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    The Little Rock Crisis

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    The Little Rock Crisis occurred in 1957‚ when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to physically bar nine African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School‚ despite segregation being outlawed. The “Nine” were carefully chosen by Daisy Bates‚ the president of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)‚ and interviewed them to make sure that they were strong and determined enough to be able to handle what awaited them‚

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    Analysis of Little Women

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    Father who is off working as a chaplain in the Civil War. We meet the girls first in Chapter 1 as they sit around the living room bemoaning the fact that they will not be having Christmas presents this year. They each have one dollar which seems too little to help any social cause. The girls discuss what they are going to buy for themselves with their money. The girls are in the process of warming their mother’s ragged slippers before the fire when Beth decides that she will use her dollar to get

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    The Things They Caried

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    "The things they carried" In "the things they carried" Tim O’Brien defines a fine line between fiction and non-fiction in the form of story telling and the memories he has accumulated from his participation in the Vietnam war the way they "seemed" rather than "what happened" because that’s how you tell "a true war story" and that’s how the book effectively engages the reader throughout the whole book because nothing is ordinary‚ not even the way the book is put together‚ you just can’t anticipate

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    The Family of Little Feet

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    many different things that can go wrong while growning up. Your whole body is changing and it cand take some getting used to. There were many stories that I read in the literature book that illustrated this to me. I will compare these stories to each other to see how they were similar and also to see the different problems people experience while growing up. In the story "the family of little feet"‚ three little girls go out to explore the world and discover many wonderful thing and also many

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    The Things They Carried

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    The Things They Carried In “The Things They Carry” by Tim O’Brien‚ readers are taken on an in-depth emotional and physical journey with Alpha Company in Vietnam. O’Brien uses some basic but symbolic objects that soldiers carried in war to show an emotional connection with home. The emotional importance of the objects is specific to individual soldiers and carries a heavy burden on the emotional status of some soldiers. O’Brien puts heavy emphasis on personal objects and on the physical aspect

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    Ten Little Indians

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    The book‚ “Ten Little Indians”‚ by author Sherman Alexie‚ is a collection of fictional short stories that are all fascinating and enthralling. All the characters in this book are full of depth‚ but there are two that stand out to me. One of those characters is William from the story‚ “Flight Patterns”‚ and the other is the character David from the story‚ “Do You Know Where I Am”. I find both these characters as very 3-dimensional and interesting. They both have their good and bad traits‚ they both

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    hit Jules in the shin” (8) [Funny] “Whenever things were going well‚ I started to feel vain” (9) “Jules had a gift for finding wonderful garbage at the thrift store” (9) “I made her dance on the coffee table‚ recounting her life story‚ until Jules and Lester were ready to commit suicide from boredom” (9) “Jules and his friends had been calling heroin chocolate milk for years… I didn’t know how I knew I just did” (10) “For a kid‚ I knew a lot of things about what it felt like to use heroin‚ just

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    tamed. The Little Prince tamed the rose‚ whilst the rose tamed The Little Prince. When you tame someone or something you start to care for and understand the person your taming. You feel responsible for them and their feelings. Since their "yours" you want to take care of them. The Little Prince felt responsible for the roses well being once he was gone. He loved her and wanted her to be safe and happy‚ but without The Little Prince she was sad and in danger. There was no way for The Little Prince to

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    The Things They Carried

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    Moffitt 4/16/2013 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien continuously uses repetition of talking about the items the soldiers carry mentally and physically to show the burdens of war. Each item O’Brien talks about tells a little about each character and what fears they try to escape from. An example would be “Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr.Scholl’s foot powder as a precaution for trench foot.” (O’Brien pg.1) Jensen carried these things so you could be very clean and

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    Little Shop of Horrors

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    Title: Little Shop of Horrors Type: Musical Script Author: Howard Ashman The story of Little Shop of Horrors is about a young man named Seymour Krelborn who is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s flower shop in urban Skid Row. He has a big crush on fellow co-worker Audrey. One day Seymour comes across a strange mysterious unidentified plant which he purchases and names Audrey II. Seymour later discovers that the plant feeds on blood and soon it begins to sing for its supper. Audrey has a cruel

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