Abstracts and Initial Planning Sheet for the Book Report Essay. Post here tomorrow by noon.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
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Saalihah Mays
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
16 July 2012
Abstract
Coldest Winter Ever by Sista Souljah is an urban novel focusing on a teenage girl named Winter’s life. Winter is a young, hot commodity and the daughter of Santiaga, a top drug dealer in the Bronx of New York. She lives the good life with her mother and three younger sisters with everything they could ask for being placed at their feet by Santiaga. After he is busted and their lives are flipped upside down, Winter decides to go on her own. Faced with drugs, sex, and drama, she ends up spiraling out of control, but she doesn’t realize it until the very end.
Name: Tsgereda Leul
Professor Wanda Sabir
Date: 17 July 2012
English 1A summer 2012
Abstract
Dorothy Allison had published a collection of books, the novel Bastard Out Of Carolina is one of her best work. The book set in Greenville County, South Carolina, in the 1950's, telling the brutal story of the teenaged narrator, "Bone", the daughter of Anney, who was poor, fifteen, and unmarried when Bone was born. The author, Dorothy Allison is the daughter of Ruth Gibson Allison who was also poor, fifteen, and unmarried when she gave birth to Allison. The author used her life experience to write the novel. The author was sexually abused by her stepfather when she was five years old; she also caught gonorrhea from her stepfather, it was not diagnosed quickly, making her unable to have children. This paper compares the life of Dorothy Allison with the character, “Bone” from the novel Bastard Out Of Carolina. Overall, the critics agree that Bastard Out of Carolina is an exceptional novel, with rich and vivid imagery and occasionally moving and shocking scenes.
Tiffany Chang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
17 July 2012
Abstract
Unawareness and ignorance by individuals in society allow injustices to take place without reprimand. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness, Alice Walker shares her insight on the importance of knowing the facts in the world we live in. Through various collected works, the peace advocate successfully demonstrates how the cruelty of inhumanity, torture of fear, and ineffectiveness of war all relate to one another and are results of unawareness. Walker encourages the unknowledgeable to become familiar with the truth in our everyday lives in order to decrease the wrongdoings occurring due to ignorance. Refusing to be aware in one’s world can cost the lives of many more.
Initial Planning Sheet
1.The subject of my paper is awareness.
2.I will analyze how Alice Walker discusses awareness as it relates to the other themes of fear, inhumanity and war.
3.I will be writing for an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with the book.
4.The question I want answer is: “What is Alice Walker’s the connection among fear, war, and inhumanity, and what is the message of awareness that she is sending her readers?”
5.The main writing strategy I will be using is argument. I will also indirectly compare and contrast Walker’s views with mine.
Initial Planning Sheet
Monica Contreras
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
17 July 2012
1.What is the subject of your paper?
It is basically just an overview of the hunger games. A short paraphrase of the book.
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
I want to persuade and encourage the reader to read the book.
3.What audience will you write for?
I will write for my professor and students.
4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
How love is what keeps Katniss alive and gives her the strength to keep fighting in the hunger games
5.What is the main strategy you think will use?
I will use examples from the book that support my argument.
Dijon Starks
Professor Wanda Sabir
English1A
17 July 2012
Abstract
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an autobiography by Maya Angelou is the first of a six-volume series. The story is a coming of age story of a young Maya Angelou growing up in Arkansas in the 1930s. Angelou and her brother Baily are given to their grandmother after their parents divorced. With the abandonment of her parents Angelou, as a young child internalizes it and feels neglected by most of the characters she comes in contact with. Being a black female growing up in the South during the time Angelou did was challenging enough, yet she was forced to face the harassment of her own people, which caused her to have identity issues, and be sexually abused. All what she experiences in her journey into adulthood, builds the strong character she eventually develops.
Initial Planning Sheet
1.The subject of my paper is Maya Angelou and coming of age
2.I want to write about the subject because growing up has many obstacles and it’s interesting to me how Angelou defies what she is faced with
3.The audience in which I’m writing for will be classmates and the professor.
4.The question I want to answer is how was she able to survive such a traumatic childhood and become who she is today.
5.I will use the strategy of description, and compare/contrast.
Yizhe Liu
Professor Sabir
English 1A
17 July 2012
Abstract
After reading Alice Walker’s book We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In A Time Of Darkness, I feel a lot of spiritual communications going on in my inner body.
