the largest proportion of homicide victims was Latino‚ followed by 28.4% black and 21.3% white. Mostly 29% of homicides were gang-related therefore many people throughout the entire world had to deal with violence. The title of the book is Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez. This book is about the author and how he was raised in Los Angeles following a harsh gang life. Despite the school board’s recent sentiment regarding the lack of value that fiction provides‚ fiction should remain in the schools
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In the movie “ Cool Runnings”‚ the director mixes all different emotions with a storyline proving you can do anything that you put your mind to. The movie begins with Olympic hopeful Derice‚ running across Jamaica. He is doing this because he is training for the 1988 Olympic Games‚ and hopes to be a gold-medal winner just like his father was.. Then later on in the day‚ it’s race time. He’s confident he can represent Jamaica because he has been training for a long time for it. The whole country comes
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most important thing that your body needs during running any amount is oxygen‚ that’s where VO2max comes into play. VO2max is “the volume of oxygen a person can consume in one minute as he or she exercises at maximum exertion” (paragraph 4). With Team NOVA‚ their VO2max levels were measured before and after their nine months of training; and they were dramatically better after. It’s not the VO2max levels that help with receiving enough oxygen when running‚ it is merely an indicator. The amount of red
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Nicole Angelic R. Simpao BSMT-1B Cool Runnings There really was a Jamaican bobsled team. ‚ the Jamaicans practiced on a bobsled with wheels‚ in the absence of any snow in their native land. Then they went to the winter Olympics‚ where the crowds cheered their pluck‚ if not their speed. The Jamaican national bobsleigh team represents Jamaica in international bobsledding competitions. Not only was there the novelty of having a tropical country compete in a cold-weather sport‚ but they had
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Always Running “There are choices you have to make not just once”- Luis J. Rodriguez In 1993‚ Luis Rodriguez wrote an autobiographical book Always Running. Within months the Book Banning made Always Running their number one target calling it ungodly‚ antifamily‚ radical‚ and harmful. Rockford school district member‚ Ed Sharp‚ went to the extent of stating‚ “I challenge anyone who knows how the mind works‚ after reading this book‚ not to be more likely to assume the lifestyle of a gang person
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denied certain rights by our government. Pg. 19 “looks spic you can’t sit there! Second Paragraph: Many of this gangs form from men who were once children‚ who have suffered through much Psychological and physical abuse‚ not only from their own family as well as from peers and others who seem to think are better than them. They want the power. Ex: pg. 91 they looked agitated….. Pg.; pg144 they beat on u all the time specially…. Third paragraph: If society and officials as a whole want to get
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COOL RUNNINGS I like the film “ Cool Runnings”. There are three interesting things in the film that we could learn learn from in life. First‚ it is the determination. In fact‚ the greatest determination is that four young men living in the hot Jamaica country practiced hard bobsledding on the grass to complete in the winter Olympic Games in Calgary Canada. Furthermore‚ in order to go to Canada‚ they convinced local authorities with perseverance by knocking on doors to support them‚ and try to
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feature of each man’s face is highlighted? (p. 3) when joseph recalls the recent past‚ he sees the face of three men‚ the men are his farmer‚ tom leyton and the running man. he sees his farthers face as bewildered‚ hurt and angry then joseph sees toms face‚ its silent and hidden deep in the shadows of his room. last of all he sees the running man‚ his eyes burning with a desperate fire. 4. The chapter ends with an image of Joseph’s neighbours’ house. What simile is used to describe it? What effect
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intellectual‚ spiritual or physical. Both texts Away composed by Michael Gow and Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn‚ demonstrate the idea that new understandings and renewed perceptions of others and ourselves can be a result of an individual discovery. Away first published in 1986‚ is an Australian play centred around three families who represent different aspects of Australian society and culture in the 1960s. All three families set out on holidays that allow them to experience individual discoveries
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The issue of running a family business is always a sensational topic. People have watched a lot of tedious family dramas on televisions. One of the typical plots is the exaggerated conflict between family members who are struggling with each other for property and authority. However‚ there are some prestigious family firms and harmonious families which are well-known all over the world. Although running a family business has some negative aspects such as family conflicts‚ resource restrictions and
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