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    “Significant Influence “ “Writers write to influence their readers‚ their preachers‚ their auditors‚ but always‚ at bottom‚ to be more themselves.” the person who has had the most significant influence on me is my mother. This influence goes way beyond the usual “I have great admiration towards my mom because she is the best.” My mom has been the sole guardian of me for as long as I can remember and her actions have turned me into the person I am today. My mother is one who leads

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    Fiction provides a fictitious story‚ with some life lessons throughout. Non-fiction uses a legitimate story to teach the reader a life lesson. Non-fiction can also be about a certain person’s life‚ and experiences. The book “Roll of Thunder‚ Hear My Cry” is a fiction story about the Logan family‚ who lives rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. Night riders‚ burnings‚ and discrimination put the family to the test‚ but the possession of land provides them with the energy needed to fight back

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    Roll of Thunder‚ Hear My Cry PreAP Pre-Reading Activity In the novel you will read about two schools. Ÿ Jefferson Davis County School Ÿ Great Faith Elementary School One school is for white students‚ while the other school is for black students. The separate schools are linked to a case called Plessy vs. Ferguson‚ where the Supreme Court decided that it was constitutional to have segregated facilities for whites and blacks as long as the facilities were equal. The ruling was overturned

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    Segregation-- we all know it. Most of us don’t like it because it makes us feel as if we aren’t wanted. In Roll of Thunder‚ Hear My Cry‚ the setting was the 1930’s. Segregation back then was hard to deny. Mr. Morrison was no exception. He was looked down up‚ and he wanted to improve on that. That makes him righteous‚ and therefore‚ the most admirable character in the book. All in all‚ Mr. Morrison stood up against white people and didn’t accept that others thought of him as a lower person

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    Cry‚ the Beloved Country and Injustice‚ Fear‚ and Family Nothing is ever perfect. All systems have their flaws. Sometimes more flaws than any good. That was the way it was in South Africa during the apartheid‚ people had to break away from the family and their tradition just to get food and a little money. The corrupt government spread ideas of inequality and injustice‚ forcing people to live in fear of their lives. In his protest novel‚ Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ Alan Paton uses the interaction

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    In the novel‚ Warriors Don’t Cry‚ the author told her story of life in Central High School. The author‚ Melba Pattillo Beals‚ is telling her feeling toward the hatred her and eight other African American teenagers went through. She went further by telling their actions. The setting of the story took place in Little Rock Arkansas during the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s. I believe that this book should be appropriate for tenth graders because it will teach us how people was treated‚ the difference

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    The Influence of Music As explored in the lives of Arcangelo Corelli and Barbara Strozzi Alexandria Woodward Valley City State University Music History and Literature II Why make music? Every great composer throughout all of history has asked himself this question. It is this question that sparks the purpose and passion for music that greatness requires. Leonard Bernstein once said‚ “Music . . . can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable” (www.goodreads

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    feel like you are worthless and there is no hope in the world. These two different types of people have drastically different types of worldviews. Cry‚ the Beloved Country has a view of cherishing life and your loved ones which is different from The Stranger‚ which is life is meaningless and one should not care about anything because everyone dies. In Cry; the Beloved Country a strong character who shows the quality of cherishing life and caring for others is the life of Kumalo. Kumalo is a man who

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    Forrest Miller and Shannon Coyle Mr. Christensen Composition 1 19 October 2012 Cry Me a River: The Truth about Tears Tears. A common ground for all people. Everyone cries‚ but whether they want to admit it or not is a personal choice. For some‚ crying expresses weakness‚ a characteristic that brings upon them the ridicule of their peers; for others‚ tears are a natural way to express their emotions without holding them in. However‚ crying is used by many to relieve stress and helps them to calm

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    To say that the Stephen King novel “IT” is simply a horror novel about a monster is to say that Alan Paton’s “Cry‚ The Beloved Country” is just a novel about a man losing his son. There is much more to it than that. Published by American writer Stephen King in September of 1986‚ “IT” is a known suspenseful‚ horror story that not only pulls back the vivid memories of your childhood fears‚ but makes you relive them as well. Taking place in Derry‚ Maine between the years of 1957 through 1985‚ “IT” is

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