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    Salvage the Bones

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    Brishae’ Clemons August 20‚ 2012 dijona1.clemons@famu.edu 2. Compare the portrayal of Katrina in Salvage the Bones to what you saw of the hurricane in the news. Which aspect of the storm’s devastation does this novel bring to life? What does Esch’s perspective add to your understanding of Katrina’s impact? When analyzing the horror of Katrina within Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones and the actual catastrophe that was broadcasted throughout the media‚ readers are able understand its true impact

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    Echo in the Bone

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    “An Echo in the Bone” by Denis Scott On May 1974‚ the first performance of Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone was staged by the Drama Society at the University of the West Indies Mona campus in Jamaica. The play deals with the destructive impact slavery has left on the history of Afro West Indians. Scotts aim‚ through this play‚ is to reclaim and recreate the past lost to our ancestors as well as the voice taken from them‚ that merely stands today as an echo in the bone. Though he aspires

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    The Lovely Bones

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    Losing someone you love and deeply care about is something us humans avoid talking about. We each deal with loss and grief in different ways‚ and this is something the novel‚ ‘The Lovely Bones’ written by Alice Sebold‚ emphasized. Sebold effectively uses a range of techniques to express this idea‚ including first person narrative‚ pathetic fallacy‚ oxymoron and symbolism. To begin with‚ first person narrative is used by Sebold to portray the idea of loss and grief and how different people move

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    The Bone Sorrow

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    The Bone Sparrow‚ written by Australian author Zana Fraillon‚ is a gripping‚ touching‚ and heart-wrenching novel for teenagers. The story takes place in the Asian country of Myanmar and is about children who are being treated unfairly in detention centers. Although this is a fictitious story‚ the places and events that occur are all too real. Subhi‚ the protagonist‚ is a ten-year old boy stuck with his family in a refugee camp. The camp guards‚ known as ‘Jackets‚’ treat their people very poorly

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    City of Bones

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    The novel City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare follows the main character 15 year-old Clary Fray in her journey to find her missing mother. Clare takes the typical Fairy Tail and turns it upside down. The main ideas that stick out to me in this film is Love‚ Jealousy and prejudice. An important idea for me in the novel City Of Bones is the idea of love. In the book Clary falls the handsome Shadowhunter (half angel‚ half human) Jace Wayland. In the middle of all the chaos and fight they find time

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    Osteoporosis and Bone

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    171 Izy Grooms Osmosis: Marissa‚ Jeremy‚ and Eleanor Question on front of packet Calcium helps to keep bones strong but just drinking milk doesn’t mean that you won’t get osteoporosis. You may be genetically inclined to get it even though you drink milk every day. There are also many other things that contribute to getting osteoporosis‚ like not eating enough calcium‚ doing steroids causes bones to become weak and look like sponges when looking at it under a microscope. Scenarios A‚B‚ and C help to

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    Bone Fractures

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    many different types of bone fractures. Also‚ you can have them any where in your body. You can have them in your arm‚ leg‚ wrist‚ skull‚ and many other places. If you fracture a bone and it doesn’t break through the skin it is called a closed fracture. The opposite of a closed fracture is when the bone breaks through the skin; it is called an open fracture. When there are organs that are injured‚ such as the lung‚ it is called a complicated fracture. Sometimes‚ the bone splinters into pieces

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    The Lovely Bones

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    The Lovely Bones Review Dear Mr. English Department Chair‚ It has been brought to my attention that the “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold has been put on the Banned/Challenged list of books 2013 in certain libraries. If you aren’t familiar with this text‚ it is about a 14 year old girl‚ Susie Salmon‚ living in Pennsylvania who is asked by her serial killer neighbor to check out his underground cove where he makes doll houses. The fact that he is a serial killer is unbeknownst to her so she agrees

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    Bone Cancer

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    According to recent studies‚ there are less than two hundred thousand cases of bone cancer per year. There are three varieties of bone cancer which are called chondrosarcoma‚ Ewing’s sarcoma‚ and osteosarcoma. The most dangerous out of the three is Ewing’s Sarcoma‚ which only seventy percent out of one hundred survive after five years of the diagnosis. Chondrosarcoma is also very dangerous if it has progressed further before treatment‚ making it only a twenty-five percent survival rate after five

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    Lovely Bones

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    The Grieving Process of Abigail The Lovely Bones is written by Alice SeBold and is about a young girl named Susie who was brutally murdered by her next door neighbor‚ Mr. Harvey. No one suspected Mr. Harvey in the beginning‚ but with Susie’s help from the beyond‚ he became the lead suspect. Susie began to send clues to her family from heaven‚ but the problem was that only her father‚ brother and sister could connect with her and feel her presence. This problem expanded quickly and because of it

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