As he lies dying in Chapter 9‚ Johnny Cade speaks these words to Ponyboy. “Stay gold” is a reference to the Robert Frost poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny when the two hide out in the Windrixville Church. One line in the poem reads‚ “Nothing gold can stay‚” meaning that all good things must come to an end. By the end of the novel‚ the boys apply this idea to youthful innocence‚ believing that they cannot remain forever unsullied by the harsh realities of life. Here‚ Johnny urges Ponyboy to remain
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The gorilla is the world’s largest primate. Gorillas are mammals. Young and younger gorillas are called blackbacks. Older males have white hair on their backs and are called silverbacks. Silverbacks gorillas are the most aggressive person in the group. The duty of the silverback gorilla is to protect others from dangerous threats. They can get angry very fast. The males are twice as big as the females (Morgan 2). The name gorrilla means “hairy person” and was first used by an explorer from North
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name- Gorilla Scientific name- Gorilla gorilla class- mammalia order- primata family- pongidae genus- gorilla The gorillas live mainly in coastal West Africa in the Congo‚ Zaire‚ Gabon‚ Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. Gorillas live in the rain forest. They usually live on the ground but build nest in trees to sleep in. Gorilla troops keep a 15-20 square mile range which often overlaps the range of other troops. There are three different kinds of gorillas. The eastern lowland gorilla the western
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My lady love‚ my dove. Arthur is happily married to Pamela‚ a very wealthy woman. They are awaiting some weekend guests‚ the Snapes‚ and Pamela isn’t looking forward to it. The only reason she invited them was that the Snapes are good bridge players and they play for a decent stake. Suddenly Pamela gets the idea that they should bug the Snapes’s room. She wonders what they think about them. Bored with the idea of entertaining them‚ Pamela‚ a domineering woman‚ persuaded Arthur to conceal
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“From my father and Ultima I had learned that the greater immortality is the freedom of man‚ and that freedom is best nourished by the noble expanse of land and air and pure‚ white sky” (Anaya‚ 228). Tony’s father then talks about the land possessing “a power that can fill a man with satisfaction” (Anaya‚ 229). Ultima adds on about the land giving faith for nature to grow and evolve. This means that with freedom and faith‚ you can evolve and grow. Consequently‚ Antonio comes to the realization that
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Western Lowland Gorillas October 23‚ 2009 Introduction: When I was around 14‚ I saw one of the best movies. The movie was Gorillas in The Mist‚ starting Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey. It was one of the most impressive movies of my life. My step-mother at the time notice how must I liked the movie and game me her very well torn copy of Gorillas in the Mist to read. I still have that book and since the first time I read it‚ I have been fascinated with these great apes. This is way I believe
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Howie The Gorilla Nehemiah Tynes Day One It all started when our neighbor‚ Mrs. Longbottom‚ asked Jimmy‚ Peter‚ and me to babysit her pet gorilla. Ms. Longbottom had an immense amount of wild animals‚ including tigers‚ lions‚ and elephants. One night‚ we went over to the Longbottom’s house. It was old and rustic. When I looked in the backyard‚ I saw a big hole in the ground. It was about thirty feet deep. I looked around for Howie. Then I heard a big roar. It was coming from upstairs
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For my third poem of the semester‚ I wrote one entitled “Back in My Day”. This poem was my manifesto about America and was inspired by the way I view American is now‚ how we became increasingly afraid of diversity‚ and the phrase “back in my day”. The one work that could be said to have influenced this piece would have to be Tony Hoagland’s “America”. I say that as it was a critical view of America and was also a product/inside look of how it was in that general time. Speaking of critical views
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Dr Cade‚ who spent several decades researching schizophrenia‚ tested a hypothesis that originated from Dohan’s work related to the absorption of exorphins contained in gluten and casein. Fascinated by the dietary habits of South Pacific Islanders‚ Dohan noted fewer and less severe cases of schizophrenia among those whose diets were free of wheat‚ rye‚ barley‚ and oats. Dohan believed that there could be genetic defects in schizophrenia that result in an overload of peptides from milk protein (casein)
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short stories are designed to teach lessons to the people who read them. They teach lessons about life‚ love‚ and growing up. People can learn lessons by reading short stories that where the main characters discover something about life and about themselves. There Character and the way the use of actions‚ words‚ or thoughts carry throughout the story can relate to many realistic personas. In Toni Cade Bambara’s short story‚ The Lesson‚ the author presents a lesson to be learned. The narrator‚ Sylvia
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