Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen takes place in the 1940s and is the story of two boys trying to become and stay friends even though they are from two different Jewish sects. It is not that To Kill a Mockingbird is an awful or terrible book. While reading To Kill a Mockingbird‚ readers will enjoy a well-written book‚ a winner of the Pulitzer Prize‚ and a classic. Yet‚ high school students will relate more to the two main characters of The Chosen as they are 15 and in high school at the beginning of
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The Clamor of Placidity Throughout Chaim Potok’s The Chosen‚ Danny is constantly surrounded by silence. In one of their many conversations during their last year of college‚ Danny informs Reuven of both his understanding and acceptance of silence when he discusses the textures of silence and his recognition of it. On the first day of Passover‚ when Reb Saunders finally reveals why Danny was brought up in silence‚ Danny accepts that silence was used as a form of communication throughout his childhood
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Part A: Dialogue Danny has just shot Reuven in his eyes‚ the coach of Reuven‚ Mr Galanter and Reuven are furious‚ the Referee says: ‘Time-out‚ Reuven and Danny come over here! Let’s fix this brawl right now.’ Danny says just before I want to say that I hate him: ‘Before you tell me how much you hate me‚ I’m really sorry and I want to apologize me and talk about it.’ I react very angry: ‘Sure we have talk‚ tell me why did you do that? I could be blind‚ it was a game not a battlefield. Danny: ‘I’m
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Research into Chosen Career A study by Higher Education Careers Services Unit (2014) reveals that employers are most likely to hire graduates that exhibit a certain set of skills‚ these skills are reliability‚ consistency‚ keenness to learn new skills‚ time management‚ effectively prioritising tasks‚ demonstrating enterprise/self-motivation‚ ethical behaviour‚ recognition of beneficial criticism‚ commitment to quality work and exhibiting professional behaviour. Therefore‚ to pursue a career in marketing
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My Chosen Career Field As a child‚ I always found myself participating in creative activities. My siblings and I were always playing make believe from acting as if we were in college or grown up to running up and down our neighborhood’s sidewalks as secret spies on a mission to save the world! When I was first introduced to writing short stories in grade school‚ I became hooked because I could literally depict any image I wanted to and that sparked my 7 year old brain. There were always movies playing
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Protagonists of a story quickly become favorite characters of countless readers. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok‚ one of the protagonists is Reuven Malter‚ the son of David Malter. Along with his father‚ Reuven Malter is an orthodox Jew. In addition‚ Reuven has a great friend named Danny Saunders. Danny and Reuven meet at a baseball game between the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews. Even though other team mates think of Danny and his team as “Murderers‚” Reuven decides to not judge them before he
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What does it mean to be strong willed? Three characters in the book The Chosen show us what it means. Reuven Malter is a teenage boy who has a strict life and recently overcame a terrible accident. He holds so much hate inside of him and refuses to let it go.The most serious man‚ Reb saunders. He has so much passion for what he does and knows exactly what he wants to do and why. Now a funny man who doesn’t want to anyone to show him pity‚ he knows how to make the best out of something even when ti
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ASEAN was created on August 8‚ 1967 by five founding members; Thailand‚ Indonesia‚ Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines. Malaysian foreign minister Ismail Abdul Rahman said at that time: ‘we have to come to a profound shared realization that we will not be able to survive as independent nations for long…‚ unless we think and act at the same time as residents of Southeast Asia’ . At perilous times when the nation-states were pressurized into joining either one of the two major blocs‚ Southeast Asian
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Play is what children wants to do and what they choose to do when given the freedom‚ independence‚ time and space to determine their own behaviour. All children have a natural desire to play and will therefore play anywhere they are given the opportunity. Children’s play can be happy or sad‚ loud or quiet‚ calm or chaotic‚ creative or destructive‚ sociable or isolated and imaginative or real. Sometimes play can be risky‚ other times it will be boisterous and a lot of the time it will just seem plain
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locomotion‚ large brains‚ generalized teeth and diet‚ and occasionally complicated social organizations. The primate order is comprised of two suborders; the Strepsirrhini and the Haplorrhine. There are distinguishable characteristics between these two groups of primates. Some of the characteristics that define the Strepsirrhini are their rhinarium or wet nose‚ combo of nails and claws and toothcomb. The Strepsirrhini are the oldest living primates and an example of one is the lemur. While the Haplorhini are
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