Holes Speech Good morning year 8. Today I am going to talk to you about the novel holes. When people hear of a book called “Holes"‚ they may think of some boring story of digging a hole. However this book is anything but a boring story. In the novel Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ it tells the story of a young teenage aged boy named Stanley Yelnats who is wrongly accused of stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes and sent to a juvenile correctional camp. The camp is called Camp Green Lake. He is sent to camp
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Prejudice in the World Today; Will it Ever End? According to “Causes of Prejudice” by Vincent N. Parrillo‚ there are many causes to this complex phenomenon. Many social scientists have attempted to identify the causes of prejudice‚ but no single factor is to blame. Prejudice happens all around the world every second of every day. During this essay I am going to address the possible causes of this phenomena by looking at the psychology approach as well as the sociological standpoints to this
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The Worst Day Ever Not often do I ever get lost. The first time I personally ever got lost was when I was in Raging Waters. It was my first time getting separated from my parents and I didn’t know what to do. It was the middle of summer June 18‚ 2012. The day was so blistering that you could fry an egg on the side walk. The sun was beaming directly at me. We went on every ride until we came to a ride for my brother {which was extremely boring.} So I asked my dad if I could go on some rides because
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Is Killing Ever Justified No I don’t think killing for any reason is ever justified be it as revenge against someone or just because you want to hurt another person. In the book ‘Kill the Possum’ I think the author is demonstrating to the readers that everyone needs to be responsible for their actions and aware of the consequences of the effects of their actions on others. Also the lies people will say when they want to protect what is close to them. As Dylan became friends with this family
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to drive and then you’re going to take me everywhere. When we’re both in high school we better have the same lunch‚ or I WILL die. I love you to death. We might not be as close as we used to be but that doesn’t mean I love you any less. We need to get close again because I miss it. You’re my everything. I have no idea what I would do without you. I have no clue what I’m going to do next year when you are in high school. It’s going to be so hard. You are absolutely perfect in every single way
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then. Today‚ English - the means the Americans used to teach us via the mass media‚ the arts‚ social‚ business and political interaction - continues to be a strong thread that binds the two nations. The low levels of English proficiency among high school students nowadays becoming a hot issue among academic thinkers. This is because the students’ English language skills are not being developed. There are times that students have no confident when using English or the negative attitude towards the
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“Is war ever justified?” The history of war is as old as the first murder.It is a heinous act which is usually performed either for defend‚wealth or property.To those of us who are horrified by war‚ it is easy to say at once that war is never justified and will totally disagree with this topic. Nevertheless‚ there are some circumstances in which going to war are justified. Like the war against Jews by Palestinian‚ war against Indian army by Kashmiries is justified. So I totally agree with this
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Thomas Erb Is Torture Ever Ok? As a I discussed in my third essay‚ there are many disputes between people on whether or not torture should ever be allowed. I am writing my opinion on this heated issue and explaining why torture should be allowed under extreme circumstances. Extreme instances that should allocate torture are: times of war‚ a terrorist attack‚ or high profile criminal activity. If lives are at stake in these circumstances than I believe torturing someone is permissible. Torturing
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The greatest invention ever Out of the 6‚973‚738‚433 people who currently live in the world‚ how many people use the internet? According to Internet world stats‚ in the year 2011‚ thirty two percent of the world population used the internet in their everyday lives. After a year had past‚ more teenagers and elders started to use the internet to communicate research and watch the news. This great invention by Tim Burners-Lee had become a part of us‚ something our teenagers cannot survive without-
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Ever Changing Times In April of 2008 six teenage girls attacked one of their peers while a teenage boy stood on hand to tape the “event.” The word event comes to mind because these teens planned and extricated the whole “event” to put on the website‚ YouTube‚ perhaps in some hopesthat the world would see it and notice them. What kind of world has society made that today’s youth are planning things like this just to get noticed; that this is the way they perceive respect is earned‚ my how times have
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