The Fault In Our Stars Essay

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    events we stand and salute the flag during the anthem to show respect for our nation and the troops that are defending our country. Unfortunately some athletes are in a “protesting” our nation by kneeling during the National Anthem. This act is showing disrespect to our flag, country, and the troops fighting for our country and it needs to stop. The United States of America is a place where we have men/women that fight for our freedom. The People who leave their loved ones to battle in a far…

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    Summery Violence against women is abhorrent and accept in our society. Researches have shown that violence violence is social accept in some circumstances. Jayne Mooney did a survey in London and find out that violence against women was accept if the women was sexually infindelity, neglect the house or household duties. Also women usually stay in the relationship because they love their partner and believe that they will change. And if they have children women accept the violent act because…

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    Dont Blame The Eater Blame

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    Who is to blame, for our health problems? We as humans, have essential necessities, to keep coexisting in this world, one of those necessities is to eat, which leads us to have plenty of choices, some of them are bad, and some other options are good, for our body. This article talks about the bad choices humans make while choosing what to consume. The author of this article, title his piece “Don’t Blame The Eater” which leave the reader wondering, if the eater is not to blame, then who are we…

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    Benjamin Franklin once famously said, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” There are several pieces of literature like this quote that elaborate on how people deal with and have dealt with mortality. In the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, two star crossed lovers, Hazel, a teenage girl with terminal lung cancer, and Augustus, an 18 year old with…

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    Slater said, “Pop culture’s patrons, youth and a large number of those who were formerly young, have rewarded it with immense riches, advancing it further. Junk like George Lucas’s “Star Wars…” The flaw in this claim is that Salter asserts that it is pop culture’s fault for the diminishing value of literature, language, and culture when in reality it can be a number of other reasons such as, technology, differences in generations, etc. This claim is weak because of the lack…

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    make a living they have to steal and sell things to a deceitful shoekeeper. Ms. Long allows us to share our reading logs in our weekly class meeting. We are able to talk about our likes and dislikes of our books and what we thought the author should have done differently. She would so let us rewrite a chapter or add a new chapter during one of our daily journals each week. This allowed to express our ideas and grow as a writer. Moving onto my first year in high school my English teacher, Mrs…

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    error of our ways propagating the source of our own destruction. As Cassius notes in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Today, we regularly find economic motivation and unrestrained capitalism driving decisions that can have long-term deleterious effects on widely dispersed populations. These choices are also shaped by the reality that we rarely have definitive scientific evidence to support the conclusion that…

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    The book is about the main character Hazel Lancaster , who battles cancer. Hazel struggles with cancer but also has to bear the thought of what her parents will do when she dies. Hazel goes to a church support group for cancer survivors, and she meets a boy named Augustus Waters. Augustus had a cancer that caused him to lose his leg and wear a prosthetic leg.The first Hazel met Augustus,they spent every second of the day together. When they weren’t together they would text, or call. Their…

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    go blindly on our way creating more unintended consequences and failing to achieve anything useful” (Margaret J Wheaty). Many times thinking without reflection can result in very minor outcomes. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence thinks without contemplation and creates an exceed amount of unintended consequences; the consequence of Romeo and Juliet’s death, the outcome of a very unpleasant conclusion. Friar Lawrence is responsible for the death of two star-crossed lovers…

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    because “Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare had always rearranged his words, which we may have two different interpretations inside our mind. This play makes us think outside the box because of the challenging words being given to us. Many of the literary terms are related to “Romeo and Juliet” (e.g. pun, syllogism, syntax…); therefore, this makes our mind filled with confusion, unless we read over and over again. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” by Seth Grahame-Smith is not ideally an…

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