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    Billy Bragg is writing a poem about the young boys and girls of America and at the same time portraying that America is not living up to what it is supposed to. In one way or the other‚ the tone is resentful and so some extent angry that little is known yet a lot of harm is going on around the great America. In the poem‚ Billy Bragg acknowledges that there are several individuals who are in America and staying with the hopes and dreams that they are one day going to have to go down just like the

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    The Secret to Happiness by Billy Graham Intended for submission to The Southeast Review The Secret of Happiness is Billy Graham’s classic work detailing the secret‚ yet not so secret‚ to true happiness. Graham focuses on humanities search for what is considered happiness and the many erroneous falsehoods that convey themselves as true happiness. Graham explains in great detail why the many untruths presented only mask what’s necessary to create an atmosphere of untainted and unequivocal contentment

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    author who was sent in for the battle of the bulge and witnessed the bombing of Dresden. The author had many experiences from which he had with world war II‚ he shows  what happened and could have been his thoughts throughout the narrator Billy Pilgrim.  First‚ Slaughterhouse five says different themes and how they relate to war. Secondly‚ there’s many events from when the author Kurt Vonnegut’s life that made him feel this way about the war. Lastly‚ and the attitude of Vonnegut  towards war and

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    Billy the kid ‚ the legend lives on Henry McCarty‚ Henry Antrim and William H Bonny are all aliases of the notorious Billy the Kid. Born in the slums of New York City‚ Billy grew up in what we would consider today a broken home. The exact date of his birth is uncertain but it he is known to be born in the early 1860s. After his mother passed away and his step father no longer cared for him‚ Billy moved to a boarding house. While there he began his career as an outlaw. Incarcerated

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    “BOOM”‚ “CRACKLE”‚ “POP”; the sound of gunshots rang off in the deep night; cold and unseen people dying everywhere around them‚ suffering‚ falling down from exhaustion. Elie kept running‚ almost running in his sleep. His only assurance that his father was still alive was the fact that he could hear the faint sound of his father’s voice behind him saying “Keep on running‚ don’t stop we’re almost there.” In the book‚ Night‚ Elie and his father are very torn and very distant in their relationship

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    Prominent themes in Night Night is a book that tells of a murder and a man’s inhumanity toward man. Wiesel saw his family‚ friends‚ and fellow Jews degraded and murdered. Wiesel also states in his book that God‚ to whom he was so devoted‚ was also “murdered” by Nazis. In the novel Wiesel changed a devout Jew to a broken young man who doubted his belief in God. A prevalent theme in Night is man’s inhumanity toward man. The concentration camps were full of horrific doings‚ like when the S.S Officers

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    outweigh cost to have a compatible relationship. In the movie of Billy Elliot‚ this is extremely obvious in the relationship of Billy and Mrs. Wilkinson. These two put in time and effort so that they can reap the benefits later in the movie‚ Mrs. Wilkinson teaches Billy how to dance for free during her free time. She wishes nothing more then for him to succeed and in turn he lives out the dream she never could. In the opposite‚ Billy works hard because he see’s that Mrs. Wilkinson’s dream was never

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    Have you ever had something that you felt is or represents a special part of you? Maybe a lucky charm‚ idem‚ or animal that gives you strength? In the book “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins and the Hunger Games book series Katniss’s spirit animal/mascot that she was known for was the mockingjay. After her second hunger games Katniss rebelled against the capital and was well known as the mockingjay. the mocking jay symbolizes the strength and rebellion in Katniss. One reason mockingjays symbolize

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    happen for the better. Change is shown in the film “Billy Elliot”‚ directed by Stephan Daldry and the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Throughout the film of Billy Elliot‚ Billy‚ the main character‚ experiences transitions through his life‚ taking on challenges and obstacles as he is determined to pursue a career in ballet. This is shown through the quote “I don’t want a childhood. I want to be a ballet dancer” and the relationship between Billy and his father‚ Jackie. Early

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    November 26‚2012 1st period The novel that I have just read is called Night by Elie Wiesel. In Night‚ by Elie Wiesel the theme of the book is survival is evident throughout the novel. The importance of this is that Elie had to survive. He had to do anything possible to make sure he survived. Ellie got split up of from his mother and it was just he and his father and they had to survive. ‘Don’t kill yourself. There’s no hurry. But watch out. Don’t let the SS catch you.’[P.50]. This shows

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