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Food Waste In US Restaurants
Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
Utah government’s push to ban transgender athletes from girl’s sports
Ban on Trans Athletes in Utah
Are restraining orders enough?
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she got really nervous like any other mother would do
Jane Eyre: A Lesson in Writing
The Blues was a very popular form of jazz music.
“The verve and the jive makes you feel so alive.” I really like that sentence because that's how I feel listening to music.
My home
this is horrible for a kid to not even go outside because he might get shot
this is showing a concerned mother and she want her child not to be harmed
Nice connection!
he also talk to Mr. Kimbro who is very discipline and even hard man
The betrayal of Dr. Bledsoe
He saw some advantages of using a famous name as he's using Emerson's
Brooklyn
Sedative.
My story
Jane Eyre’s Influence on my Short Story
where I’m from…
Inspiration from Jane Eyre
A Journey Through
I Am From Brooklyn and Haiti
Where I’m From
Where I am from by Leo
Where I’m From
Where I’m From
Drawing Inspiration from Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre as Influence For My Story
The Influence of Jane Eyre on My Own Short Story
Jane Eyre’s Influence on my Story
“Jane Eyre” and its influence on my own writing
Jane Eyre’s Influence on my Story
the betray of Dr. Bledsoe
the letter of recommendation
Opinion
Opinion
he discovered the real advantages of Dr. Bledsoe
the man out
Language
Good bad habits…is that like good trouble?
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Jane Eyre’s Influence on my Own Story
Jane Eyre’s Influence on my Capstone Project
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The dark side of the dream
life in New York
he arrived
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New York dream
Yes. It is both larger than life, like a dream, and also terribly, frighteningly real.
Not even god what i thought god love everyone equally and i am sure god don't like how they were slaved.
In 1619, there were very few people who could read the Bible for themselves.
crenshaw
The Solutions Story Tracker is an amazing resource. Try it out for “Responsible Consumption and Production” here: https://storytracker.solutionsjournalism.org/search?q%5Bsdgs%5D%5B%5D=Responsible+consumption+and+production&q%5Bfull_text_on%5D=false
Each study group is linked to an archive of posts for that SDG. See hundreds of posts in the category “Responsible Consumption and Production” here: https://www.youthvoices.live/category/civic-engagement/responsible-consumption-and-production/
Seeing our own inquiries, or own wicked problems and burning questions with a global lens is powerful. Here's an example: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/
https://nowcomment.com/documents/studygroupsNowcomment See how Study Groups on NowComment help students upload images, texts, and videos into public collections named with their questions and connected to one of 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals.
Find the LRNG playlist”Spark Inquiry with Questions” here: https://www.lrng.org/youth-voices/playlist/spark-inquiry-with-questions-4
Find the “Study Groups: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals” on the NowComment homepage, or here: https://nowcomment.com/#group
Use the study group, “Responsible Consumption and Production” to see what's on these pages: https://nowcomment.com/groups/responsibleconsumption
Jane Eyre’s Influence on my Story
the bus
https://nowcomment.com/documents/problemsolution
Shows the distrust in Henrietta's doctors.
The author reinforces the idea that the town was so poor that even education was limited.
The author uses imagery, again, to depict the poor-looking town.
The author uses hyperbole, by exaggerating the quietness of the town even on Main Street, a street that should continuously be busy.
Skloot references the infamous War on Drugs to exemplify that Clover's population was still relatively small.
In this line, the author uses imagery to depict the scene and hint that the area is old and beaten down.
The truth about our plastic
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Wow just wow they are not some animals come on i don't like how they were to them.
departure
confession
The real face
Remembering Your Worth
America’s Current Genocide
Pandemic effects on students
Plastic Pollution
Lack of Reading Motivation in Students
Overcoming the Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness
The Neglect of Skid Row
The Pay Gap Between Men and Women
The Violence in Chicago Neighborhoods
Endangered Elephants
The Name that Changed the World
Notice that the “thief known as racism” is “robbing people of liberty” — a pretty big thing to lose!
They wanted enslaving person to believe that black people are fit for slavery which for me they are not even though they wanted to make them to believe they are.
Honestly is disgusted how they treat black people like come on they are also human they deserved the amount of respect.
He saying he wants us to understand how racism impact us today and all over the world because racism is one thing that we should take it serious because many people are getting killed.
Bigly big.
Here's a definition of racism.
Metacomet, a self-aware shooting star? I love it.
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This reminds of George Floyd when the police arrested him and he couldn't breathe. That's hit a impact to everyone.
Trump acquitted once again!
Are Shooting Games a Reality?
