Sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson is nobody’s fool. Street-smart‚ book-smart‚ and life-smart‚ she knows when somebody’s trying to jack her‚ or just plain play her--even someone as fine as her (ex) man KJ. And she knows how to survive the streets of Compton. The girl’s got it going on. What she doesn’t know is how to play the game at South Bay High‚ aka Drama High‚ a white school in Los Angeles where the kids keep looking at Jayd like she’s going to steal one of their rides. And that’s just the beginning
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Christine Walsh Mr. Adams Period 7 AP Language & Composition September 17‚ 2012 “Everything is true and nothing is true!”: Meursault’s Plague with Human Absurdity in Camus’s The Stranger In accordance with natural human behavior‚ we feel as though for every action there is a reaction‚ as well as a reason. We vie to inject logic inside our world because to accept the idea that there is not rationale for anything‚ including our own existence‚ is unthinkable. This idea that we unawarely manufacture
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An obvious yet very effective theme in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train is that of “criss-cross” and doubles. The list could be endless with mentions of double crossing‚ and criss-crossing‚ however each example is very effective and important to the film. One double that truly sticks out is that of Bruno and Guy. “Doubled” together in the film‚ they constantly are double crossing each other‚ and yet are completely opposite personalities shown in the film. One could argue that this is shown in the
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"The Stranger": Analysis Author: Albert Camus Pierre Palmer English II. Period #5 Date: 10/4/9 copyright‚ by Pierre Palmer I. Biographical Insights A. Albert Camus’ cultures consist of being a novelist‚ literature and short story writer of many books. He wrote an essay on the state of Muslims in Algeria‚ causing him to lose his job and he moved to Paris. Albert Camus also joined the French resistance against the Nazis and became an editor of "Combat"‚ an underground newspaper. He was dissatisfied
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My understanding and appreciation of cultural and contextual considerations shown throughout stylistic choices developed throughout this discussion. When I was reading The Stranger‚ there was a notion of hotness and higher temperatures that Meursault experienced throughout the book. During this discussion‚ one of the leaders pointed out that there was a reoccurring motif of the sun. Right then it clicked for me that the idea of hotness was really a part of the much larger motif‚ the sun and its multiple
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Decreasing Racism African American racial tension has decreased drastically‚ since the fifties our country has leaps and bounds towards equality. James Baldwin wrote Stranger in the Village‚ and he wrote about his experience living in a small Swiss village and how he was able to evaluate the American society and its issues of race. Baldwin specifically focused on African American racial issues. Baldwin makes arguments about how race is treated much different in Europe‚ he also argued how there are
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Engelsk A - 2. Delprøve Text B: Living With Strangers In the essay living With strangers‚ written by Siri Hustvedt in 2002‚ she speaks of her experience of moving from the small town in Minnesota to the big New York City. All cultures and societies have unspoken rules and etiquettes that an outsider simply will not understand. It’s this observation that has inspired author Siri Husvedt to write her essay. Living With Strangers does not follow a chronological style‚ it’s switches between different
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presented but a suggestion about the way the young girl should act is presented as a solution. A stranger appears and becomes friends with Tom Hard. The stranger begins to talk to the little girl and give her some advice. The stranger seems to describe a feeling that some other female characters have described as having a feeling but having no one or way to present this feeling. After this‚ the stranger explains that “they think it’s easy to be a woman‚ to be loved‚ but I know better… I understand…
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Observing a Stranger I picked to do my observation of a woman at a park playing with her son. It was on Monday are last day of nice beautiful warm sunny weather we had this week. And the park was packed with lots of children and their mothers. All enjoying themselves before the rain was to return. This woman I observed was about 5ft 2in and about 130lbs. She had long brown hair with some blond and purple strips in it. She was also very tan for this time of year. She was dress in black short and
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The Club (1978)‚ written by David Williamson‚ is a satirical play that follows the fortunes and misfortunes of a football club over the course of the season. David Williamson cleverly integrates the realistic portrayal of characters and dialogue into the play in order to effectively provide the reader with an insight into the power and politics of sport and the commoditisation of players. The main themes in The Club that David Williamson communicates across to the reader are power and the concept
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