Sample response 6: The Motorcycle Diaries Response by: Kerri-Jane Burke The question Discoveries often require individuals to reconsider their perspective and develop a new understanding of the world around them. Examine this statement in relation to your prescribed text and at least ONE related text. Prescribed Text: The Motorcycle Diaries‚ Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara‚ 2003 (nonfiction/memoir) Related Text: Wide Open Road‚ The Triffids‚ 1986 (music video) Introduction opens with thesis statement
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The rise in labeling students with exceptionalities in our school systems has subsequently led to an increase in the number of special education classes and programs in public schools. The question remains as to whether these programs are arising for the right reasons. Scott Shannon‚ a medical doctor‚ stated that he‚ “Believed that the proliferation of mental and emotional disorders . . . reflects our tendency and willingness to find illness where there may be simple difference.” Labels can either
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In the UK today‚ there are 70‚000 children in care of the state. Since the tragic death of Peter Connelly - known as Baby P - the number of children taken into care has risen by 40%. This is a tale of two boys - a Conner and a Conor. They are just two of those 70‚000 children removed from their families. For those children‚ a place in a foster home can cost £1‚000 a week while a care home place can be between £2‚000-5‚000 a week. In Coventry‚ as in other cities and towns across the UK‚ both options
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worn through showing it would have been used for many years‚ believing it was a story I turned the cover to the first page. Reading the first page I noticed it was actually a diary that my dad had written in during 1965‚ I rushed through the book turning each page trying ever so hard not to rip them‚ finally up to the last diary entry. Everything happened so fast! I feel like I’m in a never-ending nightmare‚ a living hell. Laura is gone‚ and I helped him‚ why did I believe him? Why didn’t I run away
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Motorcycle Diaries Directed by Walter Salles As most potential viewers know‚ this film is based on diaries and letters to home written by Ernesto "Che" Guevara during a motorcycle and foot tour of a significant portion of South America during the early 1950s‚ years before Guevara achieved international renown as a Communist and Latino revolutionary. Thus‚ the film functions as an attempt to get at the heart of the person who preceded the myth. The film is therefore difficult to judge as pure
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki‚ gives the reader a glimpse of the imperial court during eleventh century Japan. Being an attendant in the imperial court‚ Murasaki is frequently involved with the activities of elite. As a woman‚ Lady Murasaki’s descriptions are oriented around clothing‚ appearance‚ and the position of woman in Heian Japan. Lady Murasaki was the most educated woman in the court. She acknowledges learning the Chinese classics from listening to her brother’s lessons. She cautiously
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Drew Riverman Period 4/5 Character Growth “The enormity of our endeavor escaped us in those moments; all we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike‚ devouring kilometers in our flight northward.”-pg.33 “The Motorcycle Diaries” is a story of a motorcycle trip made by 23-year-old medical student Che Guevera and 29-year-old biochemist Alberto Granado across the South American continent. Along the way‚ Che is exposed to extreme events of poverty‚ vulnerability‚ and overall
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki 1945 President - Harry S. Truman Diary Entry 10/8/1945 I strongly defend bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I believe I shortened the war and saved American lives. We did not have any casualties; this is tremendous when you’re in war. Japan first attacked us at Pearl Harbour in 1941‚ this is our revenge. Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbour‚ against those who have starved‚ beaten and executed
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13-to-17-year-olds‚ and Doris Lessing’s condemnation‚ in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature‚ of "a fragmenting culture" in which "young men and women ... have read nothing‚ knowing only some specialty or other‚ for instance‚ computers." Kids today -- we’re telling you! -- don’t read‚ don’t write‚ don’t care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods. The Internet‚ according to 88-year-old Lessing (whose specialty is sturdy typewriters‚ or perhaps pens)‚ has "seduced a whole
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Austin Zhuang Mr. Monroe Lit/Writ 1 12 Feb 2014 To Kill A Mockingbird: Post-Trial Diary Entry 21 November 1935 Dear Diary‚ It has come to an end of the trial‚ and all I am feeling right now is this situation‚ which feels extremely tense. Tom Robinson‚ the suspect in whom my dad‚ Atticus‚ is defending has still been considered guilty‚ even after my dad’s long speech of “equality among race” to the courthouse. I have apathy for the cruelty and harshness in the society of Maycomb
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