The Destruction of Marine Life
Barbara Johns: Brown vs. Board Of Education
Biden’s New Responsibilities
Paper or plastic?
Video Game Impacts
The Invalidation of Teen Girls’ Interests
Education Reform
Students having hardships during the pandemic
Ranching Innovation
Outside Jail Life
Immigration in the United States
Ending the violence for millions of young people
Segregation
The Paradox of “Social” Media
Loneliness During Quarantine
First Impressions
Should the Penny Be Eliminated?
The Negative Stigma Around Mental Illness
To Eat or Not to Eat
Homelessness Amidst COVID-19
Cashless Businesses
The Truth About Recycling
Plastic World: The Truth about Recycling
Covid-19 Creating anxiety/depression
A great place to start paying closer attention. Kevin introduces the workstations this conversation. Click inside of this box, then hit play on the video.
Based on the consent form, the doctors didn't have the right to obtains her cells from her cervix. The consent form states “any operative procedures.. for the proper care and treatment of Henrieta. Therefore, the use of her cells wasn't essential.
In This Kingdom II
Education Reform
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I feel like this stanza creates tension because its talking about how the guy doesn't really understand that the girl likes him
Maybe this means that the man she was walking with was handsome, and that's why girls where staring
I feel like the woman is listening to everything the man is saying and is understanding him, but I also think she feels that he doesn't understand that she likes him. Maybe she has been dropping hints and he hasnt caught on yet.
I agree, I thought the image would be at night and more modern like. I also thought the image would mainly focus on two people.
Should the Covid-19 Vaccines Be Mandatory?
Do you absolutely take school seriously?
Undeserved Solitude
Why is Reading Important?
Mental Illness & Time
Coronavirus and Its Effect on Hunger
It is Hard to Stay at Home When You Have No Place to Call Home
Modern Day Christian Persecution
I agree. The tone shifts, but the content is the same. HOWEVER, that tonal shift clues you in to the content that you just skipped over, and makes you re-read the first five lines.
Yes! I hear the repetition of the “h” that you're talking about in the title, “Harlem Hopscotch”; and the “g” in “Good things for the ones that's got”; and the “c” in “Curse and cry”.
These are verbs. But, yes, Kwame Alexander's writing puts emphasis on the verbs.
Laurel looks like this:
What is a madron tree?
A “glen” is a deep valley.
“Torrent” here means a mountain stream.
Caprice
Cool idea. I love that! “A once-destructive force”…
Who Should Handle Cyberbullying?
Students & The Pandemic
What really happens to all the plastic Americans toss into blue bins?
Leading Causes of Animal Extinction
He’s Fighting QAnon with Sunlight
Seriously. Why do they want to swim in it?
Washington Square
A Happy Place
Tom seem like he getting tired of his mom telling him what to do.
Its mean very typical example of a certain person or thing.
This scene is important because is something that attract people to watch.
yes especially in the 20's 30's 40's.
it really is.
This poem is good how he enjoy doing thing in texas and the fresh air music and his people.
This women is so protective and care for her son life what a good mother she is.
I feel bad for the mother she doesn't want her baby to get hurt or kill.
The mother is scary for her kid life she doesn't want anything to happen to her son.
you could tell how she change her mood real quick.
she feel upset.
I think every parents or different how they want to raised their kids yes the mother is strict but she want the best for her kids.
These moments of clarifying how to use https://youthvoices.live/habitsofmind and each of the participants going off to a table to see how it works by actually giving a student props–and I was able to go around and have individual conversations with each.
My Bathroom
A Place Like Haiti
The Nick
Learning About Fake News and How to Spot It
Montenegro
High Up in the Heights
racism and difficulties of black men in this era
Portugal’s Wildly Successful Decriminalization Experiment
Portugal’s Wildly Successful Decriminalization Experiment
A movement to integrate schools across the United States.
San Miguel de Allende Plaza
i just don't understand what she means
Midnight Books
I guess he's lived there for his whole life because he really talks about his town.
NY Deli
there is a lot of imagery in this poem in the way he is describing it and just like saying how much he cherishes.
the pattern is how he says old town my town repeatedly and i think like he was trying to make like a connection or something.
kinda reminds me of a tik tok of this girl who keeps posting a tik tok and keeps being repetitive and keeps saying the same thing in each video.
seems likes he loves his town. because he mentions it so many times. ” old town” ” my town “
wonder what he means when he says north town my town. Like does he mean north of his town or something i don't know.
How did you feel about the George Floyd killing and the protests that came after that?
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life in New York
it was a big thing and it hit everybody in the world.
