Thesis: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ a novel which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs‚" captures the voice of ponyboy and his friends in a realistic way that relates to boys and their gangs even today. This story has a lot of issues that are going to be talked about in this paper such as the realism‚ the conflicts‚ the characters‚ Hintons style‚ the themes‚ etc. This book is pretty interesting and brings up a lot of good issues. There are a lot of reasons for reading
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Introduction In “The Outsiders” S.E Hinton creates a realistic theme and a protagonist that will intrigue young readers. The Theme Mclean (2011) states that young readers experience real life situations by reading about them. Division by socioeconomic status is a theme that all teenagers can relate to. According to Hinton (1967) there is a clear social division between the teenagers that live on the West- and East-side of the town. This division is caused by socioeconomic status. Hinton (1967) states
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There are so many smart reasons to buy e-books rather than paperback books. How we read books has been changing over the years since the advent of the computer and other gadgets. People are reading online text at an astonishing rate. One of my websites has over 11 million page views. That’s 11 million pages of text I wrote that nobody would have read without computers because it wouldn’t have been accessible. Here are some… You can password protect your e-books‚ keeping them private for you! You
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disadvantages of E-books over books E-books have been around for a few years and even though printed books are still very popular E-books are becoming more popular as well. To be able to read E-books people need to have a special device called the E-reader or a tablet. Printed books do not seem relevant anymore‚ but there are still a lot of people who hold on to or prefer the traditional books. Some people expected the arrival of the e-book to replace the use of printed books. It can be noted
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In the book The Outsiders‚ written by S. E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy‚ a fourteen year old boy who is a part of the “Greasers‚” a gang that exists to help each other in the east side of Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ lives with his two older brothers and encounters both sides of the bitter rivalry between the “Socs” and the “Greasers. The novel focuses on the conflicts that arose among both gangs. The book also centers on the narrator‚ Ponyboy‚ and his journey with the “Greasers” and the “Socs.” The three topics addressed
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PEER REVIEW EDTL1720: Instructional Design – Identifying an Instructional Problem Template (Use this template as needed to guide you in identifying and summarizing your instructional problem statement.) What observable behaviour (include frequency) indicate that learners have a performance problem?The behaviour that I have observed in my classroom that indicate that learners have a performance problem is a lack of letter recognition e.g. seeing a letter regularly and still can’t recognize it
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Colorado Have you ever vistited the beautiful state of Colorado? Many towns and cities with historical background to see. Some more to see than others‚ but all around a very interesting place to visit. There are different attractions. Such as‚ all the mountains or historical places. The weather is very average‚ that most people like. Not too cold‚ but not blazing hot to where you aren’t able to go out and enjoy Colorados outdoors. There’s also a wonderful atmosphere to experience. People are
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Smithers: a Small Man In Lord Dunsany’s “The Two Bottles of Relish” (1932)‚ Smithers‚ a relish salesman‚ partners with Linley‚ an intelligent gentleman from Oxford to solve the murder of the young Nancy Elth. After Smithers has discovered clues from the murder scene in Unge‚ he must rely on Linley because he cannot solve the case. Smithers’ self – deprecation‚ ignorance‚ and lack of creativity prevent him from solving the case. Smithers’ is extremely hard on himself. His self – deprecation hinders
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1. Provide the definitions of critical path and critical chain. How do they differ? Critical path and critical chain are both schedule network analysis techniques. Critical path is the one that determines the shortest time to complete a project‚ which assumes low uncertainty and does not consider resource dependencies. Critical chain is a modified or refined technique about critical path; it involves the deterministic and probabilistic approaches to analyze the project schedule‚ which is
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My school‚ P.S. 77‚ shares the same building as P.S. 198. There have been many incidents when the students from P.S. 198 bullied those from P.S. 77. Because of this‚ our teachers instructed us to go to the bathroom with a friend. One day‚ my friend Justin and I went to the bathroom. When we arrived‚ we encountered some older boys from P.S. 198‚ who were using very bad curse words and vandalizing the bathroom. This was very upsetting to me. I knew the words they were using were not allowed at school
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