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“Three Little Words” by Ashley Rhodes Courter is a memoir chronicling the author’s experience growing up in the Florida foster care system. Before Rhodes Courter was introduced to foster care, she was raised until the age of three by her single-teenage mother. In Ashley's Ordinary World, she recalls feeling happy and loved by her mother. However, her mother, unbeknownst to Ashley, engaged in hazardous activities, abusing drugs and neglecting Ashley and her half-brother, Luke. After their mother was arrested, Ashley and Luke were uprooted from their home and crammed into the dysfunctional foster care system (herald).

In our modern day, our technology addiction begins to grow worse as people find themselves unable to detach themselves from a screen. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury and The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, the article The Outsourced Brain, by David Brooks from the New York Times, and the famous documentary, The Social Dilemma, by Jeff Orlowski, these writers depict the three harmful consequences of over-reliance on technology. It causes

In the article “Burdens and Benefits of arranged marriage” the

Erika Krouse’s book titled “Tell Me Everything” pairs the qualities of a memoir with true crime to share the story of a sexual assault investigation conducted by an amateur private investigator. Nonetheless, she manages to help crack the case open. This particular excerpt takes place near the beginning of the first chapter. Here, Krouse battles with her internal conscience, which tells her she is past her prime and struggles to break free from the tireless cycle of unfulfillment. This piece of literature uses unique style choices to describe this profoundly vulnerable story.

However, Fairyington's essay misses the mark when mentioning the subject of marriage. They do not write in depth about the reasons why women choose to follow through with traditional roles. They do not address cultural differences that would make women desire to be wives and mothers. They also only write about one specific group’s views on marriage. For their writing to be more beneficial, I’d recommend asking other genders or people of different cultures.

Technology has both benefits and drawbacks. Humankind has created a device that can be smarter than the creators. This may be especially useful, but the consequences of having something with so much power can cause harm. In the short story “The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, he warns that technology has corrupted human relationships, lives, and even mindsets. The family described in “The Veldt” has infused their lives with technology, causing them to depend on it rather than each other, especially the children.

On page 139, It states “ Rukhsana you are not leaving until you are engaged to be married.” This states how her mother isn't respecting rukhsana's relationship with ariana and doesn’t want her to be with ariana at all. On page 145, It states “We have found some suitable men. You can meet with them and make your own decision.” She wants rukhsana to make her own decision in picking a man who she doesn't want to marry but can't accept the fact that ariana is gay and won't make a decision.

Thoughts and messages about experience, struggle, and history are embodied throughout Amanda Gorman’s collection of poems titled Call Us What We Carry, composed in 2021. Written during such a pivotal time in history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gorman’s poems highlight the extreme emotions and compelling experiences society faced as a whole during this period of such bleak isolation. The stories translated through her words transport us back to that time of quarantine and evoke a reflection on that era of isolation. Call Us What We Carry, Gorman’s lyrical collection of poetry consists of a multitude of pieces including poems titled Essex I and Essex II. Grief is the subject that establishes the intertextuality of these two works, although

Technology can also be harmful in that fact how it has the power to alter individual behavior and brain. It has transformed how we communicate, work, and access information, giving us unprecedented access to new opportunities and experiences. Causing the average citizen to think less. It has been linked to increased social isolation, decreased face-to-face communication, and decreased thinking skills. People have become more dependent on the internet and turned away from critical

Nicholas Carr, What the Internet is doing to Our Brains The Shallows (2010) asserts that, “The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation.” He supports this assertion by saying, “They both ultimately achieve their mental and behavioral effects by shaping the synaptic organization of the brain.” Also by, “ We long to keep it activated.” The writer concludes in order for people to improve their thoughts, they will have to cope with the new technology and how they think. Carr believes that technology is taking over how people interact with each other.

Women are told that they should feel lucky if a man chooses to marry them. We see an example of an arranged marriage in the film when we are introduced to Darshini, who is the first daughter in law and Sita who is the second daughter in law to Dadi. Darshini and Sita had arranged marriages with Dadi 's two sons. The process of Darshini and Sita being arranged into marriage is that both of the women were forced to leave their homes and start their new lives in Dadi’s home. Inside the household, the film shows some of the aspects of the daily lives of the daughter-in -laws.

Arranged marriage is a controversial practice in many cultures around the world. However, studies have found that roughly 85 percent of Indians prefer to engage in this tradition, and have a higher rate of marrital success than a marriage based on personal choice. (Dholakia, 4) Yet, even considering these statistics, it remains a concept that is met with dissapproval, thought to be archaic and demeaning to those involved. Chittra Banerjee Divakaruni’s short story Clothes depicts a young woman transition, from being obliged to follow this cultural norm, and the shifts in her mentality throughout this process. It is not unreasonable for the reader to view the protagonist, Sumita, to be a victim of this presumably inhumane practice.

The short story, “Good enough” by Rachel Vail, speaks about the main character Dori and how she starts as what the poem, “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco would say as a flower but transform into a weed at the end. Dori tries to impress or fit in with the popular girls by getting an Orion shirt they all wear for Dori’s birthday. However, Dori’s family is not in the best financial situation, so this makes it really hard on the parents to get this. On Dori’s birthday she opens a present to find that her mom has given her a fake, which hurts her, but she does not tell her parents, so they do not feel bad. When Dori wears it to school the next day one of the popular girls goes up to her and taunts her about it, Dori ends up crying but catches herself and remembers that even though its fake her mom had so much love behind it and did her best which makes Dori get over it and know that it's okay to not be in the popular group or be different.

Formal Writing: Why We Should Turn The Volume Down On Our Technology Use Madeline Brown “All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. " This was said by the American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and I believe that this quote sums up the glaring issues that technology faces us with. The attempts of teenagers trying to do everything at once have serious negative effects. These include catastrophic physical, social and mental effects, which begin with overuse of technology and continue to affect these teenagers throughout their lives. Since our generation is the first to have this advanced technology, we have no idea what the effects could be from overexposure, we should not be promoting its overuse.