The First 20 Hours By Jah Kaufman

America’s answer for dealing with crime prevention is locking up adult offenders in correctional facilities with little rehabilitation for reentry into society. American response for crime prevention for juvenile’s offenders is the same strategy used against adult offenders taken juvenile offenders miles away from their environment and placed in adult like prisons.

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

In the reading, The 10,000-Hour Rule, by Malcolm Gladwell he writes about practicing for a certain amount of time to really master something. I believe that his argument isn’t too credible and it doesn’t apply to every field.

Two best friends, Chris and Win, decided to do something great their summer of senior year before heading of to collage. Chris and Win are going to bike along the West Coast to Seattle, where Win’s uncle lives. At first Chris’s mom is against them going, while his dad pushes him to go because he had a similar dream that he did not accomplish. Win’s parents seem to not have a care in the world that their son is going to bike across the country. Eventually both sets of parents agree and the boys start their journey. The trip is going great but somewhere along the way things started taking a turn for the worst. The book Shift by Jennifer Bradbury is a great realistic mystery that keeps the pages turning.

Perfecting a certain skill can take a very long time and a lot of hard work.

According to the article by Dr. Rita Smilkstein “Natural Human Learning Process takes place in six different stages.” In order for someone to learn they first have to have some form of motivation-- they to have an interest to learn what it is that they need to learn everything starts with motivation. Then they have to start practicing, while practicing you will make errors but you will also learn from your errors. Then comes advance practice, with advance practice you will become more confident, and feel like

The most important lesson for Rachel that comes out of this situation is that after wearing the disgusted sweater she has become even older, and it was tied to the experience instead of the birthday itself. She understands that it is the challenge she needs to grow up faster as she will receive additional benefits of behaving the way she wants and resisting to the outside irritators. As for the literature techniques, the author applies language, diction and symbolism to reveal the issues of experience, aging, knowledge, power, authority and freedom. The discovering is gaining age are conveyed with the help of the memories of eleven-year-old girl on her birthday. Rachel resists her humiliation from Mrs. Pierce, and that is the exact moment when her “smart eleven” comes as well[2].

Recently, the performers at Rollins College put on the two-act comedy The Foreigner by Larry Shue, directed by Thomas Ouellette. This brilliantly crafted show touches on themes of racism, prejudice, and religious corruption in the American south during the 1900’s. Along with the well crafted storyline, every theatrical element seemed to blend together perfectly to create a strong harmony throughout the show. It is no wonder that “the comedy by Larry Shue became a staple at regional theaters after its initial two-year Off Broadway run”, considering how thought provoking yet down to earth it is. (Jacobson)

A person is capable of learning a skill if they put their time and effort towards what they feel passionate about. Has someone ever wanted to develop an ability that you practice it for hours a day? I did, I have spent around 100 hours a year trying to perfect my loving skill, volleyball. It was a hardworking skill, but enjoyable as well. It is my way of life. The most important years of my life was my volleyball experience in High School.

For example, in order for me to learn how to do injections, or draw blood I’d have to practice in a clinic. Doing these tasks correctly means asking others for help when needed, setting a goal, and planning out the strategy to learning it, monitoring my progress, and getting feedback from others about my performance. The best way deliberate practice can help me fully learn these new skills is by practicing them repetitively. You know the saying “practice makes perfect?” You can’t learn how to do billing, or how to administer injections overnight. It takes time, and effort to learn something new. Paying attention to what you’re doing is very important as well.

The book I chose to read was Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, the story is about a 17 year old boy named Peter Houghton who decided to shoot up his school in nineteen minutes. The reason why the author decided to write about a school shooting is because listening to her own childrens struggle with bullying and trying to fit in led her to write about the topic of a school shooting.The book goes between the past and the present leading up to why Peter decided to shoot up the school. Peter had a distant relationship between his parents who didn’t show any attention to him ever since his older brother Joey died in a car accident. What led up to Peter deciding to shoot up the school is the countless bullying he had to suffer since Kindergarten

“The End of the Weekend” by Anthony Hecht is a poem consisting of four stanza rhymed in sestets with the rhyme scheme of ABCBCA. The structure of the first two stanza are strictly formed while the last two stanza are loose in structure. The speaker of the poem presents to us his story of love-making with his girlfriend in his father’s house. The poem embodies a conflict between the speaker’s sensuality and his spirituality (religious concepts). It begin with three main levels; youth, intimacy and death.

For the most part, I enjoyed Nineteen Minutes. It was an extremely emotional novel about a teen boy that killed ten people in his high school. Describing the school shooting was not the book’s main idea, the real purpose was to explain the events leading up to and the events after the shooting. In my opinion, Jodi Picoult started the book out beautifully when she described how long the school shooting was by relating it to basic everyday things that most people could relate to.

Everyone who reads a story will interpret things slightly different than the person who reads it before or after him or her. This idea plays out with most every story, book, song, and movie. These interpretations create conflict and allow people to discuss different ideas and opinions. Without this conflict of thought there is no one devoting time to debate the true meaning of a text. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tells about a woman who is informed of her husbands death, processes the emotions, and becomes content with this new status as an individual person – losing all the expectations that society expected her to live by within a marriage. This story however is written in a way that the reader has the final interpretation of the text. There are many different interpretations on not only the reason for the main character’s death, but also on the overwhelming emotions that she faces.

Kate Chopin provides her reader with an enormous amount of information in just a few short pages through her short story, “The Story of an Hour.” The protagonist, Louise Mallard, realizes the many faults in romantic relationships and marriages in her epiphany. “Great care [is] taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 168). Little do Josephine and Richards know, the news will have a profoundly positive effect on Louise rather than a negative one. “When she abandoned herself,” Mrs. Mallard opened her mind to a new way of life. The word usage shows that the protagonist experienced a significant change. This life wouldn’t be compromised by her partner’s will, which will enable her to live for