Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is set in a future where Earth has been involved in a 50 year long war against an alien force‚ known as “Buggers”. Earth’s three ruling parties‚ the Hegemon‚ Polemarch and Strategos form an International Fleet to fight the “Buggers”. The International Fleet created the Battle School to train the most gifted children‚ with the best strategic minds to fight in the IF. Children were chosen because having been raised on video war games their decisions are intuitive‚ decisive
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“Sonny’s Blues” By James Baldwin‚ and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien are the two Things that illustrates the thoughts of their nation America. The Characters In “Sonny’s blues” represent a wide range about human nature. For example‚ Sonny is a character with very non serious sense of humor and he is drug addict his brother (narrator) is character with good sense of humor and he was not drug addict. Sonny is the
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James Lawson and Nonviolent Direct Action Despite efforts to garner legislative equality for African Americans after the Civil War‚ the actual implementation of change did not occur for some time later. The 13th and 14th Amendments‚ which ended slavery and granted the rights of citizenship to black Americans‚ were often ineffectual in promoting racial justice. Throughout the following decades‚ race relations struggled against the remnants of Jim Crow to the forefront of American social issues‚ but
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Title: The Raft Author: S.A. Bodeen Pages:231 Girl named Robie and she’s 15. Max is a point and he’s almost 20. She lives on an island midway atoll in the middle of the pacific. She is going to go she her aunt in Hawii. So she gets herself a plane ticket to Hawii to see her aunt‚ and no one knows that she is going. She gets on the plane and they crash. They fall into the middle of the ocean and no one knows that
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The author of this book is Rita Williams-Garcia. The title of this book is called P.S Be Eleven . The genre of this book is Historical Fiction. The setting is 1968 Brooklyn‚ New York. The setting impacts the character because they spent a long time with the Black Panthers that now Big Ma really doesn’t like how they stand up for their things. You will be exploring many fascinating characters including Big Ma‚ Uncle Darnell‚ Pa‚ and Mr. Mwila. Big Ma is the grandmother of the 3 sisters. She is kind
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video which showed she had set up a “Blue eyes‚ Brown eyes” experiment. The experiment was set up in order to teach the children all about racism so that they were able to understand how people are easily affected from it. She had decided that having a discussion about racism wouldn’t be enough for the children to fully understand what it was all about as they would forget about it straight away so she decided it would be best to show them by creating the “Blue eyes‚ Brown eyes” experiment which would
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construction‚ or other blue-collar jobs are classified as thick‚ lazy‚ and unintelligent. In “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose‚ he retells how his mother and his uncle worked in a blue-collar job‚ or working class job‚ but does not just see them as mindless for their lack of formal education. His article was originally published in 2009 in the American Scholar. Rose addresses the misconceptions of what is intelligence using his personal stories as an example. Mike Rose’s “Blue-Collar Brilliance”
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Sonny’s Life in Conflict In James Baldwin’s short story‚ “Sonny’s Blues‚” the narrator provides multiple expressions and ideas to give us readers a better understanding of what is going on throughout the story. The narrator not only gives us thorough information‚ but displays major themes as the story changes roles. The term conflict really stood out to me as I was reading through the story. Playing the role of a big brother was not all that easy for the narrator‚ in which he found out first
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Etta James Famous singer originally named as Jamesetta Hawkins. Jamesetta was born in Los Angeles‚ California‚ on January 25‚ 1938. She was a very dynamic song writer of the blues‚ jazz‚ and a gospel prodigy. Jamesetta mother Dorothy Hawkins had her at the age of fourteen years old. Despite the struggles as a child‚ raising a child was hell. But Dorothy knew her daughter had a spontaneous voice. In the church choir‚ receiving fame and praise from the neighborhoods’ radio station. Jamesetta took
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Jesse James Jessy James 6th hour Final Draft 12/10/12 History still remembers the Wild West with the bandits and killers who robbed trains and banks. Many outlaws become famous due to the wild legends follow their names. One of the most widely known and significant outlaws of them all is Jesse James. He represents one of the thrilling images of the Wild West. Jesse had a skillful approach with attacking banks and trains. Jesse James was an American outlaw known for being a rebellious bank
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