good quote from the book is when Julie was thinking during her beatdown‚ Julie thinks‚ “I felt every blow a fist in my jaw‚ my shoulder‚ a steel-toed boot in my shin. I felt their spit on my face. I felt a wad of gum pressed onto my hair. What the Fuck are they doing to me?”(140). In this quote‚ Julia is getting beat up by Maria and her Crip girls. A person who’s been jumped before could relate how Julia was feeling when she got jumped by the Blood gang. With good descriptive details‚ it gives
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women’ and ‘loose women’. This reflects the change in perception of women’s sexuality and social roles‚ and how women are being degraded to be seen as sex objects. As words can gain meaning‚ they can also lose meaning. An example of this is the word “fuck”‚ which originally had the connotations relating to ‘sex’ and ‘sexual activity’‚ it is now used freely as a means to express many different emotions and no longer thought of as a sexual word although the connotations still exist. Words change to suit
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out of the Safeway driveway as a speeding driver delivered a jolting honk.” The two cars “lined up at a spotlight” it was a young white man dressed in a polo shirt and slacks driving a BMW. The white man said‚ “he wasn’t honking at you‚ you stupid fuck!” Jeremiah gave him a middle finger while the white man pulled out a can of mace spraying them proceeding to say‚ “Take that you fucking lowlifes! Stupid chinks!” As their eyes burned no one stopped to help‚
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Blurred Lines: the most controversial song of the decade Another student union has banned Robin Thicke’s party track. How did it become such a lightning rod for moral outrage and censorship? This week‚ University College London student union (UCLU) took the unusual step of banning a single song‚ Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. It joins around 20 other UK student unions to do so. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade:
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People put a lot of thought into what the kids in the school do and what they are involved in‚ but do you guys ever think about what the kids in schools choose to read from the library? One specific book I’m talking about is the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. The book is about a young married couple and their life. In the book‚ the wife ends up missing and make it look like her husband had something to do with it and tries to frame him. Gone Girl has many sexual scenes‚ has lots of profanity‚ and
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Into The Wild In the book into the wild by John Krakauer‚ Chris Mcandles aka (Alex super tramp) is a very good example of a modern day transcendentalist because Chris was very insightful; he had self reliance and was able to live off the land. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an American adventurer. He ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with barely any food and equipment‚ hoping to live for a time in solitude. Almost four months later‚ McCandless’s starved remains were found
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right-winged person. I use to be left-winged until I see these jackasses shoving their bigotry on other people. They don’t care. If you’re white‚ you’re automatically a horrible ’privilege’ person that benefited from someone else’s ’suffering’. They can go fuck themselves. You can argue with them up the yingyang but they will still emotionally abuse you with guilt. There is no need for that. They can’t seem to make any to comment without condescending others. I don’t agree with their views‚ but I think we
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show honesty and compassion towards her‚ Rosemary will only hear what she wants to hear in regards to Tobias‚ the negative matter she will disregard as her son is “perfect”. This occurs as Tobias is shown getting caught scratching the ‘obscene words “FUCK YOU” into the semi-dried paint in the bathrooms‚ where he would smoke with his friends. When his mother is called‚ she‚ without a second thought‚ states‚ “If he says he didn’t do it‚ he didn’t do it.” Being caught in Tobias’ web of lies and betrayal
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Book Report for the Catcher in the Rye By Jerome David Salinger Amy Zeng Mr. Poldiak 05/27/2013 Author Introduction The author of the Catcher in the Rye‚ Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919. He is the son of a wealthy cheese importer. He grew up in a fashionable neighborhood in Manhattan. He graduated from Valley Forge in 1936 and attended different colleges. He published his first short story in 1940. He kept on writing when
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Usage The word shit (or sometimes shite in Scotland‚ Northern Ireland‚ Ireland‚ Northern England and Wales) is used by English speakers‚ but it is usually avoided in formal speech. Minced oath substitutes for the word shit in English include sugar and shoot. In the word’s literal sense‚ it has a rather small range of common usages. An unspecified or collective occurrence of feces is generally shit or some shit; a single deposit of feces is sometimes a shit or a piece of shit‚ and to defecate
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