Caitlin Park English 10H Summer Reading The Chosen Symbol: Silence Silence serves as a symbol‚ signifying many things in The Chosen‚ by Chaim Potok. Throughout the book‚ Reb Saunders rarely converses with his Danny unless it is about Talmud or their religion. In chapter 18‚ he says that he did this to teach his son to understand and feel pain and suffering. In addition‚ he does this because this was the way he was raised by his own father. Reb Saunders wanted his son to grow up with the
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Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen takes place in the 1940s and is the story of two boys trying to become and stay friends even though they are from two different Jewish sects. It is not that To Kill a Mockingbird is an awful or terrible book. While reading To Kill a Mockingbird‚ readers will enjoy a well-written book‚ a winner of the Pulitzer Prize‚ and a classic. Yet‚ high school students will relate more to the two main characters of The Chosen as they are 15 and in high school at the beginning of
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Essay: «Are you an optimist or a pessimist about your future» Optimists believe in surpassingly fair and god-blessed future‚ meantime pessimists prophesy that we should expect nothing but trouble in the future. Both opinions go from one extreme to another. It is just conceivable the truth lies somewhere in the middle. At least once every human was plainly perplexed by the ultimate questions of existence‚ the meaning of life and future. While the first two subjects may be light-heartedly brushed
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When the possibility to obtain the next position in your career track comes available‚ what would you do to ensure that you at least get your resume in front of the human resources manager? Would you be willing to embellish your employment or education history so that you meet a certain criteria or to go above the preferred qualifications? While adding to your resume may sound like an easy thing that will not harm anyone‚ it is an unethical tactic that cheats the potential employers and is unfair
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D1 Compare the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees in your chosen business -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All employers and employees in Asda have rights and responsibilities to each other they both should expect their rights to be upheld. Most right and responsibility’s correspond with one and other with means they over lap even if you are an employer or an employee. The
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Protagonists of a story quickly become favorite characters of countless readers. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok‚ one of the protagonists is Reuven Malter‚ the son of David Malter. Along with his father‚ Reuven Malter is an orthodox Jew. In addition‚ Reuven has a great friend named Danny Saunders. Danny and Reuven meet at a baseball game between the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews. Even though other team mates think of Danny and his team as “Murderers‚” Reuven decides to not judge them before he
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What does it mean to be strong willed? Three characters in the book The Chosen show us what it means. Reuven Malter is a teenage boy who has a strict life and recently overcame a terrible accident. He holds so much hate inside of him and refuses to let it go.The most serious man‚ Reb saunders. He has so much passion for what he does and knows exactly what he wants to do and why. Now a funny man who doesn’t want to anyone to show him pity‚ he knows how to make the best out of something even when ti
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The Clamor of Placidity Throughout Chaim Potok’s The Chosen‚ Danny is constantly surrounded by silence. In one of their many conversations during their last year of college‚ Danny informs Reuven of both his understanding and acceptance of silence when he discusses the textures of silence and his recognition of it. On the first day of Passover‚ when Reb Saunders finally reveals why Danny was brought up in silence‚ Danny accepts that silence was used as a form of communication throughout his childhood
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How will science and technology change your lives in the future? Though humans may try to predict the future‚ nobody seems to ever get it completely right. But when it comes to the job market‚ one thing is certain: with the world experiencing one scientific breakthrough after another‚ exciting new career possibilities are bound to emerge. It may sound like science fiction‚ but what seems far-fetched today is often the technology of tomorrow. “Technologies like the Internet‚ cell phones‚ and personal
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progress further into personal and professional development that will be based in my career i have to face many different obstacles along the way in order to get there. I have many different pursuit of career’s that I’m hoping to achieve for one‚ within the four years’ time my hope is to “finish my University study with flying and achievable colours”‚ ways I can achieve this objective and progress further in my career is by allowing myself to put all of my focus and energy into my work. I would need
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