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    A Cricket Boy

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    The Cricket Boy (A Chinese Tale) A long time ago‚ cricket fighting caught on inthe imperial court‚ withthe emperor leading the fad. A local magistrate in Huayin‚ who wanted to winthe favor of the monarch‚ tried in every way to gethim the best fightingcrickets. He had a strategy for doing so: He managed to geta cricket thatwas very good at fighting. He then made his subordinates go to theheads of each village and force them to send in a constant supply of fightingcrickets.He would send to the

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    Funny Boy

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    Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with

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    Black Boy

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    Things seem to be looking even more bleaker for Richard in Black Boy. It has gotten to the point that Richard has basically become dead to all of his family except his mother. This is due in fact to not believing in God or “not being able to feel his presence‚” thus making him shunned basically by his family. Because of the poverty that the family live in and also the strict religious backing of the house‚ the amount of food has always been scarce. Richard tries to find ways to get money‚ but he

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    Kaffir Boy

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    9/28/13 Racism is worldwide‚ and has been going on for a long period of time. Kaffir boy helped me understand the racial discrimination that he went through easily. I honestly didn’t expect for racism to have gone that far. This book made me realize a variety of things‚ and what the word brave actually meant. Finding out that his father was taken away must have been devastating and acting strong was another competition. “My father had been arrested that morning in the bus stop for being unemployed

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    The Starving Boy

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    The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country in Africa‚ and it’s located slightly above the equator. The DRC is bordered by Angola‚ the Central African Republic‚ Burundi‚ Rwanda‚ Sudan‚ Tanzania‚ Uganda‚ and Zambia. They are the poorest country in Africa‚ yet it is considered by many to be the richest country because of its natural resources (Rural Poverty Portal). Located in the DRC is many valuable resources such as tin‚ tantalum‚ and tungsten.There are seventy-five million people

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    The Whipping Boy

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    ”The Whipping Boy” written by Richard Gibney One of the most important events in the history of the United States of America is the Civil War from 1861-65. The war started because of the issue of slavery. It was a war where only America participated; it was a war between the Northern states‚ called the Union‚ and the Southern slave states‚ the Confederate States of America. The Union wanted to get rid of slavery in the USA‚ but the Confederacy did not want this‚ mostly because a lot of them owned

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    The Drummer Boy

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    KEY: Short Story Analysis of "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" Title: “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” Author: Ray Bradbury Famous for writing science fiction‚ especially for the novel Fahrenheit 451. Setting      General Time: Civil War (1860- 1864)                   Specific Time: April‚ begins at midnight and lasts for about 30 min. the night before a battle                   General place: the South‚ Tennessee                     Specific place: battle site‚ near the church at Shiloh‚ by Owl

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    Boy Wonder

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    Boy Wonder the Superhero Batman is the renowned superhero who elegantly appeared on children’s television sets for decades. With his pointy ears‚ unprecedented strength and persistently altruistic deeds he quickly gained great admiration. However his little helper Robin the Boy Wonder is an equally important character. Robin’s assistance is rarely highlighted and he does not feel he received the credit he deserves. This is where the poem ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage begins. Robin is fed up. The poem

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    Ghost Boy

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    Martin was a normal boy up until the age of twelve. At the age of twelve Martin was misdiagnosed as being in a PVS state‚ when in fact he was locked-in. For this reason‚ no one realized that he was aware of the things taking place around him. After reading the excerpt from “Ghost Boy‚” I felt that I truly had a better grasp of “locked in syndrome” and how one’s everyday life‚ family‚ and even mentality

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    The Boy with the Topknot

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    Chapter 8 – Doctor! Doctor!- pages 115 - 127 Chapter summary: The chapter starts out with Sathnam and his family making their way to Croft Resource centre in Bilston. Sathnam first describes how each of his family members look like and how odd they must seem as a collection to onlookers. Sathnam and his mum start a series of discussions and he describes the bus ride vividly referring back to his teenage days where he remembers the same people in the street. Once at the Croft Resource Centre‚ Sathnam

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