planned to do something different. Some of my friends (2 males and 2 females) and I pulled a bullying prank on random public places just to see what people will react. I was disgusted by few people’s behavior. People saw four people were bullying one person physically and verbally and they just walked away instead of helping. When they walked out‚ one of my friend called them over to say it was a prank and ask them how come they didn’t help. Some people were like "sorry I’m in rush" and some people just
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The theme of the article “Teens are Hardwired for Risky Behavior” was that the efforts of teaching teens about the dangers of unprotected sex‚ drug‚ alcohol use‚ smoking‚ etc. don’t work. They can teach kids all they want about the dangers and try to scare them but the reality is that in the spur of the moment most teens will be likely to give into peer pressure. Most of the time‚ teens wouldn’t do risky business if they were alone. When a teen is doing risky business it’s usually because there are
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If there is one time of life when everything comes into focus‚ it has to be your high school years. Looking for Alaska cannot be merely written off as a typical boy-meets-girl love story‚ because it isn’t. As Miles Halter or “Pudge” craves for “the Great Perhaps”‚ he heads to the world of Culver Creek Boarding School‚ wherein he met the beautiful‚ mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young and in his life nothing is ever the same again. John Green is a bestselling author of Young Adult fictions
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‘The Mobile Phone: A Blessing or a Curse’ from the eighteen hundreds to the present day‚ mankind has made many inventions: the television‚ radio‚ digital watches‚ and more recently home computers. Now‚ in the twenty first century a new invention has become one of the most widely used forms of communication in the world today. This of course is the mobile phone. Although available in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties it did not become as popular as first expected. Mainly due to the fact
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Reginald Holt 9/27/12 King School 8th The Sleepy Hollow The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow it tells the story of Ichabod Crane‚ superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut
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Singer’s use of Gimpel in “Gimpel the Fool” is both an interesting and odd choice. Gimpel‚ was called a fool since he was always found believing some lie or the other. However‚ Gimpel himself believes that he is not a fool since he can see through all the disguises that the town tries to use. Instead of just pointing out how the town always does this‚ Gimpel chooses to follow through with the joke. In fact‚ this is the cycle that is repeated with every lie: tell Gimpel the lie‚ he decides believes
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“You left me Perhapsless‚ stuck in your goddamned labyrinth” (Green 172). Miles “Pudge” Halter has an obsession with people’s last words. This obsession has led him to boarding school in search of the “Great Perhaps.” This is where he meets the intriguing Alaska Young who introduces him to the “labyrinth.” This eccentric girl helps him begin his journey in search of the “Great Perhaps‚” but leaves him stuck in the labyrinth after a devastating event. I will be questioning whether or not Alaska killed
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compared two unlike things. My second example is Titania is very pretty and Bottom is very ugly. They are two different people who have two different personalities and they compared them together. My third example is ‚Bottom is the victim of pranks and Puck plays the pranks on other people. They have two different personalities. They used metaphors by comparing the two people who are very unalike. These examples explain how the story uses dream motifs as
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the target of a local lord for a prank and at the time‚ he is severely intoxicated. The lord’s men find Sly outside of an alehouse and take him to the lord’s estate where he is dressed in the lord’s clothing‚ and put into the lord’s bed. Once Sly comes around‚ he is convinced by the lord’s men that he himself is a lord‚ and that he only thinks that he is a tinker because he has been insane for the past few years. The servants hound him‚ all taking part in the prank. “Would your lordship prefer some
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see how society’s views of black people have influenced Huck. We first see this when Huck and Tom sneak out of the house and play a trick on Jim by taking his hat while he’s asleep and putting it in a tree branch over his head. Huck constantly plays pranks on Jim throughout their journey. It shows that Huck’s view of Jim is more like something to joke around with and not something to respect due to his skin color. When Huck and Jim find each other on Jackson Island it seems as if it’s a dream like
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