Del Valle 1 Briana Del Valle Mrs. Keller Mrs. Northrop English Language Arts 12 16 October 2014 Looking For Alaska The title of the book Looking For Alaska suggests that the characters in the book were looking for Alaska in a metaphorical sense. This story is about Miles‚ a 16year old boy who is shy and lonely‚ he has no friends. He decided to move to Alabama and enroll in Culver Creek Preparatory School‚ hoping to change his social life. He befriends the Colonel‚ Alaska‚ and Takumi
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I recently finished reading your book called Looking For Alaska. After conducting research‚ I am aware that various schools have challenged whether or not the book is appropriate to keep in school libraries. Although your book contains controversial content‚ I think the theme composed in the story makes the controversy of the content irrelevant. Therefore‚ I disagree with the individuals who think Looking For Alaska should be banned from schools. This novel should not be exempt from schools because
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In the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green‚ one of the main characters‚ Alaska Young‚ is involved in a fatal car accident. Following her death‚ the world religions teacher‚ Dr. Hyde‚ asks his class to interpret the question she posed for an essay: “How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?” This is the biggest clue that leads the reader to believe her car crash was not an accident (Constantakis). Other clues are how openly Alaska brings up dying‚ such as when she states the reason
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Inner conflict is the number one cause of depression and anxiety that is now found in approximately 3.2 million Canadian youth in today’s society. It is often an internal fight‚ man against self‚ one of the hardest battle one will ever have to face. With daily life‚ choices are always presented‚ and are made much harder when one is dealing with self conflict themselves. In the short story “ Choices” Susan Kerslake presents us with a young lady‚ Peggy‚ who starts of with making simple choices in the
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Major Conflicts in “Young Goodman Brown” and The Parable of the Prodigal Son In “Young Goodman Brown”‚ we see that the major conflict is whether or not Goodman Brown will decide to lose his faith when he comes to believe that others he reveres have lost theirs. The major conflict in the Parable of the Prodigal Son surrounds the younger sons’ decision to return home and the elder son’s refusal to welcome his brother home. There is no doubt a conflict of good and evil in “Young Goodman Brown”.
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Looking For JJ by Anne Cassidy is a dramatic thriller that grips the imagination of the reader from page 1. Looking For JJ is the story of a girl desperately trying to cover up her terrible past. It’s a tale of the love that she loses to be able to rebuild her new life. Jennifer Jones moved to the small town of Berwick waters at the age of 11. This was town where everything went wrong. Her actions lead her to be in a detention centre for six years for murdering her arrogant‚ demanding and bossy
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Gloria E. Wiggs 10/10/2011 Prof. Pearson Intro to Sociology Research Report: Looking Deathworthy Researchers Jennifer L. Eberhardt‚ Paul G. Davis Valerie J. Purdie-Vaughns‚ and Sheri Lynn Johnson studied whether being stereotypically black influences the probability of receiving the death penalty. Sociologist have previously proven that people quickly apply racial stereotypes to blacks who have the stereotypically appearance of a black person. This racial profile effects how people
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his work was an essay I did for my English College class‚ and I’m very proud of it so I decided to share: Inner Beauty V. Physical Beauty Beauty is a perception of an object‚ person‚ or aspect‚ which is fully opinionated by the mind; therefore‚ beauty cannot be proven by fact or law since it is completely based on how and what a person distinguishes the aspect to be. There are two categories of beauty: inner beauty and physical beauty. Physical beauty is the beauty a person inherits from a
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Salah O. Ahmed Intro to Afro-American Literature Professor Todd Duncan (This could use a longer conclusion) Inner Peace In the essays‚ "How it Feels to be Colored Me" and "On Being Young-a Woman-and Colored"‚ the authors‚ Zola Neale Hurston and Marita Bonner‚ respectively‚ tell a similar story of having grown up and had to deal with racism in the Post-Bellum Era. In their appeal to a new generation‚ one less stigmatized by slavery and more hopeful about the future than its predecessor‚ Hurston and
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themselves and their world. This may or may not have positive outcomes‚ for one or two of the people involved‚ but we must all understand the consequences‚ whether good or bad‚ of changing perspectives. Josephine as a character in Kate Woods’ film “Looking for Alibrandi” highlights the ups and downs of being a teenage girl in turmoil‚ trying to find her own way in a community where she “doesn’t belong”‚ to find a positive outcome in what she feels is a world not made for people like her‚ especially with her
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