Diary of a Wimpy Kid Written by Jeff Kinney Report by Julia Hall This 217-page book is about Greg Heffley’s diary (It’s not a diary! It’s a journal!) and his horrible life at middle school. His school has everything: a freaky kid‚ huge people‚ and LOTS of tension. Why is there tension‚ you ask? Well‚ two reasons: The Cheese‚ which has been there since last spring and now it’s all moldy and gross‚ and the ever-lasting popular meter. Greg is about 53rd and his best friend‚ Rowley is about 150th. That
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S Y M P O S I U M Arts Education from Past to Present Kant for Kids Editor’s note: This article is the ninth in an occasional series on past treatments of major issues in arts education policy from antiquity through the twentieth century. Future essays will appear as occasion arises. A esthetics‚ we could say‚ is the philosophy of art (including poetry and literature)‚ and philosophy can be defined as a way of reflecting and clarifying ordinary‚ everyday thoughts and feelings that
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Teenagers are reading more books than ever now‚ and some people say that we have Harry Potter to thank. But surrounding teen books is the ’myth’ of book banning. Some may think that only old books were banned‚ and that they are now back on the shelves of schools and libraries around the country. This is not so. Not only have old classics such as The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger been banned‚ but newer books are being challenged as well. The controversy of book banning stems from the pursuit
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A lot of parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book‚ you have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like
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A 21st century kid is diffrent from the old days. "Children today have a lifestyle not childhood." CUROSITY. A 21st century kid‚ in my perception has high CURIOSITY level. From what kids are from the past -who too‚ are curious of what is this? and what is that?- comes an improved level today‚ where kids are eager to learn MORE than what is written or what the older people tells them. And this curiousity they have leads them to explore new things specially today‚ where everything is just a click
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Changed Ways In the book‚ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ a fireman named Guy Montag goes from destroying books to preserving them. There are many reasons that influenced Montag’s decision to preserve books. Clarisse‚ who was one of Montag’s neighbors‚ is one of the main reasons why he began to wonder about books. Faber and an old woman are also important influences in Montag’s decision. Clarisse McClellan is a seventeen year old girl who is very odd and quite different. “I’m antisocial‚ they
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stops having kids‚ our population growth would drop and they may go as far to say it would devastate the US’s population or the human race. While looking for information that would refute my evidence‚ I found a post written by the founder of VICE‚ who in 2008 left to join the “right wing.” This post consisted of the top ten reasons why one’s decision of not having kids is stupid. In this he writes things like how only one extra kid one has isn’t going to contribute to global warming‚ kids aren’t expensive
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Are Sports Hurting Kids? Organized sports have a lot of effects on children‚ whether they be positive or negative. Children are still finding out who they are and what the world is like. I chose this topic because I wanted to know childrens’ motives to do organized sports‚ and what effects the sports have on the them. I wanted to know the reasons kids start playing sports and‚ while it may be different for every child‚ they all had to have had some say in it. Every sport has skills that benefit
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Who are the Socs? In the novel “The Outsiders” there are two groups of kids. The ones who live on the west side and the ones who live on the east side. The ones on the west side are called the Socs. They are very wealthy. The group on the east side are the greasers‚ and they are not wealthy. The Socs would beat up the greasers
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The Book of Jonah is a special and interesting book in the Hebrew Bible. Unlike other eleven prophets’ books which focus on the prophecies from the Lord‚ the Book of Jonah is a book which focuses on the prophet himself. Jonah alone is the main human character in this book. The fours chapters are like four acts; together they tell a story about Jonah’s special travelling experience and portray the image of this running-away prophet. However‚ the Book of Jonah does not tell the readers about Jonah’s
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