By: Nnamdi Anige In the book We beat the street Dr.Hunt‚ Dr‚ Jenkins and‚ Dr‚ Davis show how you do not have to get caught up in everything your friends do. When you do make mistakes‚ learn from those mistakes. These 3 doctors beat the hood‚ stealing‚ and jail in their neighborhood by staying positive. One thing they show in the book is how they beat the hood. For example “Quit throwin bottles in the street‚ man” (21). This shows how they would not let their neighborhood be destroyed and
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Questions for Close Reading: 1. “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions.” 2. When Stephanie Ericsson went a whole week without telling a single lie‚ she recalled it “paralyzing.” She discovered that telling the truth all the time is “nearly impossible.” 3. A lie is a false action done with the intent to deceive. “Ignoring the
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ENC 1102 October 10 2014 We Wear the Mask In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem We Wear the Mask you quickly find out it is one big metaphor. Dunbar’s meaning behind this poem is about people covering up their feelings like someone using a mask to cover their face; as if it’s a big front to hide what is really going on. Dunbar being an African American poet in the late 19th and early 20th century was a harder time on colored people. His poems relate back to the hardships he saw and knew. The poem is
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The debate over "In God We Trust" and "Under God" Brad Marendt Western International University Com 112 Cyndy Woods‚ Ph.D. March 19‚ 2006 There has been a great deal of debate since the United States of America became a nation over whether America ’s current motto‚ "In God We Trust"‚ and the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are considered a violation of the first amendment. The first amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion " (U
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“Life As We Knew It” by Susan Beth Pfeffer Danielle Graves What would I do? This is what I kept asking myself as I was reading “Life as We Knew It” by Susan Beth Pfeffer. The book follows Miranda and her family through their day-to-day struggles to survive the aftermath of a life-changing event. Astronomers miscalculate the density an asteroid that hits the moon‚ and it pushes the moon closer to Earth. The gravitational pull results in natural disasters that happen
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The Other Wes Moore In the book‚ The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore‚ there are issues of institutionalized oppression‚ internalized oppression‚ power and privilege‚ race‚ human rights‚ social justice and economic justice. All throughout this book each and every one of these topics were portrayed at one point or another. These issues shaped the two Wes Moore ’s as well as their family and friends which made them into the people they are today. Oppression usually comes from individuals that are
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I’ve heard of many streets that involved many crimes‚ and the toughest streets of Newark‚ New Jersey is where the three kids in We Beat the Street grew up. The setting of this nonfiction story is just like the real world‚ it brings in normal crimes that would happen today. Some neighborhoods are very wealthy and rich‚ but some are also like the ones in the book. These streets include drug use and gang violence everyday‚ and the three kids had to grow up surviving these exact streets. The book
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progress and change expose themselves to criticism. Yet there is always a subtle danger in life’s improvements and refinements‚ a drawback or disadvantage that occurs along with the benefits of progress. It sometimes seems that we devote half of our time to making what we call "improvements"—in our lives‚ our work‚ our relationships—but so often the original conditions had some quality that is lost in the process of change. Adapted from E.B. White‚ "Progress and Change" Assignment: Does improvement
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|Shall We Dance? | | | |Bible study on dancing. | |As with many things‚ dancing can be either good or bad depending on the details.
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The function of the setting on the Individual in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We to portray Revolution In the novel ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin‚ the author uses the function of the setting on the individual to achieve his goal of producing a satirical warning of the future if no action is taken in the present‚ offering revolution as the solution. The setting and its effects on the individuals in ‘We’ act as both a satire of Stalinist Russian society and a warning. Zamyatin shows how the setting of a dystopian
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