“The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton has many main characters‚ I’m only going to focus on one and that’s Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy Curtis or Pony for short is a 14 year old boy who is apart of a friend group called the greasers. They’re called the greasers because they have greasy hair and are not very clean. Pony also has a brother named Darry‚ who is 20 and has legal custody of him and his 16 year old brother named Sodapop. Darry has legal custody of him and his brother because their parents were in a car
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Believe it or not‚ everyone is an outsider; moreover so are you. “The Outsiders”‚ a novel written by S.E Hinton‚ took place in the 1960’s Tulsa‚ Oklahoma. When Hinton was 17 years old‚ out of anger she wrote this book about the differences between two unique teenage social groups: the greasers and the Soc (Doc A). She illustrates that the outsiders are the people who stand out from the rest of society by thought or action. Both the greasers and the Soc can be considered outsiders‚ but as the story
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Being true to yourself in an important virtue to carry on throughout one’s life and should be focused on vigilantly. In S. E. Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders‚ it features a young Greaser dubbed Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy‚ the protagonist in The Outsiders‚ has matured since the ending of the novel‚ and is now ready to graduate from high school and enter into the real world. Although‚ he must make the decision of whether he would prefer to remain as a greaser‚ and stay in his comfort zone‚ or change to
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is a complex and fragmented poem that underwent major revisions before it was published in 1922. The published version we see and read today is actually shorter in comparison to what Eliot had originally written. According to James Torrens’s article “The Hidden Years if the Waste Land Manuscript‚” Eliot had mailed “54 pages of The Waste Land‚ including the unused parts” to John Quinn‚ a “corporation lawyer in New York City‚” which had shortly disappeared after Quinn’s
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Marketing 1 4 “P”’s of general marketing and the 4 “P”’s of the “sports marketing mix” Traditional four "P"’s of general marketing: Product‚ Price‚ Promotion and Place‚ another four "P"’s are added to sport marketing: Planning‚ Packaging‚ Positioning and Perception. The addition of the four extra elements is called the "sport marketing mix.” Task: In teams of 4-5 members‚ choose a sporting brand (consumer product or service). Consumer product examples: Nike‚ Adidas‚ P&G‚ Visa‚ McDonalds
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I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots‚ And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps. II The morning comes to consciousness Of faint stale smells of beer From the sawdust-trampled
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Most everybody wants a better life for their children than the one they have for themselves. The story of a young man I met and got to know over the years is no different. Tomas was born in a small town near Juarez‚ Mexico‚ where the violence and crime were growing every year. Tomas knew he had to get to the United States‚ where he felt he would find safety and a chance for a better life for his family. I met Tomas at a local Mexican restaurant several years ago in my hometown. My family became regulars
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The Outsiders “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house‚ I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home” (Hinton 1). This was the sentence that started the craziest week of Ponyboy’s life. Ponyboy is a 14 year old kid who lived a normal life just like everybody else. He went to school‚ watch movies‚ and disliked the Socs. However one night after getting in a fight with his older brother Darry‚ he ran of with Johnny‚ his best friend‚ and got
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had many friends. I did not. I began to think that maybe if I changed myself‚ people would like me. My friends back then all wore certain clothes. Skinny jeans‚ cute sweaters‚ and things like that. I‚ on the other hand‚ wore hoodies‚ plain jeans‚ and t-shirts. So that was the first thing I changed about myself. I started to wear skinny jeans‚ converse‚ all the clothes the popular kids wore. After that‚ I began to procrastinate and put off my work until last minute; all for the sake of fitting in. But
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