Reading 7 Summary

Counting by 7’s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan, is the astounding story of shy and reserved genius, Willow Chance, _______. Suddenly, her life is flipped upside down when her adoptive parents die in a car crash. With no where else to go, she turns to the Nguyen’s, a Vietnamese family she didn’t know until now. With further help from her school counselor, Dell Duke and taxi driver, Jairo Hernandez, Willow begins to move past her tragedy. In the end, Willow overcomes her grief and finds a family of her own.

Realities of war are revealed to us by the people that fight in it, yet war itself does just the very same to those fighting. The actions people make on the battlefield, or lack thereof, can be quite telling as to who they are at the core of their individuality. Shelby Foote presents a great deal of battlefield narrative to tell us about who the characters on the stage on the Civil War are without being forthright himself. This can be observed in Foote’s telling of the Seven Days Battle. Just in these six battles over seven days in Richmond, Foote teaches us a great deal about war.

During the Post-Classic period of Mexico, the Mixtec people accumulated a great amount of wealth, and became highly talented in artistry. The development of these art practices helped reflect on their political organization, religious practices, and social structure. In particular, Tomb 7 at Monte Alban has revealed a multitude of fascinating artifacts and remains from the Mixtec peoples. Tomb 7 at Monte Alban is one of the richest and most famous archaeological discoveries made in the New World (McCafferty and McCafferty: 1994) Along with a central noble figure and a few sacrificed servants, there lay many gold treasures, such as the famous Gold Pectorals, silver artifacts, turquoise mosaics, and fine jewelry (Coe and Koontz: 2013).These Gold Pectorals discovered both show the dedicated time it took to create such an intricate design, and significance it has to its

“The professor of psychology at Michigan State University” (Szalavitz 1), “the research published in the journal Intelligence” (Szalavitz 1) are the sources that writer used to support his idea, so this give the reader a feeling that this article is really professional because all the resources he used were from big and approbatory organizations by credible people. Furthermore, there are many statics, “Only 30% of …” “34% of people are accounted for…” (Szalavitz 1), used in

Throughout Chapter one through Nine it discusess the NIMS, IMS and the ICS. Chapter 1 NIMS which is the National Incident Management System, it takes a national approach to a incodent, yet is functional for local, state and federal response teams. ( Walsh 4). It was built and is used do that both local and national respondents have the same data and are able to communicate effectively when in a crisis situation. The ICS has been changed by the NIMS, with this said their focus has changed to incident management.

(43). Berger gives some insight on what she thinks is the best way to invest in education. She states that she would reduce and adjust how often the standardize tests are and that parents are the ones that need to get involved in their kids’ lives for their children to succeed. Through this information not only students will see the damage that teaching to the test has done, but also the damage to society. The society needs to understand the importance of challenging a student in their education and not letting a student’s simply go through the phase of higher

In “chapter five: reading to write; writing to read” by Jacqueline, Joshua try to focus on what we read and how to read. They focus on four things that will help us to read and writing which is read for need, context, author, audience, purpose. They try to explain that when we read article we read it because we need to read. For example, if I have to do research for school or whatever the readers need to find an article that will help them. The readers need to understand what the article is about.

Dark skinned black children who grow up seeing lighter skinned women of their race in more positive positions will go through life believing that there is something wrong with their skin. As portrayed with the Doll Experiment, recreated by various people in a compilation video of the test, and originally conducted by Kenneth and Mamie Clark in the 1940’s. This experiment showed how colorism affects even the young children. Multiple elementary school age children were asked different descriptive questions about a fair skinned doll and a dark-skinned doll and were supposed to pick whichever doll matched the description. When asked “Which doll is the ugly doll?”, an overwhelming amount of the children picked the darker doll.

Mockingjay The book that I read was Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Mockingjay is a book about a girl named Katniss Everdeen, also known as the girl on fire, who is still alive after her home was demolished. Her close friend, Gale has also survived everything the Capitol has thrown at their district, district 12.

Counting by 7's Essay 7, 14, 21, 28, 35... Counting by 7's is by an amazing author named Holly Goldberg Sloan. Counting by 7's is about Willow Chance. A 12 year old genius from California that loses her parents in a car accident. She has to face challenges that no other 12 year old wants to face.

. Pygmalion in Management by J. Sterling Livingston. The article “Pygmalion Effect in Management” authored by J. Sterling Livingston in 1969, argued that the perception a teacher or manager have about a student or subordinate will greatly impact on the performance expectation of such individual in any given task. He further inferred that the manner of treatment of relationship availed to individual, go a long in affecting performance.

" The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods." Said Solomon Asch (Cherry). “Solomon E. Asch was a pioneer of social psychology. Born in Warsaw, Poland, on September 14, 1907, he came to the United States in 1920 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1932 (College).”

The thing that I found very interesting that pulled me towards this review was the fact that he had mentioned psychology and how it was hard to notice it throughout the story. The evidence that he had used to show that psychology was an element in this story

MOVIE REVIEW: 7 AÑOS 7 Anos is a Spanish film produced by Netflix, a well-known media provider. There are few characters in the film and only one space passes. Filmin is as follows; The Finance Inspectors chase a company that makes money with corruption. There is evidence related to tax evasion, which will make the company complete its work on its hands.

In chapter 7, the little prince questions if his sheep will eat both bushes and flowers. The narrator, emerged in fixing his plane, responses with that he is too busy with his “serious matters.” Aggravated, the little prince thinks that the narrator is acting like an adult, being dull and boring, instead of focusing on what’s really important. He bursts into tears, sulky, arguing that nothing is more important than to wonder if a sheep will eat that one unique flower that exists on a planet. The narrator, shocked, tries to get the prince to calm.