The Fault in our Stars by John Green is an outstanding novel and one of Green’s best works. It tells a modern story about a girl named Hazel trying to live like a normal teenager. However this is not the easiest thing in the world for her because wherever she goes‚ she must carry an oxygen tank with her as a result of her having cancer. However at a teen cancer support group‚ she meets Augustus Waters‚ a very different yet similar person to her. This novel tells a sweet‚ painful love story about
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Jeremy Adam Smith’s Essay‚ “Our Fear of Immigrants” The Author of this article sets the stage for how children of illegal immigrants can be affected by their parent’s decisions. He peaks your curiosity when he opens up the article with “Rodrigo Guzman’s desk was empty” and as you continue reading‚ you immediately begin to wonder what happened to Rodrigo and his family. As the Author explains what has happened‚ you begin to sense that he has compassion for the family and states many reasons as to
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Immigration Reform by Dawn Peck Have we really become that selfish of a nation to just disregard the reasons immigrants migrate from their birth countries? So just because they were not born in this country‚ we should not be protective of their rights as human beings? How about the fact that society has even categorized these individuals with the label of immigrant‚ for me‚ we are not living up to the American standard of peace & equality for all. The current treatment of immigrants
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extremely fast movie. There are always people traveling everywhere. People rely on cars as there method of transportation. Its popularity is due to its ability to accommodate our desire for individualism‚ freedom and power. The automobile embodies deep-seated cultural and emotional values that have become an important part of our American culture. The car also offers the driver a method to exercise power and control. When a driver climbs behind the wheel of a car‚ they are in command of the cars
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Simon Garfield has presented the diary entries of five ordinary citizens living between 1945 and 1948 in his book‚ Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain. The content was drawn from what came to be known as the Mass-Observation Archive‚ an effort initiated by an anthropologist‚ a journalist‚ and a documentary filmmaker as “a study of everyday people living regular lives.” (Garfield‚ 1) From the thousands collected‚ Garfield selected these five diaries because they provided a
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him. Thesis Environmental issues can only be meaningfully addressed after people have first addressed their own inner issues. Summary Pico Iyer’s uses heat in various ways throughout his essay‚ “Inner Climate”. Iyer starts out by describing how heat in our outward climate causes changes. He then talks about how our “inner waters” (694) need to be tended to before our “outer environment” (694) can be healed. He concludes by telling us about his own small changes that may not change the world‚ still
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Building Our House by Jonathan Bean According to the Boston Globe Horn Book Award website‚ the winning titles must be published in the United States. The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the Editor of the Horn Book. The books are recognized in the categories of fiction/poetry‚ picture books‚ and nonfiction literature. In Building Our House‚ Bean creates an engaging story as well as a look into a warm family setting. A little girl narrates
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Gun Reform for a Generation‚ an editorial posted in the NY Times on Jan 16‚ 2013 is an editorial about gun control. The author is not listed‚ but his or her position on gun control is not exactly the same as mine. The author deals with the 2nd ammendment‚ and how President Obama is doing the right thing by cracking down on gun laws. The author of this editorial is 100% for gun control‚ no matter what the extent. But‚ he has very poor facts on the issue. The only points he brought up was that of Obama’s
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the 21st of February 2013‚ our class was given a research action plan about the geographical issues in our school. Darcie and I decided that we would target the issue of waste and its management in our school. Our main aim was to find out why it happens‚ where it happens and how we can prevent it. The first step to achieve our goal was to email all the students and staff in our school an online survey to complete. This was done using the website called survey monkey. Our survey consisted of 7 questions
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In the article written by Emma Brown titled “Police in Schools: keeping kids safe or arresting them for no reason?”‚Brown examines the position of the school resource officers or SRO for short‚ in schools. After an incident occurs in at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina involving a student and an officer‚ which prompt a federal civil rights investigation. It was said that the child involved may have to pay a fine and s do some jail time. Brown also wondered‚ if the incidents occurred may
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