have posed a greater challenge for both Olivia and her mother to find work.

This is showing her being considerate because she is willing to take Maniac in and treat him like he is a part of the family. Lastly,

She speaks as though her opinions to do not count anyway, but she is very accepting of this. She belittles herself several more times throughout the story. "I meant to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and her I am a comparative burden already" (Barnet 747). Having read the text through to the end we know that she is in a mental hospital, a reader could most likely begin to imagine what John may have been thinking to have witnessed his wife go through such disturbing mental anguish and that he was only going off of the knowledge available at this point in time. How would the story be different if it had been written from John’s point of view?

According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Cindy did not receive adequate physiological needs such as food and water, safety needs such as security, order, and stability, and while not as important as the previous two categorical needs, she also did not receive proper love or belongingness. The need for self-actualization and esteem were not met.

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