In the exposition of the book, The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable, they introduced the main characters Pep and Coke McDonald. Pep and Coke are 12 year old twins. Coke is a boy he is the oldest of the two. Pep is a girl she was a surprise. The McDonalds thought that they were having one kid, but it turned out that they were having twins. There parents are Bridget and Benjamin McDonald. There are also Bones, Mya, and Mrs. Higgins.The setting was also introduced, there was lots of setting, the started off in San Francisco and ended in Washington, DC. The problem of the story was introduced to, the problem was that some guys with bowler hats and their health teacher Mrs.Higgins was trying to kill them. The other problem was they had to stop a terror attack from happening in Minnesota, where the biggest ball of twine was. The first rising action happens when Pep and Coke are walking home and they realize that they are being followed by a man wearing a bowler hat and driving a golf cart. As they run from the man they notice other carts converging on them, they hide, only to be approached by a stranger who …show more content…
Higgins and two of the man in bowler hats, and they find out that Dr. Warsaw, the founder of the Genius Files, is actually the one behind all of the bad things that have been happening to Pep and Coke, His reason for starting the group was evil rather than for good. His goal was to kill all the genius children in the world starting with Pep and Coke. Pep and Coke first subdue Mrs, Higgins. Dr.Warsaw tries to kill Pep and Coke by first using a gadget that controls a chip implanted in their heads, causing them to fall down. Pep throws a frisbee at his wrist and makes him drop it and then she punches him with her fist. Coke slides and grabs it and drops it in the hole in the floor. As Dr. Warsaw leans over the hole, Coke kicks him, causing him to fall into the hole and in the hole to his
Strange things began to happen the next couple days. First, Joey was in the living room of Grandma’s house making a jig saw puzzle. He heard the sound of a horses hooves walking slowly on the street then the sound stopped in front of the house and heard someone put something in Grandma’s mail box. Joey heard the horse walk away and a little while later Grandma’s mailbox blew up. Next, Ms. Wilcox’s outhouse was destroyed by a cherry bomb. Then, a dead mouse was found floating in the bottle of milk that was delivered to the front
Michael Patrick MacDonald lived a frightening life. To turn the book over and read the back cover, one might picture a decidedly idyllic existence. At times frightening, at times splendid, but always full of love. But to open this book is to open the door to Southie's ugly truth, to MacDonald's ugly truth, to take it in for all it's worth, to draw our own conclusions. One boy's hell is another boy's playground. Ma MacDonald is a palm tree in a hurricane, bending and swaying in the violent winds of Southie's interior, even as things are flying at her head, she crouches down to protect her children, to keep them out of harms way. We grew up watching Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow and Peanuts. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up watching violence, sadness and death.
The author, Melina Marchetta applies a variety of familiar and stereotypical events in the book. From cases such as the different characters, their characteristics and their reaction upon certain events that occur in the book. One great example of a stereotypical event in this book is the relationship between Josephine Alibrandi and Jacob Coote who is the school captain of a public school called Cook High. “He cracked two eggs on my glasses once” (32).
Rising action: Overlooking the grandmother's warning, the family decides to pursue their trip as planned. When the day arrives for the family to depart on their road trip, instead of arguing, the grandmother climbs in the car before anyone else, just as June Star predicts. "She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks," June Star said. "Afraid she'd miss something. She has to go everywhere we go." She dresses in a manner so that if anyone finds her dead on the highway, they shall characterize her as a lady. She wore a navy blue sailor hat with white violets on the brim, to match her navy blue dress covered with tiny white polka-dots. Her white organdy, lacy collars and cuffs completed the outfit. But although she agrees to follow through with the excursion, she refuses to go with out her cat Pitty Sing. Afraid that the cat will accidentally asphyxiate himself on the gas stove if left behind, she secretly hides Pitty Sing in her basket. After driving down the road a while, the family passes a cotton field with five or six graves right in the middle of it. Coincidentally, five or six family members sit in the car: the grandmother, Bailey, the mother, the baby, June Starr, and John Wesley.
During the early days of World War II the United States remained officially neutral. It was not until the attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese, that the United States had no choice, but to declare war. In the beginning of the war Japan was winning most of the battles (Gailey). These defeats resulted in the morale being low among the American troops. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to boost morale and push forward the Pacific front with a strike on the Japanese homeland to serve as a testament to American military prowess and retribution for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (Shepherd). This eventually trickled down to the Doolittle Raid.
I watched a movie for the first time ever last night. That movie was Napoleon Dynamite. I’ve always heard funny lines and jokes from the movie so I decided to give up some of my time to watch it. Now I know you’re probably thinking ‘oh that movie is funny but dumb and doesn’t have anything to do with pop culture analysis.’ I beg to differ. In this movie we see a high school student, Napoleon who gets picked on for being a nerd. Many students in high school experience this kind of bullying. Nothing was done about Napoleon being bullied just like today, many people feel like teachers and administration don’t do anything for bullied students. Bullying is defined as “ to frighten, hurt, or threaten (a smaller or weaker person) : to act like
As Hester starts to explain her experience at the circus. She is explaining the animals and all the sudden William corrects her. And Hester drawed conclusion that William had been to the circus. This is the rising action, the part that starts to get to a good part, it also gets the story going. Well then William states “ I reckon shouldn’t ‘a goon. But boys will do foolish things…”
The rising action of the story was when he would find friends and they would help him to realize certain things about himself. The biker that he met helped him get started on stars. One of the maids that he met on his trip had shown him kindness and through this, she taught him that u can always have a fresh start or second chance at life as long as you try hard enough. And the artist that he met at the ocean helped him learn that u shouldn’t always judge a book by its cover, there might be more to someone than you think.
