Analysis Of Not Much, Just Chillin ': The Hidden Lives Of Middle Schoolers'

The 1998 film, Pleasantville exeplifies the qoute by Andrew Smith: "We fear what we don't understand and we hate what we can't conquer". It is, after all, human nature to be scared of the unknown. The film is the story of high school twins in the 90's, one popular (Jennifer, played by Reese Witherspoon), the other not so much (David, played by Tobey Maguire). In this movie, they get pulled into a T.V. show with the same title as the movie itself.

Stanley is weak on the outside and inside. “All of them had something in common. Despite their awful luck, they always remained hopeful.” (9 Sarchar) Stanley’s hope makes him weak.

“in my younger more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that ive been turning over in my head ever since. “whenever you feel like criticizing someone, “just remember that all people in this world haven’t had all the advantages that you’ve had.”ch.1 Analysis: nicks father is telling him not to judge or look down on to people of less because you don’t know what they have been through even if they are of lower stature, They can be better than you personality wise and not be rich. 6. “his speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

In any case, he doesn 't oblige his criticism to basic and helper guideline, as he proceeds to inspect how the school system furthermore indicates honest to goodness advertise dissatisfactions, as a colossal piece of government help just funds instructive cost increases, rather than growing moderateness. Kennedy fights that the issue of poverty, among money related factors, begins from a nonattendance of appropriate getting ready in view of a separating preparing system. At the very

Rafael, The Kid, The Myth, The Legend Have you ever thought to yourself that Middle School would be the most boring and drudging experience of your life because your teachers barely ever give you any freedom, I mean think about it, Middle School is exactly like jail, but in jail, you get a phone call. Throughout this book you will see how Rafael Khatchadorian breaks almost every single rule and goes on perilous adventures with his best friend Leo. As you read this book you will be put into Rafael 's prodigious imagination, and experience what it 's like to have slight problems with the authority, and unfortunately, these things collide big time when he enters into middle school where students have to pay attention to the rules and never get caught doing substandard things. With help from his best friend/brother Leo, the mischievous kid concocts schemes to drive his tyrannical principle absolutely insane, while also using his glamour and charm to impress the love of his life, Jeanne and fight back the bullies. Therefore stating that this book shows that life is filled with all kinds of choices.

Wes didn’t start off on the right path initially, due to the friends he surrounded himself with such as shea, a young drug runner, and the low standards he set for himself academically, which Author Wes mentions that he was “disappointed with D’s, pleasantly satisfied with C’s and celebratory about a B I allowed my standards at school to become pathetic” (Moore 54). He allowed a fixed mindset of mediocrity along with his environment to almost determine his life path. Without social capital, Author Wes Moore would’ve been doomed for failure but the intervention by his mother, a few of her friends and his grandparents, he was able to attend Valley Forge Military Academy where he was able to benefit from the effects of social capital from his superiors and peers in the form discipline, comradery and leadership. From there, he totally changed his perspective as he developed a growth mindset which was fairly evident when he realized that basketball wasn’t in his long term plans; Wes states “When you step on the court with players like Kobe Bryant or six foot eight point guards who can dunk from the free throw line, your mind begins to concentrate on other options” (Moore 130), that moment of clarity showed the benefits of social capital and a strong growth mindset. Another instance of social capital being beneficial in Author Wes Moore’s life is when he was granted a scholarship to attend John Hopkins University.

8."He sinlently cursed himself for thinking this smart-mouth teenage sister of a trublemaker known as Quang-ha could ever help". I think that this is a funny line because he was out smarted by a teenager. 9. The images that the author has left in my head is that when you have somthing and then you lose it, it can impact your life so much. It can feel like you just can 't do anything any more, nothing good or bad nothing big or

One example of that is when I was in 5th grade one of my best friends and I got to talk a lot during recess but when they took that away in middle school I could not talk to him that much

He can be selfish, rude, and cruel. Scrooge can get freaked out or scared if you try to make him scared. Back to Scrooge and his rudeness he has and smart mouth for this ghostly horror. Scrooge has been given a chance by the ghost Marley to reform himself. Scrooge is not a joyful,happy,cheerful kind of person knowing that he hates Christmas.

Grinch Highlight which one you are reflecting: theme, main idea, character, conflict or event. Explanation: This song tells a story about a man that many people dislike very much. This man relates to Count Olaf. They both are extremely cruel.

This argument is full of hasty generalizations and lacks any solid logos support. All throughout the paragraph, the author generalizes seniors to all succumbing to senioritis when he/she does not do so throughout the whole essay. By generalizing this section, the author also generalizes the idea that all seniors are bored with their life when many are not. The author goes against this idea later in the essay, contradicting his/herself, in the fourth body paragraph by saying that teens who are involved in their school enjoy their senior year, yet another hasty generalization. School involvement being the authors counterargument brings up another weakness within their essay; she/he does not refute therefore leaving an explanation opposing their viewpoint to be taken away from his/her

A huge number of kids that are going on to junior Think the won’t be able to survive, most of them are scared to come because they fear that they won’t have enough time between classes, Not opening your locker, and lastly they fear that they will be squashed or pushed by the 8th graders! These are the steps on how to survive middle school. When I came to middle school I was pretty scared to but I survived! The first thing I had trouble with was that I couldn’t get my locker open, every time I tried I couldn’t open it

Freshman year, what an awkward time in my life coming out of middle school with my poor grades I promised myself and my parents I was going to succeed while in high school. Did I though? My grades for sure improved but I still was not putting in as much effort as I should have been. I struggled to be able to communicate with all these new faces and in a completely new school but even outside of school struggled to talk to new people.