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    In the novel Inside Out by terry trueman‚the character Zach ah schizophrenia ‚and then goes into a local café to get a maple bar and waits for his mom to come pick him up.But at an instant the café is getting robbed.Zach doesn’t know what to do‚so so he listens to what the robbers says and goes with the other hostages.These boys are all similar in one certain way as they are often judge and misunderstood by society ‚yet different in ther own way in witch they deal with there problems and / conflicts

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    The Thought-Fox By Ted Hughes1930-1998 • Ted Hughes (1930-1998) Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was one of the major poets of the 20th century and the most influential English poet of the post World War II. His writing began as a reaction to the Movement poetry of the 1950s. His poetry embraces the violent life of nature particularly as exemplified by animals and birds. It’s not really violence the Ted Hughes celebrates in his poetry‚ he celebrates an energy that too strong for death. Ted considers poetry

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    In the book Stuck In Neutral‚ considered to be an young adult novel‚ the author Terry Trueman writes a story about a 14 years old boy that suffers from cerebral palsy. Terry’s own son suffers from this conditions. His son was the inspiration to writing this book because he wanted to educate others what cerebral palsy was and how to treat those who suffer from this. The young boy in the book that suffers from cerebral palsy is named Shawn. The whole book is written in the first person’s point of

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    The book‚ "Stuck in Neutral" by Terry Trueman is a very touching story. A story I think people should be sharing more with others. Stuck in Neutral is about a fourteen year old boy named‚ Shawn McDaniel. Shawn McDaniel was born with cerebral palsy which impedes him from being able to speak‚ move‚ or communicate with others‚ he has no control over his body. It pretty much does everything on his own‚ when it wants. Everyone thinks that he is unable to understand what is being said or what goes on.

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    though some people or minors aren’t smart enough to make independent decisions‚ one should not choose their life path for them. For instance‚ no one should be forced to be someone their parents are making them be. In the novel‚ The Adoration of Jenna Fox‚ Jenna finds out that her parents have programmed her to look and be a certain way. “How dare you play with my brain! How dare you pretend with me that I’m normal! How dare you program me!” (152) Also‚ Jenna parents programmed her to be 5’7 just so

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    The name Michael J. Fox should ring a bell‚ but that is just his recognizable name. His real name is Michael Andrew Fox. He didn’t go by that because it didn’t have a ring to it and decided to adopt the middle initial of the letter J. He choose that in a tribute to Michael J. Pollard and really liked the sound to that so‚ he went with J. Michael J. Fox is an outlier because he faced the troubles of Parkinson’s Disease. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 and didn’t tell the media until 1999

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    The case of Terry Schiavo is one of great controversy‚ in the sense that she perished due to euthanasia. For over ten years‚ Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state; in a legal campaign‚ her husband and parents disputed over whether Schiavo’s feeding tube should be restored‚ as it was removed from her due to her husband’s wishes (Euthanasia –Pro 1). The way Schiavo died was ethical‚ due to the fact that she had been in a persistent vegetative state with no possible way of recovering. Although

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    Lyla Fox‚ in her article “Hold Your Horsepower”‚ argues about teens getting jobs to pay for their cars and cars to get to their job. Fox suggest that teens are starting to work too much at a young age for all the wrong reasons. First‚ she explains how she struggles to keep her students awake in class and not lose interest in school. Students are finding it difficult trying to balance schoolwork‚ a job‚ and extracurricular activities. Additionally‚ she insinuates it is the parents fault of the dropping

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    Terry Eagleton’s quote compares the nature by which we structure our society with the way in which novelists create entire worlds within their works. When he writes “the only rules which are binding are those which we invent for ourselves‚” he means that the codes we live by are defined by the values and ideologies that we subscribe to. For much of the United States’ history‚ for example‚ African Americans were legally segregated from the rest of society. Why? Because the ideology of the ruling class

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    This book is about Fox Company‚ Second Battalion‚ Seventh Regiment in the Korean war. The first portion is about a hill that they were entrenched in. As wrong as it was some of the leadership rumored that the troops would be back with their families for Christmas. The weather conditions were horrible. The food they got from the cooks would be frozen before they could get back to their fighting holes. And the consuming the frozen food had destroyed their bowels and as a result strips of frozen diarrhea

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