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    “Real love finds you once, if you 're lucky.” In the story, Burned, Ellen Hopkins is focused on the torturous life of a Mormon teenage girl. Pattyn is a 16/17 year old girl who dreams to be free from abuse and hatred. Pattyns life is surrounded by her father and his “best friend” Johnnie WB, a mother who has too many children she can take care of and the hope to be a normal girl. She does not feel like she belongs in her own home, school or body. She dreams every day and night to be different…

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    broadsided with assaults and curses because of her gender only. They show their attitude by supporting a woman. They want the audience to see the situation from their perspective and prove her innocence. It is obvious even at the beginning of the text – Ellen Pao is called a “fighter of Sexism” for people to see that she is fighting against discrimination being a victim herself. Authors don’t want her to give up so they are persuading the audience in her guiltlessness. They also show how…

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    Mary Ellen Wilson By: Gabe Kain Did you know that Mary Ellen wilson was the first child to be rescued from an abusive home.Because of this her case started all sorts of child cruelty prevention programs like the aspcc (american society of prevention of cruelty of children) and many more like it.The aspca originally from the aspca (american society of prevention of cruelty to animals). Did you know that Mary's Ellen's parents did actually abuse her. she was actually adopted into the abuse…

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    Knight, born in 1941, is a retired professor of church history at the theological seminary at Andrews University. His books include the Adventist Heritage series, the Ellen White series, and a devotional Bible commentary series. Just last year, in 2014, he was considered to be the “best-selling and [most] influential voice,” ever since Ellen White, for the past three decades within the denomination. Throughout this book, Knight traces the theological journey of the Seventh-day Adventist church…

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    The article I chose to analyze is Monica Ellen Rizzo’s Master Thesis for her Master of Science in Education titled Redundancy, Discrimination, and Corruption in the Multibillion-Dollar Business of College Admissions Testing. My reason for choosing this paper is the way she presents her argument because she provides a personal reason why she is writing about the subject of college admissions testing and writes the paper very technically which is the way I prefer to think. Her goal for this paper…

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    Similar in every detail; exactly alike. What first comes to mind when you hear the word identical? You might think of your shoes or maybe two animals of the same breed, but what comes to most people's heads are identical twins. Identical is a book by Ellen Hopkins, an American novelist. She has many published works, all that cover a variety of different topics, ranging from the trauma of being abused to science books for kids talking about space. Identical alternates between the stories of twin…

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    from authors. Social criticism is a way of criticism that locates all the malicious and flawed issues in society. This method is used to help the population realize what is wrong in society and how they can possibly deal with it. “Primal Screen” by Ellen Goodman addresses the problems with technology in families including marriage difficulties, laziness, and no restrictions on television by facts and credible evidence. “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury points out the issues with technology in…

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    Why is Identical Banned there are many reasons books are banned.a good example of a banned book is a book called “Identical”by Ellen Hopkins.this book is banned because of its material you will understand the more i talk about it. a book can be banned for many different reasons violence, foul language, sexual abuses, drugs, rape.By examming this book and researching this book I understand why this book is banned. the first reason this book is banned is because of the sexual content in this…

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    Throughout the world multitudes of individuals from different races, cultures, and backgrounds, strive to reach America for a dream, the American Dream. When striving to reach the American Dream countless immigrants sacrifice their lives, homes, and family, leaving everything behind in hopes of a better life, never imagining that in America it would also be grueling. Laura Jane Addams as a young child was given the entitlement of having nice clothes, food, a shelter, but most importantly a…

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    Among the men and women who tried to improve the living conditions of residents was a woman named Jane Addams. She co-founded the Hull House in 1889 with Ellen Starr. The location of it was a run-down mansion at the center of an inner-city ward thick with sweatshops, factories and crowded tenements. The settlement house was founded three years after Stanton Coit established the first on New York’s Lower East…

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