Walker, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writer, poet and activist, shared her meditation experience through her book We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In A Time Of Darkness. She published fourteen novel and short story collections, ten poetry collections and nine books. Walker is a controversial writer as some critics point out that Walker’s writing only focuses in black and female (“Alice Walker 1944-”). However, this book is a cosmopolitan anthology with speeches, essays and poems that she accumulated in different countries through various periods. It has fourteen chapters, and each chapter is ended with a meditation suggestion in hope or encouragement.
I want to talk about meditation because I think that all of us may experienced or experiencing some kind of darkness in lives. You may overcome it with your own way, but how about considering another way to fight with the difficult time. So here I want to share the way from Walker – meditation.
Meditation is an individual practice for our inner body that changes our mind. We can meditate through breathing, sitting, contemplating, reading or listening. It is not only fading the sadness, exhaustions, agitation, hate and bitterness, but also bringing us hopes, happiness and more well-beings. It is a long-term regular practice if any of us want to achieve that point.
Initial Planning Sheet
1. The subject of my paper is: Meditation
2. I want to write about this subject because after reading the book We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In A Time Of Darkness, I see how catastrophes can influence our lives, and how meditation helps us come through the darkness.
3. I am writing for a broad audience that are not
aware about the meditation.
4. My question that I want my research paper to answer is: Why do we need meditation? How meditation changes our life? What do we do to meditate?
5. The writing strategy I think I will use is to describe the darkness in life first, then analyse some Walker’s cases where she faced darkness, and discuss different meditation suggestions from Walker.
Chie Shan Chan
Professor Sabir
English 1A
17 July 2012
Abstract of Copper Sun
Copper Sun is an enticing book that captures the essence of the pursuit of freedom through its outstanding writing. An unknown horror struck the village when these “pale skins” landed into their village. They kill and capture people as they like; from the moment Amari is captured, her freedom is taken away from her.
Brutalized, Amari experiences the horrors that she would never thought of. Left with the feeling of hopelessness, she eventually gets sold to a plantation owner, Mr. Derby, as a birthday present for his son, Clay Derby. Forced to do hard labor work and to continuously please Clay physically and sexually is definite torment. But through her hardships, she is able to meet an indentured white girl, Polly who is also sold to Mr. Derby. Despite Polly’s fixated point of view toward slaves, she eventually accepts Amari and become friends with her. But when the situation turns for the worse, how will Amari and Polly be able to successful escape to freedom?
The captivating literature empathize the character’s feelings with the reader. Copper Sun shows the torment bestowed upon a once free African girl to being enslaved. It also provides two perspectives, an African slave girl’s and an indentured white servant’s, to illustrate the complicated interracial relationships.
Initial Planning Sheet: Copper Sun
1. My subject of the paper is Africans within a hierarchal society.
2. I want to write about this subject because I think it’s one of the book’s major themes and I think it plays a big role on the slavery occurring during that time period.
3. My audience is for people who are interested in historical fiction; Copper Sun.
4. The question I want to answer is why are Africans the lowest on the hierarchy?
5. My main writing strategy is argument and analysis.
Josefina Belloso
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Summer 2012
17 July 2012
Abstract: Book report
La Perdida is a graphic novel, written by the cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel, published in 2006. This graphic novel is about Carla, an American young girl who was abandoned by her father, and moves out to Mexico to “find” herself, leaving her life behind in the United States. She does not speak Spanish, and knows little about the Mexican culture. But she decides to move to Mexico to get in touch with her Mexican roots and start from zero, although, Carla has a different perspective of Mexico and she is naïve about its people and the bad things. She goes through a lot while in Mexico, meets many friends, which did not end up being what she wanted and ends up getting kidnapped by her own so called “friends.” At the end, Carla is still the same naïve young girl that arrived to Mexico; she is still lost and is sent back home, having to start from zero again.
Initial Planning Sheet
1. Carla’s experience in Mexico.
2. Because it is really interesting how she moves to Mexico having this naïve thought about it and once she is there, it is the whole opposite.
3. Someone that has not read the book.
4. Did Carla really find herself in Mexico?
5. Argument.
Ka Wai Ng
Professor Sabir
English 1A Summer 2012
17 July 2012
Abstract
How to Be an American Housewife, the first novel written by Margaret Dilloway who was inspired by the experiences of her Japanese mother and mostly by a book her father had given to her mother called The American way of Housekeeping, which tells a story about a Japanese woman name Shoko who immigrates to the America to marry with an American soldier name Charlie. Since the WWII has brought so many pains to Japanese, Shoko's brother Taro feels it is a shame to marry with an American, so it turns out that the relationship of him and Shoko keeps getting worst. After she moves to America, she studies very hard to act like an American housewife. However, the Japanese tradition has already become nearly unmovable in her heart, she do not know how to expresses her love in the American style to her children who are born and being raised in America. Then, without the understanding, her children do not feel like her to be their mother, and especially her daughter Sue who perceived her mother as critical and cold. Later after sixty years, Shoko wants to go back to Japan again to reconciles with her brother, but the illness has derailed her plan. So she asks Sue to visit Japan as her behalf. After the trip to Japan, Sue returns to America with a different view about her mother.
