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    Boys and Girls

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    boys and girls Bringing Boys and Girls Together: Supporting Preschoolers’ Positive Peer Relationships By: Hillary Manaster and Maureen Jobe November 2012 Teachers are in a unique position to cultivate children’s cross gender interactions and friendships. By intentionally planning and supporting certain experiences‚ educators can encourage children to build a social world characterized by meaningful relationships with peers of both sexes. To purposely increase engagement and interactions

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    African-Americans. In this poem‚ Sharon Olds explores this relationship using imagery‚ repetition‚ and multiple tone shifts. In the beginning of the poem‚ the author introduces a situation that contrasts a white person with a black. Correspondingly‚ she applies imagery to emphasize this difference greatly. For example‚ the shoes he is wearing at the time are black “laced with white” and compares them to “intentional scars.” These scars correlate to to the discrimination against blacks by whites in society

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    The Forty Thieves Retold by Andrew Lang In a town in Persia there dwelt two brothers‚ one named Cassim‚ the other Ali Baba. Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty‚ while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it in the town. One day‚ when Ali Baba was in the forest‚ he saw a troop of men on horseback‚ coming toward him in a cloud of dust. He was afraid they were robbers‚ and climbed into a tree for safety. When they

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    The Lost Boys

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    "In "The Lost Boy‚" the story describes the period in which the bewildered child‚ haunted by the fear of being returned to his mad and alcoholic mother‚ is passed between foster care homes. For six years‚ David Pelzer was sent to over ten different foster homes; sometimes returning to the same home twice. David’s desperate attempts to be accepted by his peers led him into a life of petty crime‚ which‚ including cruel tricks his "friends" played on him‚ included stealing‚ and ending up going to "The

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    Boy Overboard

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    ESSAY DRAFT The novel Boy Overboard‚ written by Morris Gleitzman‚ is the story of a young Afghan boy named Jamal fleeing his country along with his family. Jamal and his family and friends all have a longing for freedom‚ equality and independence‚ which drives them to find a new life in Australia. This is demonstrated when they find a safe and equal environment for Bibi and her mother‚ when Jamal’s parents raise money for their journey‚ when they risk their protection with smugglers‚ and when Jamal

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    Sympathy Poem

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    In the poem‚ “Sympathy”‚ the author uses a slightly abbreviated version of the first line at the end of each stanza to show repetition and purpose. For example‚ in the last stanza the author says “I know why the caged bird sings‚ ah me” and ends with “I know why the caged bird sings” to show that the author not only understands why the bird does what he does but also that the author resonates with the bird emotionally (Lines 15‚ 21). In this instance‚ the author is describing the birds cries for

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    Black Plague

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    DBQ-Black Plague During mid-fourteen century‚ a terrible plague hit Europe and wiped out a third of the population‚ 25‚000‚000 people of Western Europe. This plague was named the Black Plague since when people got the disease they got bumps that oozed black liquid and different body parts would turn black. The plague was spread by infected fleas on rats that bit humans. Since the Europeans lacked medical knowledge‚ the Plague caused hysteria and hopelessness to spread across Europe. Therefore the

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    3.2 The Pepsi commercial Jack Doyle‚ on his website on the history of popular culture (PopHistoryDig.com) tellingly exposes that Madonna’s first real controversy‚ the video clip ‘Like a Prayer’ that brought her global fame‚ was part of a television commercial campaign. As he sums it up‚ in the late 1980s‚ the two major soft drinks companies‚ Coca-Cola and Pepsi were engaged in a competition to reach millions of customers in soft-drink consuming. They thought it is an effective way to promote soft-drink

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    reason why. 2. how do the narrator’s carefully described " adventure stories" relate to the theme of "Boys and Girls"? Explain what these stories suggest about the world she lives in and the world she would like to live in . 3. assume the role of the narrator and write the beginning of a short story (minimum one page) that serves as a sequel to "Boys and Girls" 1. The narrator of the short story “Boys and Girls” is a common farm girl who struggles to achieve a lifestyle not dictated by social expectations

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    Dover Boys

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    Chuck Jones probably didn’t know that during the creation of “The Dover Boys” he would create an animation style that would later be used by future animation artists‚ especially Robert Cannon from the United Productions of America (UPA). Chuck Jones was known for showing the emotion of cartoons with abstract animation and was the first to use the “smear” style of animation with “The Dover Boys”. One would say that you could see a lot of Chuck Jones style with the UPA cartoon “ Gerald McBoing Boing”

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