Melinda in Speak

"You talking to me? I'll answer….  in my head, but not out loud." This is an answer typical of Melinda Sordino, the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak.  Melinda is a character with many flaws.

First,  Malinda  is a very very quiet person. She says some things but not  much. She has a mom and a dad and she has no brothers or sisters.  She wishes to borrow one. She is also very confused about  her self  and her personality. She communicates  with her parents by leaving notes on the table. She also has a very low self esteem of herself.

She also does not really have a personality, because her room is still from fifth grade. Because she has not changed anything about it. She has a little of each of her old friends personality but not of hers. She is not a very known person in the school. People use to know her the year before.

While she is at school, Melinda spends time in a janitor's closet. This is a symbol in the book Speak because Melinda hides herself here. In the closet, she finally feels secure, that no one will see her now. Then she starts to skip school for a couple of days. Finally she starts to go to all her classes everyday.  A conflict in the book was that Melinda getting good grades. The reason why is because she wasn't attending school for a couple of days.

Another symbol is the tree. First she was drawing second grade trees for  art. The tree symbolism represents the growth of herself, like when the tree is dead she does not feel very confident of herself she is not proud of how she looks like and she  felt disgusted of the things that happen to her during the party outside.

My conclusion of this book was, that we should not drink at an early age because our brain has not fully developed,  and if anything bad ever happens we should talk someone we really truly trust and not keep it a secret, because It could happen again or something worse could happen.

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Problem  - How will the size of a sphere affect the time of the sphere when it falls?
Hypothesis - My hypothesis is that  the heavier the marble or ball the faster the marble will drop.
Experiment  - We will drop the spheres and graph the times to get the results
Procedure
1.  First we will gather all of our materials.
2. We grab the timer.
3. We will drop the spheres and start the timer so we can measure the time.
4.  We will repeat steps 2-3 ten more times so we can get the rest of the times.
5. Finally we will clean our materials up.
6. Materials
7. Marble
8. Ping Pong ball
9. Basketball
10. Timer
11. CV- Where the object falls from.
12. IV-  The size of the sphere, weight of the object.
13. DV- Time it takes for the object to fall to the ground.
Observations My observations were that the spear would fall
Conclusion  My conclusion is that the heavier the sphere is the faster the object will fall.

Ernest Hemingway

In Hemingway's story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place,"  The younger waiter,  "Mr. Perfect  I know it all" and the old man, "Mr. Lonely Drinker".

The  young waiter was very disrespectful. He would say rude things about the old man, to the old waiter. The old man and the old waiter  both didn't have a wife to go home at three o'clock in the  morning, when the old man left the bar.

 I don't think the young waiter was hardly ever right in the story because money is not more important than happiness in life, for anyone but him I guess. And he should have not talked about the old man. The old man and old waiter both hade a wife at one point in there life. He said that the old man "should have killed himself yesterday". I disagree because they would be losing  a customer  and lose money at the same time.

  The old man and the old waiter were  both probably were happy at one point in their life. The old man and the old waiter both seemed sad in the story. The young waiter had no patients for the old man when he wanted another cup of  wine, that  he was drinking,  but  he couldn't give him any more because they were going to close the bar so I agree on that part of the story.  He said that money is more important than life, and someone's family and I disagree on that part of the story.

My conclusion of this story is that ,I think what we should have learned is to not be disrespectful so other people don't  talk bad things about us, behind our backs.

Patriotism Response

                                 DOES PATRIOTISM STILL MATTER?  

In my opinion I think patriotism does still matter. That is the reason why we have freedom today. The freedom to express ourselves. Without freedom we wouldn't be able to say anything we wanted. If we ever said anything, that we were not allowed to say, and we were herd we would probably get in so much trouble, for not fallowing the laws.  

Ernest Hemingway

The young waiter was very disrespectful. He would say rude things about the old man, to the old waiter, about the old man. The old man and the old waiter  both didn't have a wife to go home at three o'clock in the  morning when the old man left the bar.

And I don't think the young waiter was hardly ever right in the story because money is not more important than happiness in life. And he should have not talked about the old man. The old man and old waiter both hade a wife at one point in there life.

  They both probably were happy at one point in their life. The old man and the old waiter both seemed sad in the story. The young waiter had no patients for the old man when he wanted another cup of what he was drinking,  but  he couldn't give him any more because they were going to close the bar so I agree on that part of the story.

The young waiter was very disrespectful

Example: He said that the old man should have killed himself yesterday

Example: He didn't want to give the old man any more to drink that night/morning.

Why was he disrespectful?

I think he was disrespectful because he might have not liked his life, and his job or maybe his marriage wasn't going very well because he might have had an argument with his wife, or maybe one of his family member  might have passed away.

The young waiter was often wrong.

Example: Money is not more important than happiness in someone's life, or someone's family.

Example: That he should give the person what they wants from the bar  or he wouldn't be making money for his family.

Why didn't he see that he was wrong? He thought he was always right because he was always right and perfect he never had a wrong answer.