’Out of the Blue’ is a dramatic monologue spoken by one of the people inside the twin towers on 9/11‚ from inside the burning building. The effect is of extreme close up on a tiny point in space in time‚ almost in a 1to1 narrative time. The event is narrated as it happens an appeal to a second person who could not be listening. This creates an weird effect‚ of an event we cannot touch‚ of lost people who could not speak to us‚ even though we watched at the time or later: the flames‚ the people who
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Carissa 2-22-10 Ahrens english 90 Prewriting for reader response on inside out I was almost overwhelmed by fear when my friends car slammed into the car in front of us on the freeway. It was the year 2008 and my friends and i where driving to Oceanside from San diego to go to an concert. It was my friends Candice‚ Karis‚ Moline‚ and Kayla. Kayla was driving with candice in the front seat‚ Candice was three months pregnant. The rest of us was sitting in the back seat‚ I was sitting
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“You think I want this life? You think I want this life?....I hate this life‚” (Out in the Cold). A man named Jerry said this when John Koepke and J.D. O’Brien interviewed him on the streets of Minneapolis‚ Minnesota. Koepke and O’Brien were making a documentary about the homeless called Out in the Cold based off of real interviews with several homeless people as they spent a week in winter living in shelters or on the streets. They created this documentary to create awareness for the homeless
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you‚ as you are to them.” Exactly how important is family? Can you live without a friend? In the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor the Logan family were always there for each other when they were in trouble. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry takes place in the state of Mississippi during the 30’s. In the book the Logan family goes through many tough challenges‚ mostly based on the issue of racism. Even
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What Makes Someone "Out of the Norm"? Everywhere around the world‚ there are some people who appear to possess certain unique characteristics that shape them into extraordinary human beings‚ people who have the power to be real heroes— but at the same time seem as ordinary as can be. Some may be friends‚ family‚ or even random people you spot on the street. However‚ you have no idea what their identity is until you actually explore and thoroughly get to know them. A few weeks ago I started to develop
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Is it Morally wrong for those under the age of 18 to play GTA V? Some people‚ mainly young over the age of eighteen ‚ would say that people under the age of 18 shouldn’t play Grand Theft Auto five for many reasons. The main one is that they spend more time on there consoles playing those games then studying and working hard to complete homework tasks effectively. Some might suggest one of the those reasons would be that it is certified 18 and they would be breaking the law in playing that game
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culture such as fashion has overshadowed traditional religious worship‚ and Quindlen’s idea is a perfect illustration of the power of pop culture over religion. Quindlen also states‚ “But the more pernicious problem‚ an addiction to consumption so out of control that it qualifies as a sickness” (500). Here‚ she exaggerates in saying that the worst problem is the fact that Americans are so addicted to these luxuries‚ that their addiction could be classified as an illness. Because she hyperbolizes
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outbreak of Rock and Roll in the 1950s and 1960s sent most traditional Americans into a state of cultural shock. Discussions of Rock and Roll loomed over family conversations as they tried to distinguish whether or not its extreme popularity attributed to transformed family values. The rise of the Freedom Movement erupted many different dynamics‚ however‚ the only thing that remained unchanged was the segregated American society. The paradoxical nature of the 1950s and early 60’s was evident to all
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Roll Of Thunder: Hear My Cry Book Report 1. The setting for the short novel‚ Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry‚ is in the state of Mississippi‚ in the early 1930’s‚ which means that it is right during the middle of the Great Depression. I believe the setting is very important to the book because in Mississippi during those times there was a lot of racism and racial segregation‚ the African Americans people could not do the same things that Caucasian‚ white people could do. Also the setting is important
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Blues vs. Rock and Roll “You can’t play the blues‚ until you’ve paid your dues” (Spencer 41)‚ said by the originator of the blues W.C. Handy. The blues is a music style that influenced America in many ways eventually coming to create rock and roll. The true originators of the blues go back to African slaves brought to America to work on plantations. As these slaves gained freedom and acceptance in the big cities blues developed its own unique style. This unique style gained popularity amongst the
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