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    The Outsiders In class we have been reading a novel called ‘The Outsiders’ by S E Hilton. This book was published forty years ago and is still popular because it has an interesting theme and characters as well. The book was set in the 1960’s in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ America. This book is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers and his gang. Ponyboy is from a gang called the greasers. The greasers are enemies with the socs who are the rich kids. Ponyboy is good friends with Johnny Cade‚ who

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    are dealing with brutal working conditions that they shouldn’t have to go through at such a young age. These children have to put up with consequences and long hours that can harm them even though they don’t deserve to have this done to them. The jobs that the companies put the children through is hazardous and unsafe for their health‚ also themselves as well. There should be child labor laws because of the safety issues‚ how young they are‚ and the hours the kids are working at such a young age.

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    The kids are in the church. One desperate thought ran through my mind. Ponyboy was already running. Dally was swearing‚ saying it was too late and we shouldn’t die as well in between curses. I still have to help‚ they’re in there! I ran toward the church‚ trying to see through the thick smoke like the cigarettes we were smoking! I remembered the cigarette I had absentmindedly dropped. My stomach swooped. This was my fault? It doesn’t matter now! There! I heard something besides the crackling of the

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    most likely to be restless and stressful because you just had to finish up an essay that was due the very next day. And you now realize that it didn’t have to be this way.Schools could have a later start time to give students more time in the morning to work on their homework instead of having to pull an all-nighter to finish it. Furthermore‚ according to the National Sleep Foundation‚ children aged six to thirteen should get at least nine hours of sleep. But the average child in the United States

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    enough sleep and do something about it like make school start later. School should start later because students always complain about how early they have to get to school

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    Briana Dunbrasky English 4A Mr. Lutz 4-10-15 Why School Should Start Later When you look in a high-school classroom what do you see? You’ll most likely see a teacher trying to teach‚ phones‚ and if you look real closely there’s those kids trying to keep their eyes open. Today‚ a giant percentage of high school students aren’t getting enough sleep on a daily basis. Students have to wake up early‚ go to school for about 7 hours‚ any after school activity‚ then come home and have no free time

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    S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders A Term Paper In Partial Fulfillment For Language Arts 11 By Eduardo Rivera Rivera 5/22/13 Mr. Jesus Ramos Period 6 S.E. Hinton is one of the best known American authors. She has written many stories and novels‚ none of which are as famous as her young-adult novel‚ The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton has won some awards for her contributions to English literature. Her books have been used in schools as she has inspired

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    college for several years and compete with my peers to get a good job. If the economy was booming‚ there would be more high paying jobs. Environment As humans on the earth‚ we have the responsibility to respect and preserve the world we live in. We should conserve our natural resources‚ clean up the messes we make and look to the future for new ways to produce and promote our human existence. We need to make sure the science we use is reliable and reasonable. Farmers need to make sure while they’re

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    ENG261AC April 14‚ 2003 "The Difference of Initial Inference of Identity" S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders‚ is at first a narrative of Ponyboy‚ a young outcast boy who later becomes a young man filled with identity. At the end of the novel‚ it is revealed that the narrative is actually Ponyboy’s autobiographical account of his quest for a place in society. The symbols and motifs of The Outsiders contribute immensely to the novel’s most prominent theme: Commonality between the rich and the poor

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    The Outsiders is a novel by S.E Hinton that is set in the 1960’s in a city close to New York. It is about the conflict between the rich people‚ the upper-class‚ the west-side kids‚ called the Socs and the lower class‚ poorer people‚ called the Greasers. The conflict between the two social groups occurs because the Socs are too real and too demanding for things. The Greasers are being jumped by the Socs and that creates conflict and hatred between the two groups who aren’t really that

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