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The Outsiders Compare and Contrast The novel ,The Outsiders , and the movie are very similar and a little different. S. E. Hinton is the author of the book The Outsiders that was published in 1967 and was placed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the movie was published in 1983. The movie and the novel are both about the same storyline the only things are is the movie producer changed it up to make it become a little bit more realistic and interesting. Both the movie and the book and themes that were very…

Being an outsider is a feeling nobody wants. So imagine how Greasers feel. Dally,Johnny, and Darry live in a small beat up town in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Soc’s ganging up on them almost every day. The setting of “ The Outsiders” effects these characters by creating a harsh environment for Dally, Johnny, and Darry. The setting effect’s these characters specifically by creating an harmful environment where they are judged by what they look like and where they live. To begin with, Johnny has a…

to drive. I was looking and there it was I thought in my head. A 1967 Chevy truck. I bolted out of my room to show my father what I had found. He said that it looks like a nice well built truck and that we could go look at it. We made the drive to Tulsa and pulled the trailer in case we bought it. When we arrived it was sitting at a little house in a small driveway. As I stepped out the car my heart began to beat faster as I got closer and closer to it. We gave it a good looking over and I told…

The Third Wave: 1915-1960 The Black Working Class Meets the Aristocracy As the century came to a close, the old black elite was losing their position due to the rapid economic and social changes in America. A newly developing black middle class that excelled based on economic and educational achievement began integrating with the previous black upper class. This new group still consisted of blacks that worked as businessmen, professionals and in white-collar jobs from the…

Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? Maybe, it was you heard about it through the Dairy of Anne Franke. It is a brilliant novel informing you on the horrible things that happened during the Holocaust. During the holocaust, over six million Jews were killed. They were murdered by the Nazi’s and the infamous Hitler himself. Adolf Hitler was the leader of these people murdering innocent people, who only was crime was being Jewish. Since when is a religion a crime? These people were murdered for no…

In the 1920 's, post-war America sought after improvements in many different ways. The “Roaring Twenties” were a time of widespread controversy and reform. Race relations, immigration, prohibition, and religious reform were among these improvements. Though conflict and dispute were rampant during this time, prohibition and race relations were the most prominent of the controversies. Prohibition was one of the final bursts of the progressive reform movement. Supported by women and churches…

Colin Kaepernick Protests National Anthem for the Oppressed In the year 2016 there have been a reported 839 civilian deaths from police and it’s only November. Most people in America protest that the majority of these killings are not justified and most cases are backed up with video evidence. As a result protests have broken out across America and organizations such as Black Lives Matter have been formed. The latest rebellion to break out led by Colin Kapernick is protesting the US flag and…

Many upper and middle class white families started to relocate for the better school and it drove out many poor farmers and forced many African American or Native American families to move to one of the enclaves in the bigger towns of Muskogee or Tulsa. Brian Doucet examines how the process of gentrification in Edinburgh, doesn’t only consist of gentrifiers and the displaced but other residents who see the process as positive for the…

Draft In Tulsa Oklahoma on September 16th 2016, Terence Crutcher was fatally shot by Officer Betty Jo Shelbie. The police were originally notified because there was a car stalled in the middle of the road but by the end of it, a black unarmed man was murdered in cold blood. A helicopter from above captured the video where the man was shot. He was called a “bad dude”, however was he really so? No. "That big 'bad dude' was a father," his sister said after watching the video. "That big bad dude was…

you think about when you hear the word “outsider”? Well “outsider” can really mean different things for different people, but usually the way someone feels in an area or with a group of people. S.E. Hilton published the novel “The Outsiders” in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 17. In the novel, there are two gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. At one point both the Greasers and the Socs feel like outsiders, however the real outsider are the ones who saw past the Socs and greaser division. In the…