...and confusion. During this stage, issues regarding self-identity and independence will surface. Many adolescents are faced with difficult choices involving drugs, alcohol, schoolwork, sexuality, their social life and relationship with their parents. Peer groups, romantic interests and external appearance tend to increase in importance for some time during a teen's journey toward adulthood. Some of the issues an adolescent may go through are evident in the novel “Go Ask Alice” by Anonymous. It provides us with insight into the mind of a teen that is struggling with internal and external turmoil which leads her astray into a path of drug abuse. A fifteen year old girl who remains unnamed (title of the novel refers to her as Alice) starts a diary in which she records her experiences and life events as an adolescent. Alice is a gifted writer who writes in an observant and sensitive style. She confides in her diary revealing to it her deepest thoughts. Like many other adolescents, she worries about her appearance, relationships, school, and social life. Alice often feels as if she is on the outside looking in. She sees herself as an outsider in her school and family. This is attributed to her inability to share herself completely with anyone else. It has placed a strain on the relationships she has tried to develop with her family and friends. When her father is offered a new teaching position in a different town it cheers her up. However, her insecurities surface as she realizes...
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...In journal-styled literature, vulnerable characters can often reveal a theme. In Sparks’ novel Go Ask Alice, addiction can manipulate youth, causing destruction and instability within relationships and their lives. The “anonymous” main character in this novel comes to a new understanding of herself and this develops a theme. Likewise, she turns to drug use when she feels she has no one to connect with and talk to. She uses the drugs as an expressive outlet that she is wishing to find in a person, and this shows how addiction can manipulate youth, causing destruction and instability within their lives. Another example found in this novel is how fast the relationship between the main character and her parents deteriorates. The constant...
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...Go Ask Alice is a book that was originally a journal of a teen age girl’s personal documentation of her life while she was using drugs and trying to stay clean. The book starts out by the author purchasing the journal to record her feelings and thoughts while she is going through high school. The journal becomes a first account witness to the author’s journey through the world of drugs, as she is given a drink containing LSD, which is her very first experience, to her untimely death due to a drug overdose. The journal was Alice’s companion whether she was high or she was sober. It has journal entries detailing how she felt when she was taking drugs and how she felt trying to get clean. It also has her entries from the time she spent on the...
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...Alice in Wonderland – Book Review Alice and Wonderland is a novel written by a man named Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into this fantasy ‘wonderland’. This novel tells us about Alice’s weird and wonderful adventures down the rabbit hole and the unusual characters she encounters. She follows a white rabbit that was talking to himself, wearing a waistcoat and had a pocket watch, down the rabbit hole. She fell a long time through this tunnel and fell into a hall of doors. On the table in the middle of the room for a tiny door, on the other side of the door is a garden that Alice wants to get to. On the table, Alice finds a bottle with ‘DRINK ME’ on it, this makes her small, but then she finds a cake, which says ‘EAT ME’ on it, which makes her grow until her head hit the ceiling. Thus begins the series of shape change for Alice. The shape change confuses Alice and she gets up set, she cries and floods the room. As she shrinks she is forced to swim in her own tears and is soon joined by a number of other animals. They get out of the water and the mouse tells a story to a caucus race to dry all of the animals off.. Once Alice is dry, she enters the garden where she goes into a house and drinks from the bottle to make herself grow again, but this makes her too big, too big that she cannot get out of the house. Animals start to gather to make her leave, they throw pebbles at her (which are...
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...She was not the only one that was being affected by drugs at this time she was actually a part of a much larger group of women and men that were were acting this way because they wanted to be free from the government's rules and life itself. This is where the connection between Go Ask Alice and second wave feminism shows up. Alice was a part of a revolution that happened in America, In which many people were able to gain rights (both men and women, though mainly women) The main right that women gained was less of a rite and more of an allowance to use something that was once restricted to them, this being the birth control pill. This simple pill is something that Alice is seen taking in the book multiple times and was a lifesaver for women all over america during the second wave as it kept the, from getting pregnant after having sex, something that anyone that did not plan to have a child would understand. Along with that Alice is portrayed in the book over and over again to be on many other, less legal drugs, this shows how much independence women were gaining at the time. go back 5 years or so and you would not have found drug usage anywhere near as much with the female population. So her ability to be free, to be herself, is a sign that she was just another teen living in a changing...
