Rough riders

In Mike Mullen’s novel “Ashfall”, fifteen year old Alex, home alone when the yellowstone supervolcano erupts. His town collapses into a darkness of ash and violence, forcing him to flee, He begins to search for his parents and sister, who were visiting relatives 140 miles away. Along the way, Alex struggles through the the foot of ash, and desperate for food, clean water, and shelter. After an escaped convict injures Alex. He looks for shelter. Deciding to heal or to die, he decides to keep going

While in the hospital, Alex meets Paul Drevin, the son of Nikolei Drevin, a multi-billionaire from Russia. Paul is in the hospital room next door to Alex's, regaining strength from an appendectomy, while Alex is regaining strength from having been shot. One night, feeling in need of fresh air, Alex wanders down to the lobby to ask his friend the night guard permission to walk outside, but instead he finds the guard has been killed by four men bearing firearms, who plan to kidnap Paul. Alex rushes

Alex Rider has always had something or someone to join him on a mission. This was the first time without a backup, and he barely made it out alive. The book I am reading is Scorpia written by Anthony Horowitz, and the genre is Adventure. The book is about Alex trying to learn more about his passed away father by going to the organization that his father worked for. The Organization Scorpia finds out that Alex is the son of one of their dead assassins and will stop at nothing to get him. I believe

Good morning girls, I am Nikki Carro director of the film Whale Rider, I understand you have looked at the prepared extracts? Well what I wanted to talk to you about today was how elements of cultural traditional and generational difference have been explored in the film Whale Rider. In the first extract there is lot to do with cultural tradition especially where Koro and Porourangi do a Hongi. Also in the second extract where we have a quite important scene of Uncle Rawiri and Nanny Flowers where

Have you ever been in a situation where you know something is the wrong thing to do but you do it anyways even though there could be severe consequences? That is the position Alex Rider is put in. In this journal I will be questioning, predicting, characterizing, and evaluating. In the rest of my book Mr. Blunt had tried to convince Alex to turn against M16 and take them down. Alex had just found out that Scorpia had put a poison into vaccines that was supposed to help fight against yellow fever

Upon leaving the ruins a big muscled man came up to me and said he was here because I was asking too many questions and I was to be taught a lesson. With that he started punching me, but I punch as hard as he does and I can dodger faster so when he was beaten to his knees he told me Nepos the Nose had sent him. I guess this N. This is sure escalating quickly, I have a bad feeling about this, but now they know who I am I can’t just stop. I decide to duck into the sewers until things calm down a little

I am reading Alex Rider Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz and I am on page 159. This book is about a teenager named Alex Rider. Alex gets called by the M16 unit to do a mission for them. Alex has to investigate the deaths of two millionaires. The M16 team sends Alex to the Friend family to go undercover as Mr. David Friend’s child who is being sent to school. When Alex arrived at the school, he will begin his investigation. In this journal I will be predicting and questioning. I predict that Alex

how human lives are great, but we need to look at what we created to make our lives comfortable for us. We flood valleys, cut down rainforests, and destroy the lives of animals, just to own land. Does this actually make us happy? The novel “Dragon Rider” is an amazing story about a journey, a dragon, a boy, and a brownie (a cat like creature) have to cross. This all happens because humans want to flood the valley dragons live in. The story is based on the perspective of imaginary animals. These imaginary

In Whale Rider, director Niki Caro crafts the story of a young girl name Paikea who strives to ascend to leadership in her Maori tribe despite the sexist beliefs of the grandfather and leader, Koro. Paikea is conditioned to think that something about her birth, as well as her very existence is wrong; that, if her brother had survived and not her, circumstances in her town would be better. Koro, even says, “When she was born, that's when things went wrong for us.” This attitude affects Paikea,

Both released in 2010, Easy A, directed by Will Gluck and The Duff written by Kody Keplinger, successfully comment on the social pressures that teenagers suffer through. Addressing issues such as sex, gossip and labelling and the effects they have on the victim. Addressing social-pressure and gossip and the facets of teenage-reinvention through a comical movie, Easy A directed by Will Gluck in 2010, is an unapologetic confrontation on its themes. Protagonist, Olive Prendergast, played by Emma Stone