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    La Strada Sparknotes

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    Federico Fellini’s La Strada is the story of a carefree girl sold to a traveling entertainer‚ consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. The two travel city-to-city together performing their entertaining acts and making random stops along the way. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He teaches Gelsomina a drum roll as part of his introduction. They perform in village squares and then pass a hat for whatever

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    “A girl‚ I will have nothing to do with her! She has broken the line of male descent in our tribe.”- The Whale Rider “ Witi Ihimaera”. The Whale rider is about a girl Kahu or Pai that from birth was destined to be the new whale rider‚ but the chief Koro Apirana wouldn’t teach her. He didn’t teach her because he thought to be a leader you had to be a male‚ so she wasn’t good enough to be the rider. The theme is overcoming the odds to achieve greatness. This theme is intriguing because she has to prove

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    The Whipping Boy

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    THE WHIPPING BOY This is an adventures story about friendship and villains .Jemmy‚ the whipping boy‚ has to live an unfortunate life in the castle .he is a stand-in for any discipline the prince is given . The prince‚ prince brat‚ is the most horribly behaved boy in the kingdom! So as you can see‚ Jemmy‚ the whipping boy‚ is given a lot of whippings! Not only was Jemmy physically abused‚ he was emotionally and verbally abused by the prince. Then‚ one day prince brat got tired of being

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    so popular among middle age sports enthusiasts that it was not long before the series of novels had expanded to five titles with the last of the series Deep Zone published in 2011. The lead characters in the series are Troy and Ty two middle school boys that are pursuing their goals of becoming NFL players. The series of novel for the most part are drawn

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    Scholarship Boy or Not?

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    Scholarship Boy or Not? In the essay “Achievement of Desire”‚ Richard Rodriguez takes author Richard Hoggart’s‚ “Scholarship Boy”‚ and uses it as a reference point to capture his own life experiences as a scholarship boy. Growing up in a working class house hold‚ Richard was not the average product of his environment. Much like Hoggarts’ scholarship boy‚ Rodriguez was a very dedicated student that excelled in most of his studies. Although Rodriguez had the full support of his parents he was still

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    Washed Ashore Sparknotes

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    Outline - “Washed Ashore” - A Hidden Truth A British seaside town‚ in which a dog walker and his wife come across several different body parts washed onto a beach. An investigation is underway to uncover who and what has caused the body parts to wash up and who they may belong to. Chief Investigator Bill Raymond is leading the investigating along with his specialist team in uncovering this disturbing discovery. The case now spanning an entire decade has become stagnant‚ with very little evidence

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    Book review In the book “The Bad Beginning” the story is about three kids and their life getting robed by a house fire. Violet Baudelaire‚ a fourteen year old girl‚ Klaus Baudelaire‚ a twelve year old boy‚ and Sunny Baudelaire‚ the baby in the family‚ In the beginning‚ the mom and the dad die in a house fire and the kids are forced to live with an evil man named count Olaf. Count Olaf is trying to steal the Baudelaire family fortune by marring Violate and then plans to kill her. During this

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    Boy Observation

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    I have observed a boy who is about 2 years old or maybe few months younger who was interacting with his father in the park. The child was riding the toddler swing and asks his father to push harder and said‚ "hiyer‚ dabby! hiyer!" (higher‚ daddy! higher) He kept asking his father to push harder for about 30 seconds‚ then I could realized he became bored. He raised his both arms toward his father‚ signaling he wants to get down. The father stopped the swing and pulled him out of the toddler swings

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    The Boy at the Window

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    The Boy at the Window is a poignant poem written by Richard Wilber. According to a statement made by Wilber‚ it was inspired by his five year old son being concerned about the possible danger his newly completed snowman was in due to a pending storm. Poetry is often recognized for its ability to evoke strong feelings in the reader and the beautifully innocent nature of Boy at the Window exemplifies this magnificently with skillful use of personification and beautiful use of metaphors. The story

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    Gran Torino Sparknotes

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    the bridge that bring Walt and Thao together and develop an unbreakable bond between the two. Sue‚ though a huge controlling force in Thao’s life‚ had good intentions for him. She did not want him to fall into the typical Hmong American life where boys just end up in jail. She wanted him to forge a new path and pursue a real career. Walt‚ on the other hand‚ she showed that not all people are bad‚ and she gained his respect by going against the norms of his closed off world and brought to light how

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