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...Characters: Alysandra Ang –Scriptwriter; Supporting Characters Rhea Imperial – Director; Supporting Characters Main Characters Stevenson Family: Andrei Salde – Father (Ramon Stevenson) Audrey Guevarra – Mother (Carmela Swift) Yurianne Solitana - Daughter (Younger Version) (Alice Stevenson) Venice Jarlego – Daughter (Older Version) (Alice Stevenson) Bestfriend: Camille Elises – Younger Version (Mia Ackerman) Chesca Agpalza – Older Version (Mia Ackerman) Supporting Characters: Alexis Buenaventura – Bar/ Flair tender, Bully (Stewie Simpson) Omar Juliano – Drummer of “West Kawayan Sea”, Bully (Cleveland Keinor) Jade Guevara – Bestfriend of older Alice (Roxie Reiss) Scene 1 Ramon: Carmela, have you seen my bag? Carmela: I think you left it in your room. Ramon: Oh, I’ll go get it then. Carmela: Ramon Ramon: What is it? Carmela: I’ve got something to tell you. Ramon: Go on. Carmela: These past few weeks, I have been vomiting and I don’t know why. Ramon: Then you should go to a doctor. Carmela: I did. Ramon: And? What did the doctor said? Carmela: She said that I’m…that I’m p-pregnant. Ramon: WHAT DID YOU SAID?! Carmela: I’m pregnant for two weeks, I know that we just got married and that were not ready to have a family, but I think it’s time to have children. Ramon: FINE! Carmela: Really? Ramon: Yeah, but I will not take my responsibility for that child. Carmela: What? Ramon: I can’t. I’m leaving you! Carmela: Wait! You can’t just – *Door slams*...
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...CLASSROOM OBSERVATION 9/30/2014 EDUCATION 1 School: Palo Alto Chinese School (PACS) Teacher: Alice Chiu Grade: ______ G1____ Date: _ 9/30/2014__ Observer: _______ Time: __8:15a.m – 10:00a.m_____ Activity: __Morning Meeting and Math Lesson____ Spent the morning of the 30th September 2014 in the First grade at Palo Alto Chinese School. Alice Chiu is the teacher. Alice and I met together in our college career. We both Asian and speak fluent in Mandarin; She’s the head of the Chinese Curriculum and teacher in one of two 1st grade classes Palo Alto Chinese School. Alice has been more than 4 years teaching Chinese experiences in First Grade. Her duties include teaching math, social studies and Science. After the student made their way into their classroom, Alice informed everyone that I was there just for observe. As the class period was about to start, Alice asked the student to sit down on carpet to begin their school day. The students quick acknowledge their teacher’s request. They had daily meeting very shortly, it included singing a morning song, running daily agenda and morning messages from Alice. Soon, it went to the next session, math class. Alice simply applied the math concepts by story and explained clearly till move to the next activities. They all sat down on their assigned seats and started doing the math questions. Alice read loud the questions and guided them understand the process. Student raised hands once they done the assignments...
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...ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND By Lewis Carroll This book, Alice in Wonderland, is a Mid-Frequency Reader and has been adapted to suit readers with a vocabulary of 4,000 words. It is about 27,500 words in length. It is available in three versions of different difficulty. This version is adapted from the Project Gutenberg E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/). In this book, the adaptation involved replacing over 152 word families. There are 82 different word families at the 5th 1000 level and 62 words beyond that, totalling a target vocabulary of 144 words. It was adapted by Sonia Millett. This famous children’s story written in 1865 is an early example of the fantasy or nonsense genre. The story plays with time, imagery, logic and language and for this reason remains popular with adult readers as well as children. You will meet many species of talking animals as well as characters from the pack of cards. You will encounter unusual interesting usages of language such as 'curiouser' and 'uglification'. CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had looked into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her...
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...CASE STUDY: Alice Peterson An experienced elementary school teacher is having problems with a pre-first grade class in which every student brings unique (and difficult) problems into the classroom, leading her to wonder if she is reaching anyone. Alice Peterson drove to work mentally agonizing over the same dilemma that faced her every school day: how to help her students learn. Alice taught a class of prefers-grade children at the Mason Elementary School in Eastvale, a small town outside Chicago. This year was proving to be the most challenging and the most frustrating of Alice’s twenty-eight-year career. The Eastvale school district served a heterogeneous school population. More than 40 percent of the students were black or Hispanic, and about a quarter of the school population qualified for the free or reduced-cost lunch program. There were also many students from middle class or upper-middle class families. Three years ago the school district introduced a pre-first grade class in an attempt to serve developmentally latent children. Over the past ten years or so, the kindergarten curriculum had become more academic, with less attention paid to readiness and group social skills. For some children, an academic kindergarten was not the best preparation for formal schooling; they needed more time before they faced the demands of first grade. On the basis of testing and the recommendations of their kindergarten teacher, such children were...
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...was there. When retelling a historical event as fiction, the author enables the readers to feel as though they are present through the perspective of the character in the novel. In Lewis Nordan’s novel Wolf Whistle, Nordan intends to go beyond his universally accepted view of historical fiction in his retelling of the Emmett Till murder. Nordan aims to give the reader a deeper understanding of why the young boy, Bobo, was killed in the first place. The novel aims to look at the result of the racism and violence that characterized the murder and how it might have affected those not directly involved in the actual crime. Simply retelling the story would not adequately allow the reader to fully grasp absurdity of racism present within the community. Nordan expands this story through the protagonist Alice, the incorporation of magic and other minor characters....
