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    Chaim Potok's The Chosen

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    Romans 5:4‚ explains the importance of good character. A person’s character‚ as defined by The American Heritage Student Dictionary‚ is the combination of qualities or features that makes one person‚ group‚ or thing different from another. In The Chosen‚ author Chaim Potok describes the personality of all of the characters skillfully. Danny‚ the son of Reb Saunders‚ demonstrates interesting characteristics. His intelligence‚ athleticism‚ and composure all distinguished him from the rest of the characters

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    Homosexuality Chosen Path

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    Homosexuality Is Not A Chosen Path Marsha Grant COM/1156 March 5‚ 2011 Kim Elliot-White Homosexuality Is Not a Chosen Path Homosexuality is the result of genetics and brain formation and is not a choice or effect of human nurturing. The debate of this topic has occurred for many years in many cultures. Brain formation as early as fetal growth in utero determines sexuality in proven studies. Genetic research shows that homosexuality linked through specific chromosome makeup. Some of

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    Caitlin Park English 10H Summer Reading The Chosen Symbol: Silence Silence serves as a symbol‚ signifying many things in The Chosen‚ by Chaim Potok. Throughout the book‚ Reb Saunders rarely converses with his Danny unless it is about Talmud or their religion. In chapter 18‚ he says that he did this to teach his son to understand and feel pain and suffering. In addition‚ he does this because this was the way he was raised by his own father. Reb Saunders wanted his son to grow up with the

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    Chaim Potok's The Chosen

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    Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen takes place in the 1940s and is the story of two boys trying to become and stay friends even though they are from two different Jewish sects. It is not that To Kill a Mockingbird is an awful or terrible book. While reading To Kill a Mockingbird‚ readers will enjoy a well-written book‚ a winner of the Pulitzer Prize‚ and a classic. Yet‚ high school students will relate more to the two main characters of The Chosen as they are 15 and in high school at the beginning of

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    D1 Compare the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees in your chosen business -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All employers and employees in Asda have rights and responsibilities to each other they both should expect their rights to be upheld. Most right and responsibility’s correspond with one and other with means they over lap even if you are an employer or an employee. The

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    Research into Chosen Career A study by Higher Education Careers Services Unit (2014) reveals that employers are most likely to hire graduates that exhibit a certain set of skills‚ these skills are reliability‚ consistency‚ keenness to learn new skills‚ time management‚ effectively prioritising tasks‚ demonstrating enterprise/self-motivation‚ ethical behaviour‚ recognition of beneficial criticism‚ commitment to quality work and exhibiting professional behaviour. Therefore‚ to pursue a career in marketing

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    Freshly Chosen Force

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    Freshly Chosen Force By Lucille Ann Chozas Journalist is a group of writers who aims at mass audience. They should have discipline‚ willingness‚ punctuality and truthfulness in every articles they are about to make. July 20‚ 2013 ------ The Lakers Chronicles‚ counsel by Mrs. Bernadette Daquil declares its new staff of journalist for school year 2013-2014‚ during the last day of their Journalism Training at Lakes City Christian School (4-Benjamin room). So here it goes‚ Jellyzza Mae Capuno-

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    Protagonists of a story quickly become favorite characters of countless readers. In The Chosen by Chaim Potok‚ one of the protagonists is Reuven Malter‚ the son of David Malter. Along with his father‚ Reuven Malter is an orthodox Jew. In addition‚ Reuven has a great friend named Danny Saunders. Danny and Reuven meet at a baseball game between the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews. Even though other team mates think of Danny and his team as “Murderers‚” Reuven decides to not judge them before he

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    What does it mean to be strong willed? Three characters in the book The Chosen show us what it means. Reuven Malter is a teenage boy who has a strict life and recently overcame a terrible accident. He holds so much hate inside of him and refuses to let it go.The most serious man‚ Reb saunders. He has so much passion for what he does and knows exactly what he wants to do and why. Now a funny man who doesn’t want to anyone to show him pity‚ he knows how to make the best out of something even when ti

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    The Chosen: Literary Essay

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    The Clamor of Placidity Throughout Chaim Potok’s The Chosen‚ Danny is constantly surrounded by silence. In one of their many conversations during their last year of college‚ Danny informs Reuven of both his understanding and acceptance of silence when he discusses the textures of silence and his recognition of it. On the first day of Passover‚ when Reb Saunders finally reveals why Danny was brought up in silence‚ Danny accepts that silence was used as a form of communication throughout his childhood

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