Aileen Viscarra Period 3 May 10‚2018 Book Report The book I chose to read and take my annotations is called “The Girl I Used To Be” written by April Henry. This book is about a girl name Ariel‚ who loses her parents. Fourteen years ago‚ as Ariel’s parents were all going to the forest to cut a christma tree for the holiday‚ but they never came back home. When later that day 3 year old Ariel was found at a Walmart nearby. It takes the authorities time to find out that she is the daughter on the
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The war on drugs is one of the longest‚ seemingly non-progressive issues the US has ever faced. The fact that the government has been prolonging the end of this war‚ is an issue in itself. The documentary The House I Live In‚ directed by Eugene Jarecki in 2012‚ is an informative and important film for the advancement of the war on drugs. In the film‚ the complete history of the war on drugs is picked apart and essentially‚ it is determined and expressed that the war on drugs is a counterproductive
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Intercultural Research Paper: History and Theory The House I Live In by Eugene Jarecki is a documentary film about the war on drugs in the United States. It raises many contemporary intercultural concerns about the issue‚ but first it would be important to explain what cultural groups it highlights. We would first think about diving the war on drugs between drug users and law enforcement‚ but after watching this movie we can tell that there is a real intercultural issue amongst drug users and prisoners
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Three Rules by Which I Live There are three rules by which I live. I think that it is a good value to have rules in my life because they set boundries and they set standards. By keeping boundries‚ rules‚ and/or standards in my daily routine it helps me stay focused and out of trouble. The first rule I tend to follow is‚ Dont mix business with pleasure. Mixing business‚ such as your work life‚ along with your social or home life can bring lots of drama into your world. For instence‚ getting
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Our world is surrounded by mathematics. Math is a very important element in our daily lives. We use math for several reasons‚ for things that are required as well as those that we’re just interested in knowing. Math is used for personal aspects in our lives as well as professional features. The most important notion of this and also cited in the Principles and Standards material‚ everyone needs to be able to use Math in some sort of setting‚ whether its work‚ personal‚ or for further study. According
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Character and Plot in "Why I live in the P.O." Plot refers to the arrangement of the story’s actions. Any story starts with an introduction in other words an exposition. Let us take Cheever’s short story "The Country Husband". This story started by describing a main situation‚ which had a big influence on the rest of the story. It described the airplane crash experience‚ which the main character went into. After that‚ the author described the main character’s family‚ their relations and the way
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In the literature How I live Now by Meg Rosoff shows how humans deal with emotions like Daisy’s depression and family relationships between Daisy and Piper that are established. Piper and Daisy and the rest of the foster family were sent to a barn. They were there for a few days then a chaotic battle started outside one night. Piper and Daisy were taken out of the barn. They were provided with food and supplies by one of the soldiers. The girls set a mission to go back to their original home. Piper
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In the film‚ “the mask I live in‚” published on January 25‚ 2015 by the representation project. The documentary looks at kids in high school in a rough area and adults who grew up with the pressure of becoming a man. This documentary looks at the stereotypes of what it takes to become a man and what you need to do in order to be classified as a man in todays standards. In this film the area they filmed was a hard area to live in which altered what the kids would say‚ the film also looked the bad
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I am not going to start this off with a quote because that’s what everyone else is doing. I am Avery Peak and I hate doing things someone has already done. I like being creative in my own way‚ that’s why I have a grain shoot for an exhaust in my truck and rolling on 37inch mud tires. For starters I am 17 years old. I lived with my mother for twelve years and visited my dad on the weekends. My dad has been in the military for
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Extra credit: SOCI 2201 Name: Lauryn Tonou Sociological analysis of “The House I Live In” The incarceration system in the country has become predicated on economics rather than justice. Drug abuse is not a crime against the society‚ it is mainly medical as problem. Ethnic and racial prejudice rooted social control in American anti-drug policy. Those are arguments deftly assembled in the documentary by Eugene Jarecki with assistance from David Simon‚ former crime reporter. This documentary is
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