Calvin Cambridge and his two best friends‚ Murph and Reg Stevens‚ are teenage orphans. At night they have to sell chocolate for the orphanage director‚ Stan Bittleman‚ after each home game of the Los Angeles Knights. Calvin meets the team’s coach‚ who is impressed by Calvin’s knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates‚ and offers Calvin tickets for the next game. Calvin obtains a pair of old sneakers from a thrift store reportedly used by a great basketball player when he was a boy
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When European explorers arrived in our hemisphere about five hundred years ago‚ they were not alone. American Indians had been living here for thousands of years before the first Europeans encountered what they called the New World. (“Native Cultures Thrive in America” 5). These societies‚ each of which was usually made up of a few thousand people‚ had extensive histories and diverse cultures. The Native American characteristics are‚ Native American Literature is rooted in oral tradition‚ myths and
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The best moral lesson that atticus taught his kids was that‚ you can’t judge someone if you have not walk in there shoes. The reason why this is the best is because in the book they blamed Tom Robinson for the rape of mrs. Ewill when he didn’t do a thing and they didn’t believe him because he was a black man and they would always believe a white man’s word over a black man’s word any day. Atticus knew this but he thought he could change people’s minds but there was little chance of winning and
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She looked up at the same ceiling above her bed before falling asleep for 18 years. Caroline Sheridan grew up in Nashville‚ Tennessee and never moved before coming to Dallas for college. “I didn’t really think I wanted to go any further west than Nashville for college‚” Sheridan said. Her life was in Nashville. She went a small coed private catholic school from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. And later a non-denominational school for high school. Growing up in Nashville with her family
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Essay Draft- Discuss how the novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling teaches us important moral and social lessons. Novels aren’t just a source of entertainment‚ they also contain important social and moral lessons. This can be seen in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K Rowling through the journey of Harry Potter and his friends in their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During this time they have to work together to defeat Voldemort
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provided entertainment‚ taught moral lessons‚ and explained the earth and its nature. Notably‚ the modern reader can learn valuable moral lessons from ancient Greek myths. Not to mention‚ the variety of myths that exist‚ many of these myths give children knowledge and understanding of the world. These following aspects are shown in the following myths‚ Phaethon and the Chariot of the Sun‚ Icarus and Daedalus‚ and Athena and Arachne. Additionally‚ These moral lessons are important for our society today
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One of the biggest moral lessons you can learn in this book is that: people are people‚ regardless of race or social class. Throughout the book‚ Scout and Jem face many examples of it as they go about their daily lives. The examples appear everywhere from the beginning of the book all the way to the very end‚ but Jem and Scout don’t catch on to the lesson until later in the book. One of the first examples was when Jem invited Walter Cunningham to go home and have dinner with them in chapter 3. Scout
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Heaven I was aboard on an airship‚ staring out in the window when I got a glimpse of you. At that mere second‚ I never knew that the word “perfect” really exists. You were there‚ sitting‚ fingers lazily stroking the spine of the book. But what captivated me the most were those hazel orbs staring intently at the leaf as if it was the most dazzling thing ever. How I wish I was that book. I was aboard on an airship‚ eyes skimming over the words neatly imprinted in the book. One would get the idea that
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elementary school) had a very tight knit‚ somewhat elitist group of friends who at times would talk about some of the other girls they thought were "weird" or dressed "funny." I shared this particular childhood memory of mine with her and it taught HER a lesson. When I was in 5th grade I was new to my school and pretty shy. I dressed a little differently than my classmates and did very well in class. My teacher was always pleased with my work and complimented it in front of the class; some of the more
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up learning that society views slaves as property. As Huck and Jim travel further away from home‚ Huck’s journey becomes a coming of age experience. Meeting new people and seeing new things‚ it teaches Huck that the society he lives in is flawed in multiple ways. While Huck doesn’t know it‚ there are many times his decisions are more moral than those of society. As time progresses‚ Huck comes to acknowledge that Jim has traits that resemble those of his own kind‚ like his ability to care and sacrifice
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