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    The Striped Newt

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    The striped newt is a species up for contention on the endangered species list. It is a small salamander whose size can vary from 2-4 inches(5-10 centimeters). The striped newt was given the name striped newt because it has a long red stripe going down the body. The salamander has a olive-green to dark brown color and a yellow belly sometimes containing black specs. Occasionally‚ the salamander has a row of red spots on the side of the body. The skin of the salamander is very rough and not as slimy

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    Mathabane’s article on “Kaffir Boy” talks about his life in South Africa which was a period of apartheid‚ the separation of blacks and whites. Throughout the article Mathabane agrees that his book might not be appropriate because of the explicit context but disagrees with parents and school districts trying to censor the content because you take away the meaning and reality. For example‚ Mathabane states “special committee of administrators‚ teachers and staff‚ the school has begun taping over several

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    Striped Pajamas Ignorance

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    The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas tells the tale of the friendship between a boy in a concentration camp‚ Shmuel‚ and the son of a Nazi‚ Bruno. Neither is quite aware of who each other are; this childhood ignorance is a large part of what makes this movie so tragic and upsetting for many people: the boys understand hardly any of what is happening in their world. In the end‚ both are killed at the hands of Nazi cruelty‚ with the story’s moral being that all people are fundamentally similar

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    Anna Garcia 2/12/2015 Reading Response Paper “Boys Don’t Cry” SOCL 3600 Gender and Power Dr. Agnes Riedmann The film‚ Boys Don’t Cry‚ is based on a true story and raises numerous real-world issues in its story of a murder case in Middle America in which the victim was a girl who successfully passed herself off as a boy. Brandon Teena depicts the life and death of a young woman who believed that she should have been born a man. Teena concealed her female gender and successfully convinced almost everyone

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    4/14/13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Response All of the Characters in the 1999 production of Shakespeare’s poem‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ were well played and showed thought-out preparation. Two characters that I liked the most and who were most vivid and well portrayed are Theseus and Helena. Puck‚ played by Stanley Tucci‚ was a very entertaining character but Stanley did not elaborate much with his character. Theseus‚ played by David Strathairn‚ is a character that was easy to follow. I

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    The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas Imagine this! Becoming close friends with a boy that lives on the other side of a fence in a Nazi camp and only being able to talk to them through a fence; never being able to run around together or just play a game of tag. Well that’s what happened to a little nine year old boy named Bruno that had to move very far away for his dads work. Bruno wondered beyond the fences when he met a little boy that seemed just like himself but yet his life and circumstances

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    Stephanie Rennie Class Project 2 March 27‚ 2012 Boys Don’t Cry The movie I chose to watch is the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry. This is an intense‚ sad‚ and emotional movie that displays the true life story of Brandon Teena’s gender identity disorder. The main character played by Hilary Swank‚ is a girl named Teena Brandon that lives life as a male named Brandon Teena. Throughout the movie you see the struggles and danger he faces in an unforgiving community. Gender identity disorder

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    similarities and differences they have. I am going to be comparing the similarities and differences of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars. I am going to look at three similarities about the two stories‚ and three difference about the two stories. There are a few similarities about these two stories. One similarity is that they were both written around the same time period. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was written during the holocaust‚ and Number the Stars was also written during the holocaust

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    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne is a story told through the innocent eyes of Bruno‚ an eight year old boy living in the era of World War II. This story focused on the very controversial events that occurred during this time period‚ such as the concentration camps and the treatment of the Jewish people. When Bruno’s father Ralf is prompted‚ Bruno’s family must move to a new home in the countryside of Berlin‚ located right next to a concentration camp.

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    Boys Will Be Boys

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    boys will be boys Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb’s‚ “Boys will be Boys” article‚ explains how after years of research on girls‚ boys must also be put under the microscope‚ in efforts to reach a further understanding of the adolescent male. The two authors start their article by pointing out‚ that boys and girls come from two completely different “planets”. They have two different “crisis points”‚ which are stages of emotional and social development‚ where things can go seriously wrong. Kantrowitz

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