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    Tribe Boys

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    rain forest. One of the Dr.’s even takes a tribal drug that helps with erectile dysfunction. The Dr.’s are taken hunting for crocodiles. They are successful in find and trapping one. They bring it back to the tribe and they watch the tribe boys chop it up. Then the crocodile is cooked. They love the crocodile and believe that if they could stay in the jungle‚ that they would soon be filled with crocodile meat.

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    "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" I. List of characters * Guido Orefice-A Jewish-Italian bookstore owner.Dora’s husband. * Dora Orefice-Guido’s wife. * Giosue Orefice-Guido and Dora’s son.He always follow his parents rule. * Eliseo Orefice-Guido’s uncle. Eliseo finds Guido a job as a waiter when he first arrives in the city. * Ferruccio Papini-Guido’s friend. * Dora’s Mother-A staid woman‚ Dora’s mother does not want her to marry Guido‚ and the two fall out of touch for many years.

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    Henry David

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    Henry David Thoreau once stated‚ “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” I believe that the trials and tribulations in one’s life and the manner in which he or she responds to them defines them as a person just as much as his/her successes do. Of course‚ using one’s failures in life as tools for learning and building character is easier said than done. However‚ there are unique qualities that can make this process quite simple. I possess some of these

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    The Lost Boy

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    “The Lost Boy” “The Lost Boy” is an emotional non-fiction story‚ an autobiography‚ of Dave Pelzer’s difficult trials of child abuse and experience in foster care. It is a tale of a young boy who lives in isolation and fear searching for a place to call home‚ for a family. “The Lost Boy” encompasses themes of love‚ hate‚ and ultimate triumph. Dave’s life at home was one of constant terror and “lifeless existence.” He was his mother’s scapegoat and the outcast of the family. His father loved

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    A Cricket Boy

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    The Cricket Boy (A Chinese Tale) A long time ago‚ cricket fighting caught on inthe imperial court‚ withthe emperor leading the fad. A local magistrate in Huayin‚ who wanted to winthe favor of the monarch‚ tried in every way to gethim the best fightingcrickets. He had a strategy for doing so: He managed to geta cricket thatwas very good at fighting. He then made his subordinates go to theheads of each village and force them to send in a constant supply of fightingcrickets.He would send to the

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    Funny Boy

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    Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with

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    David Blackwell

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    Dr. David Blackwell is a theoretical statistician noted for his teaching and work in game and probability theory. He is first and only African-American member of the National Academy of Sciences. Blackwell’s research in mathematics and statistics have found application in many fields including economics and accounting. Blackwell grew up in Centralia‚ Ill. His father worked for the Illinois Central Railroad and his mother stayed at home to take care of him and his three siblings. At school‚ he

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    David Boonin

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    In the last chapter of The Problem of Punishment‚ David Boonin attempts to defend his belief in restitution as a replacement of punishment by the state. Unfortunately‚ Boonin falls short in his attempt to defend absolute restitution when addressing restitution during both murder and rape. Using convoluted language‚ the reader is lost in his arguments defense‚ instead of admitting that it falls short in cases such as rape and murder. To further understand this‚ it is necessary to consider the following

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    Black Boy

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    Things seem to be looking even more bleaker for Richard in Black Boy. It has gotten to the point that Richard has basically become dead to all of his family except his mother. This is due in fact to not believing in God or “not being able to feel his presence‚” thus making him shunned basically by his family. Because of the poverty that the family live in and also the strict religious backing of the house‚ the amount of food has always been scarce. Richard tries to find ways to get money‚ but he

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    Kaffir Boy

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    9/28/13 Racism is worldwide‚ and has been going on for a long period of time. Kaffir boy helped me understand the racial discrimination that he went through easily. I honestly didn’t expect for racism to have gone that far. This book made me realize a variety of things‚ and what the word brave actually meant. Finding out that his father was taken away must have been devastating and acting strong was another competition. “My father had been arrested that morning in the bus stop for being unemployed

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