Letter To Ms. K (My Ninth Grade Global Issues Teacher) I hope your summer was enjoyable. Over the summer‚ I read the book the “Boys in the Boat” and I enjoied the author’s details about Joe Rantz. As I read this piece of literature‚ I thought of your global issues class and how Daniel James Brown’s descriptions of the great depression and its overall theme of teamwork related to our discussions of real events that take and took place all over the globe. The great depression wasn’t a huge topic
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a profound affect on my life. I joined the Boy Scouts of America. Here‚ I felt I was becoming a part of something big. I was joining an international community of men and women who dedicate their lives to developing young men into leaders. During my twelfth year as a dedicated scout‚ I was given the opportunity to demonstrate lasting leadership skills as I am currently in the process of achieving Eagle rank‚ the highest and most honorable level in the boy scouts. This honor will mark my transition
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Give a Boy a Gun Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser describes school shootings by looking at one school‚ shooting that happened in Middletown‚ Colorado. This book is loosely based upon the real events at Columbine High School in Littleton. Two students were teased and harassed by their peers. Eventually‚ they take them hostage at a school dance. Gary and Brandon were very close friends and they both have something in common: they were both teased and harassed and teased and sometimes even physically
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The Boys in the Boat is a memoir‚ it tells a part of the lives of eight rowers. The book is intended for all people who enjoy sports history. It is a beating the odds story meant to entertain‚ motivate‚ inspire‚ and teach of a forgotten story. The author is Daniel James Brown‚ he has written other books that all typically fall in the field of narrative nonfiction‚ by far his most famous work is The Boys in the Boat. The title is representative of the entire story. Each of the nine young men who trained
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David Metzenthen’s Boys of Blood and Bone is an ambitious novel linking the stories of Henry Lyon‚ in the summer before he starts his first year of Law at university‚ and Andy Lansell‚ Australian digger killed in the Somme in 1918. Andy and Henry’s stories meet when Henry’s car breaks down in the small country town of Strattford on his way to a sailboarding weekend with his mates — and his disgruntled girlfriend Marcelle. While stuck in Strattford‚ Andy gets to know Trot and his girlfriend Janine
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My boy jack is a very powerful movie that really moved me in a way that no other movie has in a long time. When I found out that this is about Rudyard Kipling’s son was based on a real event‚ my reaction to the film were even more sharp. When the movie was finished and the credits started rolling‚ I sat quietly‚ pondering the fear of war and all the sacrifices that come with it. It is indeed breath taking. The cast of the film is very genuine. David Haig‚ whose face looked very familiar to me
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thought that it was quite a joke‚ An’ it got a lot of laughs from lots a folks‚ Seems i had to fight my whole life through. Some gal would giggle and i’d get red‚ And some guy’d laugh and i’d bust his head‚ I’ll tell ya‚ life ain’t easy for a boy named sue. I grew up fast and i grew up mean‚ My fist got hard and my wis got keen‚ I roamed from town to town to hid my shame. But i made me a vow to the moon and stars‚ I’d search the honky-tonks and bars‚ And kill that man that gave me
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On a day to day basis we depend on family and each other to make it through this world. When we come into this life‚ we start out with family; and by the end we have not only our family but a lot of others we have met through living. I’m going to touch on how we make those people we meet our family. Family is a much needed aspect in our lives whether it is conventional or unconventional. The essay‚ “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will‚” is about a girl that had a father that wasn’t worth
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In ‘Boy in Striped Pyjamas’ many characters are puppets on a string‚ Do you agree? Many characters in the boy in striped pyjamas were puppets on a string‚ German’s were made to believe that the Jewish people were terrible people and evil. The German soldiers were completely brainwashed and in the novel we see the German people telling the children that the Jewish were bad people. The father of Bruno and Gretel is a Military Commandant. He and his family were re-located out of Berlin and into
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Bruno a nine year old boy at the time of the war‚ stands completely oblivious to the horrific goings-on of the war that continue to take place around him‚ even with his father being a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this as Bruno perceives their concentration camp uniforms as "striped pyjamas". Deeper into the book we discover Bruno’s interpretation of many Nazi words which gives us further evidence as he is unable to pronounce these important names "the Fury‚" (the Furher)
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