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    beginning she did stuff like rolled in the tire.”jem,”get up can’tcha.” the reason that this quote is important because when jem told her this she was in boo’s yard. Scout changes throughout the book and becomes more lady-like. At the beginning of the book she was she was not lady like. Walter cunningham.jr embarrassed her on the first day of school and got her in trouble with the teacher and scout fought him in between lunch and break time. And more at the middle of the story she was being…

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    The movie Into the Woods is more pleasing for the viewers to look at and listen to. It has more graphics, more well known actresses and actors, and having the baker as the narrator puts the story together better. In the film version of into the woods the voices sound better. The actors that play in the film version the voices fit better for the role that they are playing. Anna Kendrick who plays Cinderella has a voice that no one can forget. The actor who plays cinderella in the play version…

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    Camp Soar Research Paper

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    It already had been long and hard month at this awful camp and now they wanted us to go caving for three hours, this and all the others things they made us do before I had with them and what I meant and by that is the camp. Camp Soar was camp for kids like me and what I mean by that is kids with ADHD, and with ADHD their is lot problems that you could have for example at the camp where I was going these kids did all of this, we had some biters, some lickers ,liers, screamers, fighters, weight…

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    In “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie,” Junot Díaz tries to inform the reader about how to date different girls who don't come from the same background. The title of the story gives the impression that it's an instruction guide but further into the reading the story it's the complete opposite. Díaz tells about a teenage boy living in an urban area and his struggles, trying to hide his cultural upbringing to “white girls” and “halfies” to have a chance with them. Díaz tells…

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    never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it’s a lot smokier and less defined.” — Paolo Bacigalupi. A notable, original story is organized and has its literary elements woven into the very fabric of the story, hence allowing the reader's mind to become a part of the plot and deeply envision it, and classic instances of this are the two stories Examination Day, authored by Henry Selsar and The Most Dangerous Game, authored by Richard Connell. Examination Day is centered around…

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    Children’s ministry has changed a lot over the years. It is finally getting the recognition that it often lacked throughout church history. However, has it gone too far? Have we lost focused on what children’s ministry should do and how to do it? Well, Ivy Beckwith discusses this in her book Postmodern Children’s Ministry. She begins her book by talking about how the children’s ministry has gotten more important in our churches. She also has heard how postmodernism is the enemy of the church,…

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    working and just want to sell drug and live life. Also the use of the ‘N’ word in general. How they say their friends are black so they are allowed to say it. The song proceeds as it changed the point o view to the African American. His side if the story was a rebuttal of what the white male said about work and style of living. The black male talked about how he doesn’t get a call back from all the application he put in because if his skin color, because of that he is forced to go on the streets…

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    most people say now I look like a basketball player, back in my younger days I used to play all sports like basketball, football, and baseball. So I had decided to try out for the basketball team. I start to go to the conditioning and workouts and stuff to make the team and I did. But I remember 1 day after basketball practice, me and a couple of our teammates where heading to our locker room to change clothes. We had seen some girls in their locker room playing, we found our way up the stairs.…

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    Thespian competition season was upon our troupe as we rehearsed the play Stuff Happens by David Hare for the One Act Competition. The play details the events before, during and after the Iraq War, discussing the political and social ramifications. The ending monologue was given to me which was from the perspective of an Iraqi citizen telling his side of the story. One line in particular that has always carried resonance is “Your dead are numbered, your coffins draped…

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    They float for days and soon float all the way into New York City where various emergency vehicles are waiting to view the flying peach.The peach gets impaled on the tip of the Empire State Building and the seagulls are let loose. James tells his story to those who came to see the peach and explains that the bugs inside are not monsters like everyone thought. The peach is then lowered to the streets and…

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