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    How to Write a Great Taking Sides Paper! There’s an art to writing a great paper. It takes only a little more effort to turn a B or C paper to an A. Here are some basic tips and instructions. Follow these and your grades will improve! 1. Make it look good! You don’t need a fancy title page‚ but your paper should look like an effort was made to produce it! Run it through spell check. Correct any major grammatical errors. Refer to the authors by name rather than referring

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    Character Analysis Lincoln Mendoza is a fourteen year old‚ eighth grader that just moved from the hard knocked barrio where he grew up to Sycamore‚ the mostly rich‚ mostly white suburbs. Lincoln is a Hispanic-American kid. His parent got divorced when he was seven and he now lived with his mother. Lincoln was tall but not thin. He was very muscular. When he made a fist‚ his forearm tightened with muscles and his legs and stomach were muscle. His face was brown‚ like coffee laced with cream‚ and

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    THE BLIND SIDE Movie Review ‘The Blind Side’ is the real life story about Micheal Oher‚ an Afro-American football player and his struggles from being an abandoned kid growing up in a foster home to a NFL (National Football League) player after being adopted by the family‚ the Touhys‚ who were white skinned Americans. What makes ‘The Blind Side’ such a compelling story is the fact that it tells the true life story of a boy with little or no prospects. It is a film about human relationships‚ the

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    The Text I have chosen was Into the Wild and The Blind Side they are both films. The encounters that both Michael Oher and Christopher McCandless met on their journeys made dramatic changes on both Michael and Christopher. The main unexpected journey that Michael O’her had was that he had encountered success despite of his background. The main unexpected journey that Christopher McCandless had was starvation. In Sean Peen’s 2007 film Into the Wild he elaborated the unexpected encounter that Christopher

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    Egotism: Education‚ Economics‚ and Enjoyment A literary analysis of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Micaela Berglund 3 White 10.26.13 The Turbo fluctuosa‚ a saltwater snail‚ spends its life climbing and falling from kelp; the snail continually builds itself up‚ simply to be knocked down again. This social pattern is likewise found in humans‚ who build up their egos to find what they need‚ lose it‚ and build again with little hesitation. Ego is built up in order to justify one’s

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    The Blind Side I have decided to write my paper on the character Michael Oher‚ from the movie The Blind Side. It is based on a true story of the offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL. Michael basically raised himself. He was taken from his mother at age seven because she was a frequent drug abuser. He was placed in several different foster homes but he always ran away. Because of Michael’s massive size‚ he was referred to as “Big Mike”. By the age of 17‚ he found himself sleeping

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    The play‚ West Side Story‚ was written by Arthur Laurents. West Side Story‚ the movie‚ was produced in 1961‚ featured Natalie Wood as Maria‚ and was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. There are some major differences between the two works. For example‚ some of the musical numbers switched places in the movie. Also‚ the song “America‚” is different in the movie than in the play. In the movie many of the characters were different‚ and some of the lines differed as well. In the movie‚ the

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    that the effect of expansionary fiscal policy is that it creates a deficit‚ and government spending increases ultimately make investments decrease by an equal amount essentially doing nothing‚ (because @ full employment you can’t change the supply side). Also

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    Akaash Nayak MBC-08 UPenn 7-8-12 Character Analysis for The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game: MICHAEL OHER African-American Michael Oher’s story started when he ran away from home‚ escaping his drug-crazy mother who was fighting her own battle of maintaining a husband-less family and retaining money for drugs‚ food‚ and other “necessities.” Although he kept poor grades up until the year he graduated from high school‚ Oher showed an aptitude in sports from an early age. This would play a major

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    Amory Blaine’s "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel This Side of Paradise‚ Amory Blaine searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However‚ these "mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he looks up to. Eleanor Savage and Burne Holiday serve as prime examples of this. Until Amory loses his pivotal "mirror‚" Monsignor Darcy‚ he

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