In life, everyone has tribulations or “waves.”It is how they ride the “wave” that determines whether they survive or not. When riding a wave, a person will either sink or swim. I agree with this quote because substandard things happen to people all the time. Sometimes, one problem hits and another one will follow up 10 times harder. Nevertheless, does that mean that when one “wave” hits that you give up? No! That means to ride the “wave” and see what happens next. As a 17-year-old Author, many told me that I was too young to publish a book. After being hit by a “wave” of hearing so much negativity from my peers about how I could not publish a book; I was hit with another problem to publish my book within my budget. It was hard for me to
In this section of the book, "Wave", we are introduced to Sam and his family who are off to Thailand for their Christmas vacation. This is the first year that Sam's older sister Beth isn't able to go, this makes his mother upset and leads to an almost constant worry for her daughter. After parting ways with Beth and enjoying their time at the resort, riding elephants and sitting on the beach, Sam and his father notice that the ocean level had dropped out of nowhere; it happened so fast, that the fish couldn't even keep up with the receding tide. People were amazed by what was happening and all gathered by the beach but when the water starts to come back in, Sam and his parents find themselves retreating
Almost twenty years later, contemplating the contemporary American publishing scene, I feel a Bealean rage coming on (and with it a vague longing for one of his fits).While three percent of the American population in 1976 would have been a little over six million readers, recent surveys suggest that the consistent buyers of books in this country now total no more than half that number, and may even be as few as one million.[1]
On December 10, 1950, in Stockholm, Sweden, one of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, William Faulkner, presented his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize. If one reads in between the lines of this acceptance speech, they can detect a certain message – more of a cry or plead – aimed directly to adolescent authors and writers, and that message is to be the voice of your own generation; write about things with true importance. This also means that authors should include heart, soul, spirit, and raw, truthful emotion into their writing. “Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” (Faulkner) should all be frequently embraced – it is the duty of authors to do so. If these young and adolescent authors ignore this message and duty, the already endangered state of literature will continue to diminish until its unfortunate extinction.
Having literature that can speak to your situation in life is what young adults need in their books. In Donna’s Norton Through the Eyes of a Child she lists seven characteristics of a good young adult novel and some of them are,“written from the viewpoint of an of young people, main characters must overcome their problem without help from the parent, deal with emotional problem of young adults and have fast paced storyline” (Norton, 2007). The Fault in Our Stars executed theses things perfectly. It is told from the perspective of a sixteen year old girl, living with cancer, but still going through what most sixteen year old’s go through, She has parents who do not understand her life and what she is going through so they cannot actually help her with her problems and she falls in love for the first time and experienced a tragic heartbreak. The story goes on how life does for a teenager, everything is happening fast and very out of their control, and they must live as best as they can with the circumstances of their life. John Green wrote more than just a teen cancer book, he told the experiences of not having any control in your teen years by using
Murry has written several reviews for books, films, and museums and has dreamed of creating her own children’s book. Over the years, Meg could not finish a book so she decided to take a course at Arbor Community College called: Fiction Writing for the Youth Market, How to Get Started, taught by Tess Whatsit. (R. 31). Whatsit taught at Arbor Community College from 2004 through 2015 and taught Meg Murry for eight weeks from the middle of January 2015 until the middle of March 2015. (R. 18). At the same time, Tess Whatsit had been an editor at Atheneum Books for Young Readers from about 1987 until 2015 when she opened her book packager, Watermark Books, a liaison between authors and publishers, in which she is founder and president. (R.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
For the weekend Camille and Zaxby are taking a trip to Wavestown for a science class they have. Camille and Zaxby and so excited that they get to observe the Electro Magnetic Spectrum. The first thing they notice is a rainbow, Zaxby said “that must be visible light”, Camille agreed. They want to go and look at local stores, Camille points out that since we aren’t feeling we can go to Dr. Bob’s health store that takes x-rays of patients that need it. They think some gammma waves are going off, because clearly the Doctor’s tools need to be cleaned.
The Wave is a short novel about the effects of conformity and social coercion. It describes an experiment done by a history class teacher, Ben Ross, to answer questions raised by his students after watching a documentary on World War II. The experiment is eerily close to the event it was based on, the persecution of Jews in World War II. Consequently, the experiment was ended. The author, Todd Strasser, suggests that conformity to a group causes ignorance of the effect of an action. Human behaviour is depicted throughout the book through loyalty, social coercion, and loss of identity and proper awareness through conformity.
How long would it take before you give up on something you desire, a day, a month, a year? In Jerry Spinelli’s book, Knots in My Yo-Yo String, it took him about thirteen years and four novels before Spinelli succeeded in getting his first book published. Success in writing, like success in anything, is not likely to happen on the first try it comes through hardship. In this story, his career starts from a football game, to rejection and to publishing his first book.
Over the course of Japanese history, arguably, no artist is more famous for their works than Katsushika Hokusai. During his 88 years of life, he produced over 30,000 pieces of artwork, and heavily influenced Western styles of art. His most famous piece was created around 1831, a Japanese styled piece titled, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. This piece has stood as a defining piece of artwork in the Japanese culture for over 180 years, analyzed by students and authors for the interpretations filling the paper. The relationship between Hokusai’s painting has directly affected the Western point of view of Japanese style. The English author, Herbert Read’s novel interprets the painting distinctly differently from a Japanese point, American poet,
Book publishing enjoys a certain social prestige—it can be both moderately profitable and extremely rewarding in psychological benefits. The odds that a publishing entrepreneur will succeed at this business seem to be related to the degree of care and thought given to planning and the sometimes-tricky balancing act of effective management.
A hero is someone who will attempt everything in their power to help others and risk everything they have to help others. In the movie, The Whale Rider, you can clearly see all the elements of The Hero’s Journey. A young girl named Paula Apirana, is living in a small village with her grandparents. Paika’s dad, who is living in Spain, returns to see Paula and proposes that she should come live with him. She declines the offer and decided to stay with her grandparents. Paula then secretly tries to learn the important ritual, that only males are allowed to learn. Her grandpa, Paka, gets extremely angry at her until he realizes that she is the “chosen one” to perform the ritual. Paika goes through many difficult challenges, however she manages
After researching and reading I found that one of the major effects of the Moon on the Earth and its inhabitants is its gravitational influence on the tides of Earth. The tidal effect of the moon usually affects the largest bodies of water, like the main oceans. The gravity of the moon pulls the water in the oceans toward it. As the Earth rotates, the knot shifts through the different areas of the globe. Tides appear on both sides of the Earth because of the pull of the sun. The flow of the oceanic tides helps the movement of heat from the equator north and south to the poles.
...tead of accepting one’s fate, one must strive to change it for the better, not complain about it. In short, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
One thing that you can take away from this quote is that people often search for the bad in one another. Often we are too quick to judge other people, and it normally starts when you first meet them. You begin to make opinions about them based on what they wear, how they look, and who they’re with; you start to compare yourself to them and point out all of their flaws rather than recognizing the desirable traits they portray. Just as Lee said, you see what you look for, so naturally, you would be able to find plenty of quirks in everyone that you meet, causing you to dwell on their negative characteristics. This shows that if you are always sitting back and waiting to find that one thing about someone the is wrong, more often than not, you will find it.