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The Plot: The overall story recounts the adventure of a rebellious only known as “The Kid” and eventually “The Man”. He was born in Tennessee and lived with an alcoholic father who is likely the reason why he ran away at 14. Bouncing around here-and-there he eventually finds himself in Nacogdoches, Texas. At as arrival he finds himself in the midst of a religious revolution against Reverend Green who was accused of crimes that include bestiality and pedophilia. In this town in Texas he drinks…

Racism is the strong belief that one 's race, skin color, or more by and large, one 's gathering, be it of religious, national personality, is better than others in humankind. It has been a piece of the American scene almost since the of North America starting in the seventeenth century. Different gatherings have carried the biggest part of it, showed in terrible laws, social practices, and criminal behavior coordinated toward an unemotional and factual gathering. No American should be racist.…

From there, our relationship grew. We dated for five years. Those years were the best of my life and I hope his too. We traveled to many places and explored. Our bond, or love, we were inseparable. Eventually we got married. No kids, but a happy marriage. Four years into the marriage I started to notice something. It was as if something was off. I didn’t know what, but thought maybe it was the natural events that take place in a marriage, so I didn't think about it much. However, it…

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason is about a girl name Sam who lives with her uncle who is a veteran from the Vietnam War. The story follows Sam’s journey as she tries to know more about the war in order to connect to her father, who died in the war. Mayson uses every day objects that allows characters in the book to connect to the war. In part one of the book Sam was driving past a family cemetery when she “shot up onto the exit ramp a little too fast, and the tires squeal” (3). An everyday…

Yonder was the banks and the island, across the water; and maybe a spark which was a candle in a cabin window; and sometimes on the water you could see a spark or two on a raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars. (Twain 115) On the journey on the raft, Huck felt his freedom he had been seeking. He used to be lonely and stuck when…

Sweet harmony and valiant lyrics ring out in the sky as a group of people in the street clap and dance to the beat of the music. The lyrics speak of overcoming all and living in what seems to be such a distant world. The people enjoying the music are African-Americans and they are playing a genre known today as the Blues. The origin of the Blues genre dates back to the Atlantic Slave Trade, which took place from 1619 to 1809 and beyond. In order to get the cheapest labor for future plans in the…

The Doctors Knight New Earth Last night, I dreamt I was talking to My mother again. She never talks back, and I can never see her, not really. Its always a blur, sometimes it's like I can see her clearly, but then in a flash, its like I never saw her at all. I don’t remember what My birth mother looks like, I saw her only once, my father says. You see, I was adopted when I was just an infant, my parents heard a knock on their door about a week before Christmas and there I was, swaddled in a…

● ◊ ● ◊ ● ◊ ● ◊ ● ◊ ● ◊ ● ◊ ● Things had been tense all day long. So, needless to say things had been quite boring for the duration of the day. We were packing our things today, minus the clothes we needed - so that we could head home Saturday morning. After packing up the majority of my things, I spent my time finishing my homework and re-reading Ellen Hopkin's book, Impulse. It was one of my favorite books, and at the moment it resided with me. But after finishing the book I…

"What?" She says, cocking an eyebrow and placing her hands on her hips. "Say it. Whatever it is you feel like you can't say, we both know it'll come out eventually, so just say it. Get it over with." I huff onto my bed, and pat the spot next to me. "Well... actually it's not about you." Alice twists her fingers together, and walks between me and my wall, deciding to face me. Her eyes are pure nerves. I've never seen her this worried. She wasn't even like this at the talent show in 8th grade,…

The 1950’s- 1960’s saw a big change in society, as well as in the constant growing music industry. In the States and the Uk, people were still holding onto many aspects of the past: -World War 2 for example, and the crisis that many people went through, which many artists in future decades used and were inspired by different social and cultural events which gave inspiration to make some of the most well known songs in classic rock in the 80’s: for example: the song “one” by Metallica- which is…