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    Characters: Beauregard “Bo” Brewster- The narrator. Writes in a diary that is addressed to Larry King. His parents are divorced and he has a bad relationship with his father. He turns his anger towards his father (Lucas) into motivation for training. He is training for the Yukon Jack Ironman Triathlon. Noboru Nakatani- A shop teacher that runs the school’s anger management group. He is described as an “Asian Cowboy”. He is from Texas and killed his 2 children in a drunk driving incident.

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    “Into The Wild” was written by Jon Krakauer in 1996‚ and is based on a true story of a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless who was born in February 12‚ 1968 in El Segundo‚ California. Hunters found his body inside a bus in September 6th‚ 1992 in the Alaskan wilderness. Christopher McCandless came from a wealthy family. He was very smart‚ talented‚ kind hearted and nature loving human. His family was always proud of him when it came up to his education. McCandless was a man of his own‚

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    Chris Evans was born in San Fierro in 1995. He didnt go to a kindergarten or a school‚ he helped his father with "Small jobs" To pay the debt for mafia. When Jason was around 15‚ his father was killed by an mafia‚ Jason was told to pay his father’s debt‚ or his mother will be dead. Jason started doing "Dirty jobs" to pay the debt. When Jason’s mother told Jason about his cousin in Los Santos‚ he decided to give it a shot and try to find him. A year later‚ he finally met his cousin. With his help

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    and wanting to leave everything and everyone behind. In his book Into The Wild Jon Krakauer is trying to discover one of the many who left everything behind‚ Chris McCandless motive on why he went on this journey. Krakauer wanted the reader to know that McCandless represents the adventure‚ independence‚ and weakness of every human being. Chris McCandless is a young wealthy man who hitchhiked from the East Coast to Alaska after graduating from university. McCandless dropped out of sight‚ abandoned

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    The title of the book is called “Find Her.” The author of the book is Lisa Gardner. The plot is when Flora Dane the main character is kidnapped when shes at a bar all by herself she tries to leave with a man but then the man gets mad at flora and slaps heracross her face another man comes in to save flora he ends up being flora’s kidnapper. The kidnapper puts flora in a box and leaves her for weeks he doesn’t feed her or give her water nor he lets her go to the bathroom‚ so flora ends up peeing in

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    Dear Mr. Matthews‚ Let me start of by being completely honest and saying that I thought your book was going to be boring and terrible. Many political books are written in a formal language that often intimidates the reader‚ making them feel unintelligent as well. Not only that‚ many authors of political books have a tendency to scold the readers for thinking a certain way. However‚ I was pleasantly surprised when I began to read your book. The first thing I noticed is that the language you use is

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    The Scar In Little Bee‚ by Chris Cleave the main character‚ Little Bee‚ notices a scar on a girl’s legs. She wondering if the scars covered her whole body‚ and said that it would be pretty. Little Bee stats that a scar is never ugly‚ but others might not see it that we. She says that we must see every scars as beautiful. A scar means that that you survived‚ because a scar doesn’t form on the dying. Most people have a scar‚ and sometimes people will ask you know you got this scar. Some are embarrassed

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    Literary Analysis: The Tattoo In the novel‚ The Tattoo‚ Chris McKinney‚ writes about the experiences of Ken Hideyoshi‚ a tough‚ insightful man. McKinney describes the many hardships regarding the three suns’ in Ken’s life: his parents‚ his brother and his girl. Through the use of the three suns‚ McKinney reveals that the extent of their impact on your success or failure is based on the degree of what makes them important to you. First‚ McKinney shows the impact your parents have on you as child

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    Formal Analysis of Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait‚ Aged 23 Self-Portrait‚ Aged 23 was painted by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) in 1629. The oil on wood work is on display in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It was purchased in 1896 from Lt. Col. Sawyer through Bernard Berenson and has dimensions of 89.7 x 73.5 centimeters1. As the title implies‚ Rembrandt as a young man is the only figure in the portrait. He is set slightly off-center to the viewer’s left and his body is angled so

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    characters and people in these pieces of American literature and history portray the addictiveness of adrenaline and continually put themselves in risky situations to experience the most addictive variable of risk; adrenaline. ”Into the Wild’s” Chris McCandless walked right into one of the most unforgiving places in North America; The Alaskan Bush. McCandless was an extremist and did not sit on the side lines waiting for adventure to come to him. He ventured through the dangerous terrain with

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