The Blue Boy Summary: In Gary Stephen Ross’ excerpt‚ “The Blue Boy‚” he describes Vancouver through the eyes of the main character. The character recounts a story of his travels that he would take with his father and brother from Toronto to Vancouver. The character highlights the ongoing transformation of the city and describes how it has evolved over time. In the beginning of the excerpt‚ he describes what he saw Vancouver to be in the 60s: a small city with little to offer. Contrastingly
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In hopes of attaining and possessing a leadership role in the Warhawk marching band‚ I‚ Eric Monson‚ submit this letter of intent. As a member of nearly two years with Seminole‚ I have been able to experience an atmosphere of genuine love and acceptance that I now hope to further encourage and foster. This will be my sixth year as a part of the marching arts‚ during which I have had the privilege of playing and marching for two different ensembles‚ as well as maintaining leadership roles in both
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“The Lost Boy” “The Lost Boy” is an emotional non-fiction story‚ an autobiography‚ of Dave Pelzer’s difficult trials of child abuse and experience in foster care. It is a tale of a young boy who lives in isolation and fear searching for a place to call home‚ for a family. “The Lost Boy” encompasses themes of love‚ hate‚ and ultimate triumph. Dave’s life at home was one of constant terror and “lifeless existence.” He was his mother’s scapegoat and the outcast of the family. His father loved
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The Cricket Boy (A Chinese Tale) A long time ago‚ cricket fighting caught on inthe imperial court‚ withthe emperor leading the fad. A local magistrate in Huayin‚ who wanted to winthe favor of the monarch‚ tried in every way to gethim the best fightingcrickets. He had a strategy for doing so: He managed to geta cricket thatwas very good at fighting. He then made his subordinates go to theheads of each village and force them to send in a constant supply of fightingcrickets.He would send to the
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Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with
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Things seem to be looking even more bleaker for Richard in Black Boy. It has gotten to the point that Richard has basically become dead to all of his family except his mother. This is due in fact to not believing in God or “not being able to feel his presence‚” thus making him shunned basically by his family. Because of the poverty that the family live in and also the strict religious backing of the house‚ the amount of food has always been scarce. Richard tries to find ways to get money‚ but he
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“Pop music sucks.” With those simple words I have aligned my chakras and transcended the mortal realm. I am enlightened. I do not consume mainstream media like some mindless sheep; I only listen to real music. Music with meaningful lyrics by obscure indie artists: the ones that sing exclusively about cigarettes‚ sadness‚ and our vapid society. Flash forward a few years later and I am being awakened to full consciousness at a One Direction concert. I had temporarily blacked out from my music-induced
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Classical music vs. Pop music There are a lot of differences between the two most popular styles of music. These musical styles have different history‚ used instruments‚ size of audience and height of popularity. Classical music and popular music are both part of the culture of most Americans and Europeans. They share some aspects of musical language‚ but there are some prominent differences. (davidvanalstyne.com #1) As long as conditions permitted people of all tastes found something
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Written by James Patterson‚ Pop Goes The Weasel is about a Washington D.C. police officer Alex Cross‚ who is trying to catch the most explosive and dangerous serial killer he has ever faced. If there is something to be learned from this book‚ it is that looks can be deceiving. This is because the killer in the novel also leads a normal life as a British ambassador with a wife and two kids. Pop Goes The Weasel is an exciting thriller full of imagery‚ irony‚ and foreshadowing that keeps you on the
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9/28/13 Racism is worldwide‚ and has been going on for a long period of time. Kaffir boy helped me understand the racial discrimination that he went through easily. I honestly didn’t expect for racism to have gone that far. This book made me realize a variety of things‚ and what the word brave actually meant. Finding out that his father was taken away must have been devastating and acting strong was another competition. “My father had been arrested that morning in the bus stop for being unemployed
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