Initial Planning Sheet
1. My subject of the paper is the healing power of the familial love and the misunderstanding of different cultures.
2. I want to write about this subject because I feel the love of family and how does it bring two different culture together.
3.I would like to write for the audiences who are interested about the love of family and different cultures of Japan and America.
4. I would like to answer the question like: can the familial love really fixes the misunderstanding that occurs between two different culture?
5. I plan to summarize the book and given my argument first, then analysis it with the examples from the book.
Linde Huang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
18, July 2012
Abstract:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is one of the best selling books of all times. The book was so successful, that Lionsgate turned the novel into a motion picture. Set in North America, the Hunger Games is an annuel event in which 2 participants, a boy and a girl, come from all 12 districts in a battle till the death in a set arena. Our main character, Katniss Everdeen, goes through the process by volunteering for her younger sister. With more experience in the woods from hunting and fending for her family, she takes on the challenges that the arena has to offer. By growing up in a less fortunate environment, she learns how to adapt and kill in the woods.
Initial Planning Sheet
1.What is the subject of your paper?
Proving how Katniss’ life before the hunger games has given her an advantage, and how without the experience, she would not be the same person.
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
So I can prove my thesis that where we are from determine the person we become.
3.What audience will you write for?
A college level English class.
4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
How does katniss growing up in poverty shape the way that she lives?
5.What is the main strategy you think will use?
I will use quotes and statements from the book.
Charlie Cocks
Professor Sabir
English 1A (7:30 a.m.)
July 18, 2012
Abstract
In Michael Lewis’ book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, the origins of the financial crisis are explained in a very readable way. Lewis explains how the subprime mortgage bond market works, or rather why it did not work and why so many banks failed as a result of it. The book goes through the many different things that lead up to the disaster, as well as introducing many of the characters in the banking industry that played a role, whether for better or for worse. After reading the book, I have traced the blame back to the big credit rating agencies, mainly Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, as well as the banks that influenced these rating agencies’ systems so heavily. I acknowledge, however, that they are not the only responsible parties. In reality, it is an amazingly complex issue, and so one cannot hope to place blame on one or two groups of people, but I believe that their mistakes are what started the mechanism for financial collapse.
LaTasha Hodge
Professor W.Sabir
English 1A
16-July-2012
Initial Planning Sheet
1. The subject of my paper is recognizing and excepting self reflection time.
I want to write about this subject because in my own life have been through challenging times. So I connect with Alice Walker and admire her willingness to share her stories so others can learn for her situations and not feel if they are the only ones.
I am writing for a audience that may need be battling different stages and struggles in this wicket world.
The question I’d like my research paper to answer When life deals us situations good or bad can we make our next move to quickly, not savoring the moment or planning our next move properly.The writing strategy I will use is solution classification.
Abstract
In Alice Walkers “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For” Inner Light in a Time of Darkness she helps us to recognize the importance of meditation and excepting the pause as a fulfilling place in life rather than empty. Filled with life experiences highs and lows, humans learn in many different ways. The writer educates us by illustrating what works for her, giving different outlooks on the people and world around uS - hoping that everyone makes a vow to pitches in after all we all live in this world together. And if you have ever room-mated or worked together with someone we can all agree its easier done when the door for communication open.
I related her message from the book to the card game UNO, The deck consists of 108 cards, 19 of each color (red, green, blue, and yellow), each color having two of each rank except zero. The cards rank from 0 through 9, and include "Skip", "Draw Two", and "Reverse" The eight cards are "Wild" and "Wild Draw Four", the deck having four of each. Allow me to share my analogy of the game UNO with you all.
WILD: Your color which can change by offspring or marriage and you have to be willing except and to learn about humanity world wide.
SKIP: I refer to as Alice Walkers “Pause” in life, some time you may fill passed up or over looked When Skipped you can look at it two ways would you rather been skipped or that someone play a draw four on you.
REVERSE: Self reflection gives you the moment to look back and recognize things you’ve been through, preparing you to handle situations differently when they arise.
