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Mitchell Shinnick

1.    1   Author: Ernest Hemingway

2.      2 Title: The Sun Also Rises

3.    3   November 1^st-11^th

4.     4  222 pages

5.      5  9

Question 4: I rated this book a 9 because the book is very well written. The only reason I didn’t rate the book a 10 is because the book is very hard at hooking young readers, but I loved the book. Hemingway describes everything very well. The book follows multiple characters and his writing style followed each one with great detail as the main character did. He explains the whole plot within 300 pages and I felt like the story could go on with some more stories but he did a great job at containing it with 222 pages. Hemingway has a lot of great work but this is one of his best, he is always known for writing short books and still having a solid plot within them. The great thing about the book is that it’s based in Paris, France and Hemingway lived there too. A cool thing that happened to this book is that Hollywood wanted to create this into a movie. He describes Jake’s love with Lady Brett Ashley so well. Jake gets into a lot of trouble with women and he had multiple love affairs. Cohn who is the boxer has a lot of good parts in this book, and he gets into a fight with Jake, Mike, and Romero. He ends up injuring them because all four of them love Brett and they fight over her. This shows that Hemingway could keep up with all four of them and still have as much detail as he started with only Cohn and Jake. The plot of the story is very kind of hard to follow, this is another reason I rated this a 9. That is why this book is hard to hook young readers. He does such a great job following the people but it could get very confusing how he switched from each character. Other than that he does a great great job of detailing this book and the theme is very approaite. I also love this because he writes the book that is based in the 1920s and in the 1920s American culture started to expand into Paris. Jake was an American journalist living in Paris at the time and he was covering a boxer during the parade of bulls. I also love the ending it is very good because he didn’t give into any lead about maybe continuing this book he just ended it with a great ending. 

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Author- Skai (Hector Hugh Munro)

·         Birth Date- 18 December 1870

·         Death Date- 13 November 1916

·         Interesting Facts- he was known for a British writer. His nickname is Saki. He writes short stories, and is very good at them. He puts a twist ending in some stories.

·         Famous stories- "The Interlopers", "Gabriel-Ernest", "The Schartz-Metterklume Method", "The Toys of Peace"

·         Extra facts- he was on a television series, and he was in a flim

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki

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Edgar Allen Poe

·         Birth Date- January 19, 1809

·         Death Date- October 7, 1849

·         Interesting Facts- he was born in Boston. He married his cousin who was 13 years old. He was a master at writing poems.

·         Famous stories- "The Haunted Palace"

"To Helen"

"Lenore"

"Tamerlane"

"The Raven"

"Ulalume"

·         Extra Facts- He wrote tales and poetry. He was in the military. He wrote many famous stories.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

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O'Henry (William Sydney Porter)

·         Birth date- September 11, 1862

·         Death Date- June 5, 1910

·         Interesting facts- he was a very good American writer. He was once going to jail but he escaped to New Orleans.

·         Famous stories: "The Gift of the Magi" "The Ransom of Red Chief" "The Cop and the Anthem"

·         Other facts: his stories were more playful. Some of his stories have been made into some films. He has written a lot of stories.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry#Stories

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Julie Otsuka

·         Date of Birth- May 15, 1962

·         Has not passed away

·         Interesting Facts- she is a Japanese American writer. She attended Yale university. She has written all kinds of stories panning over to different times.

·         Famous Books: “ The Buddah in the Attic” “When the Emperor was Divine”

·         Other facts: she was born in California. She had two brothers. She is teaching at London.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Otsuka

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Mitchell Shinnick

Mrs.Zurkowski

English 9 greens

21 September 2012

Juvenile Delinquency

                   People are speculating that teens are not getting the punishment they deserve because of their age.  Kids are getting off the hook because of their age. Some of them would get stuck with bad judges and they would get off the hook. Kids were starting to break the law more than adults were. Only a few criminals were on death row because of earlier crimes as they were kids. Kids are now starting to break the law more and more because they are starting to get into the wrong crowds. I believe that kids should get punished by the crime not their age.

Today kids are breaking the law more and more because of technology. As kids are more connected now through technology, they are more likely to break the law. The percentage of kids who bring a gun to school is 18%. They are getting access to things they are not allowed to have. People are saying that the crime punishment should be off of the severity of the crime not their age.

