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Different people have different views of Hispanics. Hispanics are brown and illegal immigrants. Hispanics are lazy and drug addicts. Hispanics are gang members and steal American jobs from American citizens. Hispanics are Mexican. But we're simply not that is not what being Hispanic means. Being Hispanic is not living up to these views. Being Hispanic is to be hardworking, to continue on our parents work, to make it worth for our parents to leave everything they know and are familiar with…

Suad O’hirsi Mrs. Hampel Short Stories Plays and Poems 29\10\17 Compare & Contrast Essay Have you ever read the book Baseball In April ? It’s a book with a series of short stories in it. This will be doing a compare and contrast with two of those stories. They are Broken Chain and No-guitar blues. The two stories have some similarities and differences. In Broken chain Fonso looks for a better appearance and love. In No-guitar blues…

think that spending a lot of money on arranging birthday and wedding celebrations are just a waste of time, others think that parties are really important for the community. Both sides are strongly debated and have to be discussed carefully before giving an opinion. Some people argue that celebrating their special events is very crucial for several reasons. Firstly , happy moments have to be memorized to give us hope in hard days. For example, birthday parties can motivate children and younger…

Shawn Ward Mrs. Mastro English 4A Due 25 November 2015 Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner displays a theme of betrayal and redemption. Throughout the story there are many showings of betrayal and the novel caps off with a forgiving tale of redemption. Amir betrayed his half brother Hassan on occasion, he remained tight lipped and undefensive of his brother when he was raped by Assef. Amir then lied about Hassan, and in the end, Amir saved Sohrab and gave him a life filled with…

even bought our parents different birthday gifts to see who could buy a better gift. Instead of doing childish things like that, now we are competitive in arguments, but even with my brother, I still look for an outcome that benefits him as well. Only at times where the argument is very personal to me will I look for an outcome that benefits just me, but that is an outcome that will rarely happen. I am happy with how I handle conflict because I make both parties happy at the end, but keep it…

Misha is a gypsy boy who is in Poland during the Holocaust or World War2.During the story He “becomes” jewish and gets put in the ghetto with Janina. There are many lessons to be learned from this story, but one of the major ideas is friends can help you through anything. I believe that this is the theme of the story because Uri took him in. Another reason I believe this is he kept people from starving. Lastly,The farmers gave him a job and money.Uri and Misha became friends by Misha stealing…

Dedicated: To Shirley Tripp Johnson, A beautiful woman who became my inspiration With all that she does since the loss of her son. Sherry Ann Blevins and Chris ( Precious Angel Tricia Seymour) You two are the glue that holds me together. And to all the Angel Parents out there, My love and hugs to you all. Not Forever The first few years Went by in a blur I can’t remember. As there was no cure. Wanting to sleep, Lying in bed, Take this pain away, Reaching for my meds. A pain so excrutiating…

sophomore in high school something really bad happen and it changed my life. One day around June right before school ended, it was my “Friend” birthday so he wanted to hang out but my mom didn’t like me hanging out with anyone she didn’t know so I lied to her and said I was hanging out with someone else but really I was hanging out with him and his friends for his birthday. Anyways him and his friends picked me up around like noon or maybe later but once he picked me up, we were heading to his…

always one person who has a rough time getting through life, who has troubles everywhere but in one place and with one person. In the book Okay for Now by: Gary D. Schmidt, Doug has two brothers, a mom, and a dad. His dad is an alcoholic. Doug is not happy when he has to move to Marysville. After Doug meets Lil in front of the library things seem to get better. Lil is a good friend, who helps Doug. Lil gives Doug hope to overcome family issues, drawing, and school throughout the book. Lil…

pleasant such as the discipline wand and releasing those who fail, there are still many positive things in the community you can benefit from. I would want to live in the society from The Giver. The main reasons why it would be a good idea to live in the community from The Giver because there would be so many new experiences, multiple surprises, and you can have a perfect happy life. It would be such a new and interesting experience to live in such an opposite world. “ Who want to be the first…