DRAW TWO: Drawing two can be risky, you can find yourself adding great pleasure to your life or being put on the roller coaster ride of your life.(Ups &Downs, Twist & Turns)
WILD DRAW FOUR: Connecting with the colors around you and willing to share with others, be wise, sometimes you can give off good energy or negative but its up to the person on how they receive it and use it.
Marisol Mora
Professor W.Sabir
English 1A
16-July-2012
Abstract:
The Joy Luck Club
In the best selling novel "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan, who was the creative consultant for Sagwa, the Emmy-nominated PBS series for children, and she has appeared as herself on The Simpsons. She's the lead rhythm dominatrix, backup singer and second tambourine with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a literary garage band that has raised more than a million dollars for literacy programs.Reflects on the lives of four immigrant Chinese women all living in San Francisco, California. Who all gather during a game of Mahjog. A game which Jing-Mei's mother organized in China and revived in San Francisco. Along with with Jing-Mei's mother, Suyan The club’s other members—Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei. In unfortunate events Suyan passed on but before dying she had intended to go back to China to find her two daughters that she was forced to leave on the roadside during her desperate escape from Japan’s invasion of Kweilin during World War II. Jing- Mei is told about her half sisters through the Joy Luck Club, and in desperation decides to set off and look for them. Fearing that she will not be able to justify or tell her mothers story to where it will be appreciated, Jing-Mei still sets out and locates her log lost sisters. The novel is broken down into four sections and they each have a different story of the conflicts between the Chinese mothers and the American raised daughters.
Initial Planning Sheet
1.What is the subject of your paper?
Wha the Joy Luck Club is about and Jing-Mei's experience with her mother growing up.
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
It seems very interesting to know abour chinese immigrant families when coming to the U.S.
3.What audience will you write for?
A college level English class.
4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
What was Jing-Mei's relationship with her mother before her mother dies?
5.What is the main strategy you think will use?
I will use quotes and statements from the book.
Lori Nguyen
Raymond Hui
Professor Sabir
English 1A
17 July 2012
Hunger Games Abstract
What we have done is try to find reasons to support our arguments that the first book is better than the movie and Suzanne Collins ideas are not original. Collins is the author of the Hunger Games Trilogy which is now a major motion picture world wide. Both the movie and the book grab the attention of a wide demographic, but the book delivers better details and information that the movie did not. The authors’ ideas reflect events that have occurred in real life, but she delivers these ideas in a mixed and new way which makes it original.
Initial Planning Sheet
1.Our subject is the Hunger Games
2. We wrote about it because it is fun and interesting.
3. We write for our class.
4. Whether the book or the movie is better and if Collins ideas are original?
5. Comparisons between the book and movie. Comparisons between the book and real life events.
Monica Contreras
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
7 July 2012
In the Hunger Games , Suzanne Collins shows us the consequences of war and violence. Through her book she demonstrates the practices they took to show people no to rebel. Children were victims risking their lives and abusing them with violence. They took advantage of these kids, took them from their homes to figh to death, just to show people what will happen if they rebel. The author uses Katniss to show how her humbleness and selfish attitude while fighting in the Hunger Games.
Juan Santoyo
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
July 18 2012
Abstract
The novel “Never Fall Down” shows the struggles of an 11 year old Cambodian boy named Arn Chorn-Pond. Arn gives us an insight of what happened during the Khmer Rouge 4 year massacre. Arn was forced ad separated from his family to work in labor camps to work in the rice fields. He later went on to learn to play an instrument called the khim, his skills with this instrument went on to bring him fame amongst the Khmer Rouge soldiers. But the fame was short lived as they came under attack by the Vietnamese troops. Arn is forced to flee to Thailand and finds hides in a children center, away from both the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge. There he builds a strong connection with an American named Peter Pond and ultimately moves to the United States with him along with two other from the children center. He studies and develops to learn the English language, he does this so he can spread his story of what he went thru, his experiences. Arn develops the skills to give frequent speeches and tell his story to audiences everywhere.
Initial Planning Sheet
1.The subject of my paper is war.
2. I want to write this paper to show the effects on teens and kids like Arn had to put up with in Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge.
3. I will write this paper to a broad based audience who probably knows someone or who are curious on real life war stories.
4 . I want my research paper to answer the question of; are the people who are forced into being soldiers and kill other people able to make the transition back to live a normal, successful life?
5. I will use a casual analysis writing style.
Mohammad Anwar
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
Bastard out of Carolina is one of the most popular books among the books written by women. Dorothy Allison, the Author of the book explains the life of a poor family in South Carolina, “Bone” the daughter of Anney. This book focus on the struggles of a family in 1955 in a town called Greenville. This family is consisting of four people. Glen “the husband”, Anney “mom”, Bone and her sister Reese. They encounter with the poverty.
