Ron Wallace Mrs. Hutchinson English 75D February 2‚ 2011 A day I will never forget is the last football game of my eighth grade year. We the Saint Jo Panthers were undefeated‚ and we were playing the Wild Cats‚ who also were undefeated. The game started out slow with neither team scoring their first three positions. The Wild Cats drew first blood with a long touchdown. They went for the two-point conversion‚ since I knew what play they were running by the way they lined up‚ a quarterback
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Each spring as the weather warms thoughts turns towards airing out the house and beginning the process of spring cleaning after a long winter. Ron Rash’s poem “Water Quilt” illustrates the chore of spring cleaning with a twist. During leaner times the people of Appalachia would use the river as a source for all household water use including cooking and cleaning. The tradition of taking all the bedding to the river to wash would have been a yearly ritual. Rash explains the reason this ritual continues
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In the article‚ “Bullying in Schools‚” written by Ron Banks‚ the article expresses the key components of bullying . Bullying is made of direct behaviors. Boys typically engage in direct bullying‚ compared to girls who bully‚ use more indirect strategies. Teasing‚ taunting‚ threatening‚ hitting‚ and stealing are strategies used by boys. Spreading rumors and enforcing social isolation are strategies used by girls. Also‚ various reports and studies have shown that approximately fifteen percent
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Bullying. As researchers are saying bullying in schools is becoming more common‚ and nothing is really being done about it. In the article Bullying In Schools author Ron Banks states some statistics‚ “approximately 15 percent of students are bullied regularly or are initiators of bullying”. When students are being bullied they never really tell anybody about it because they don’t want to be known as a “tattle tale”‚ and get bullied more. Most of bullying comes from children who are living in a
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Ron Howard’s re-creation of the happenings aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 flight combined some of the biggest talent in Hollywood to produce a masterful film. Apollo 13 takes us back in time‚ to the late 1960’s and early 70’s‚ when America’s NASA space program was thriving and the world stood aside to see who would reach the moon first. The impacts of space program are still evident to this day. It is even said that by beating the Russians to the moon‚ we established ourselves are the top power in the
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I think the thesis of “I am the Enemy” by Ron Karpati is that animal experiment is needed to develop vaccines against deadly disease to save people’s life from it. And the thesis of “Vegetarian is the New Prius” by Kathy Freston is that having a green diet helps reduce greenhouse effect because a lot of global warming emissions come from livestock. Lastly the thesis of “Feminism Doesn’t Mean a BAttle of the Sexes‚ but a Common Goal for All” is that feminism is not the thing that only claim women’s
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Scientology The alternative religion I chose to reflect on is Scientology. This is a religion I’ve always wanted to know more about‚ it has its roots in Indian spirituality. I didn’t know that it was a fairly new religion founded in 1954 by a man named Ron L. Hubbard. He created this religion to help people understand the human process of knowing. The meaning of the name Scientology was interesting to me‚ scientia (meaning knowledge)‚ and logos (meaning reason‚ understanding). I like how this religion
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The cinematized versions of Niki Lauda and James Hunt effectively described motorsport’s ubiquitous appeal‚ in Ron Howard’s Rush. It is a rather embarrassingly barbaric allure‚ but unfortunately‚ it is one we; as a society; have not‚ and likely will never outgrow. People just love how close motorsport gets to death. The propensity they have of dying is often exaggerated In the movie‚ Lauda claims it is a 20 percent chance each time he gets into his F1 car. Not that any death is acceptable‚ but less
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people as a version of prison or a place with no escape. Living in the mountains for a long period of time can put you into a socially placed group for people that have a certain way of talking or way of dressing. A common theme that appears within Ron Rash’s stories is that the unknown and unruly territory of the southern Appalachians can be dangerous and foreign to outsiders. The law that is presented in the mountainous region is often taken in the hands of the people that live within the area and
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invisible stars … or get lost inside some enormous aural labyrinth? Who would ever find her if she did?" (Koertge 2). These intriguing questions come from a female character‚ Margaux‚ who questioned her family to herself in the novel Margaux with an X‚ by Ron Koertge. Margaux is faced with many obstacles with her family who pays no mind to her. She is the drop dead gorgeous girl everyone wants to be with‚ although what everyone does not know is her secret. Her beauty hides the real story. She goes home
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