In the book The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton‚ the author highlights the struggles of growing up in poverty while also in battle with a rival group‚ the Socs. The main character Ponyboy Curtis belongs to a gang named the Greasers. The Greasers and Socials are mainly divided by their socioeconomic status. After Ponyboy and fellow gang member Johnny are jumped by a group of socials‚ resulting in one Soc being stabbed and killed by Johnny in self-defense‚ Johnny and Ponyboy go into hiding. After a week
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Merchants of Cool: Teens and Sexuality Teenagers are bombarded with images and ideas of sex in the media. However the advertising industries claim that teenagers were already obsessed with sex before the images were plastered all over their world. The industry also claims that they develop their advertising around what the teens enjoy and that they’ve researched teen lives‚ culture and their way of thinking in order to obtain the most successful advertising method. "We’re only reflecting the
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of prosperity and improvement? Merchants and Craft Guilds played a colossal role in initiating and carrying out the economic growth. The Merchants and Craft guilds contributed to economic development by contributing to the government‚ setting up guilds where townspeople could learn trades and crafts‚ regulating production‚ setting laws‚ having a process to become a master artisan‚ acting as a social support system‚ and overall increasing trade substantially. Merchants played a pivotal role in gaining
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Being the Outsider Growing up as a child in Anaheim‚ wasn’t as imagined. The demographics of Anaheim was filled with a Hispanic population accounts for the majority of the community. As a result to the high number of Hispanics in elementary school. Children are very blissful and ignorant when knowing the difference and social standards of race‚ however my mind was not equipped for my first years of elementary school across my street. The first day of school‚ looking at my surroundings filled of
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giving‚ and humble. For two criminal teenagers to be considered heroic is strange‚ but for Dally Winston and Johnny Cade‚ sacrificing everything for their closest friends and community is a daily ordeal. Throughout H.E. Hinton’s fiction novel‚ The Outsiders‚ Dally and Johnny are constantly portrayed as dangerous and tough kids involved in illegal activity spouting from their street gang. Although this is true to an extent‚ they are simply trying to protect their family of other traumatized kids. Their
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Most people would not like to grow up in the 60s. Especially if they were a greaser in a bad town like the characters in S.E Hinton’s book The Outsiders. The setting of the book is east/west side of town. There are two groups in town‚ the socs and the greasers. They were a greaser or soc depending on what side of town they lived in. For example the greases lived on the east side and the socs lived on the west side of town. They setting affects the characters by developing their personality based
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to retain his innocence. In The Outsiders‚ the author‚ S.E. Hinton‚ suggests that Ponyboy and Johnny are trying to keep hold of their innocence. They go through many challenges and obstacles and in the end they realize that innocence can be cherished but there is a time when you have to grow up. Oddly‚ Hinton proves just the opposite; she proves that innocence doesn’t need to be lost. In the beginning of the novel‚ Hinton creates Ponyboy as a different person and almost better than his Greaser gang
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"The position of Women" The change of the position of women in Egypt has been strongly observed in the last few decades. Some radical Muslims regard this change as an exaggerated liberation for the woman that they claim that is not accepted. While‚ other people see that this change is the start of civilization for the country. In the 1870 ’s the Egyptian women lacked many of their rights‚ they were treated almost as slaves. Hence‚ the Egyptian women kept fighting for their rights for many
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Are you aware of what age group tend to be the biggest consumers in the United States? Would it surprise you if you were told that it is teenagers? I know that when I started watching Merchants of Cool I was caught off guard when they explained that it was teenagers. The documentary starts to explain why the teenagers are the largest group of consumers and why they need to be catered to. I think that one of the best things about this documentary is the way that it explains the entire situation.
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The Outsiders conversation with Johnny Hey! Johnny a lot has happened ever since you left. In case you forgot we won the RUMBLE!I want to say a lot of things that I’ve been keeping to myself for a long time. First‚ right after you died nothing has been the same without you‚ man. Second‚ we went in front of the judge‚ while we were there Soda thought he was gonna get put in the electric chair. Cherry was crying‚ because what happened before you guys got jump and after you got jumped. Man I guess
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