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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has always been envied‚ cursed‚ and awe-inspiring. In old Anglo-Saxon literature‚ most works were devoted to the sea‚ and in "The Seafarer" it applauds the sea‚ but at the same time the author has deference for its power. Robert Frost’s "Nothing Gold Can Stay" also shows this devotion and despite the fact that their subjects differ‚ the ideas that the two poems are attempting to get across are not too different. In "The Seafarer‚" it continuously refers to the sea as the author’s passion‚ even so he
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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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Chinese American herself‚ McCunn lived in Boise‚ Idaho-the state in which her novel is set-with her father’s family. She later moved to San Francisco‚ where she wrote Thousand Pieces of Gold. The well-researched biographical novel serves as a depiction of the life of a typical female Asian immigrant in Idaho during the gold rush era. Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place Prostitution. While McCunn’s novel does not expressly state that its main character Lalu had to work as a prostitute‚ many
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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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Race-Making and the Nation-State Anthony W. Marx From: World Politics Volume 48‚ Number 2‚ January 1996 pp. 180-208 | 10.1353/wp.1996.0003 Abstract Why was official racial domination enforced in South Africa and the United States‚ while nothing comparable to apartheid or Jim Crow was constructed in Brazil? Slavery and colonialism established the pattern of early discrimination in all three cases‚ and yet the postabolition racial orders diverged. Miscegenation influenced later outcomes
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ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD The play‚ Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is a tragedy. It is about an American family who live their lives masking their reality‚ which is filled with tension and instability‚ with the American dream lifestyle. The father of the household‚ William Loman‚ is the driving force behind fantasizing these illusions. Hence‚ in the play‚ we are faced with many incidences where false perceptions occur and fall apart in the face of reality. We see evidence of this unmasked
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is someone who helps others and puts them before himself and would risk his life to help them. Ponyboy is not a villain. Johnny kills someone‚ but to protect his friend. Dally could be a hero‚ but he chooses not to be. Who will be the hero in the Outsiders? we shall find out? Pony is a good guy. He is a hero. Pony doesn’t like to be harassed‚ but he doesn’t like seeing anyone else being harassed either. “Leave her alone‚ Dally(page 24). He didn’t want the girls to be harassed and also didn’t want
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Text Mining For Gold Management Information System Chicago State University November 5‚ 2012 Text Mining For Gold (5) 1) What is the business impact of text mining? What problems does it solve? The business impact of text mining is that it offers a dynamic and advanced approach to review data accurately‚ increases operational efficiency and are used to predict customers reactions. The problem that text mining solves is that it shortens the amount of time it takes to accurately find data
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