alcohol drinking‚ vicious and abusive‚ is how upper class snobs see Ponyboy Curtis through their eyes . But how you define someone’s character is all about the perspective you look at that person from. Ponyboy Curtis is a 14 year old boy who grew up on the wrong side of the block‚ he has the potential to grow up to be someone extraordinary but has great disadvantages that he pushes through and that makes him persistent. Ponyboy has encountered many big problems for the short life he has lived
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couldn’t move. Suddenly‚ I saw Ponyboy swaying unsteadily on his feet before he hit the ground with a sickening smack. I found myself on my knees next to him in an instant‚ brushing the hair from his eyes while Sodapop yelled desperately for someone to call an ambulance. "Ponyboy? Come on‚ Ponyboy‚ wake up. I know you can hear me‚" I begged‚ but like the last time I begged‚ no one listened. Ponyboy stayed
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Guns have affected millions of people in the United States ever since the second amendment was put in place. With just a pull of a trigger you can affect someone’s life exponentially. There is a need for stronger gun control regulations and laws to ensure that these guns aren’t ending up in the wrong hands and costing peoples lives. I believe that regulating guns and closely monitoring who is obtaining these guns would benefit the problem of gun violence. Throughout time the United States has had
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Running Head: PERSUASIVE ESSAY Transportation is Becoming Expensive Jessica Uribe University of Phoenix Phillip Partridge Essentials of College Writing comm/215 April 4‚ 2007 Transportation is Becoming Expensive As everyone knows‚ gas prices seem to be going up and down every week now a day. Gas prices also vary from gas station to gas station which causes us to look for the gas station with the lowest prices. The question is: Is it really worth driving around to the gas station with
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Kristen Saperstein English 213 Why Read? A question every single American is asking these days is‚ why read? Do you spend hours reading on the couch on the weekend or even on the weekdays? Or are you the type of person who goes shopping‚ plays video games‚ or hangs out with your friends with no thought of picking up a book? The truth is more than half the population of America do not think it’s necessary to read because they have better things to do‚ however they are wrong. Reading does matter‚ it
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giving‚ and humble. For two criminal teenagers to be considered heroic is strange‚ but for Dally Winston and Johnny Cade‚ sacrificing everything for their closest friends and community is a daily ordeal. Throughout H.E. Hinton’s fiction novel‚ The Outsiders‚ Dally and Johnny are constantly portrayed as dangerous and tough kids involved in illegal activity spouting from their street gang. Although this is true to an extent‚ they are simply trying to protect their family of other traumatized kids. Their
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killed around eleven million people‚ Donald Trump has not killed anyone. Donald Trump is getting voted in as the president. Hitler got voted to become the leader. Adolf Hitler had a different approach to people when campaigning. Donald Trump did not put pictures of propaganda of immigrants. Donald Trump is racists about immigrants because he assumes they are terrorists. Adolf Hitler didn’t like Jewish people because‚ he thought they were demons‚ devils‚ parasites and was jealous of them. Before Germany
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Persuasive Essay Many movies‚ television shows‚ music songs‚ and video games are filled with violence: murder scenes‚ nonstop profanity‚ rape and torture scenarios. By placing scenes like these in the movies for the children and teenagers to see‚ the media is causing them to become more violent than it already is. What has our society come to these days? Everywhere we look‚ violence is present; in the streets‚ back alleys‚ schools‚ and even at home. Even if one might be a pacifist‚ violence will
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Why should we care about proteins? • Proteins perform structural and functional roles in the body • Your body uses them‚ to build and repair tissue. It is an important building block of bones‚ muscles‚ cartilage‚ skin‚ and blood. • Proteins are a major key in making hormones like insulin • Albumin‚ which is a protein made by the liver acts like the bloods 24-hour service that attaches to and transports fatty acids‚ calcium‚ and other substances through the circulatory system to cells throughout the
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We should care about protecting the environment because climate change causes malnutrition. Malnutrition is a poor condition of heath caused by lack of food. Perhaps people assume that this issue cannot possibly occur. However‚ agriculture is strongly influenced by raising temperature and acid rain‚ which is made by gas emission. Acid rain will make plants gradually dying and no more fruits and vegetables for us. According to Michael Reagan‚ people who manage their farms in the
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