Caitlin Chen March 5‚ 2013 Period 7 Newspapers and Basketball Psst. Do you remember Lemon Brown? The man wears rags‚ is unemployed‚ and owns no house? Well‚ he has treasures. With them‚ he is richer than you or I could ever imagine. What are these treasures? Hidden underneath his rags are...old newspaper clippings and a broken harmonica. We might not think of these objects as treasures‚ but Mr. Brown knows that our opinions don’t matter. In the short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by
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Christmas is a holiday celebrated around the world. Children wait all night the evening before for santa to place their gifts beneath the tree. Excitement rages from them the morning of December twenty-fifth; pretty wrapping paper and shiny bows glisten under the christmas tree lights while the bulbs upon it sparkle so elegantly. However‚ Christmas is not about all these aspects that it is displayed as. Christmas has more meaning than pretty gifts and how many gifts each child has under the tree
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Sketches by Boz “The Streets - Morning” The Victorian London streets is a familiar setting of Dicken’s works with “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol” being some his most memorable works. In this passage Dickens offers the reader an alternative London‚ one without the energetic crowds but instead a much more disquieting place where the streets are dull and lifeless. We are met with a silent neighbourhood before the sun has risen and through the use of characters‚ setting and comparisons the
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The Hunter family stopped celebrating Christmas not long after they left Earth‚ nearly 600 years ago. So it comes as a surprise to Jon to be wished a Merry Christmas on what he otherwise thinks is just another day. As his grip on the day starts to unravel‚ he’s confronted with a crew expecting him to know what is going on. After all‚ it is his ship‚ and they think he’s the captain‚ so he must know everything. Jon wishes that were so. As his day lurches from one thing to another‚ it seems that only
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"Jingle Bells‚ Jingle Bells‚ Jingle All The Way!" sings the Christmas carolers. It’s my favorite time of the year. This season seems like it goes by the fastest and it has more events going on during it than any other season of the year. I love the hustle and the bustle of Christmas time. There’s lots of holidays and there’s even more days off of school. To top it off‚ there’s snow! It’s by far the best season. The snow and the cold make up the unpredictable winter weather. Every morning is a
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presented a Christmas themed jazz concert at Sursa Hall. The concert cost five dollars for students and ten dollars for general admission. The show was performed by the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra and they created a fantastic jazz performance with elements of Christmas. The crowd in attendance was a mixture of students from the University and High schools throughout the state‚ natives of Muncie and jazz enthusiast. The performance drew a diverse crowd of people in the Christmas spirit and it
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ran away‚ and even a guide dog pulled its masters out of his way. A long time ago‚ on Christmas Eve‚ Scrooge was busy at his office. He and his clerk only had a little fire because Scrooge was so stingy that he kept all the coals in his own room. Soon after‚ his nephew came and wished him Marry Christmas. He mentioned that his family invited Scrooge to have a Christmas dinner‚ but heartless
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even if they are bad. I can’t wait to tell more about FrogDog. It was a bright Christmas Eve; everyone was having fun but not FrogDog. FrogDog lives in a mountain and all he wants for Christmas is friends and people that trust him. Lakes are FrogDog’s favorite place to go. But‚ his favorite lake to go to is named Rog lake. The town that FrogDog lives by is Little Little town. FrogDog is getting ready for Christmas. FrogDog is done decorating his mountain. He is ready to send his letter to Santa
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afterlife. Stave Two- Regret Regret is the main theme of stave two. The ghost of Christmas past comes and shows scrooge where he used to live and his childhood life. Then the ghost showed him his old mentor and how the women left him because he was greedy and only cared about his money. It made him very sad and he regretted it. Stave 3- Turmoil
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authors. The three stories of the books are The Jubilee Express by Maureen Johnson‚ A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle by John Green and last is The Patron Saint of Pigs by Lauren Myracle. The book is about three different teenagers and they experiences in the town of Grace town during Christmas season. The story The Jubilee Express is about a teenager girl Jubilee Dougal‚ who has been forced to spend Christmas with her grandparents because her parents are arrested for participating in a riot in the Flobie
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