always has a gang‚ a street gang‚ or the so-called outcasts.” – Jimi Hendrix. The tone‚ purpose‚ and gangs in the Outsiders and the article share some traits‚ and differ with others. For example‚ they share the theme of violence among youth. However‚ the view of the gangs on violence differs. One common theme The Outsiders and the news article share violence among youth. In The Outsiders‚ the main character‚ Ponyboy‚ is involved in a local gang. Throughout the novel‚ he indicates his reluctance in
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The Outsiders Theme “The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s our broken idea of fairness. Meaning‚ our idea of fairness is self-centered” (Tony Warrick). The Outsiders‚ by S. E. Hinton‚ is a novel about the bond between the rich eastside Socials and the poor Greasers. Although many themes are portrayed throughout the novel‚ the theme of unfairness is the most consistent theme. First‚ unfairness is portrayed through the Greasers. Johnny‚ one of the Greasers‚ had been treated unfairly his whole
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Paulo Freire severely scrutinizes the banking concept of education. He dislikes everything about the traditional teaching method‚ where the teachers just fill the students with information and hope the students retain it long enough to spit it back out to them on tests. He argues that students are led to “memorize mechanically” the information lectured by a teacher. He would strongly oppose the use of grades in the schooling system. Truly‚ students are getting graded on how well they can memorize
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Social classes in “The Outsiders” were a portrayal of how society was back in the 60’s. It sets the mood for the novel with the Socs’ and the Greasers. They were both from different parts of town (East and West). The “Greasers” were the lower class that live on the East side of Tulsa. They wear leather jackets and ripped jeans‚ and they walk everywhere. On the other hand‚ the “Socs” were the rich kids that lived on the West Side of town. They drove nice cars and wore the best clothes. The social
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The Outsiders In both of this poems Anecdote of the Jar and Clay has a sense of alienation between them‚ the Jar and Maria are nothing without their surroundings and their surroundings are nothing without them as well. The title of both of this text has a great significance of what the story is all about for instance Anecdote of a Jar anecdote meaning a little story that has little or significance at all. The meaning of Clay according to ardictionary.com means the dead
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In any story with a recurring dark theme there always must be an outsider from humanity who somehow stands out from the seemingly equal community. In the case of Shakespeare’s Othello the outsider from humanity would be Iago for he truly stands out from the rest of society. Although Othello may be physically put out of the community‚ it seems that on an emotional and egotistical level Iago puts himself out of society further then Othello’s blackness does. He is not merely manipulative‚ as other villains
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INTRODUCTION: The role of outsiders in the Indian Trade Unions has long been quoted with a negative connotation. The views are mostly stereotyped with very less factual support. In 1960s for example‚ the National Commission of Labour found that the number of outsiders was not more than 10%. Since then things have changed further and more and more insiders are getting involved in the Trade Union activities‚ NCL has still never favoured to limit the number of outsiders. It is interesting to note that
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people. In the book The Outsiders Randy showed great leadership skills while he was talking with Ponyboy. Randy was shown in the story by trying to bridge the gap between the Greaser and the Socs by talking with Ponyboy. Randy associated with the Greasers by telling them his opinion of Bob’s death. Randy took the liberty of talking to the Greasers even though they are from different groups‚ and he made a connection with them. Randy showed plenty of leadership qualities in the book. Bridging the gap
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The effects of social-networking sites like Face book The social networks as Facebook‚ MySpace and others are all “virtual places” where people find themselves and share information. Nowadays‚ social networks are the best tools for communication‚ though in the first place they were used only for university purposes‚ where students and colleagues stayed in contact with each other after works or studies. What currently has become the subject of many debates are the various effects that these social
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poem in the novel to show that things always change. For example‚ the poem states‚ “Nature’s first green is gold‚ her hardest hue to hold.” Frost is saying that at first everything is pure‚ but it’s hard to keep it that way. This relates to The Outsiders because in the beginning of Ponyboy’s life‚ everything was fine. Ponyboy and Johnny even gained a lot of fame and recognition for saving the kids from the burning church. This reminds us of how pure everything is at the beginning. In addition to
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