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A Night/Gloomy Morning In NYC
Central Park
The Street We Walk
Electric Car Batteries
New York City
Inmates are learning to be their own bosses after they leave jail behind
Holocaust and Antisemitic Education in the United States
How to Play Live Sports During a Pandemic
COVID testing at Somerset High School.
Hawaii’s Gun Laws and How They Reflect on the Nation
Life Outside of Prison
Ending the Violence for Millions of Children
Covid Vaccines
Innovation in Ranching
Along Manhattan Avenue
“A Plan to Make Homelessness History”
Saltwater Agriculture; A Green and Blue Solution
Philadelphia’s 24/7 Homeless Shelters
These Unsung Countries Are Vanquishing the Virus
Police Brutality and Body Cameras
Detecting Breast Cancer Before a Mammogram
Adirondacks
Restraining Orders
How West Virginia Has Been So Successful in Vaccine Rollout
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How To Build A Perfect Refugee Camp
Homes are a big part of Salt Lake City’s air pollution problem — and are also the solution.
What To Do With Landfills
Moving Forward from Private Schools’ Racist Past
Men’s Crisis Hotline to Save Lifes
Parents are struggling to find childcare during the pandemic
Union Square 2020
what I feel is the need to nod my head because this poem is truly a musical, when she rhymes Maya pleasures the readers by rhyming, so maybe that's why she rhyme in this poem.
Maybe, Hopscotch represents the struggles of black life so when she loses, she won because she is now escaping the struggles of life.
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Yes, I see the rhyme in the first two lines of each stanza. Rhyme makes me hear the text’s ‘voice’, and feel its physical effect in my body.
Hopscotch would no way be enough of an escape, given the harshness of the reality you're talking about. And to suggest that it would trivializes people's “struggles of life”.
I like this interpretation.
Kwame Alexander's verbs don't sound calm to me: “Climb”, “Swim”, “Dance”, “coming and going”… they all sound busy and active. Also, there's no tree in this poem.
Austin is not a person. It's a city in Texas.
How come? What is it about these three words (“in Austin, Texas”) that reminds you of traveling?
I don't get it. If you have big feet, why didn't they call you “Big Foot”?
So?
I agree. “Soul” does sound like a soft word. The “S” and the “L” are both soft sounds.
Should Covid Vaccines Be Mandatory?
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paradox
sound
the view
Biden’s Challenges
good way
I like that you see clearly why it's important to study the history of racism.
This overall poem kind of has the nyc vibe to it. And this is significant because it shows the importance of how a place can spark pleasure in someones heart.
I feel like the tone the author has in this sentence is stronger. Or more aggressive.
i think
connection
Yes. And to do that, we have to go back 600 years or so.
I feel like the author is using a hyperbole because he says shrieks. He is relating the police sirens to shrieking which is exagaration to a say how loud the sirens are.
Dr. Bledsoe measures
Dr. Bledsoe anger
Parts of this poems shows different parts of nyc. It shows 145th bridge and high bridge.
The punctuation in this line creates a sense of order. How after describing what happened at that exact time, now he is moving on to describing what he sees.
It caused me to re-read it because at this point it seems as if they don't want to be at the river. Yet it also does seems like they do want to be at the river.
Some of the sentences shows a lot of traits of the Bronx. I really like that the author does this he shows how the Bronx is and sometimes in poems or story's the reader cant really imagine the things being said happening. But I can imagine this happening
There is a good representation of the word above. The poem keeps a steady flow by using above at the beginning of a lot of sentences.
Covid-19 in CA
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The thought we imagine a character has is how everything stopped for a moment. That he was able to notice that both of their breathes caught at the same time.
In this moment it seems like it was a time where the whole world just disappears. It was just her and him there in the river.
This is way they described the Detroit River and it sounds so dirty. It makes it seems like its just a lot of water that's dirty.
This really helps you to envision where they are at. Also, I could really see it because I have been on a gray coarse beach before.
Another example of diction
Crises Facing Biden: Covid-19, Climate Change, Immigration, China…
Diction
Sound Techniques
Literary Element
Not a care in the world
Mother has a different opinion.
A change of pace
Desiring more adventure.
Love is Fire
Sound Technique
Connote of the poem
rhythm of the poem
Mood of the poem
The poem has this descriptive language that gives me an idea of the setting imagery. The description reminds me of an old town.
the last word of every 2nd and 4th line in each stanza rhymes. I love when poems subtly rhyme its so satisfying but not cheesy.
this whole poem didn't really sound like a traditional poem. it sounded a lot like a song. like when I was reading it I couldn't help it but perceive it as a song.
It's so cool to see what union square looked like in 1911.
Is he taking a showe I’m quite confused here?
Does he mean bleeding like a period in the uterus
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