I.S. 228 Mrs. Bloom Class Nov. 7‚ 2014 Hope Renewed Salva is on a journey that is filled with death‚ despair‚ and destruction yet‚ he still has hope. This is during a time when war is happening all around him. How is this possible for someone to be positive during a time of negativity? Salva initially lost all sense of hope when his village was under attack and his teacher made all of the students run away from the school into the bush. He was upset about
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Imagine a daunting journey‚ through hostile environments. There is a war over religion splitting up Sudan. Rebel soldiers are fighting the government‚ and people are being displaced from the homes and families. This describes the experience of Salva‚ a 12 year old boy from the novel A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue park. In this novel individuals have to face challenging terrain and dangerous routes against the odds of survival. Main character‚ Salva Dut‚ was able to survive through an extremely
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“A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park is a sensational story about an 11-year-old boy who has to fight his way through life‚ and an 11-year-old girl named Nya who has to make a Long walk every single morning. Linda Sue Park grew up in Urbana‚ Illinois where she loved to write Historical fiction for teens. In her Historical fiction books‚ you would most likely see that her topics would relate to Surviving and Working hard to stay on pace. Linda attended Stanford University for her college career
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Home – The Movie Name__Kelsey Bridewell_____________ 1. What does the following term mean‚ homo sapiens? Human Beings 2. When did life originate on Earth? 4 billion years ago 3. When did homo sapiens originate? 200‚000 years ago 4. What was a cloud of agglutinated dust particles similar to so many other clusters in the universe? 5. What was our Earth was like at its birth? Molten Rock 6. Why was it important for the Earth to be at the right distance from the
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A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park discusses the story of a girl named Nya and her journey to find water. First‚ Nya‚ 11‚ walks half a day everyday 1 or 2 times in the blazing heat to fetch water at a pond in Southern Sudan for her and her family to survive. Secondly‚ Nyas family leaves 5 months a year to live by the big lake to survive. Also Nya’s little sister Akeer had a horrible stomachache she couldn’t even speak Nya said that she has seen it before it starts with a stomachache then diarrhea
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In “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples he discusses his personal experiences with the all too familiar idea’s that white people‚ specifically women‚ have about black men. “To her‚ the youngish black man- a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair‚ both hands shoved into the pockets on a bulky military jacket- seemed menacingly close. After a few more quick glances‚ she picked up her pace and was soon running in earnest.” This was how Staples described his experience with his first
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Long walk to Forever I’m what they call A.W.O.L Was a private first class in the Artillery. Hitchhike since two days‚ On the fringe of a city‚ Near fields and woods and orchard. In the early afternoon‚ I knocked on Catharine’s front door. I want to give Henry a rosy bride‚ By taking a walk with Catharine. One foot in front of the other‚ Through leaves‚ over bridges. That will be my present. I’ve never done anything like this before‚ Time to time‚ I softly
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In the non-fiction novel A long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park the author focuses on the survival of Salva Dut a boy who”s behavior goes from happy and joyful to scared and timid and then being proud of who he is. The story takes place in Southern Sudan‚ Kenya and Ethiopia but there is a war going on at the time. The government in the north was trying to convert the people in the south to Muslim but they were fighting back. At first Salva was at school when the shooting started happening
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central concept in modern life. A Walk to Remember is one of my favorite movies‚ since I was inspired by someone that I got the chance to see it and then fell in love with the movie‚ and it really had an extra-ordinary love story which this movie had big impact on me. The film is based upon a novel by Nicholas Sparks‚ an amazing writer and author of novels such as The Notebook and The Lucky One‚ which I really like a lot as well. It’s a must-see movie that that can and will inspire anyone about
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The novel called “A Long Walk to Water”‚ a boy named John is the main character. John is very different than me‚ and I would like to show the differences of chores and climate‚ but there are also similarities such as honoring an important person when they pass away. To tell how things are for boys in Sudan to the boys here in the U.S. In the novel‚ the females go do chores such as lead the cows outside‚ cleaning the floor and cooking while the males go hunting and protect the cattle which are very
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