IDIOMS Sabrina Ramos 12/18/12 Period:6 1. Clean up the air- To get rid of doubts or hard feelings. All right‚ let’s discuss this frankly. It’ll be better if we clear the air. 2. Keep at arm’s length- To keep at a distance; not to allow to come into close contact. 3. Have ones back on the wall- to have very serious problems which limit the ways in which you can act. With rising labor costs‚ industry has its back to the wall. 4.
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personalities. Johnny and Dally both have it tough at home and place little value on their lives‚ but they both have very different personalities. Dally is tough and mean‚ but Johnny is sensitive. A main similarity between them is that they both have abusive parents. Johnny and Dally share one big similarity and that is that they both have abusive parents. Johnny’s parents don’t pay any attention to him or they beat him‚ that really bugs Johnny. The rest of the gang notices that and they show Johnny the
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The speaker of the poem “Frankie and Johnnie” is telling the story of two people that were in a relationship‚ where Johnnie was cheating on Frankie‚ and then Frankie kills Johnnie. The poem starts out telling the readert he backstory of Frankie and Johnnie. The speaker says that “Frankie and Johnnie were lovers...They swore to be true to each other/ As true as the sky above;” (ll.1‚3-4)Then it goes on to say that Frankie bought Johnnie a lot of nice‚ expensive things and gave him a lot‚ if not all
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Johnny Tremain Pride Essay Pride is an emotion that has two meanings. With a negative meaning‚ pride is an exaggerated sense of personal status or accomplishments. With a positive meaning‚ pride is a pleased sense of attachment toward one’s own or another’s choices and actions. Johnny Tremain is known to be an extremely prideful person. Johnny has both positive and negative prideful traits that affect him throughout his life. His pride played a large role in his accident‚ and benefited him and other
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Johnny Cade‚ “the little Dark puppy that was kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers‚” as Ponyboy‚ Johnny’s friend‚ states in page eleven. In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by Susan Eloise Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a character who goes through resilient phases in his life. Some phases are on how he created his inflection points‚ his inflection points‚ and the ramifications. Johnny is doubtless the first one‚ and one to have the most‚ to have a tremendous crisis then the other characters
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The movie Johnny Tremain helped me gain more knowledge about the American Revolution from a different perspective. Johnny Tremain is a work of historical fiction‚ combining real people and events like Paul Revere‚ Sons of Liberty‚ and the Boston Tea Party‚ and fictional ones like Jonathan Tremain‚ Priscilla Lapham‚ and Ephraim Lapham. The fictional characters‚ although these people did not historically exist‚ gave me a personal insight to the actual events that occurred such as the Boston Tea Party
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Do you know any heros? Like firemen‚ policemen anyone that helps in a way. Well Johnny is like that a hero he did many things to make himself a hero he was like a leader in the gang cause every one liked him and they look up to him but there is one thing that they don’t look up to him on is fighting that’s another reason why he’s a hero he was not a fighter he said to them fighting is know good. Because of these qualities‚ Jonny deserves the title of best hero. Jonny was a boy in the Outsiders
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pre-revolutionary time. At the beginning of the book‚ Johnny Tremain‚ is working as an apprentice to Mr. Lapham. Mr. Lapham is a blacksmith. Johnny’s parents died in a fire several years before‚ and this is why he lived with the Laphams. He worked there with enthusiasm for several years until he hurt his arm‚ scolding it in hot metal. After the accident‚ Mr. Lapham told Johnny that he needs to find a different profession‚ but he can stay with the laphams. Johnny‚ after a lot of searching‚ finally finds a
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Anyone can be a hero? Are you one? A hero 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
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Fidel "Eddie" Valdez Ramos (born March 18‚ 1928)‚ popularly known as FVR‚ was the 12th President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. During his six years in office‚ Ramos was widely credited and admired by many for revitalizing and renewing international confidence in the Philippine economy. Prior to his election as president‚ Ramos served in the Cabinet of President Corazon Aquino first as chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and‚ later on‚ as Secretary of National Defense
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