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    The Outsiders By: Alyssa Padewski Do you want your kids to have bad influences from this book? Do you want them to be exposed to this material? The book‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton should be banned from this school for teaching kids bad lessons and it is inappropriate. First of all‚ there is under aged smoking. As well as young kids drinking alcohol. Second of all‚ there is a lot of violence and fighting‚ plus there are weapons being used in a bad way. They show people killing people or they

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    Johnny’s Eulogy Johnny was a nice and I respected him. To us he was brave enough to save people’s lives. I respected Johnny‚ and how he put up with the abuse by his dad. I have never heard him complain either. Sure‚ he’d talk about it‚ but I never heard him complain. Even though he had a tough life he was always happy. I remember watching him save those kids in the burning church‚ risking and putting his life in danger. Only thing on his mind was the safety of those around him. It’s going

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    When it comes to philosophy and stoicism‚ we can find many connections deeply woven through the Star Wars saga. In this theme one can see the large role the Jedi play in the transformation of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader by forcing upon him stoic ideas and making him go against his human nature. Before we can get to the root of Anakin’s transformation‚ one must have a good understanding of what Stoicism is. There are many elements that tie into the stoic idea. Living in agreement with nature

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    Discuss the importance of courage (sacrifice) Books: The Giver and The Outsiders People make many choices for society’s sake. In the book‚ the Giver and the Outsiders‚ one sees the importance of courage through the development of the characters in the book. The number of sacrifices Jonas and multiple characters from the Outsiders make for the benefit of the society is great. Through this story‚ the reader sees the powerful effect of bravery. First of all‚ there are moments in the novel when

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    In the book The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy had a few things similar to me. For example‚ we are honest to our friends. We both go to a good school that will give us a good education. And the last thing is we both have a brother. I will also be talking about how we are different in these paragraphs. I do not smoke and Ponyboy does. Ponyboy lost his parents in a car accident. And Ponyboy is in a gang‚ and I am not. Even though Ponyboy and I have several differences‚ we still have

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    The book The Outsiders is written by S.E Hinton. It is a book about two gangs called the Socs and the Greasers. They have different social groups and it makes them to where they do not get along. The book was also turned into a movie it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. There are many differences between the book and the movie. The differences worth pointing out are that Dally was accused of slashing someones tires in the movie not in the book‚ that Johnny was not jumped in the movie but he was

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    How can two people from what seems like different sides of the world come together and coexist? Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders are a good example of two such people. Dallas and Johnny both have parents who abuse and neglect them. They also care about each other. However‚ their personalities differ which is evident when Dallas and Johnny give Ponyboy different advice. Additionally‚ Dally is the least law-abiding out of out the gang and Johnny is the most. Dallas Winston

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    Social groups are often marginalized or misrepresented in various pieces of literature. In Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider‚ there are a variety of social groups that are portrayed in a negative light‚ but the most prominent is the female population. Throughout the book‚ many women are disregarded‚ or are seen as unimportant. From Marie to Meursault’s mother to Raymonds mistress‚ each woman is portrayed as destitute and desperate for love. Thus‚ Camus uses the character of Meursault to present women

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    The ¨Outsiders¨ movie and novel are interesting and tragic. After observing the movie and reading the book‚ they appeared to be very similar. Though they were similar‚ there were quite a few differences too. The movie and the novel have many similarities. For instance‚ both feature greasers and socs as rivals. Both sides fought one another in the rumble. Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ and Dally proceed to the Nightly Double. There Ponyboy encountered Cherry. Though a lot of it is similar there are a few differences

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    their share of problems. He was really able to connect and see that maybe things were similar when he learned that she used to watch the sunset. The sunset is something they both have in common. Before this‚ everything seemed like it was different for the two groups. The Outsiders is all about stereotypes and how the two groups‚ the Socs and greasers‚ think that one group is better than the other or that there world is better than another. Kids will run by the greasers and yell things

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