Robyn Hood: Outlaw Princess by John Reynolds is a fresh take on the classic Robin Hood but with a fun twist. This is a quick, fun, young adult novel but one everyone is sure to enjoy. Robyn is a seventeen years old girl living an ordinarily boring life. She thinks things can sink any lower until a terrible storm strikes and she finds herself transported to another time. In this new place, she discovers that she is Robyn Hood, a female outlaw leading a band of outlaw women. With each passing day she is there she is given memories from different parts of her life. Her childhood, how she became an outlaw, etc. Upon raiding a large caravan moving through Sherwood Forest, Robyn discovers her long lost sister. Only one person in the band of
The protagonist is a 16 year old girl named Rachel. I think Rachel is one of those shy girls that don't like to talk to anybody like her crush Steve Millar and his mean sister Brianna. And thus all happens when Rachel sees Steve and the drama comes in.
Passage 1: Page 16 describes how Taylor comes to terms that she does not know everything, ‘Mama taught {her} well” about certain things but not the Great Plains. Taylor grew up staying out of trouble but she has to become introduced to the real world past the state of Kentucky. Taylor always had good grades as well and got selected for a job at a hospital. She always stayed with Mama but now Taylor is living for herself and can be very naive in certain aspects. During her senior year, she is introduced to a traumatic experience when her teacher, Newt and his wife are shot by Newts father. Taylor comforts his wife..Jolene. Taylor is very compassionate and helps anyone out who needs it, but she decides to save up for a car and just keep driving west to start over her life as well as changing her name. This is the start of her journey.
Arnetta seems like the leader of the pack; however, she is the weakest because she has to be mean and call troop 909 names just to make herself feel better. For example on (page 281 paragraph 4)they referred to the troop 909 girls “wet chihuahuas.” She does it to make herself seem cooler but really that makes her look bad. On (page 283 paragraph 2) she states,”she’d heard one of the girls from troop 909 call Daphne a n-i-g-g-e-r.” When Arnetta tries to point out witch girl called Daphne a “n-i-g-g-e-r” cited on page 297 paragraphs 2 and 3) she pointed to a girl who could talk but never did, then she changed it to someone else(cited in page 297 paragraph 4) the girl steps forward to show her uniform and says,”See, I’m a Brownie.” the narrator
The setting of this story is modern time. It does not state a specific place. The mood in this is serious, and kind of dangerous. Dara, the younger sister, wants to be her
In Gabrielle Roy’s The Road Past Altamont, the stories recount Christine’s time as a girl, leading into her transformation as a woman. They explore thoughts and movements of both Christine and her family. The Almighty Grandmother and The Road Past Altamont have resonant themes of aging, distance and displacement which highlight most of disagreements the grandmother, mother and daughter have in the stories. Roy manages to capture the relationship of grandmother and mother, as well as mother and daughter in separate stories, but at the same time conveying the similarities of what happens as each woman ages over the course of time. The repetitive cycle for these women is inevitable when comparing how
She is the go getter in the story she thought her sister was being abused so she took matters into her own hands and proceeded to sneak out and go save her sister. Later she found out that her sister was just busy, worn down and surprisingly pregnant for the second time.
This is the heartbreaking tale of a 17-year-old girl named Olivia. Her teenage mother (Lillian) committed suicide just three days after she was born by walking into the Mississippi River in the middle of the night. Olivia's grandmother, who she lives with, suffers with dementia and thinks that Olivia is actually Lillian. Many of the townspeople draw similar comparisons between daughter and mother and it feels like they're just waiting to see if Olivia will suffer the same fate as her mom when she turns 18.
with narrating the first chapter of each part. She is the one telling the story of her sisters. She is divorced and still lives in her childhood home. She is also a car insurance sales woman. She is also surprised to see an interviewer this early in the year, meaning she is still considered a hero. The only surviving sister.
In “How To Read Like A Professor,” by Thomas C. Foster, It is easy to connect some movies to fairy tales because the plot is vert identical. “ To make a story more interesting and intriguing, authors often use ideas from fairy tales to create connections to the reader's mind. In Red Robin, the court person is deepens because of its relation to a famous fairytale. This comedic movie parallels the story of Robin Hood in a number of different ways. First off, someone has assumed command while the proper authority the infant member of the royal family is absent. Prince John
Task: Preserving one’s reputation is a prevalent theme in The Crucible. Conduct a detailed examination of two characters who are concerned with their reputations. How does this affect how they behave, the ultimate decisions they make, and other characters in the play? How are their situations similar or different? Is a good name more important than the truth, or are they indeed the same thing? How do these two characters exemplify this idea?
Buck versus Bell 274 U.S. 2000 (1927) was the United States Supreme Court ruling that upheld a statue instituting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the mentally retarded “for the protection and health of the state.” (Holmes) It was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics which is the attempt of science to improve the human race by eliminating “defectives” from the gene pool. (Elof) Paul Lombardo argues (in N.Y.U. Law Review, April 1985, 60(30):30-62) that the Buck case was a milestone in government power over individual rights. (Lambardo) In his essay “Carrie Buck’s Daughter: a popular, quasi-scientific idea can be a powerful tool for injustice,” Stephen Jay Gould attacks
Taylor Greer has lived in Kentucky all her life. Yet, the life available to her in Kentucky is not what she always dreamed of: "none of these sights had so far inspired me to get hogtied to a future as a tobacco farmer's wife" (3). Living with her mother, Taylor becomes more independent and striven to find a better life. Taylor's father disappeared before she could even remember
Lastly, Erica is an eleven year old girl who takes drugs to try to mask the pain from living her miserable life. Also, she has sex with a sixteen year old boy, and thinks she is in love and does not use any contraceptives and gets pregnant. After becoming pregnant, the father bails and wants nothing to
The movie timelines Joan Crawford’s metamorphosis from a prima donna film star to terrifying mother as she changes into a woman that disparages her daughter at every opportunity. She resorts to extreme punishments and as a form of discipline in an effort to control her
The story begins with the death of Emily Graiser- the main character- and the action is presented backwards and gradually her life and