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    Why Is The Giver Weak

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    The Giver is a dystopian novel written by lois lowry. I also got the chance to see the movie part in school. I think that the movie adaptation was weak . Think that the producers did a great job. Overall i think that the adaptation to The Giver was weak. The producers of the movie added some characters. I think that some of these characters were not needed. Some characters were that fiona was not a nurturer in the book. I think that this was a good change because it made more sense that Jonas…

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    The Giver Dbq

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    The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia ¨Is it worth giving up the experience of beauty and joy and love in order to end pain and suffering?¨ - The Giver In 1992, Lois Lowry visited her father at a nursing home in Virginia. Her father was losing his memory. When Lowry showed her father a picture of her sister who had died, her father had forgotten her name, and also his daughters death. Lowry's mother on the other had remembered everything about that devastating loss. This situation made Lowry wonder…

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    Response For The Giver

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    The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a society free of hatred, memories, or individuality as a person. At age twelve, each child gets assigned roles that they will receive training on to eventually become productive members of society. In the beginning of the book, Jonas has complete trust and respect for his parents until the Giver shows Jonas’ father killing the baby, and disposing of the body through a garbage chute. When Jonas sees this, he can’t but help lose trust in his…

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    In Lois Lowry’s story The Giver, Jonas becomes the receiver of memory. He is the most important factor of the community. The Receiver gets all of the old memories from the old world. The memories can include pain, suffering, joy, or, happiness. He will soon know what it takes to become the receiver and how it will mature him. In the beginning, Jonas was quite responsible for his age of eleven. He was different than the other community members though. All of his friends knew what they wanted to…

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    Throughout the book The Giver Jonas was given huge responsibilities being chosen as the Receiver of Memory and having the fate of his community in his hand. Living in a community where you have no say in how you live your life, who you marry, who your kids are, or where you work must be hard and quite honestly it couldn’t be considered living, so discovering who you are in this environment must be impossible. But Jonas discovered and understood why he wasn’t the same as the others in his…

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    (1) The first thought that I remember was how in 1975 on a regular morning while Lois Lowry husband was away at work and her kids were at school. Lois Lowry had gone outside to scrape the leftovers to her dog and then she smelled something in the air that trigger one of her childhood memories when she was 8 or 9 years old in 1945.After she had a flashback on one of her childhood memories she went back into her house and went to her typewriter and sat down and began writing about that day. Her…

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    The Giver By Lois Lowry

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    The Giver Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, an important job called the receiver of memory must be assigned to an appropriate candidate. This is because society has chosen security over freedom, they have no danger, no pain, no real emotions. So they must select someone to hold all the memories of suffering, sorrow, and elation so citizens don 't have to experience the risk of choosing wrong or getting hurt. There were many pieces of evidence that assigning a new receiver of memory was a rare…

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    442nd Battalion Essay

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    States. Even though their government and country distrusted them, the 442nd battalion went far and beyond what was expected of any soldier. In the end the Battalion was awarded 21 Medals of Honor, 52 Distinguished Service Cross, 1 Distinguished Service Medal, 560 Silver Stars, 22 Legion of Merit Medals, 15 Soldier 's Medals, 4,000 Bronze Stars, and 9,486 Purple Hearts. The 442nd Battalion was the most decorated…

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    enlisting in the Navy and becoming a lieutenant, Mr. Williams was honorably discharged as a corporal from the U.S. Marines. Montel Williams spent years serving both at sea and ashore and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Navy Commendation Medal. Montel Williams also conducted informal counseling for the wives and families of the service members who were at his command. Mr. Williams is knowledgeable of the unique circumstances that military families…

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    Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

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