of opportunity. We experience a good deal of social mobility‚ where people through generations or in their own lifetime can move up or down the social scale. By examining the many different perceptions of social class along with S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders‚ it is illustrated that social class has an impact on people while they are growing up‚ and will usually deny them from rising above adversity. Many people have tried to figure out exactly what it is that makes up a particular social class. In Medieval
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Darry At twenty‚ Darry is the oldest in the gang and the oldest of the Curtis brothers. Darry is extremely intelligent and very athletic. Additionally ‚ he does all the cooking and housework. He is very strong‚ principled and grumpy. Pony tells us that before their parents died‚ Darry “had been real popular in high school; he was captain of the football team and he had been voted Boy of the Year”. Darry could have been a Soc any day. Darry had sacrificed going to college and working to make sure
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INTRODUCTION Me: Today we are going to be interview Sodapop Curtis! Soda: Hello everyone! INTERVIEW 1. Me: Now we are going to start with the interview. What was it like after your mom and dad passed away? Soda: It was hard for Ponyboy‚Darry‚ and I. We got through it by leaning on each other. Now Darry and I have to Take care of Ponyboy. 2. Me: What happened to make Ponyboy run? Soda: Well Pony got home late because he fell asleep in the lot. Darry and I were worried sick about him
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MURDER IN THE PARK On the 8th of October‚ a murder was committed in a park on the outskirts of Tulsa. The victim was a 17-year-old boy named Bob Sheldon‚ who was found lying in a pool of blood at 5pm. A woman was taking a walk through the park when she discovered the bloody corpse. She contacted the police immediately. A witness known to be a friend of Bob Sheldon said that his friend had been brutally murdered by a knife-wielding maniac. This may be biased information due to a variety of
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I remember the time when I had locked myself in my room for hours; peeking through the small keyhole‚ I could see the guests moving around the hall and I decided not to go out. However‚ my mom kept knocking my door‚ insisting me to come out. I pretended to ignore her‚ but when the guests started calling out my name along with her‚ I had to open the door reluctantly. Instead of having any conversation with them‚ I thought it would be a better idea for me to just go for a quick handshake and walk away
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Stephen Curry kill on the opening night of the season he play for the Warriors. Stephen is so fast with the ball he can almost do it all he really can’t be stop by nobody in the NBA. He showing everybody in the NBA why he is the M.V.P you just have to give respect where it’s due in Stephen Curry deserve the respect he really earn it he is so humble. The opening night game Curry almost past Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in points for a M.V.P in a opening game he had 40points Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had 41points
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In “Outsiders Defining Deviance” The author Becker talk about how when someone does not follow the rules they become an outsider and are deviant. People are see this way because our society set it up that if you don’t do what everyone is doing or what your are supposed to do you are the odd ball out. This is just how when someone has the choice to go to college and doesn’t take it they are looked down upon because they don’t meet the society’s requirements of education. And then that one choice can
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you see people starving‚ crying or begging for money. This is what Ponyboy has to live with being a greaser. “The Outsiders” is a book by S.E Hinton. The poem “Poverty and Wealth” is a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. What do these two pieces of literature have in common? Well‚ more than you’d initially think‚ because I’m here to share with you some of the similarities with “The Outsiders” and “Poverty and Wealth” First the king’s son is a lot like the Socs. In the poem it states “My son shall be a
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This report is about how films work. In this report‚ I will give examples from the book and movie called ‘The Outsiders’. I will be using examples from ‘The Outsiders’ because the film has a lot of examples on camera movements‚ for example‚ close-ups‚ camera turning around‚ downward views‚ colored screen‚ camera edits‚ etc.‚ and how films work. In the movie of ‘The Outsiders’‚ there were a lot of camera movements. At the beginning of the film‚ the music lyrics restate the word gold‚ the opening
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The Outsiders: Character Development From the moment of your birth to the day of your death‚ a person never stays the same. Some change for good others change for bad. Changing all depends on you‚ you choose how to change based on hard situations. In this story ‘The Outsiders’ many characters change throughout the story. Some of them change slowly‚ some change till they reach their death. Dallas one of the characters who changed in the last moment of his death. “He had an elfish face‚ with high
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