Hey I’m David Smith and I’m running for 8th head boy. Everybody please stand up! Take one step to your right. Take one step to your left. Clap three times! Now sit down. My parents told me that if I could somehow “move the crowd” then I would win! So thank you for your cooperation. But on a more serious matter‚ I am here to talk about why I want to run for Student Council President‚ my experience as a leader‚ and how I can bring many new and creative ideas to Viewpoint Middle School. Student
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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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KEY: Short Story Analysis of "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" Title: “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” Author: Ray Bradbury Famous for writing science fiction‚ especially for the novel Fahrenheit 451. Setting General Time: Civil War (1860- 1864) Specific Time: April‚ begins at midnight and lasts for about 30 min. the night before a battle General place: the South‚ Tennessee Specific place: battle site‚ near the church at Shiloh‚ by Owl
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In the book Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathebane there are many obstacles that Mark the protagonist has to overcome. The first of his problems was to get through school in his poor South African ghetto. The second was to achieve his goal and receive a tennis scholarship to an American college. Mark’s father is one of the major antagonist‚ he was opposed anything to do with Mark getting an education in a school. He was a very traditional man and he didn’t like anything that had to do with
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that can never change. The theme of identity is a very strenuous topic to understand but yet very interesting if understood. My identity is everything about me. Identity is more than a description‚ personality‚ or way of expression. Identity shows you how you are inside out. My identity is that I’m a middle class working student that plays football for Humboldt State University. I am a black male five foot nine. This is my identity. When we are born as babies we develop by absorbing information around
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"Why are you so stupid?" "What do you mean stupid?" "You’re just a stupid boy." "I’m a MAN." More difficult than the classes‚ more difficult than the pressure of college and responsibilities is the constant nagging of my female peers. In our school‚ they are the dominant sex and feminism can be felt from miles around. Females control our school‚ and there is no way of getting around it. The common myth that women are inferior to men is completely and utterly wrong. Ever since I began
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’s modern world‚ fast food has taken over almost every household in America. Is that good for us? Many have asked themselves that and everyone knows what the answer is. Fast food and eating out is more convenient for every working households‚ home cook meals provide us more control over what we eat‚ we generally know what type of ingredients are going into our meal and where our raw ingredients are coming from. According to an article that was written by Beth Hoffman for www.forbes.com‚ Americans
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Lover Boy Romeo‚ the only son of the Montague family‚ is a very dramatic young man. He is depressed by his Christian love‚ because she swore to chastity‚ and laments to his friend‚ Benvolio. Romeo expresses his love for his beautiful Capulet lady‚ Rosaline‚ with poetic phrases such as “Love is smoke raised with the fume of sighs” (I‚ I‚ 188). Instead of just saying that he is straight out heartbroken‚ he turns his words into a more depressing tone. He laments over and over again‚ not listening
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Cook begins his contribution in this book by talking about the background of Jay-Z. He eventually gets to his main claim‚ that even though hip hop and black urban culture isn’t highly represented through mainstream media‚ Jay-Z is able to provide a media for his expression because of his developed fanbase. His presence within pop culture allows him to do this as well. Cook supports his main claim with a subclaim‚ that media typically doesn’t follow black celebrities around and have multiple news
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Good boy‚ Beau. Stay‚ Anna Quindlen is very descriptive in her essay. As I read the story I could visualize her dog and also sympathize with her feelings. Having had lost a dog of old age‚ this story really hit home. The way she describes beau’s milky white eyes‚ the loss of his hearing‚ and the way his walk looks like his back legs are prosthetics. With these descriptions‚ the knowledge that Beau’s a black lab‚ and the fact that he stinks‚ all present enough information for me to get a clear
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