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    The whipping boy

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    The Whipping Boy The Whipping Boy is a short story‚ written by Richard Gibney in 2011‚ and used for the written English exams in the summer of 2013 in Denmark. The Whipping Boy is a story about three slaves‚ two men and a woman‚ who get told that they’re no longer slaves‚ and that they can do whatever they want to. The two men start off by killing the ground dogs‚ because the dogs are considered evil towards the slaves. Afterwards they whip their former owner‚ because they want him to feel‚ how

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    The Lost Boys

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    Approximately 26‚000 boys‚ during the late 1980’s‚ fled the southern part of Sudan in an effort to escape the violence that had consumed their country. With such an enormous amount of refugees fleeing Sudan‚ it was described as an “exodus of biblical proportions”(Corbett‚ 2001). These refugees were dubbed “The Lost Boy” due to the many similarities they had with the Peter Pan’s followers in the story Neverland. Like the fictional characters in the story‚ most of these boys‚ whose ages were all below

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    Satellite Boys

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    represented. Prime examples being recent Australian films Satellite Boy (directed by Catriona McKenzie) and Australia (directed by Baz Luhrmann). Though they are world-renowned the representation of the Indigenous genre shown through these films have been criticised as shallow. However Mad Bastards (2011) directed by Brendan Fletcher gives an insight of a unique yet accurate portrayal of Indigenous genre by the usage of the characters‚ the setting‚ the music and their connections to their land. It manages

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    The Scottsboro Boys

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    The Scottsboro Boys All of us know the feeling of getting blamed for something we haven ’t done. With that in mind try imaging getting put in jail for years for a crime you didn’t commit. That was the case for nine black men in Alabama in the year 1931.There was so much physical evidence proving that the nine boys were innocent‚ however the extreme racism Alabama government officials had towards African Americans is arguably the biggest factor that lead to this injustice

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    The Boy on a Dolphin

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    Phaedra any profit. Dr. Calder does not want the important statue to end up in the wrong hands of Victor Pharmalee. He wants the country of Greece to hold claim to their ancient t culture such as the boy on the dolphin‚ he does not want them to lose that. 2. Victor Pharmalee’s motivation for pursing the boy on the Dolphin is so that he can steal the archaeological find and make a profit. He wanted to get to the Dolphin before Calder so that he could inherit a large fortune. His motivations for the statue

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    Stone boy

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    Stone boy “Arnold presses down the bottom wire‚ thrust a leg through and leaned forward to bring the other leg after. His rifle caught on the wire and he jerked at it. The air was rocked by the sound of the shot. Feeling foolish he lifted his face‚ expecting to see his brother laughing at him. He fell to his knees and pitched forward onto his face. Arnold squatted beside his brother “Eugie?” Then Arnold saw it‚ at the nape of the neck – a slow rise of bright blood.” The stone boy is happening on

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    Yolngu Boy

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    Yolngu Boy Caught in a collision between the modern world of rap‚ football‚ street cred and the oldest living culture on earth‚ Lorrpu‚ Botj and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers who once shared a childhood dream of becoming great hunters together. But things have changed and their paths are diverging. Botj is walking on the wild side‚ a lost soul in search of a place to belong. Milika is more interested in football and girls than any of the traditional knowledge he is being taught. Only Lorrpu

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    Mine Boy

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    Myana Looknanan Mine Boy by Peter Abrhams certainly demonstrates the effects of imposing imperialism‚ and capitalism on a particular society. In this novel Xuma the protagonists has somewhat of an awakening. He goes from being an ignorant and innocent boy to a radical and brave man‚ once he realizes the impact of the foreign influence on his fellow citizens. South Africans were being oppressed and forced to live a life in which there were little to no choices. Many of them accommodated this influence

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    Boy at the Window

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    Boy at the Window” Response Charlotte Schroeder Ashford University 03/18/2013 ENG 125 Instructor Abby Forster Poetry is very emotional and speaks about real life experiences; poems have rhythm and feelings‚ delight and surprise. “There are three things‚ after all‚ a poem must reach the eye‚ the ear‚ and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is most important of all reach the heart of the reader.” (cited in Clugston‚ 2010‚ Frost) In reading Boy at the Window‚ by Richard

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    Scottsboro Boys

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    Work Cited Page Aretha‚ David. The Civil Rights Movement; The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys. North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds‚ 2008. Uschan‚ Michael V. Landmark Events in American History; The Scottsboro Case. Wisconsin: World Almanac Library‚ 2004. Linder‚ Douglas O. Famous American Trials. 1999. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_hrrep.html. Johnson‚ Claudia D. Scottsboro Trial. 1994. The Greenwood Publishing‚ Inc. http:// library.thinkquest

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