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...Delia Ray American History Section 03 The Last of the Mohicans The action of the story takes place in 1757 between the English and the French for possession of the Continent. Three men, the last of a vanishing Mohicans are on the frontier are traveling west to find a new home. The oldest is Chingachgook, the last chief of the Mohican tribe. With him is his son, Uncas, and an adopted son, a white man named Nathaniel Poe, who also goes by the name “ Hawkeye”. Major Duncan Heyward, of the British Army, has arrived in Albany. He has been sent to serve under Colonel Munro, the commander of Fort William Henry. Heyward has also been given the assignment of escorting the colonel’s two daughters, Cora and Alice, to the fort to join their father. He is a family friend, and in love with Cora, and proposes to her before they leave. She does not give him an answer. Major Heyward, the two women, and a troop of British soldiers march through the rugged countryside for the fort. They are led by a single guide, Magua, a warrior of the Huron tribe. Unexpectedly, Magua leads the party into an ambush, where all are killed except Heyward and the women. The fight, however, is interrupted by the arrival of Chingachgook and his sons, who kill the enemy warriors, but Magua escape. The major and the women are now stranded and the Mohicans and Hawkeye agree to accompany them the rest of the way. During this journey, Cora begins to form a bond with Hawkeye, and Heyward notices. When they arrive near...
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...Alice Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, is a story that certainly includes very eccentric characters. It is probable that many of us posses a mixture of some of the characters personalities. However it is likely that one of the characters exhibits personality traits closely resembling ours. Although I don’t consider myself as naïve as Alice, I believe I can resemble myself on Alice’s personality, mainly because of her kind heart and her courage to face strange situations. Although Alice felt hesitant at times to jump into new adventures, she was never afraid to try new experiences, characteristic I can easily relate to. I believe that for one to explore new experiences, it takes courage, and just as it happened to Alice, when jumping into new experiences/adventures we get to discover who we really are, and it help us mature. As much as we learn Alice Adventures where merely a dream, as reader we are able to perceive a sense of maturity in Alice by the end of the story. To me Life is full of adventures, perhaps one immense magnificent adventure, and the one thing is needed to succeed is have the willingness to adapt to unfamiliar situations. Being polite and courteous is all about being considerate and appreciative, even though it could be challenging for some people. I think of being polite and courteous as a quality of my own, or I at least I put much effort to accomplish being polite and courteous to others. Alice throughout her adventure showed her politeness and...
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...'"Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I - I hardly know, sir, just at present - at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'" -Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 We are a world in motion. People are constantly changing and developing throughout their lives and I am no exception to this rule. In my opinion, the lessons I have learned that have helped shape who I am mirror the ones learned by Alice in the famous novel by Lewis Carroll. I want to look closely at how the story presents Alice's transition between childhood and adulthood, how it showcases that not all...
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...21-110: Problem Solving in Recreational Mathematics Homework assignment 7 solutions Problem 1. An urn contains five red balls and three yellow balls. Two balls are drawn from the urn at random, without replacement. (a) In this scenario, what is the experiment? What is the sample space? (b) What is the probability that the first ball drawn is red? (c) What is the probability that at least one of the two balls drawn is red? (d) What is the (conditional) probability that the second ball drawn is red, given that the first ball drawn is red? Solution. (a) The experiment is the drawing of two balls from the urn without replacement. The sample space is the set of possible outcomes, of which there are four: drawing two red balls; drawing two yellow balls; drawing a red ball first, and then a yellow ball; and drawing a yellow ball first, and then a red ball. One way to denote the sample space is in set notation, abbreviating the colors red and yellow: sample space = {RR, YY, RY, YR}. Note that these four outcomes are not equally likely. We can also represent the experiment and the possible outcomes in a probability tree diagram, as shown below. Note in particular the probabilities given for the second ball. For example, if the first ball is red, then four out of the remaining seven balls are red, so the probability that the second ball is red is 4/7 (and the probability that it is yellow is 3/7). On the other hand, if the first ball is yellow, then five out of the remaining...
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...IRWIN PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE S E R I E S R Can drugs take us down the rabbit-hole? R Is Alice a feminist icon? curiouser To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com and WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Watchmen and Philosophy. curiouser RICHARD BRIAN DAVIS is an associate professor of philosophy at Tyndale University College and the coeditor of 24 and Philosophy. R I C H A R D B R I A N D AV I S AND PHILOSOPHY Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as a blue caterpillar who smokes a hookah, a cat whose grin remains after its head has faded away, and a White Queen who lives backward and remembers forward? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books and reveals a world rich with philosophical life lessons. Tapping into some of the greatest philosophical minds that ever lived— Aristotle, Hume, Hobbes, and Nietzsche—Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy explores life’s ultimate questions through the eyes of perhaps the most endearing ...
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