True Bravery “Scouts Honor” by Avi is a realistic short story about three 9 year old boys who go on a camping trip together to make them look tough and brave. In the beginning the main character gets the idea to join the boy scouts to make him look tough and he wants his friends to join. Soon‚ they all go on the camping trip but they can’t handle it and they hate it. In the end they all admit that they hate roughing it up ( doing rough things ) and they go home. This story shows that these boys
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How does Harper Lee use the symbol of the mockingbird? According to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” So‚ mockingbirds are harmless‚ innocent creatures‚ and killing them is wrong‚ because they don’t hurt anyone. The mockingbird represents innocence and purity. After all it only sings for us to hear its music‚ they don’t bother us or harm us. So‚ to kill a mockingbird is a sin because you destroy innocence. Throughout the book‚ a number of characters
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When people hear the words Boy Scouts of America‚ most assume that all the scouts are males. Most of them are‚ but not all of them. I joined and I’m female‚ I am part of Venture Crew 575. Venturing is a co-ed branch of Boy Scouts of America for adventurous people ages fourteen through twenty-one to challenge themselves while giving back to their community. I had been a Girl Scout from kindergarten through eighth grade‚ when my troop disbanded. During my freshman year of high school‚ I began to miss
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and the American Dream. I think the word that can sum up many of the themes in The Great Gatsby is position. The word encompasses themes like class‚ wealth‚ social standing‚ and others. Gatsby’s whole life is spent trying to attain money and status so that he can reach a certain position in life. That theme is similar to the theme of the poem “Richard Cory”‚ the factory workers‚ the lower class like Gatsby‚ look up to Richard Cory‚ the upper class like Tom and Daisy‚ and you are given a sense that
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Shabnam Shukrullah Meyer’s THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION In the excerp from the novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution‚ Nicholas Meyer’s reveals the true nature of the characters detective Sherlock Holmes and the psychologist Sigmund Freud. Although‚ both of the characters shared similarities and differences in their professional methods that they used in their career‚ the two characters were both monumental figures that changed the human history through their brilliance in work. First‚ there are
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Depression was a very rough and brutal period of the 1930’s. In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ the reader finds out how the depression look liked in Southern America. Along with that‚ the true effects‚ of this ruthless period of time‚ on the local citizens are described. One of the main characters‚ and also the narrator of the novel‚ is a young girl named Jean-Louise Finch‚ or Scout. Through other characters such as Atticus‚ Jem‚ and Boo Radley‚ a profound difference in Scout’s journey
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Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald can be compared by what is valued by each character in the novel. Prestige‚ wealth‚ and education are some of the few things deemed important in each novel. In Jane Eyre‚ there is the notion that social status is analogous to wealth. During the novel‚ Jane is a poor girl who never holds any distinguished positions. As she is planning her wedding‚ Jane is worried because she can’t
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Intolerance based upon race and upon a person’s age have been an enduring element of society since the beginning of the 20th century. In Harper Lee’s "To Kill A Mockingbird"‚ the community of Maycomb demonstrates racial and age based intolerance throughout the novel. The most prevalent form of discrimination in Maycomb is white intolerance against blacks. Interestingly‚ blacks discriminating against whites is another form of intolerance demonstrated throughout the novel. In Maycomb‚ children as seen
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in hand‚ and yelling‚ "Give me more! It can hold more!" During my ninth grade year I saw an opportunity to complete my Eagle Scout project‚ helping the Lenape Valley Church remove massive piles of downed pine branches fallen during an early March ice storm‚ creating an eyesore and complaints from the local community. The project I was tackling was Herculean‚ and I‚ compared to now‚ very inexperienced at leading people. But it is Boy Scout’s duty to give back to his community and I had promised that
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Democracy vs. Communism Democratic and communist political systems are based on different ideological principles. Although superficially they seem to share the "power to the people" philosophy‚ in practice the two systems of government structure the economic and political fabric of society in markedly different ways. In the economic sphere‚ communism calls for the government to take control of all the capital and industry in the country in an effort to get rid of economic inequality. On
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