Hole In My Life Essay . By : Deja Drakes “It is not what one does that is wrong‚ but what one becomes as a consequence of it “‚ which means the thing you do can turn you into something you’re not. It’s not the crime someone commits it’s if they change or have a positive effect on the consequence. Jack Gantos started hanging with the wrong people‚ started selling drugs but he didn’t think selling drugs could land him in federal prison. Jack spent his time in jail but he didn’t let jail
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Hole in the Ozone is a documentary film that educates its audience the relationship of ozone and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and its effects to our atmosphere. Hole in the Ozone also known as Ozone Depletion or Ozone Thinning had been an issue since the 70s and 80s. Even until now‚ this has become one of our major environmental issues. It is surprising to know that the ozone performs a major part in protecting us from dangerous radiation that the sun emits to our planet‚ even though it is also part
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whether you believe or not” (Sachar 41). The book I read was Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy‚ named Stanley Yelnats‚ who is ‘cursed’ with bad luck. The ‘curse’ started with Stanley’s no-good pig stealing great great grandfather. During the early parts of the story‚ Stanley is arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake where boys go to ‘build character’. While at Camp Green Lake‚ the boy had to dig five foot by five-foot holes. They said this was to ‘build character’; however it was not
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The first chapter of Ralph Ellison’s novel‚ Invisible Man‚ is the thesis of the main themes‚ motifs‚ characters‚ and etc. that are seen throughout the book. The first sentence of the book starts with the main character reflecting on his past saying “it goes back some 20 years”‚ this is the telling sign that the start is essentially the end. As the main character progresses through the first chapter he starts to bring up rather daunting subjects such as his who he is as a person and who he self identifies
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“ He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong they would always blame it on Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-great-great- grandfather.” In Louis Sachar’s book Holes‚ a boy named Stanley is falsely arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake accused of stealing a pair of sneakers.While at Camp‚ Stanley went through a lot of changes. Three of which caught my eye. Stanley has experienced lots of changes‚ but the most obvious one was his external strength. Text evidence from page7 says
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“If you take a amateurish boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun‚ it will turn him into a well-behaved boy” (Sachar 5). By making a bad boy and making them be in the blazing sun is that now they will learn how to never come back nor get in trouble. In the novel holes from‚ Louis Sachar. Stanley changes from poor and overweight to rich and strong because of how Sachar describes him in the beginning ‚ the middle‚ and the end. At the beginning of the novel‚ Stanley is poor‚ and
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Oklahoma City centre Enes Kanter announced on Monday that he constantly get death threats due to picking holes in the Turkish government‚ and he is attempting to earn U.S. citizenship sooner than ever. Kanter was kept at an airport in Romania during the weekend; however‚ border police justified the practice as Turkish authorities rendered his passport invalid. Finally‚ Kanter was permitted to head to London and then New York to leave; officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and others
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One day while walking to school early in the morning i noticed a penny on the ground and went to pick it up. When i picked it up my surroundings totally changed. Apparently when i picked up the penny it caused a worm hole through the fabric of space and time. I looked around me and picked up a newspaper and found it to be March 4th 1841 and president Harrison was just elected. I then traveled to Washington D.C for answers to find President Harrison and speak with him before he dies in office. I
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A wise man by the name of Benjamin Franklin once said‚ “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Jack Gantos from the book Hole in my Life‚ reads books quite often‚ on his journey to become a professional writer. Although his life may have not went in the direction he wanted to‚ the books he read were what kept him level headed throughout his life. Many may argue that books hindered him through his journey‚ causing him to fall into legal trouble early in life. However
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experience his own journey of self discovery. Gas Station at Rainbow’s End 1 The common factor between dreams and reality in this chapter is Socrates of course‚ he has an important role in Dan’s dreams as well as it does in real life. Several times in the chapter the line between this two worlds appears to be blurry as the Ancient Greek penetrates his student mind‚ making it hard for him to separate dreams for reality. 2 “Do you know
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