Another example of rising action is on page 119, when it says, ”The house in the picture was Fowl Manor. Therefore Artemis was the target of this kidnapping.” Mulch, a dwarf on the shady side of the law, is hired to kidnap Artemis, to get him to open up t...
It was in the late afternoon when Johnny B. Marciano woke up to the voice of a crying baby. He ran to the front door to see what was going on, only to find out that the world was in trouble. Marciano asks his neighbors that are outside crying and yelling about how the biggest nuclear bomb might go off because it has gotten in the wrong hands. A gang named “The Snakes” stole the bomb and is planning to blow up the northern part of the United States of America. Marciano is frustrated; he is an undercover federal agent who is an expert in nuclear bombs. Marciano knows how lethal the bomb is and knows what the nuclear bomb is capable of. He is very afraid, but he knows his mission at this point; he has to save his country and be the hero of his great nation. It was a tragic day for Johnny, even though he stayed focused and confident.
The character this film is primarily centered around is Will Hunting. Will lives in a tattered house in a bad neighborhood in the city of Boston. He grew up in foster care where he sustained continual physical abuse as a child. Will has a few close friends he is always with but never opens up about anything below surface level. Will is incredibly gifted with intelligence however he works as a custodian at the highly prestigious school, MIT. Professor Lambeau teaches advanced mathematics at MIT and is the one who discovers Will’s incredible talent for solving advanced mathematical theory. Professor Lambeau has high hopes for Will and pushes him into getting jobs with prestigious employers so that his gift is not wasted working as a custodian. Chuckie Sullivan is one of the closest of Will’s friends. They’ve known each other for years and Chuckie drives Will to work every day. Chuckie cares for Will and realizes the gift that he has and tries to convince Will he should be doing something of greater importance with his life. Skylar is a college stu...
* Duncan, Vinny, and Wayne are all friends working - or wasting time - the summer before senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul, Vinny the brains, and Wayne the muscle. At the end of the previous summer, Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has really affected his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also, he is now terrified of swimming, especially when the nightmares come back. Duncan's summer job is with the public transit lost and found. While trying to make the hours go faster, Duncan looks through the items, especially the books and golf clubs. One day he discovers an unmarked journal with no name, which depicts sadistic animal torture experiments, boasts of arson fires, and the planning for the serial killings of three women. Duncan decides to make amends for his failure last summer by tracking down the owner of the journal by using clues left hidden in the diary. After talking with his friend Vinny, Duncan decides to turn the journal over to the police, but they do not take him seriously, so he decides to get help from Vinny, do some research at the local library, and find out where the killer works and lives so they can prove to the police the diary is for real. But in the process when Duncan finds the house of the serial killer, he decides to take a look in it but unfortunately at that very time the serial killer appears and chases Duncan to the subway station. They get into fight there and they both fell on the subway tracks in the station where they get hit by the train. Duncan luckily survives but the serial killer dies.
Traditional theories of intelligence do not account for the ambiguity of classes such as philosophy or for the wide range of interests a child can have. For example, contemporary theories such as Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence and Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences both account for more than the general intelligence accounted for in traditional intelligence theories. According to Robert Sternberg’s Successful (Triarchic) Theory of Intelligence, are Hector’s difficulties in philosophy indicative of future difficulties in the business world? According to Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence, Hector’s difficulty in philosophy will not negatively affect his future. Sternberg would instead focus on elements of successful intelligence like Hector’s involvement and contribution as an individual, as opposed to relying on intelligence measured by tests.
The exposition starts with a character named, Charlie Joe Jackson. He is in middle school and he hates reading. This all started when Charlie had to read a book for his language arts teacher; the book was called Billy’s Bargain. Billy’s Bargain was about the pitcher who throws a no hitter and made a bargain with the devil. Charlie does what he always does, and that was read the back of the book, the first chapter, the last chapter, and the inside flaps. Charlie always took shortcuts when it came to reading. In the rising action, Charlie has a friend named Timmy, and Timmy and Charlie have known each other for about two years. They have always made this deal if Charlie bought Timmy an ice cream sandwich, Timmy would tell Charlie what Billy’s Bargain was about. But one day Charlie see’s the look in Timmy’s eye’s, which was the look of blackmail. As he walked up he asked Timmy how was your day. He said, “Okay.” then he said, “ I’m really hungry today… I could eat one, or two, or three ice cream sandwiches.” Guess what Charlie had to do. He bought TImmy three ice cream sandwiches just so Timmy could tell Charlie about the book. This was the climax. The next day he went to the library and looked up the word blackmail. Under the word blackmail, Timmy’s picture was there. This was the falling action. He saw the librarian and she was an old friend of Charlie’s. In the first grade she tried over and over again to make him read but he didn’t. To Charlie she was evil because she was still librarian. The resolution is that, Charlie Joe has had a lot of devised ways to get out of reading. He has also made up a lot of tips, that can get you out of reading in a different way....
Pozzo and Lucky enter but this time Pozzo is blind and Lucky is mute. Lucky stops when he sees the two men. Pozzo crashes into him and they both fall helplessly in a heap on the ground.