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All through life, there is a continuous battle between having the capacity to trust different people, while surviving. Inside Ishmael Beah's record of his life entitled A Long Way Gone, he mourns how war has ruined the happiness regarding meeting individuals that he once had. Beah had to confront with new individuals often, which made him be wary of whether putting his trust in that individual could end up being the root starting point of his demise one day. As Ishmael meets diverse people for…

John Singer Sargent was born on January 12, 1856 in a town called Florence that was located in Italy. He was the eldest surviving child of both his parents. When he was young he spent most of his time traveling with his family in Italy, Spain and other places. His Father, Fitzwilliam Sargent was a retired doctor and his mother, Mary Sargent who was a watercolorist artist. Due to the death of one of her children the family removed themselves from their daily native life, to help Mary recover her…

GIMPEL THE FOOL With magnificent characterization and an outstanding point of view, the story "Gimpel the Fool", written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, clearly strengthens the age-old thought that repentance and good deeds will be…

Job #1: In the beginning of the novel, Ishmael was a skinny, twelve year old African American boy that wore baggy jeans, long-sleeved shirts, and three pairs of socks that he pulled down and folded, which puffed up his sneakers (7). As the novel progressed, Ishmael became very scrawny with dirty, shabby clothes. Ishmael became extremely thin because he was not able to eat regularly. In the novel, Ishmael’s hunger ends up taking over in chapter 5, Ishmael and his friends chased after a little boy…

GIRL Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, and Damon Wayans Jr. New Girl is described as “an American sitcom television series.” The main character is played by Zooey Deschanel, who is an actress, singer, and songwriter. Deschanel plays the role of Jessica, but her friends usually call her “Jess.” In addition to Jess, there are five other supporting characters named Winston, Nick, Schmidt, “Coach,” and Cece. I am going to briefly discuss season…

Salva. He was once just a regular kid in southern Sudan but, he didn’t know his life was about to change forever. His struggle for survival is his village is attacked while he’s at school and he has to go out into the “bush” alone and survive through all his hardships throughout this novel. It changes his struggle by having to cope with his friends and family dying and also getting to refugee camps.In this time of war, Salva has to keep dealing his group leaving him twice and on his third group…

“‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…

A plane full of celebrities has crashed due to an explosion and it has killed all the celebrities, in the plane. However, one of the celebrities was murdered an hour before the explosion and empirical and molecular formulas are key to finding out who killed who and who was the cause of the explosion. A molecular formula gives all the atoms in the compound and an empirical formula is the lowest whole number ratio of the molecular formula. Both of the formulas are used to discover what compounds…

Luka Zuschlag 12/21/16 Fool’s Crow Review Mr. Maggid Sourcing Fool’s Crow was written by James Welch and published by Penguin Books in 1986 featuring 393 pages. James Welch is the son of two native Blackfeet parents. He is considered as the first great popularizer of Native American literature. His writings may be biased in favor of the Blackfeet as he is one. Summary of Book Fool’s Crow is a book about coming of age and of change. It's shows changing culture, people, and entire ways of life…

Is #13 always unlucky? Ask Martina McBride! Her new 13th studio album “Reckless” debuted #2 on the country charts, so apparently not. Upon first listen to this album I thought it was mediocre; however, when I heard it a 2nd time I decided I loved it! How can you not love anything Martina sings? Her voice can be soft and beautiful as well as loud and just as beautiful! She has been nominated 17 times for CMA's female vocalist of the year and won 4 times! Her almost 25-year career speaks for…