The three major types of conflicts in "A Child Called It" are Person vs. Person, Person vs. Self, and Person vs. Society. The Person vs. Person conflict occurs when David's mother beats him, physically and mentally. Most of the time, she does not allow him to eat, and considers him as a slave. The Person vs. Person conflict occurs when David has to tell himself to keep going and not give up through all the beatings and pain. Another example of Person vs. Person in "A Child Called It" is that his mother is in a conflict with herself, because she does not want to abuse David, but she does. An example of Person vs. Society in "A Child Called It" is that David does not want to tell anybody outside of the house that his mother is beating him, because he wants to protect his mother, regardless of her abusing him. Also, his mother does not want to go to prison for abusing him, and David knows this.
I believe that it is beneficial to have a snow day every once in a while. I believe this because a lot of students are facing stress during the school week, and sometimes the weekend isn't enough. Also, if you participate in sports, and you have a sporting event before the snow day, you could be very sore the next day, and it could give you extra time to rest and get your body back to normal. However, having multiple school days missed in a row due to snow days is sometimes too much, especially after a weekend. Sometimes, if there is a snow day after a weekend, I forget some of the things I have learned in class the week before, and I am now behind in the class, because I have to relearn everything from the previous week. I believe that if you go over your limit for snow days and have to make up days, that the trimester should be extended, instead of adding days to the end of the year. Adding days at the end of the year doesn't really help anything, but give for time to the third trimester, and still are missing many days in the previous trimesters. Having a snow day once in a while is nice, but having too many, or multiple days off, it could affect a student's learning.
There are many different symbiotic relationships in "A Child Called It". The characters that have been mentioned were David, the child being abused, his mother, his father, and David's two brothers. One of the major relationships is the relationship between David and his mother. You could call this type of symbiotic relationship parasitism, because David is being physically and mentally abused by his mother, and his mother feels good about beating her son, calling him her slave. His mother likes his brothers more than David. This relationship would be a form of mutualism, because his mother treats David's two brothers as actual people, and her son. David's father left David, after telling him that he would try to help him escape. This could be another type of parasitism, because David's father left that situation, and was probably feeling better, and leaving David to still be physically and mentally abused by his mother. David's brothers don't really pay any attention to David, and just see him as an object, but treat him far better than his mother does. I am predicting by the end of the book, that his brothers acknowledge what is happening to David, and try and help him through his struggles, and report what is happening to him to people outside of the house.
The book I chose to read for the 2nd marking period of the trimester is "A Child Called It". I chose this book, because it looked interesting to me. I wanted to read about a person who overcame his severely tough childhood, and lived to tell his amazing story. Also, I had heard about the book before from my family members, and they all said it was a great book, but I never got the chance to read it myself. I also enjoyed the YouTube video that was shown in class of this book. I think this book could inspire me to become a better person and help other people more than I have before, which was the author's goal of this book. I am looking forward to English class for the final marking period of the trimester because of this book, and I hope to take a lot from this book.
I walked into school one day and saw all the different types of clothing from different students. I thought it was great that the students at our high school were allowed to wear clothing that varies greatly. If all high schools were to adopt a dress code, it would restrict the students’ freedom of expression. Never have I been distracted by what someone was wearing. High schools should not adopt dress codes, because there are already restrictions on what students can wear, such as hats or clothes that advertise companies that sell alcohol or tobacco.
One reason schools should not adopt dress codes is because their are already some restrictions on what students can wear. While I was at school one day, I was walking past a student who was being told by a teacher to either remove his shirt, or put something over it. One type of symbiotic relationship in "A Rose For Emily" is parasitism. This type of symbiotic relationship happens when Emily kills her husband, Homer, by poisoning him. After she kills him, she then sleeps with the dead body.
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