Never Fall Down Summary Arn Chorn-Pond‚ the protagonist of the novel‚ Never Fall Down‚ is a typical 11-year-old boy growing up in Battambang‚ a rice-harvesting village in western Cambodia. The residents of Battambang are vivacious‚ and the entire village is prospering. However‚ when the Khmer Rouge‚ a radical Communist regime‚ seize power in April of 1975‚ Arn’s unpretentious life changes dramatically. Suddenly‚ his once playful‚ carefree lifestyle is filled with tribulations and tragedies
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Arn Chorn-Pond Arn Chorn-Pond is the main character in “Never Fall Down”. The book is from the real story of Arn Chorn-Pond‚ and its written by Patricia McCormick. It’s about a poor boy that lives in Cambodia. He experienced wars‚ Khmer Rouge and the extreme things you have to do to survive. Arn survived through his smartness‚ kindness and sometimes coldness. Arn survives mainly due him being smart all the time. Firstly‚ under the Khmer Rouge Arn joined the band that plays music to drown the sounds
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“Shutting Shame Down” stopped me and made me think about the impact of shame in my life. The quote also made me think about how far the human race has fallen since creation. Over time‚ through sin‚ the human race has become used to feeling shamed and shameful; shame is a normal thing that everyone experiences. However‚ this was not how life was supposed to be. In the beginning God created everything and He saw that it was good. Now I cannot help but think what He sees when He looks down at us – it cannot
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“The World Turned Upside Down: Reconstruction in Texas” 1. Introduction: The Myth vs. the Reality of Reconstruction 2. Wartime Reconstruction 3. Postwar Reconstruction 4. Congressional Reconstruction 5. Undoing Reconstruction 6. Enduring Impacts of Reconstruction in Texas _______________________________________________________________________ The Myth vs. the Reality of Reconstruction The Myth: At the end of the Civil War‚ in which Southerners had fought valiantly against the brutal
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A bird c ame down the walk----" by Emily Dickinson The first two stanzas of the poem are a simple description of the bird‚ not knowing it is being watched by the poet‚ being a bird. The third stanza is where Dickinson really hits her stride. The bird’s "rapid eyes...hurried all abroad" is a darn good description of a bird on alert for predators. And while comparing the bird’s eyes to "Beads" seems to make the bird less alive the fact that the beads are "frightened‚" while perhaps overly humanizing
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Igby Goes Down by Burr Steers are both displayed as rites of passage texts. The texts are overtly didactic and both composers’ present the notion of non-conformity. Salinger and Steers express how individuals are pressured to conform to society’s values and beliefs. The two protagonists are anti –heroes and demonstrate non-conformity; they rebel against the apparent hypocrisy present in their respective societies. Salinger and Steers portray the ideals
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There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down. -- David Ricardo‚ On Protection to Agriculture (1820) This essay seeks to go one step further in the context of David Ricardo ’s quote by arguing that totalitarian political systems offer a way of keeping profits up by keeping wages down and inversely‚ in a democratic system wages will have a tendency to rise and thus‚ profits will decline. When looking at David Ricardo ’s quote within the context of both totalitarian and democratic
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As the day was ending and the people were leaving‚ it was finally my turn to go down the giant water slide again. Holding up my bright sun orange swimming tube I braced myself to jump and hit the ground with a big SPLASH. Flying down the slide I could feel the frigid water pushing and shoving me down faster and faster. When I got to the bottom I was freezing and shivering but I felt exuberant. Standing there waiting for my friends all that I could feel was the arctic cold air attacking my wet body
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The book The Upside- Down Kingdom by Donald B. Kraybill is a written version of who people think Jesus’ kingdom is like today. The point that Donald Kraybill makes in his book is to let people know the importance of God in an upside down world‚ in other words ‘Kingdom’. Kraybill wants people to know about the importance of God. The most important point referenced in this book is that one has to show the love of God to the weak people‚ or life is not worth living. The main point is how Kraybill shows
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I have a sister with down syndrome. Since I have memory; I remember that she always has had difficulties to speak‚ and she used to be treated differently than me. For instance‚ when she was in Peru; it was really difficult to communicate with her. For example‚ when she used to say or ask for things; her words did not make sense. Consequently‚ we ended up giving or telling her things opposite from what she said or asked. People sometimes used to treat her like an object. I always get upset when people
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