very touchy topic in young adult literature; people often debate that the book is inappropriate for the targeted audience. The book Thirteen Reasons Why‚ By: Jay Asher‚ is about a young man‚ Clay Jensen‚ who returns home from school one day to find mysterious box with his name on it sitting on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes with thirteen reasons why his school crush‚ Hannah Baker‚ committed suicide and he’s one of them. Parents‚ and teachers complain that a book containing sexually explicit
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think about what that rumor could do to that person. In the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher‚ he uses Clay‚ Hannah and Mr. Porter to express that rumors can destroy a person’s reputation and outlook towards life. Sometimes a person’s reputation can be contorted into many shapes because of rumors. When Hannah first moved to the town she created strong bonds with friend but then school started and so did the rumors: “She was new to the school‚ so all the rumors overshadowed everything else I knew
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I personally think that the death penalty is unjust. Murder is murder no matter who is doing it. So if someone kills someone‚ does that give the judicial system the right to kill someone? In my opinion no‚ because all in all‚ it is still down right murder. I think that that life in prison is torture enough especially when you have people who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. Does the legal system have authorization to take innocent lives? Being that this scale is unbalanced‚ I believe that
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Why was Pitt’s 1784 administration not expected to last; and why did it against the odds? There were many factors that threatened William Pitt politically in 1784‚ however‚ equally‚ there were just as many factors that assisted in securing Pitt’s position as Prime Minister. Firstly‚ Pitt‚ at the age of 24‚ had become Great Britain’s youngest Prime Minister ever‚ and consequently was mocked for his youth. A popular rhyme circulated that is was “a sight to make all nations stand
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Thirteen Reasons Why‚ by Jay Asher‚ is a story told from the perspective of Clay Jenkins‚ receives a box in the mail full of 13 cassette tapes recorded by one of his friends‚ Hannah Baker‚ who committed suicide. Hannah left behind these 13 tapes to explain the 13 reasons why she killed herself. As you read this novel you will feel all the emotions that not only Clay feels as listening to the tapes‚ but Hannah as she is living through all these moments. A shoebox- sized package gets left on by
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Conversely‚ one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” (382) Just and unjust; right and wrong is the basic skill that everyone have to learn when they were young. People come to school to learn how to follow the laws‚ and it is true that laws are made to protect people and make things fair for everyone. However base on Martin Luther King Jr‚ I recognized not all laws are ethical and just. Arizona’s immigration law is an unjust law and it should be abolish because it creates racial profiling
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Firstly‚ one of the most common reasons why marriages fail is that people will not listen to one another to seek understanding. In today’s society there are very few good listeners in the world. After marriage‚ people think that they already know everything about their spouse‚ when in fact; they could know just the opposite. Two spouses must always keep a form of communication with each other. If a person begins to fail to listen to the other; the other person could think that the other is cheating
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There are many reasons why Confederation happened but amongst them there are three that I think are the most important: The Chesapeake Incident‚ The Reciprocity Treaty‚ and The Civil War. Confederation is the uniting of all colonies that were in British North America (Ontario‚ Quebec‚ Nova Scotia‚ and New Brunswick). My first reason is The Reciprocity Treaty. The Treaty is made to eliminate all tariffs for bringing American goods into Canada. The treaty was signed on June 5th 1854 and ended in
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Britain’s last trial for cannibalism at sea The story of the Mignonette Bartlett Library Researchers © 2008 National Maritime Museum Cornwall Introduction The obituary of John Burton‚ proprietor of the famous Old Curiosity Shop in Falmouth was printed as a special supplement to the Cornish Echo of 31 May 1907. This included the following paragraph: Bail for the Mignonette Crew In the year 1884 the country was horror stricken by the recital of a story of cannibalism at sea. The yacht sunk at sea
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the nature of warfare would dramatically change on both upon the battlefield but more importantly how it affected society. Continental Europe was engulfed in war from 1792 following the establishment of the French Republic and continued with the rise of Napoleon until his eventual defeat in 1815. Between 1792 and 1809 the French army seemed to grow from strength to strength turning from a “métier of the aristocrat” small‚ professional army to the first mass
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