After reviewing the list of banned and challenged books‚ I found one that is by one of my favorite authors. The book Looking For Alaska written by John Green was the sixth most challenged book last year for a “scene that may lead a student to sexual experimentation”(Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016 via YouTube). Looking for Alaska was challenged in the United States‚ and is currently the bout of a drawn out battle in Kentucky. At Marion County High School an upset parent wrote a letter to the high
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Looking for Lovedu: A Woman’s Journey Through Africa is a riveting story about Ann Jones’s journey through Africa. Throughout the novel‚ Ann Jones’s mentions the “Western World’s view on Africa. Not only do most westerners have a negative view on Africa‚ but a completely misunderstood point of view on Africa. Africa is a beautiful continent with fascinating cultures and amazing people‚ yet most of the western world fails to see the beauty that is Africa. Based on Ann Jones’s novel‚ most westerners
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Paez 1 Mia Paez English 9-2 H 31 March 2014 Looking For Alaska In the book Looking for Alaska written by John Green is a story about how main character Miles “Pudge” Halter moves from his hometown in Florida to go to a boarding school in Alabama called Culver Creek High School‚ there he meets his roommate Chip “The Colonel” Martin and his friends Alaska Young‚ Takumi Hikohito‚ and Lara Buterskaya. Throughout the novel Pudge tries and does things that he never thought he would do‚ he falls in
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Alaska died from an accident In the novel‚ Looking for Alaska‚ John Green present Alaska Young mysterious death. However‚ the novel seems to argue that Alaska died from an accident because the day she died she was drank. Facing problems and drinking cause Alaska’s death. Times before when Alaska was little with eight years old her mother died of aneurysm. She came home and she needed to finish her homework in order to watch TV. In the book Looking for Alaska‚ Alaska was telling her friends about
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A freezing winter morning it was‚ the breeze beating against my chest makes me wonder… Wait‚ how did I get here? I thought I was reading Pacino’s Looking for Richard Review? That’s exactly what you’re doing‚ and this pleasant surprise is about all the insight I can give you about the fantasy sto… I mean ‘docudrama type thing’. Yes ‘Docudrama type thing’ as described personally by the narrator Al Pacino. The opening scene with the cold winter background‚ leave less grounds and the grey skies that
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for Alibrandi is about Josephine Alibrandi in her last year of high school at St Martha‘s. The book begins with Josie sitting at her desk in her religion class in deep thought about a multiple choice question in a Hot Pants Magazine. The setting in Looking for Alibrandi does not play a main part in the book but plays a main part in her love and family life. In the book there is an emphasis on an urban environment with a teenage view on the social links at her school. Josie lives in Australia in a suburb
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Looking for Alibrandi is a novel written by Melina Marchetta. It is about a young female named Josephine Alibrandi. This book is about Josephine’s journey in search of her identity‚ and her relationships around her. It shows how her views are depicted and how her views change throughout the course of the novel. This novel portrays the use and abuse of power and its effects on individuals in society. These powers include the powers of freedom‚ education‚ legal‚ psychological‚ cultural‚ pressure‚ parental
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and everyday life men and women are set apart by standards kept for many centuries. Both Genders should be treated equal because you should be defined by what you do‚ not your parts. On January 28th the grammys had their 60th showing of the award show and this year came with a lot of controversy over one specific subject‚ Gender Bias. Many were upset over the fact that only one woman was given an award during the ceremony. This isn’t the first year that not a lot of women have been given
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Better Paying Jobs Bernie Sanders argues that there has been a decline in funds‚ that the economy depends on. The funds are suppose to be used in order to further advance our technology and the way we live each day. Roads and Railways usually get damaged but without money from the government they will never get fixed‚ and every year the states get less and less funds for repair work. According to Bernie Sanders‚ “Importantly‚ the Rebuild America Act will support more than thirteen million good-paying
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Boekverslag Engels | Jasmijn Missler V5A Through the Looking Glass (and what Alice found there) by Lewis Carroll De naam van de auteur is Lewis Carroll. De titel van het boek luidt “Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there”. Het jaar van de eerste uitgave is 1872. “Through the Looking Glass” is het vervolg op “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Terwijl Alice met haar twee katten speelt‚ vraagt ze zich af hoe de wereld er uitziet vanaf de andere kant van de spiegel. Als
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