Bone’s family suffers a lot from the poverty. It had emotional, psychological, and physical consequences to this family. In one part of the book. Bone talks about how she lied about her name to the school because they weren’t staying in one place. She left that they will move again and it doesn’t matter if she makes friends or not. The author tries to bring a spot light and take people’s attention about the situation in south carolina.
Mohammad Anwar
Professor Wanda Sabir
Enlgish 1A
Initial planning sheet
1.The subject of the paper is called The Shadow of Poverty As Seen in Bastard Out of Carolina
2. I wanted to write about poverty because it has deeply connection with my childhood. When we were really poor.
3. I write this essay for my classmates, and those students who are interest to know about hows life there.
4. I want my paper to answer the question of how poverty can affect the entire family, is poverty leave a good affect or bad affect to the children?
5. I used explaining the situation and giving quote as a prove.
Monica Contreras
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
7 July 2012
In the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins shows us the consequences of war and violence. Through her book she demonstrates the practices they took to show people no to rebel. Children were victims risking their lives and exposed to violence. They took advantage of these kids just to show people what will happen if they rebel. The author uses Katniss to show how her humbleness and unselfish attitude helped her survive throughout the Hunger games.
Anthony Gamarra
Professor Sabir
English 1A
23 July 2012
Abstract for Social Entrepreneuer
Mary Kay: You Can Have It All, is something of a guide for women to follow so they can better understand the do's and dont's of business. Using a strategic plan she developed herself, Mary Kay let's you in on some secrets that will help you on your way to success, although some of her insight is common sense that some people just need to hear to be reassured. While giving you such valuable information, Mary kay also helps you dive deep into your own mind so when the time comes and you need to adapt your business strategy to certain key elements, it will be like second nature to you and the rough times will go a lot smoother. Mary Kay uses her own experiences to show you that she not only practices what she preaches, but she has become successful becuase of it.
Initial Planning Sheet
1. The subject of my paper is to show my readers that Mary Kay has valid points when she guides women to become better entrepreneuers.
2. I want to be able to differentiate what a women might have to go through compared to what I myself will have to go through.
3. I will be writing for the students of Professor Sabir's english 1A class.
4. I want my paper to identify what is needed for a woman to become successful.
5. My main writing strategy will be that of an arguement.
Anthony Gamarra
Professor Sabir
English 1A
23 July 2012
Abstract
In the Hunger Games, by Suzzane Collins, there are different themes depicted throughout the experience of a young girl, Katniss Everdeen, in a desolate world known as Panem. In this world civilizations are separated into twelve districts and a higher society known as The Capitol. This is where the creators of the Hunger Games reside.
The Hunger Games is a ceremony the people of the capitol see as a tribute to those who lost their lives during past years of war. A hidden meaning of the Hunger Games is to keep the people of Panem oppressed; to remind these people that no matter what they do, every year two tributes will be sacrificed for the entertainment of the Gamemakers and the people of the capitol.
Initial Planning
1. The subject of my paper is to explain the different ways Katniss gave hope to the people of Panem and inspired them to rebell.
2. I feel this subject is one of the key points of The Hunger Games
3. I will be writing for Professor Sabir's English 1A class.
4. I want my paper to answer: "How does Katniss inspire the people of Panem to Rebel?"
5. My writing strategy wil be casual analysis.
Tamara Qirreh
Professor Sabir
English 1A
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In a Time of Darkness
Written by Alice Walker
Introduction of the Author
We are the ones is a series of essays and poems written by Alice Walker. She so creatively talks about major issues facing our world today. Alice Walker is a writer, a poet, and a political activist. She is famously known for writing The Color Purple, which she received the Pulitzer prize for, and later on became a popular Broadway musical with collaborations with Oprah Winfrey. She also started the organizations Women for peace and Code Pink. Alice Walker has a collection of poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction novels.
Summary
Alice Walker is like the conscience on our shoulder, our very own Jimeney Cricket. She reminds us that oceans and borders should not separate us as a race. Our duty as a people is to build awareness and help create equality for all. By all means love unconditionally, treat our mother earth with respect, and praise the pause.
I love this book because it is inspired me to be more open hearted and realize there is so much going on in the world that we are blind to. Alice Walker gives us a little bit of everything in this book; hope, insight, awareness, and love no matter the situation. Change needs to happen in the world we all live in, but it won’t happen until there is a change that happens within yourself.
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