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One of the meetings I went to observe took place at Celebration Lutheran Church on 8725 W. Olive Ave at 5:30 on February 15. The name of the Alcohol Anonymous group was Celebrate Homecoming. At this meeting there were not a lot of people that showed up, there was seven people including myself. Within this group there was mostly males and two females that were present. The ages of the people in the group were mostly older like their late 40s and 50s, but there were to gentlemen present that were…

Perplexing Coding This picture symbolizes my AP Computer Science class because in this class, I had to come up with different types of codes, like the one shown, to write and format. I chose this image because once I entered this class I knew that coding was exactly what it appeared to be. Complicated. Most of my class was filled with seniors so the first few months I struggled to learn the material that they already knew. When Mr. Ellich asked questions like what does “string” mean in coding,…

Comparing The Kite Runner Film and Novel It is supposedly said that the movies and books are nothing alike. Many movies take out crucial details that are included in books to prove important facts, yet those points make or break the whole plot of the movie. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Marc Foster’s movie The Kite Runner, themes, symbols, and main ideas are portrayed differently. Through the distinctiveness of the themes, symbols, and main ideas it is evident that the novel has more…

Friends Close, Enemies Closer: The Story of Betrayal, Guilt, and Redemption. Friends are supposed to be there for you in times of need, be a shoulder to cry on and share your best experiences with. This was not the case for Hassan and Phineas. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir (a wealthy Pashtun boy) surrenders the dignity of his best friend Hassan (a poor Hazara boy), only to be haunted by the guilt of his choice, sending him to make done what is right many years later. In A Separate…

Brendan Fraser, an American-Canadian actor who has portrayed several different roles in his time, once proclaimed that “darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos.” Fraser’s statement reveals that in order to reach redemption, one must face darkness in his/her life. Though darkness can be hard to conquer, one can make the conscious decision to overcome it by venturing on a chaos filled journey that will ultimately pave the path to redemption. This is the case in…

How I Know I Matter To My Friends Over the years I have become really good friends with a lot of people. However, I have two friends that absolutely mean the world to me and they will tell you the same thing. These two guys are named Jacob Bullock, and Will McCoy. They both went to a rival school “West Jones” while I went to Laurel High. Will and I met each other as soon as we started kindergarten. We both went to Saint Johns for elementary school. After 6th grade we were separated but stayed…

The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini in 2003 is a narrative, which features a young Afghani boy named Amir and his personal struggles of impressing his father to deciding what is right and wrong in life and how to treat his best friend, who is also his servant. The novel deals with many personal tragic events and the events occurring in Afghanistan during the 1970-1980s, which includes the Soviet intervention, thousands of refugees escaping and the Taliban rule of Afghanistan. Khaled…

The Kite Runner Written Analysis In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the plot is constructed in a circular structure. Through circular structure, Hosseini accentuates characters’ development. The circular structure facilitates the parallelism between Amir and Hassan’s relationship and Amir and Sohrab’s relationship. As a child, Amir struggles with internal conflict between treating Hassan as an equal or as an inferior. The last time they flew kites together Hassan turns to Amir and…

What would one expect to be the feelings of a man who was born and raised in Mumbai, but travelled the world during his child- and adulthood? A man who has lived in London, New Delhi, New York and Hong Kong? It are the feelings of just a common man that Dom Moraes - an Indian poet - portrays in his poem ‘Sinbad’. An analysis of the poem reveals that through the apostrophe which addresses ‘Sinbad’ and formal characteristics such as rhythm, free verse and punctuation, the reader gets an impression…

We all make mistakes in our lives. Some of them are more forgivable than others. The novel, The Kite Runner revolves around the main characters, Amir and Hassan, their childhood, and the incident that vastly changed the course of their lives. The author, Khaled Hosseini, develops the idea or theme of forgiveness through the characters of Soraya, Baba, Hassan, and Amir. Forgiveness is something that can bring the forgiver peace of mind and free him or her from anger that can repair one’s…