The War between the Twins
By: Francine Pascal’s
Introduction Francine Pascal is an American author best known for creating the Sweet Valley High Series, and one of world’s most popular fiction writers for teenagers. One of her story of the Sweet Valley Series is The War between the Twins. The main characters are Jessica Wakefield and Elizabeth Wakefield is equally popular. They described as having long golden hair, blue-green eyes, a tan, and a dimple on the cheek. Jessica Wakefield is a member of Unicorns Club, a club consisting of the prettiest and most popular girls at their school. And Elizabeth Wakefield is the elder twin of Jessica; she enjoys reading and writing and hopes to become a journalist someday. She writes
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But when Elizabeth has to take Jessica’s article out at the last minute, Jessica is furious! Jessica and other member of Unicorns decide to teach Elizabeth a lesson by starting their own paper. The unicorn news, before long, it’s clear that Sweet Valley Middle School isn’t big enough for two newspapers, and Jessica’s begins to take the lead. Will Elizabeth’s beloved Sixer be able to hold its own against the sensational news that the unicorns print. The Unicorn Club decide to make their own newspaper. The war and the war between the twins are on! The Unicorns are trying to make their newspaper better than the sixers. Unicorns say that “It will be much better than the Sixers!” The unicorns smiled. Unicorns also decide it will be printed on purple paper and it will blow the sixers away. The Unicorns think first what to call it. The suggested, hoof prints, and others. It’s also called Middle School News. The Unicorn they have a meeting about election, and Jessica is the second in command to the editor- in -chief. The girls write mostly inane articles; including one about an upcoming school dance they’re in charge of organizing. Lila’s supposed to book a band, since she thinks her uncle can use his connections in the music industry to get one. She writers in the article that a special mystery acts will perform. Mary has to type everything up. No one other than Jessica is interested in actually
Frank Beddor’s book The Looking Glass Wars is another version of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. In this retelling of the story, Alyss is a princess in the queendom of Wonderland. Her Aunt Redd takes over the throne as Queen Alyss is cast out of Wonderland and has to find her way home to retake her throne. In this book there are many themes evident.
Jerrione Mosley In the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his son revealing the reality of life, growing up as a black man. Coates mostly focused on how black lives and bodies lacked value in America and could be possibly destroyed or taken away at any time. He also talked about “The Dream”, which is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The lack of values and importance for the black race is highly in effect.
While reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the relationship between Rex and Rose Mary walls and their children became to be very intriguing. Specifically how they raised their kids without holding anything back, an idea reinforced by a famous Walt Disney quote This quote describes how “trying to shield” children ) from reality” wouldn’t “do them any favor.” This idea was enforced by multiple occasions from the book which include letting Jeannette cook by herself at the age of 3, even after getting serious burns from cooking, letting the kids do whatever they wanted as long as they “Used common sense”, and the incident where Rex let Jeannette go upstairs with a stranger because he knew she could defend herself. The first incident revolves around how Jeannette was allowed to cook, even after having serious burns from from cooking. ”She had to get right back on the saddle.”
The next morning, when Two-Bit and Steve Randle drop by, they show Ponyboy the morning paper which has an article with the headline "Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes. The article credits me and Ponyboy for saving the children's lives. I acted only in self-defense. The article finishes by saying that the Curtis boys should be
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As reflected in the readings of Reading Popular Culture: An Anthology for Writers 3rd Edition, present-day advertisements expand far beyond the endorsement of a product. While the initial intent for various corporations surround the operation of selling and marketing products, many companies also find success in promoting masked messages. According to Jean Kilbourne in her article pertaining to the study of advertisement, she reveals the underlying tactics of commercialized business. As stated in the article “’In Your Face…All Over the Place’:
In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rose Mary is the mother of the Walls children who often does not act as a true adult. Rose Mary’s attitudes and behaviours are childlike, and therefore her children must take on responsibility for the lack her own. Rose Mary ignores her obligations as a parent and chooses an irresponsible way of life which endangers her children. Rose Mary has never properly matured into adulthood due to her lack of financial stability, bliss ignorance and optimism, and her selfishness nature.
In the memoir “The Glass Castle“ written by Jeannette Walls, it talks about how Jeanette and her family overcome the tough times they had in their life. One of the main ideas of the memoir Jeannette talks about is how she achieved her ambition and what were the consequences of the risk she took. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success” by Henry Ford. This quote relates to Jeanette and her siblings because she and her sibling always worked together and helped one another when in need. Jeanette is the mostly the reason why she and her family had such a wonderful and rewarding time in New York.
In this world, there’s learning things the hard way and the easy way; in Jeannette Wall’s world, there’s only learning things the hard way. The Glass Castle is an adventurous story that reveals the painfully miserable story of Jeannette Walls. A selfish mother, a careless father, and terrible social encounters- these are some of the elements of a harsh reality Rex and Rose Mary Walls failed to shield their children from. Growing up poor was already difficult, but growing up with a selfish parent, specifically an unfeeling mom, made life hell for the Walls children. The family barely had one source of income from Rex Walls, and instead of helping out with the family’s finance issues, Rose Mary spent her days at home painting.
Lastly, Tiny Soderball was a hired immigrant just alike Lena. Tiny was always getting in trouble with the men so all of the other citizens looked at her differently. Tiny did not settle with that and she then decided to travel to Alaska and take part in the Gold Rush. Tiny opened up her own hotel and grew a fortune. Lena, Ántonia, and Tiny go against the traditional female role, they maintain their independence and they take risks causing them to end up very successful.
Maybe it is rough all over, but it really was better off that way. In addition to that Pony says "So Cherry Valance, the cheerleader, Bob's girl, the Soc, was trying to help us. No, it wasn't Cherry the Soc who was helping us, it was Cherry the dreamer who watched sunsets and couldn't stand fights." (86) This shows that Ponyboy is starting to realize that there is no difference between the two groups.
The main components of the story start with three girls dressed in bathing suits, one of which is a two-piece outfit walking into the A&P store. Queenie, who one of them is name, is the ringleader of her group. As the girls walk into the store and wander around, the conflict comes up when Sammy who works at A&P, notices
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In the book The Lord of the Flies we can see that many conflicts happen while the kids are in the island, most of these conflicts are struggled to be solved. The main conflict and the one that I 'm going to be talking about is the conflict between Ralph and Jack, were both boys compete for power. Ralph is more civilized and tries to make a fire and build tents while Jack is more of a savage who uses violence and wants to hunt all the time. Its is easy to see that in this literary piece the author uses many conflicts to make the reader visualize wants happening in the island. Ralph is voted by the boys to be the leader of the group, in the book he represents leadership, civilization and order.
Another point - instead of resting (as is recommended in a heart attack situation), we should physically move around, and actually do something which will use up our energy and the adrenaline created by the fight-or-flight reaction. We can focus on the concrete objects in our immediate environment to ensure that we stay in the present i.e. now and here! Other simple actions, like unwrapping & chewing a bubble-gum, counting backwards from 100 to 1, counting the number of people in the gathering etc., are excellent techniques to cope with the sudden attack. Engaging in something pleasurable, also helps us offset our anxiety and panic attack, since pleasure, anxiety and anger cannot be experienced at the same time. These are incompatible to each other.