Ally Carter is a best-selling young adult author who is famous for her cunning and quick-witted books such as “The Gallagher Girls” and “The Heist Society” just to name a couple. She became interested in writing at a young age when she was just a farm girl living in Oklahoma‚ little did she know‚ she would become a widely known author. Ally started her writing career with the desire to bring joy to her readers‚ and she has accomplished that by bringing the excitement of spies and intrigue to her
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“You think I want this life? You think I want this life?....I hate this life‚” (Out in the Cold). A man named Jerry said this when John Koepke and J.D. O’Brien interviewed him on the streets of Minneapolis‚ Minnesota. Koepke and O’Brien were making a documentary about the homeless called Out in the Cold based off of real interviews with several homeless people as they spent a week in winter living in shelters or on the streets. They created this documentary to create awareness for the homeless
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Educational Failure “Every year‚ over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That ’s a student every 26 seconds – or 7‚000 a day” (Thornbergh). Why this happening and more importantly‚ what is being done to solve this problem? Because of boring classes‚ too much freedom‚ and just a lack of motivation‚ students nationwide are dropping out of school‚ and are starting on the path of minimum wage and regret. Schools are trying to resolve this issue by giving the support
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of telling story. A narrative poem simply tells a story from the perspective of a narrator who does not reveal their personal thoughts or feelings. A prime example of a narrative poem would be Out‚ out‚ by Robert Frost in which the story of a little boy losing his life with a detached narrator. Out‚ out begins by introducing the buzz saw the little boy works with right away. Even from the start the Author uses personification to bring life to the saw. He suggests the saw “snarls” and “rattled”
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violence in their eye-opening poems‚ ’Disabled’ and ’Out‚ Out’. Set during the hard times of war‚ these poems portray different war-related themes and carry their own distinctive similarities and differences‚ contrasting with one another. On one hand we have ’Disabled‚’ written by Wilfred Owen with his intense experience as a soldier in the First World War. His past experience inspires his piece of poetry heavily. Whereas‚ on the other hand‚ we have ’Out‚ Out’s poet; Robert Frost‚ a British-settled American
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Introduction “Truly great friends are hard to find‚ difficult to leave‚ and impossible to forget.”- Randolf‚ G. The quote above explains to a great extent the value of friendship and particularly good friends in one’s life. Relationships are a significant aspect in everybody’s lives‚ if not the most significant‚ and friendship happens to be the most cherished of them all. Friends are people whom one can confide in‚ someone who are there in times of need. We tend to share a lot of things with our
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Coming out of "My Heterophobia" Closet Growing up in a heterosexual world as a Lesbian who remained in many closets‚ has shape my identity and the way I will transact with people for the rest of my life. Upon coming out of closet‚ or being pushed out (by suspension from parents and friends) at the age of eighteen or nineteen I quickly assumed the bi-sexual title because it meant at least there was hope for me in the future. This proved to be worse for my self-esteem‚ and may have caused the most
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Out of Time By Kieren Hovasapian Out of Time is a poem written by Kenneth Slessor and is one of his personally favorite poems to date he has written. Time is personified in this poem‚ but also associated with the natural phenomenon of water‚ or vessels such as yachts seen on Slessor’s favorite location‚ Sydney Harbor (which is itself personified). Personification gives immediacy to an abstraction such as time‚ and elicits evaluative responses which are more arresting than an address to an abstraction
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humans could discover resources (oil‚ gas‚ coal‚ water‚ diamonds...etc.)on other planets‚ to help sustain the way we live on Earth. The biggest reason why the possibility of future discovery justifies the space program‚ is to find out if there are other living species out there‚ and to uncover the mysteries of space and time. With the space program it is possible that we could find another planet‚ like Earth‚ that could sustain our ways of life‚ which is a great thing because it gives humans a second
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love Simple ways to nurture and strengthen your relationship while avoiding the habits that break down your loving connection. For whatever reasons‚ many people seem to believe that it’s normal and perfectly acceptable to settle for an “okay” relationship. Sometimes‚ even couples who report that they have a good relationship appear to be confused about what a “good” relationship really means. In other words‚ they might say they have a nice relationship‚ yet they seem to experience or express ongoing
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