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    the social norms that a college diploma is ultimately the final step towards a successful future and a lavish lifestyle. In Freeman Hrabowski’s article‚ “Colleges Prepare People for Life‚” the author agrees with his statement that “yes‚ colleges prepare people for jobs‚ but more critically‚ they prepare people for life” (260). However‚ what people do not realize is that college is not for every individual and the value of education should not be based on

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    Superman and Me

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    Superman and Me Sherman Alexie ’s "Superman and Me" is a revealing look into Native American culture. He expresses how Native Americans feel they are perceived by the world. The story also delves into the subject of intellectual bigotry within the Native American culture. Growing up on a reservation himself‚ Alexie knows what it is like to be persecuted by the outside world as well as his own people. It ’s hard enough for a Native American to succeed without their own people weighing them down

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    Lean on Me

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    Lean On Me Kimberly Hill English 225 – Introduction to Film Mr. Ernest Littler October 18‚ 2010 Lean On Me is a biographical-dram film released in 1989 by Michael Schiffer and directed by John G. Avildsen. The movie stars Morgan Freeman‚ the protagonist‚ as “Crazy” Joe Clark‚ the principal of Eastside High School in Paterson‚ New Jersey; Beverly Todd and Robert Guillaume‚ two of the foils‚ as Dr. Frank Napier and Ms. Levias‚ the school superintendent and the assistant principal‚ respectively;

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    The happy man

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    Moem 2. Title – The Happy Man the only one of his kind‚ who achieved smth‚ then – who followed his dream. 3. Gist 4. Narrator - 1st person narrator (The narrator is the participant of the narrated event) The main character is the narrator. There is no any information about him in the text. Nevertheless we can judge about his character from his thoughts‚ behavior and speech. The description of his character is indirect. He is a wise man & a bit ironical towards life: he knows that it is impossible

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    Man Who was Almost a Man

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    The Man Who Was Almost a Man Dave Saunders lives in a world where all of his individual rights and privileges are completely stripped from him‚ strictly because of his ethnicity. His family and everybody around him live similar lives and that it working on a farm day in and day out and not seeing any profits. I feel Dave is humiliated with the life he lives and is sick of how he appears to society. He wants to seem manly‚ and therefore he decides to purchase a gun‚ making him look powerful to those

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    Poe’s Writing Edgar Allan Poe’s life had a big affect on his writing. Many things that happened to him were very tragic and gave him an understanding of death that he carried with him his whole life. His father disappeared when he was very young and then his mother died‚ leaving him an orphan. All of the women Poe ever loved ended up dying including his wife. He also lived in poverty for most of his life. Those are only a few things that may have had an affect on his writing‚ which was not appreciated

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    Superman and Me   “Superman and Me” is a brief overview of Sherman Alexie’s path in becoming a writer.  Born on an Indian reservation with little to no money and three siblings‚ Sherman Alexie was not provided a bright future.  He was expected to be un-sophisticated and un-social in school because that was the general discernment of Native Americans at that time.  Alexie’s “Superman and Me” is indirectly intended for that same audience: the kids‚ on Indian Reservations‚ that are struggling in school

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    Cameron Turley Mrs. Garcia LA9-4 6 September 2013 Rip-Stick It was a warm February day in the year of 2007. I had invited my best friend Fisher to ride the bus home with me so we could ride our brand new rip-sticks together. Our whole day was dedicated to make memories by doing what we usually do‚ do stupid things. Our first two hours together consisted of first person shooter games‚ but we soon grew too bored and decided to spend the rest of our time riding our rip-sticks. We rode through

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    in time that define your life. In the short story The Laughing Man‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ the narrator is reminiscing about his childhood and the story his chief told him. Also in the poem Mandarine Oranges‚ by Katha Pollitt‚ the character remembers a time in her childhood. In both stories the narrator goes back to a time in there past that they won’t forget. in the laughing man‚ the narrator goes back to a place in his past where he grew up listening to a story from his chief about a child who was

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    human race. We need medicine to heal us‚ laws to keep us in order‚ business to keep us off the coach and engineering to advance us. He is saying that we stay alive for “poetry‚ beauty‚ romance [and] love.” John quotes one of Walt Whitman’s poems “O me! O life” to gather further meaning to what he was saying to the students. It’s almost like John is saying the answer to our lives and why we’re still going is poetry.

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