Willow's Life-Personal Narrative

Willow didn’t bother to knock on the Griffins’s door. She feared that Jake had already been floated and hoped she wasn’t too late to say goodbye. But the sobs that she heard echoing through the place was all the indication she needed to know that she was far too late.

Atmosphere: At the beginning, the mood is depressing since Willow’s second set of parents die in a car crash. She has already been through so much in life, so the readers have empathy for her. Then, the mood is ecstatic since things start going the way Willow wants them to, and she becomes a part of the Nguyen family.

First, her relationship with her best friend, Ellen, is put to the test. Ellen and Willowdean have a fight where they end up ignoring each other for at least half of the book. During their break, Willowdean questions if she has relied on Ellen too much, possibly holding her back. This makes Willowdean change internally by willing herself to become more independent and less reliant on others. Another problem that occurs is Willowdean’s relationship with Bo. They both like each other very much, but when Willowdean is with Bo, she loses her confidence and starts to feel insecure in their partnership. This permanently affects Willowdean, even after they are no longer seeing each other. Throughout the rest of the story, Willowdean feels ashamed because of her body, and her self-esteem drastically changes. The last main conflict that is in this book is the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet beauty pageant. Willowdean enters this pageant to try and prove to her town that perfect bodies and cheesy smiles aren’t necessarily beautiful. As she participates in the pageant, many people are appalled and don’t support her, including her own mother. Willowdean has to learn how to stay strong and defeat peer pressure during this

The book sets in with Willow Chance being orphaned. The author writes the whole scene in harsh words yet she makes it easy to imagine. This is one of the most action-packed scenes. It makes readers more connected and eager to know about Willow Chance. Willow

Sammy, deemed to be the protagonist of the story, is nothing short of the typical nineteen year old, full of insecurity and self doubt, working an average job at a local supermarket. He’s desperate to break out of hometown, desperate to leave behind the people like Stokesie and Lengel, who he perceives to be just some “scared pigs in a chute”, but struggles to find an escape route. That is, until he encounters Queenie, a girl who lives a life Sammy can only dream of. Queenie resembles everything Sammy wants to be. She is a natural leader, hence the nickname “Queenie” awarded to her by Sammy. She’s also proud, and confident. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her and loves herself without apology. So when Queenie offers Sammy the opportunity to transform himself into the person he only dreamed of being; a rebellious, confident and fearless spirit with little regard for anyone else, Sammy jumps at it. As a result, Sammy makes a rash decision to quit, in hopes of following Queenie to her sophisticated world outside of the A&P supermarket. Sammy’s rash decision to quit was an attempt to escape, live a new and exciting life, but falls short when the girls leave him behind and reality slaps him in the

As she grows she discovers more of what she is capable of. Now she realizes that even though she is going crazy, she is still alive. Above all, she does not want to hide anymore and is not afraid to come out of her shell of guilt. “I don’t want to hang out in my hidey-hole anymore…. I don’t feel like hiding anymore” (p.191-192). She comments about not wanting to go back to her closet because she is not afraid of what might happen to her. In the same way she says that she, in no matter what condition, is still alive and breathing. “I have survived… Confused, screwed up but still here” (p.188). She is happy that she survived and that it does not matter if she is frustrated, she still has to stay for the ones who love her. In order which she has to take care of the old Melinda she was and let go of the Melinda she was after the party. After this realization she understood that she is not perfect but she can grow to love those

Willowdean Dickson, nicknamed Dumplin’ by her mother has always felt comfortable in her own skin. She thinks in order to have a bikini body… just put one on. Willowdean eventually takes the job at Harpy’s, a fast food joint, where she meets Bo, a cute, handsome and sporty private school jock. Willowdean instantly falls for him. However, when he starts reciprocating those feelings back, she is instantly surprised. Willowdean eventually doubts her relationship with Bo and joins a beauty pageant (her mom is a former beauty queen) to gain more self assurance. As Willowdean begins to perform in the pageant, she begins to reminisce about the Dolly Parton song, Jolene, remembering times with her late aunt, her friend, Ellen (who she was fighting with at the time) and Bo.

Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly being placed in unstable environments, environments that do not encourage any achievement. When her situation becomes untenable, she goes AWOL, like Olivia, refusing to return to county supervision. Corwin masterfully frames the problem that wards, like Olivia and Sabreen, face when they feel that going back into the system is not an option. The additional struggles can be seen through Olivia and Sabreen accepting jobs with long hours in order to make enough to pay their bills. The responsibility on taking care of themselves financially detracts from their studies, which quickly can become a vicious, never-ending cycle.

Looking at the floor she sees it start to rip apart right down the middle. "Hurry up!!" she yells to her parents fear lacing her voice. "We're ready to go" Roxanne yells back as she jogs over to her daughter. Just as her dad reached them, they were knocked to the ground as the right half of the house disappeared. Roxanne began sliding toward the gaping chasm that had swallowed half of the house. Artemis and her dad grabs her mom just as she slides over the edge. Pulling her up onto the narrow strip of flooring, Soren checks to make sure he didn't lose any ammunition as his wife catches her breath. "Come on. We can climb out my window into the oak tree if we hurry" Artemis quickly says to her parents while trying to catch her breath. " Alright, let's go then" her dad responds back. Grabbing a hold of the door frame, Artemis pulls herself into her room and reaches back around to help her parents. Closing the door behind them she picks up the rest of her survival gear that had slid into a far corner. Noticing something moving under her bed, she walks over and bends down to look at it. She finds that it's her cat, Lucifer and her mom's little chihuahua, Juanna. Picking them both, up she hands her mom the dog while stroking her cats' back. Meanwhile Soren had walked over to the bay window and was busting out the glass. Taking a piece of rope off the closet door, he hooked it into the

The mens rea element is also required for someone to be accused for murder. It would have to be verified that Willow intended to kill or cause grievous bodily harm to Larry through a direct or oblique intent. Direct intention, as supported in Moloney , arises where the defendant’s purpose is to kill or cause serious bodily harm and will be treated as failure if it does not occur. Oblique intention, as applied in Woollin , occurs where death or serious bodily harm is a virtual certainty due to the actions of the defendant, considering some unforeseen intervention. The defendant must have appreciated that his actions would lead to this outcome.

Writing about a past experience I had in the ER. I was not able to shadow a doctor this week so instead of writing about an experience I had this week I just changed it to one Ive had. Still made it relevant and enlightening.

State institutions that house individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities have been a prominent part of history in the health professions. In 1967 in the United States, there were more than a quarter of a million state institutions that housed individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities (Waldman, 2017). One state institution that was around during that time period was Willowbrook State School which was located on Staten Island in New York City and was one of the largest run state schools for people with developmental disabilities. Willowbrook at its peak was home to over 6000 residents when its capacity was for just 4000 (Kaser, 2005). Willowbrook was a state institution that is most often described for dehumanizing its patients. Willowbrook housed both children and

Gate was not pleased by her answer. Her frown deepened, the wrinkle between her brows only becoming more permanently etched into her face. A few of Lyla’s classmates giggled. Lyla hastily walked to her seat and sat down, burying her expression in her book. School used to be enjoyable when she was younger. Lyla used to have good relationships with her teachers and get excellent grades, but Lyla’s large circle of friends had a fallout, and Lyla had no one to support her with anything. Then, to make things worse, the resident mean girl of the school decided that Lyla was to be her next target, although that was partially Lyla’s fault. Eventually, Lyla just stopped trying in school, preferring to exist in her daydream. It was a better life that she imagined, one where her problems were solved by a smarter, prettier, and more confident version of

I know that Alysson and I have been friends for a very long time now, but last week we had gotten into a fight about how someone at the table had taken her spot. During Choir she told me that she felt like I was replacing her, which started the entire argument. I told her that I wasn't replacing her, and I couldn't make the other person move just because she wanted to sit there. She ended up sitting on the floor for a few days until the principal told her to go find a seat to sit in. They got into a small argument, and I tried to convince her to stop arguing with the principal. After our magor fight she had tried to start two more arguments on monday. One during breakfast, and another one during choir. I told her that she could be mad all