Learning about these topics in a hypothetical way can make it easier to point out the topics in a situation you personally aren’t connected to. The novel‚ “ Looking for Alaska”‚ by John Green focuses on social issues like discovering who you are while being influenced by your peers. The book also deals with problems that are prevalent in today’s society‚ such as suicide. “Looking for Alaska” is narrated by a high school student therefore students who read the novel are able to make connections to
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Ford Family Gets More Control Ford Motor Co.’s $10 billion recapitalization plan to increase shareholder value does little to increase the value of the company‚ but does cement the Ford family’s power base‚ according to critics of the plan. TIAA-CREF‚ a New York City financial services firm‚ owns 8.4 million shares of Ford stock‚ and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers)‚ which has 6.5 million shares‚ have already said they will vote against the plan. Ford has about 1
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Chap16 Justice is the highest goal of political life which dominates political debate. It is easier to identify to explore injustices than to define precisely what is lacking in an unjust situation or what an ideally just situation might be like. Justice is said to be the property of a distribution of something of goods but also of evils‚ some form of social justice is ultimate aim of political ideologies. Many people associate the term primarily with justice in the legal system the punishment of
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words of the already-dead‚ so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps‚ for real friends and a more-than-minor life. And then I screwed up and he screwed up and we screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there’s no sugar-coating it: She deserved better friends. I just finished reading a book that my girlfriend (we’ve actually been dating for exactly a year‚ so yay!) loaned me - Looking For Alaska by John Green. A fantastic read‚ it is about a junior in high school named Miles Halter‚ who’s
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Sports: More Than Just a Game More than 7.6 million high school students played sports during the 2010-2011 school year‚ an increase of nearly 40‚000 students compared to 2009-2010 according to usnews.com. Why is this number so high? The benefits of playing sports are not just physical. While many students get involved in high school athletics for sheer love of the game‚ there are significant benefits from these extracurricular activities as well. Being an athlete teaches life lessons like
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Many people don’t realize that our actions can affect the people around us. Alaska acts as a whirlwind in Mile’s life. Changing who he is and dealing with that is the heart of the book. It’s not the controversial side-events of a teen’s life (smoking‚ drinking‚ cursing‚ having “sexual relations”) that define a person or this book. It is the lesson of the mercurial nature of life and that change is an active verb not a static noun. High school is a time of life in which everything is in flux‚ your
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Looking for Alaska is an amazing book that questions the meaning of life‚ and what happens to us after it. It follows three unique friends through a year at Culver Creek‚ a boarding school in southern Alabama. Looking for Alaska is told in the voice of Miles Halter‚ nicknamed Pudge by his roommate. Pudge is a quiet boy who memorizes people’s last words; he goes to the Creek to seek the “Great Perhaps.” During his search he meets the Colonel and Alaska Young. The three friends learn about pranking
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Rabbi Sadman June 9th‚ 2013 Professor Crawford English 101 More Than Just a Dead Moth Annie Dillard wrote an essay‚ “Death of a Moth‚” which is from her book‚ Holy the Firm. Dillard’s essay‚ “Death of a Moth‚” starts off with the author talking about a couple of dead moths behind her toilet in her bathroom. Then Dillard starts reminiscing about an encounter she had with a moth on a camping trip she took by herself in Virginia. While Dillard was reading a book‚ a moth flew into her tent and
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Whittier‚ whose almost all of about 200 inhabitants live in a fourteen-story building called “Begich Towers”. It reads like fiction‚ although it is not—this tale-like town is merely a dot‚ albeit a wonderfully curious one‚ in the vast Alaskan landscape. Alaska‚ the state which calls the northern lights its own; the state whose enormity sleeps beneath the drifting snow‚ the state of the colorful songs of the earth—has been molded over and over again by its own soil and its living people. Highly important
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Niki Hultquist John Green’s Looking for Alaska Green‚ John. Looking for Alaska. Penguin Print Inc.‚ 2005. Print Miles “Pudge” Halter’s life is nothing out of the ordinary. Although Pudge is comfortable with “ordinary” he is willing spice up his life by leaving his current life behind. In search of a “Great Perhaps”‚ Pudge decides to attend Culver Creek Boarding School where his life is turned upside down. Pudge allows himself to try new things and put himself in danger to find a Great Perhaps
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