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Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. [1] [2] After Melinda is raped at an end of summer party, she calls the police, who break up the party. Melinda is then ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police.
Do you think you have a good vocabulary? We can guarantee you've probably never heard these funny words before. The post 100 Funny Words You Probably Don’t Know appeared first on Reader's Digest.
Celebrate Your Late Finish. I was struck recently by social media posts celebrating the final finishers of the New York City Marathon, people who took 10+ hours to finish the grueling 26.5-mile race.
"Fifteen" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her second studio album, Fearless (2008). Inspired by Swift's high-school freshman year, the lyrics narrate how she and her friend Abigail Anderson, both at 15, experience teenage heartbreak and realize life aspirations.
Freshman class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. A freshman, fresher, first year, or colloquially frosh, [1] is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
The post Some words of advice for incoming college freshmen appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: The first year of college can be nerve-wracking and scary, so we spoke to some upperclassmen about ...
As in Grace Harlowe and other girls' series of the time, Marjorie Dean upholds egalitarian principles, often at the expense of her immediate social acceptance. One historian notes, "In Marjorie, the author has constructed a character meant to represent the ideal product of an education based on the principles of democratic equality and social mobility."
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