Bad Choices Essay

Response # 1 authors note 1. Why do you think the author says that “murder, adultery and various other immoral or criminal activates” are more common in literature aimed at teens? a. People like to learn from these stories about the bad and what types of out comes it can have on people Response # 2  pages 6-11 1. The narrator of this story Denise Shipley says “violence comes in many different forms- guns, fists, and words of hate and contempt”. Explain what you think she might mean by this

Technology making life better or worse  Technology has made a big difference in our society such as communication, work, education, and entertainment in good and bad ways. Some people say that technology has made life better with the internet, cell phones and other devices. While others say technology has been making life worse because people are becoming lazy and replace their lives with technology every day. Technology surrounds almost everyone in modern society and it affects our lives in many

I think the sport can be so entertaining to watch and you get so into you don’t really think about the players, you forget that they can hurt. And if you're a hardcore sports fan, your reaction will probably be like, “Get up, He didn’t hurt you too bad, Just walk it off.” And sometimes those people aren’t wrong, sometimes in other sports they get tapped on the shoulder and then they fall on the ground crying like they can’t even go with the game but next 3 minutes, they are perfectly fine, without

Bellipotent during the last decade of the 18th century, after being impressed from the previous ship he was on “The Rights of Man”. He was seen as a “handsome sailor”, and was loved by his old crew. He was also innocent to a fault. This man could not see the bad or suspicious in someone at all. In the context of this novel, he was the purest good in this ship, which could also be seen as a microcosm of the world as it was. Billy as a whole is seen mainly as a man without fault. He could do no wrong in his world

The complexity behind humans’ relationship with technology is further revealed in the portrayal of the spaceship, “Mother.” The spaceship is considered an organic item because it seems to have a mind of its own. The crew calling the spaceship “Mother” also attributes human characteristics to it. It is organic because its own decision-making betrays the crew. First, it changes the course of the route and leads them to danger. What was supposedly a distress signal was soon revealed as a warning signal

comfortable home is extremely important. Unsafe homes often expose kids to bad habits and behavior. Unfortunately, John has been exposed to abusive drinking and behavior his whole life. It has become his normal, he and his family, all alcoholics. John even discloses that, “Bore got a big kick out of it when I was ten years old and I’d go around emptying all the beer glasses lying around the house” (Zindel 94). Of course, kids see bad things everywhere, but when a

Rationale: the following assignment is based on the book “The curios incident of the dog in the night-time“ by Mark Haddon. The book narrates how the life of Christopher John Francis Boone (the first character) changes, since he found his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, murdered in front of the neighbor’s house. At the beginning the murderer was unknown and the curiosity of Christopher to find the killer of Wellington started to grow. Therefor Christopher commence a strategy to come upon the criminal

In the world of health one well-known controversy is whether or not caffeine is good for you or if it has any nutritional value. On the pro side of the argument, many doctors have performed new studies showing that caffeine has a lot of positive effects on our health such as reducing the risk of skin cancer which was confirmed in an experiment done by Erikka Loftfield MPH. Based on my research I’ve found that studies also show that caffeine “has been shown to enhance both physical and cognitive performance

Everyman and The Second Shepherd’s Play reminds the readers that doing good things are necessary. Both of these plays are mysterious plays and are connected with religious purposes but put both plays display the methods differently. No one in the world is perfect everyone sins, and these plays express that worrying about materialistic things are not important but by doing good deeds. That by not worrying about materialistic things that we are capable of doing good. In the play Everyman he believe

Never Too Late Unfortunately, all people are human and are not perfect; they are meant to make mistakes. A person can make a huge mistake and may have to live with the feelings of guilt and regret. In some cases, these feelings remain on a conscience and cause a person to give up hoping for relief. However, no matter how much time has passed, a person can usually find a way to make up for the wrongdoing. In the novel, The Kite Runner, author Khaled Hosseini effectively expresses the theme that it