Touching Spirit Bear is a book about a teenager named Cole Matthews‚ who can’t control his anger. Cole attacks Peter Driscal and smashes his head on the sidewalk. Cole is going to go to jail‚ but Cole’s parole officer‚ Garvey‚ suggests the Native American Circle Justice. Cole is banished to an abandoned Alaskan island for one year. While he is there‚ a mysterious white bear called a Spirit Bear mauls Cole. Cole nearly died. After the attack Cole’s feelings really changed and he wasn’t nearly as angry
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Chapter 1: The 15 year old Cole Matthews is a real criminal. He has been stealing a lot and now he also beats up Peter Driscal. He doesn’t go to trial but he has to go to Circle Justice. He has to go to an island and think about the things he had done and most important‚ change. Chapter 2: Cole is brought to his new home where he has to stay for a year. He is extremely mad. He wanted to burn down all the supplies he got. Chapter 3: In a flash back‚ Garvey asks Cole questions why he hates his
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the person they said they would never be.” This happened to Cole turning into his dad because relationships can change people in drastic ways. In Touching Spirit Bear ‚by Ben Mikaelsen‚ Cole is very angry because of abusive dad and ends up hurting people. One‚ in particular‚ is Peter. Cole gets sent to an island alone where he has to learn to control his anger from Garvey and Edwin and eventually even helps Peter. Throughout this book‚ Cole is transformed from his uplifting‚ viloent‚ and silent relationships
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of Touching Spirit Bear is that you can always change yourself for the better. Cole went through some rough times as a child which caused his actions to be pretty dumb as he was nearing adulthood. Cole repeatedly slammed the head of one of his peers into the sidewalk for telling people he robbed a hardware store and left it a disaster. Afterwards‚ the Circle sentenced him to live in isolation on an Alaskan island. Cole had to chose between changing his ways or potentially going to prison for the rest
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Spirit Bear Question 1: Cole Matthews is an abused child who turned into a troubled kid because his parents abused him every day. He became an angry person who was willing to take anybody out in his way. When he got into trouble he would manipulate everyone into thinking he was sorry but he never really meant it. Cole hated everyone because anytime he didn’t get his way he would resort to the same violence and anger his father used on him. Cole thinks everything is a game‚ he thinks
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evidence was miss communicated. From the Innocence Project article of Timothy Cole stated‚ that on September 17‚1986‚ a 26 year-old student from Texas Tech and an who was army veteran was convicted of aggravated sex assault and was sentenced to 25 years in jail.
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Mom yells‚” Cole you up if so come down here. You need to do the laundry.” Cole runs down the carpeted stairs. Cole says‚ “Mom why do I always do the laundry can’t someone else do it this time i’ll clean the bathroom.” “Cole no‚ do the laundry that’s all i’m asking you to do‚”Mom said in a firm voice. Cole runs back up the white colored carpet stairs. He goes down the white colored hallway to his room that was pitch black due to the blinds being shut 24/7. As soon as he walked in he flicks the
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SOUTH WALES Australian School of Business School of Accounting ACCT 1501: Accounting and Financial Management 1A Week 1 ADJUSTMENT TO ACCOUNTING ENTRIES Student Handout Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Tutorial questions – Week 1 3. SAC2 Extract 4. Woolworths Annual Report 2007 Extract 5. Lecture slides Lecturer: Trish Strong School of Accounting UNSW QUAD 3067 Ph:9385 6657 t.strong@unsw.edu.au Session 1‚ 2011 Course website: http://telt.unsw.edu.au/ 1. Introduction Welcome to Accounting and Financial
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Understanding that all these lessons made Cole a better person. The most important lessons learnt from the book are life is what you make it‚ forgiveness‚ and that people can change. The lesson “life is what you make it” was a big part of the novel. But also this lesson was reflective. When Edwin asked Cole to go to the freezing pond‚ he gave him a stick and says that the right end of the stick represented happiness while the left end represented anger. Cole broke the anger side of the stick‚ until
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Jermaine Lamarr Cole better known as J-Cole was born in Germany but raised in North Carolina. Cole’s grades earned him a scholarship to St. John’s University in New York. During college‚ he knew he could make it in the music world. Jay-Z was Cole’s idol. He would stand outside his office‚ hoping and praying he would run into him‚ so he could give him a demo of his work. One day‚ Cole ran into his idol‚ and a couple of days later he received a call from the man. J- Cole was signed to Roc Nation. In
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