When they first held the court in Chicago they weren’t aware of the kids’ actions. Only 1% of cases go to adult court. Juvenile courts are for kids under the age of 17, but the court deals with all kinds neglect. "In 1899, when the first proceeding of a juvenile court convened in Chicago, it is unlikely that those in the courtroom were aware of the momentous impact of their actions." (Justice Department).         

One reason that I’m right is “But supporters of the juvenile court system's approach argue that sentences should be determined by the severity of the crime, not the age of the offender.” (ProQuest Staff). One reason that people disagree with this topic is that they don’t want their kids to get corrupted at such a young age. People who agree and disagree both have very good reasons.

Juveniles are more likely to break the law after they broke it the first time. 29% of kids break the law for the first time. 72% of them will not have criminal records. Kids who served a year in prison are 100% likely to break the law again. Kids from 14 to 17 are confined in adult prison. Most time sentences kids have to serve are 4 to 10 years, but not so many juveniles served over 40 years. But in texas they only focus on 30 of the most intense crimes. “More than 16 states of the 35 for which information was available hold certified youth in juvenile facilities rather than in adult prisons until at least age 18. Six states hold them until age 21 or longer. And a significant number of states have policies either mandating or allowing certified youth to be held in local juvenile detention facilities rather than adult jails while they are awaiting trial” (Michele Deitch)

        The crimes are caused because the kids have nothing to do after school. Most of the crimes are caused after school around 3 to 6. If the justice system keeps the kids busy during that time the percentage will go down dramatically. They could push for after school activities or have school at a later time.

       A solution might be that when they do get caught they should have a fair trial, not one where the judge is undecided on what he or she should do. People are complaining about this topic but they are now working together to fix this topic. They could also make the punishment more severe so they won’t think of breaking the law again.

Citations

                  ProQuest Staff. "At Issue: Juvenile Delinquency." ProQuest LLC. 2012: n.pag. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Sep 2012.

               

            Sources: Pryor, Douglas W. "Juvenile Delinquency." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2012. Web. 14 Sept. 2012.

                Sources: "Juvenile Justice." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On  File News Services, 31 Mar. 2002. Web. 13 Sept. 2012                                                                                          Sources: "juvenile delinquency." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Ed. Gerald Hallowell.  2004. History Study Center. Web. 13 Sept. 2012                                                                                 Snyder, Howard N., and Melissa Sickmund. "Juvenile Justice: A Century of Change." Juvenile Justice Bulletin. Dec. 1999: 1-20. SIRS Government Reporter. Web. 14 Sep 2012 .

Michele Deitch (2011). Juveniles in the Adult Criminal Justice System in Texas,

Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs

one day I was snowboarding and I was hitting hill so hard. i didnt kmow that the hill was icy so my snowboard was going everywhere. i fell on my shoulder and i broke my collar bone. i dint know at the time but a few days later it was killing me so i went to the doctors office and he told me i broke it. thats how i broke my collar bone.

Mitchell 

The book I read this summer was Black and White by Paul Volponi. My first choice of a research topic was underage kids breaking the law. There are “In a single year, 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated, (113 of them were under 10 years old).” Teenagers drink alcohol; about 70% of them drink alcohol. I argue this topic.

My second topic is teens throwing away scholarships. They either throw it away by bad grades or breaking the law. My book stresses that topic, by describing the two main characters, how they throw it away by breaking the law.

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                                                                                                   About Me







 My name is Mitchell Shinnick; I attended North Harford Middle School last year. I want to be involved in the classroom and other school activities. Right now I’m involved in John Carroll football but I also want to do swimming in the winter. My goal in High school is to graduate with good grades and hopefully get accepted in to Auburn University. I have five people in my family (including me) and two pets. My sister goes to The University of Tennessee, and my brother goes to North Harford Middle School. I play guitar and I know a couple of song by Jack Johnson; my time has mostly been taken up by football so I don’t get to play it too much. Although I don’t do volunteer work at this time but I really want to get into it. My favorite music artist is Jack Johnson and my favorite song is “Do You Remember” by Jack Johnson.