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    Close Security Prison

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    close Close Security Prison In a close security prison‚ offenders housed here are an escape/flight risk‚ they have histories of assaults‚ and an offender may be held there because of other charges pending for a different law enforcement agency‚ the offenders in this prison never leave to do anything outside of the prison and they are supervised 24 hrs a day by a correctional officer (“State Prisons‚” 2013). These prisons are usually set up with single cells but have been doubled‚ they are divided

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    Chuck Close Essay Example

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    Chuck Close When one first enters the gallery that contains Chuck Close’s artwork he or she will find him or herself confronted with enormous portraits of subjects that stare straight at them. From afar some of these pieces even look like they may be enlarged photographs‚ but at a closer inspection one may see the time-consuming method that the artist used. One of the most distinctly unique characteristics about this artist’s work is his use of mixed media throughout all of his pieces. Each painting

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    Jaxi Woods-Smith Mrs. Brown English Period 1 September 26th‚ 2012 The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton “Dally risked his life for us‚ to keep Johnny out of trouble.” (Pg. 117.) This is a quote from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders‚ a novel about two social groups‚ the Greasers and the Socs‚ and how the war between them cost three lives. The book is in the perspective of Ponyboy Curtis‚ a sensitive Greaser who is put in the middle of the social conflict when he friend Johnny kills a Soc in self-defense

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    In the novel The Outsiders‚ by S.E Hinton there are two social groups. The Socs and The Greasers. They are rival gangs. The Greasers have it worst off because they have to hideout from the police‚ they are poor‚ and they get jumped by The Socs. The boys‚ Johnny and Ponyboy‚ have to hide from the police because Johnny killed somebody to save Ponyboy’s life. “We gotta get outta here. Get somewhere. Run away. The police’ll be here soon‚” ( Hinton pg. 57). If it were The Socs that killed one of The

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    Close to the Water’s Edge. Close to the Water’s Edge is a short story written by the Irish writer Claire Keegan. The main character in the story is a boy who just turned 19. He is a student at the Harvard University or as he call it himself Cambridge‚ which is the town where Harvard University is situated. Through out the story he is staying at his mother’s penthouse apartment near the ocean. His birthday party is marked by a dinner at the fancy restaurant Leonardo’s. But the atmosphere at the

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    their eyes pooling with tears‚ and their throats tearing themselves raw. As the guards drag the three outsiders through the halls‚ I catch quick observations of the three. All three of them are male‚ each with strange features that attract my attention. The largest - in every sense of the word - of the group has neon pink streaks that greatly contrast with his gray-brown hair. A shorter one follows close enough behind to the point where personal space does not exist. His scarred and calloused hands twitch

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    In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ appearance is a very important theme to the book. One example of this in the book is when the Greasers thought that the Socs had everything going great because of what they owned. Some things that made the Greasers think this was the fact that the Socs had really nice cars and they had nice clothes. The Greasers didn’t know that the Socs had some of the same problems that they did and they went through hard times just like them. Another example of appearance being an

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    Outsiders Book Report

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    BOOK REPORT: "The Outsiders" 1. Hinton‚ S.E. The Outsiders. New York: Puffin Books‚ 1967 2. The title of this book relates to the story‚ because in the book‚ Ponyboy and Johnny are "outsiders." They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like hoodlums‚ like the rest of the Greasers. They are thought of as Greasers just because they live on the East Side of town‚ and because they slick back their hair. But Ponyboy and Johnny are different

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    Frankenstein is an emotionally driven recounting of how Victor Frankenstein rises to the challenge of proving himself while receiving an education‚ even going so far say he had “made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university” (Shelley‚ p. 49) to eventually creating a monster‚ through which he hoped to make his mark on this world. Victor’s desire to create the monster was driven by his obsessive and unflinching

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    Appearance and Character “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (41) ponders Ponyboy‚ a Greaser‚ when he realizes social class does not define a person. S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders tells of a town where social class splits the citizens into the lower class Greasers‚ who others view as horrible‚ selfish‚ tough‚ trouble-making criminals‚ and the upper class Socs or Socials‚ who the townspeople view as the privileged‚ wealthy‚ law-abiding people. Throughout

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