"Greasers are like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while." (Hinton 6) Bob Sheldon‚ a Soc in the novel The Outsiders by S.E Hinton‚ was stabbed and killed by greaser‚ Johnny Cade. The greasers are considered the menace to society‚ because of the way they look and the actions they make. But what if I told you the only reason why 16-year old Johnny Cade stabbed Bob was because Bob and the others Socs were drowning Ponyboy
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SOC 313 Week 1 Quiz 1. Question : ____________________ can be defined as individuals’ perceptions and beliefs about their own strengths and weaknesses‚ as well as others’ perceptions of them. 2. Question : Stephanie is unable to maintain her level of physical activity because of limitations associated with multiple sclerosis. Thus‚ she has been engaging in creative writing activities as a means of self-expression. This is an example of: 3. Question : Motor and perceptual consequences of
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E Hinton‚ The Outsiders‚ has two protagonists and antagonists. The greasers are gangs on the poorer side of the city while on the east side there were Socs. The greasers and the Socs fought each other over territory. Although it may seem like the Greasers are completely lawless people‚ they still are honorable due to reasons like how the protect each other‚ how they come together to protect what is theirs and help others who can’t help themselves. To begin‚ Even though the greasers are hoodlums they
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SOCS-315-63954 Professor Julien November 10‚ 2013 Marriage and Family Discussion In today’s society‚ time has changed from people deciding whether they shall get married or start a relationship. One of the main concerns that make people choose not to get married is they are not financially stable. If it were that easy to find a job that pays well‚ then most people would be in a health relationship and have a stable job. I am in the perfect example of problems in starting a family in today’s
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The Outsiders Essay A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Anyone can become a hero through perseverance from any point in society. Ponyboy is part of a crowd who are like criminals known as the Greasers‚ who are poor and live on the east side of town. The Greasers are a gang that have Ponyboy‚ Soda‚ Steve‚ Johnny‚ Dally‚ Darry‚ and Two-bit Matthews. The Greasers are hated by the Socs‚ the Socials‚ who are the west side rich kids in the town. In the
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the celebrities and forget about people’s wealth that we’re would all be just ordinary regular people. We all bleed‚ red blood when we cut ourselves‚ we all hurt and have emotions and rights we are all humans. Reading this incredible story “The Outsiders” By S.E. Hinton was an inspirational book it opened my eyes to such other things that is more important that is going on in the world. I’ve learned a valuable lesson‚ like to stay gold like the poem in the book. Nature’s first green is gold‚ her
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Sebastian Baum Mrs. Acres Scott ENG 3U1 12/8/2014 The Sociological Implications of Extraterrestrials and Outsiders on Society in Frankenstein and Close Encounters of the Third Kind Two novels‚ written more than a hundred years apart‚ explore the social acceptance (and rejection) of outsiders in an established society. Like Richard E. Yinger once said‚ “If we ever discover life forms in a biological sense‚ the implications will be largely sociological for our planet.” In many cases
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The Outsider Essay Breakdown Introduction: Labels impact every character in The Outsiders in several negative ways. These labels affect them causing others to refer to them as those labels even themselves. The people these labels affect are Dally‚ Johnny‚ and Ponyboy and these labels can be seen negative or positive about these characters depending on how they look at the labels. Body Paragraph 1: The one most affected by these negative labels is Dally because the words they used to describe
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The Outsiders Most Dynamic Character The most dynamic character in the book The Outsiders is Ponyboy Curtis. Throughout the course of the book his actions‚thoughts‚and things he said‚ lead me to believe the he is the most dynamic character. This is true for many reasons‚ first at the beginning of the book he needed to be protected‚ but towards the end of the book he was able to protect himself. Furthermore Ponyboy changed his views toward Dallas during the book‚ lastly he realizes that
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The outsiders book‚ and movie are both interesting and entertaining but they aren’t exactly alike. They both are similar ‚because they both talk about the same people and tell the same story.The book has several differences than the movie like dally dying instantly after being shot by the fuzz ‚Johnny’s mom yelling at pony and two-bit those are just a couple of differences in the two there are several more though. Some friends who are just “greasers” and they keep having problems with the “socs”
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