I can relate the situation from the novel Tears of a Tiger to my own life. For example in chapter one which is titled Crash‚Fire‚Pain‚ there is a boy named Robert Washington and he dies in a car crash from him and his friends drinking on november 8th in hazelwood. On page 1 it says that “Robert Washington died last night in a fiery automobile accident on I-75”. In chapter two titled Hit the showers! Hit the streets! it talks about how they got done with a game and then they get in the car and drink
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unanswered questions. Because of the way things are today with internet profiles and phones‚ we are starting to all become more and more awkward in front of people. We are so used to not seeing their face‚ but only the screen and keys. It is starting to tear us apart because we do not know how to react to someone’s face. This new technology also helps creating internet trolls or bullies because they don’t see your face or emotions and type away anything that they want. Because of this closeness we are
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Softball was not always a widely-known sport like it is today. It was also not predominantly a women’s sport. In this day and age when softball is thought of most people think of the Women’s College World Series or Little League. But in the late eighteenth century when softball was invented it was meant to be an all men’s sport. Softball came about in the year 1887 on Thanksgiving. A group of men were watching the results of the Yale versus Harvard football game in the city of Chicago when they
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it does” (Dashner‚ 361). In the books The Maze Runner and Tears of a Tiger‚ they both share the same theme of death. In The Maze Runner‚ Thomas and his friends constantly live in anxiety that they will all be killed by hideous monsters and never make it out of the maze. During Tears of a Tiger‚ Andy had witnessed death right in front of him and had scarred him to a very threatening point in his life. Both The Maze Runner and Tears of a Tiger share a common theme of death because both Thomas and Andy
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Tears of a Tiger was a tragic book written by the author‚ Sharon M. Draper. The Publisher of this book was Atheneum Books in the year 1994. This book was a realistic fiction‚ which is something that could be real but was fictionalized. The book Tears of a Tiger starts off with a Newspaper Article dating back to November 8th titled “Teen Basketball Star Killed in Fiery Crash”. Four teenagers named Andrew Jackson‚ B.J. Carson‚ Tyrone Mills‚ and Robert Washington were driving home from a basketball
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This is a Sharon M. Draper novel called Tears of a Tiger about a group of high school basketball players at Hazelwood High that just took a big win‚ and decided to celebrate with a few beers. They end up getting on the road after they’ve been drinking and crash into a fiery abyss. Everyone ended up making it out except one of the guys that got stuck and was killed- Robert Washington the most talented and gifted of the group. Andy Jackson was the designated driver who had also been drinking. After
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Tears of a Tiger By: Sharon Draper Isbn-10 #: 0689806981 Themes: Death‚ Depression‚ Decisions Reading level: Young Adults Teaching Connections: I see this as a good book to use with young African Americans because the main characters in the book are African American kids in high school. The novel is also a very good teaching aide because it includes many different types of writing styles like poems‚ letters and short essays. I feel the strongest point to using the book in the classroom is the
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Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper Anthony Avila ENG 3 Honors Period 3 The novel Tears of a Tiger is about a high school student named Andy Jackson going through a life of pain and guilt. The story begins with a newspaper article on an accident that killed a basketball player named Robbie Washington. They were all coming from a party and they have been drinking. Andy was driving the car and his three friends‚ Robbie‚ B.J‚ and Tyrone were the passengers. When the accident happened the Andy
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The documentary‚ Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock‚ is one of the most revealing and shocking works of film that I have ever seen. This movie shows that it really does take only one man to make an effective change in the world. Supersize me revolves around one man‚ Morgan Spurlock‚ who decides to challenge the fast food industry through a shocking demonstration. He embarks on a one month experiment in which all he consumes is the famous McDonald’s fast food chain’s food. The rules are that he cannot
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“TEARS‚ IDLE TEARS” “TEARS‚ IDLE TEARS” Summary The speaker sings of the baseless and inexplicable tears that rise in his heart and pour forth from his eyes when he looks out on the fields in autumn and thinks of the past. This past‚ (“the days that are no more”) is described as fresh and strange. It is as fresh as the first beam of sunlight that sparkles on the sail of a boat bringing the dead back from the underworld‚ and it is sad as the last red beam of sunlight that shines on a boat that
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