Hannah Dell Literature Composition October 8th‚ 2015 Banned Books: Looking For Alaska Why do you think books are banned and challenged? Well‚ books are banned and challenged for many reasons. Reasons like they may contain sexual content‚ explicit language‚ racism‚ and a wide variety of other reasons. Did you know that parents initiate 9 out of 10 challenges on books? Books usually are challenged with the best intentions—to protect others‚ frequently children‚ from difficult ideas and information
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The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes purposefully is reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing" in which Whitman is optimistic about this land of democratic opportunity. Hughes‚ however‚ writing from a black man’s perspective‚ is much less optimistic about what American has been or will be. While Whitman’s’ poem was very unstructured in blank verse‚ Hughes’s poem is more tightly controlled with rhyme‚ tone‚ rhetorical questions‚ and more unified with repeated anaphora
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Looking for Alaska is a book that everyone should read. It is written by John Green‚ and it is such a nicely written book. It is about a boy named Miles Halter (nickname is Pudge) who doesn’t have many friends where he lives‚ so he decides to move away and attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama for his junior year like his father did. Miles goes to Culver Creek searching for his Great Perhaps‚ because he knows there is something more out in the world for him. Miles Halter is the main
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Is it possible for people to make comments about me for who I am as a person and not my outer appearance? This is the question I constantly asked myself everyday because most of the time I am bombarded with criticisms on how I looked. To put it bluntly‚ I‚ myself‚ have not met the body figure standard of what a Vietnamese woman should be. My family and relatives have always been saying that a Vietnamese girl should have a slim figure. Since I was small‚ I was that chubby girl‚ who loved to eat delicious
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Looking for Alibranbi is a book by Melina Marchetta about a young girl name Josie who lives in Australian and is starting a new year of school as the vice-captain along side with Lvy Lloyd. She meets a guy name John Barton who letter in the book kills himself. Josie is an Italian in an Australian and is classed as a third generation Italian‚ she only has one parent her mother which Josie things the world of. John Barton is the son of a politician. His dad has high exptashs for his son‚ John has
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Attack on America‚ By America September 11‚ 2001 was unquestionably a tragic day for America and the world. While the 3‚000-plus deaths on American soil elicited support and tears from around the world‚ now many international citizens resent or even despise the country that ratcheted up the War on Terror. But for many in the country‚ and a staggering number of foreign citizens‚ the truth about what really took place on September 11‚ 2001 remains under relentless scrutiny and doubt. The mainstream
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12/8/12 Final Paper History Rock and Roll Neil Young “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” (1969) “Harvest” (1972 I chose to write my final paper on one of my favorite musical artists‚ Neil Young. I believe Young is one of the most prolific and respected artist of the 20th century. Born and raised in Canada‚ Young moved to the States in the 60’s and soon began his career as the guitarist of the well known band Buffalo Springfield (1966). This jump-started to what would become a 45+ year
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Five Ways of Looking at The Penelopiad CORAL ANN HOWELLS As the lights go down in the great church of St James‚ Piccadilly‚ a voice speaks eerily out of the darkness somewhere off to the side: ‘Now that I’m dead I know everything.’1 And then a single spotlight reveals centre stage a small grey-haired female figure robed in black sitting on a throne; she begins to speak. This is Margaret Atwood‚ doubly imaged here in performance as Penelope‚ for I am describing a staged reading of part of The Penelopiad
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He always had a hunger to follow in his father’s footsteps. His father had attended Culver Creek boarding school when he was growing up. Looking For Alaska was written by John Green. Miles‚ leaves behind his few friends and very little social life to begin new friendships and experiences. Miles’s main goal is to discover who he really is. Miles was a quiet young man who just completed high school. He loved reading biographies of writers and he had a curiosity about him that wanted to discover what
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Change is to move from one state to another. Change is caused by family‚ culture‚ society and the environment. ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta and ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ by Thomas Hardy are two novels‚in which change is a major theme. Melina Marchetta uses techniques such as first-person narration and linear structure to perceive change in the novel‚while Hardy uses Omniscient narration and dialogue to percieve change. My understanding of change has been improved through situations
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