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    Holes Movie Vs Book

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    come out a couple years after that. Camp green lake is where teenage boys get sent if they have broken the law. At Camp green lake the camp is all about digging holes so the boys can build their character but they boys are digging for something else they do not now about. Stanley’s life would have been a lot different if he did not go looking for Zero because Stanley’s family curse would not have been broken. In the movie and the novel Zero runs away for the camp and finds an old horse cart…

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    As I jog towards the dugout with my stomach turning, my best friends’ family awaits. When I finally make it over to them and I saw them with a troubled expression, I knew something had happened. With discomfort in my stomach, I listened to the words come out of their mouth in disbelief. On her way to my game, my grandma had a car accident right by her house. Although I wanted to go to the hospital to see my grandma, my family thought it had the best outcome for me to finish out my game and stay…

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    Growing up in a big mixed family is a must to know two different languages, Spanish and English. It’s a great disadvantage because Today, I 'm a bilingual. Well, semi-bilingual. It’s useful to be able to communicate with my family, for work, and pretty much everywhere I go. But at the end of it all, it’s a blessing and curse. It was a challenge for me as a kid growing up, to identify the difference language barrier. I felt comfortable to read, write and speak Spanish very well because the school…

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    Say a child is born into a family with a lot or problems and hate flowing around, people are going to carry that with them through life. Then there's the opposite of that, were a child is in a loving family. Surrounded with carrying people and support. Chances are you are going to end up becoming a good person. “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to…

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    could've left the key in shards of the broken vase.Oskars grandma says to him “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness” (123) As Oskar learns to open up to everyone his problems find solution, He allows himself to listen to the answering the machine from that he figures out that the very first house he had went to held the answer to what the key unlocked. But in a way the journey was necessary . He met his more of his family and was able to find out…

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    Euripides's Medea, we can see how passion can turn sour when bonds are broken. Even though Medea kills her children in the end, she still is human because she felt pain and remorse for the loss of them. Kafka's The Metamorphosis makes us question further how human Gregor is since he does not resemble the average "human." By being able to hear his thoughts and feelings, the reader can see that he still feels compassion and affection for his family. These three stories are all very different…

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    “Family is not an important thing, it is everything” -Michael J. Fox. In the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, this is proven because after not prioritizing their family, the parents of Peter and Wendy Hadley are murdered.The Hadley parents contradict each other while they continually spoil their children. After the Hadley parents endure a terrifying experience in the children’s nursery, they discuss disciplinary action against the children. Once Peter, their 10 year old son, finds out…

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    There is no way to escape their problems without hurting someone else. Tom desires to begin his own life but he held back by the moral obligations he has to his family. In scene 6 Tom tells Jim how he decided to pay his dues to “The Union of Merchant Seamen” (Williams 1680) instead of the light bill. Tom ultimately decides that he is going to take the same route as his father and disappear. Tom’s situation is complex…

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    Families dependably have their share of issues. Some might be minor, for example, coping with a defiant adolescent or a rebellious child. Others might be more serious and once in a while unrecoverable, such as dealing with lack of communication, secrets being kept from each other or potentially a volatile father. A case of this broken family is found in the tragic play Death of a Salesman composed by Arthur Miller. The family displayed in this play is the Loman family, who suffocate themselves…

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    My incident was located in Orange County. Two years ago me and my family were driving up to L.A my grandma called that my grandpa was in the hospital and we were in a car crash in orange county so, then we rushed to the hospital after because the car crash wasn't big but my family had some little incidents. I am choosing this story because this was a very interesting story about what happened to me and my family. The background story was about my great grandpa he had a heart attack and he…

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