Stanley Yelnats‚ the main character of Louis Sachar’s ‘Holes’ was fat‚ friendless and frightened at the beginning of the novel‚ but by the end he has changed dramatically. The plot of the novel revolves around Stanley being sent to Camp Green Lake‚ the setting of the story‚ for a crime that he didn’t commit. Here‚ Stanley learns the true value of friendship‚ kindness and the role of fate in his life. Stanley finds himself in some hairy situations‚ but with the help of his good mate Zero‚ he works
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The story’s title main protagonist has the name Louis Zamperini‚but he has an irregularity with his name and decides to call himself Louie . Living within the scarce community of Torrance‚ California‚ Louie shares his residence with his parents Tony and Louise‚ his brother and sisters. Due to the little amount of people within the town‚ Louie began to perpetrate petty thievery and started skirmishes with the other adolescents of the town. With a great amount of disdainment from his community‚ Louie
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its citizens. Indubitably there is a monumental controversy regarding the funding for AIDS drugs globally. If our mission is to reach equity and justice in our society‚ we must ensure funding for AIDS drugs and also ensure practical preventative factors are provided for
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Almost anyone who visits in the schools of East St. Louis‚ even for a short time‚ comes away profoundly shaken. These are innocent children‚ after all. They have done nothing wrong. They have committed no crime. They are too young to have offended us in any way at all. One searches for some way to understand why a society as rich and‚ frequently‚ as generous as ours would leave these children in their penury and squalor for so long-and with so little public indignation. Is this just a strange mistake
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Louis D. Brandeis is an important part of history because he was a great lawmaker who worked very hard for things he accomplished in his law career.. He was well educated‚ which helped him get a career in law‚ he was also very motivated by many things he experienced traveling‚ and last was prepared for anything that came at him in life. Louis changed america with his career in law which got him a spot in the supreme court‚ where he then changed the law and court systems forever‚ which is still in
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It was a hot summer day in Paris July 6th‚ 1885. Louis Pasteur had just finished vaccinating the 9-year old Joseph Meister. This was a new beginning‚ a new era for Pasteur and the rest of the world. He had created a vaccine for the deadliest disease of all time: rabies. He was very proud of his accomplishment‚ and looked back on how much progress he had made in the field of medical sciences. Many summers before‚ in the year 1882 in Paris‚ France‚ Pasteur had yet to create a furrow between his brows
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The book Don’t Give Up‚ Don’t Give In by Louis Zamperini and David Rensin conveys the valuable life lessons learned from Zamperini’s life in a touching and poignant way. From youthful shenanigans to touching stories of forgiveness‚ Zamperini surely lived a full life. There is no doubt that this book provides valuable insight and direction to live a meaningful life. Everyone can take a lesson in forgiveness. Little grudges and thoughtless condemnations weigh society down and make humanity miserable
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‘Louis XIV’s foreign policy was entirely driven by his personal quest for gloire’. To what extent do you consider this statement to be true? Upon the coronation of Louis XIV on the 7th of June 1654‚ Mazarin informed Louis in fatherly tones that “It is up to you to become the most glorious king that has ever been”. Although Louis’ personal reign did not truly begin until 1661‚ he took this advice to heart and for the early part of his reign his foreign policy was almost entirely based upon his desire
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The Giver‚ a book written by the New York Times best seller Louis Lowry revolves around a community that encompasses one major trait‚ order. This community has many rules and a structure to everything that happens in the society from putting everyone in a job they believe is best for them‚ having precision on language to fully understand what each person is trying to say‚ and releasing The Old once their life is fulfilled and newborn babies who don’t meet the health code of the community. There is
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Holes In the novel‚ Holes‚ written by Louis Sachar we meet the main protagonist named Stanley Yelnats. Who is in a juvenile detention centre called Camp Green Lake “ a camp for bad boys”. From which Stanley goes on a self-discovering journey. From becoming a “nobody” to a “somebody”. But how did Stanley just change his character? When Stanley first arrived in Camp Green Lake he was a “nobody” and was not like the other boys there. They were all “bad boys”. But Stanley was a different sort of boy
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