Imaging a world where you have to fight to survive. A world where you could die when you step out your house. A world that is full of hatred and racism. Racism runs through the city’s blood‚ and has thus led to a high amount of street and gang violence. A world where being in school is the same as being on the street. Gang war can broke out anywhere at any time. Eva Benitez came from a family with a strong gang heritage. When she was younger‚ she witnessed her uncle got shot in a drive-by
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The party I will never remember Maybe it wasn’t the right hour for setting out‚ the sun too blazing or too uncertain. Maybe it was a road that belonged to another‚ never really yours. The rays pieced the veil which was my room‚ my eyes burned from the light streaming through the blinds. I felt my surroundings warp around me; I could feel the wetness beneath of the previous night’s events. Unfortunately I had vomited on myself in my drunken endeavours‚ my ears rang‚ and my head spun‚ I could possibly
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For this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two poems. The poems I will talk about are The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur. The second one is Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. The Rose that Grew from Concrete is written by Tupac Shakur. He uses symbolism of the rose to talk about his life in the ghetto.The rose is the man and the concrete is the ghetto. A rose can’t grow in concrete‚ and it’s very hard to survive the hard life of the ghetto. A person from the ghetto might have difficulty
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#1 The documentary‚ "God Grew Tired of Us" is a tragic story about the three Lost Boys of Sudan written by Christopher Dillon Quinn. It shows how the life of a refugee is and how they are discriminated against for their skin colour and for the way they act in America. There are many aspects I like about the documentary such as how the three Lost Boys in the documentary stayed positive throughout the film‚ even when they started getting sad. An example of this is how when the interviewers for
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Thank you for teaching me on how to become a better argumentative writer. Writing has always been easy for me‚ especially when it came to summaries‚ rhetorical‚ and synthesis essays. Honestly‚ I never would have admitted how much I struggled with grasping the strongest way to argument an opinion without being utterly biased or incompetent with providing efficient evidence to support my claims. Having the opportunity to develop my skills as a writer through the two argumentative research papers has
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The Writer by Richard Wilbur On order to effectively analyze “The Writer‚” one might look to the Advanced Placement format‚ for instance‚ to best understand the meaning of Wilbur’s poem. Some questions we might ask as a basis for analysis are as follows: 1. Who is the speaker in the poem? In “The Writer‚” the speaker is likely Wilbur speaking about his daughter. 2. Who is the audience of the poem? The poem seems to be directed toward parents who might relate to Wilbur as they
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Freedom Writers By: Maya Mohan Freedom writers is a book consisting of the diary entries of a classroom of a troubled youth from the inner cities struggling just to make it through each day. A courageous and kind-hearted teacher‚ Ms. Erin Gruwell took on the class as a first year teacher at Woodrow Wilson High school in Long Beach‚ California. She pushed past the students’ reputations‚ lack of funds and non supportive co-workers to help these kids achieve something many of them thought they’d never
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Kathryn Hess English 12/ Hero’s quest period 8 Mrs. Dunn In the beginning of the movie Freedom Writers‚ the students initially only trust their peers from their racial groups. This is because they only trust the people in their gangs. Almost all the kids were in racially segregated gangs. At first‚ Ms. Gruwell has difficulty getting anything accomplished. Many of these students have never been shown any respect in the past. Eva and some of the other students tell Ms. Gruwell that they will not
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every time‚ I read “The Rose That Grew from the Concrete” by Tupac Shakur‚ my personal takeaway from the poem is the importance of perseverance. To me‚ it seems that in this poem it alludes to hard work and proving any doubters wrong in the process and this can be seen by “Proving nature’s law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet” (3-4). One literary element that was evident in the poem was symbols. One symbol is clear in the very opening line “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack
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Flanagan Writer Born: 22 May 1944 Birthplace: Sydney‚ Australia Best known as: Author of the Ranger’s Apprentice series of children’s books Name at birth: John Anthony Flanagan A former advertising and television writer‚ John Flanagan is now known for writing the Ranger’s Apprentice fantasy books for young readers. Flanagan grew up in Sydney‚ Australia‚ took to writing early‚ and eventually caught on as an ad agency writer. Later he moved to television and with co-writer Gary Reilly
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