English III‚ period 4 Miss Streza January 28‚ 2014 In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ satire pokes fun at the foundations of society. Twain uses satire to diminish society in ways such as education and slavery. Satire helps Twain create humor‚ irony and exaggeration throughout the novel. Education and slavery are used to help address Twains claim against society. When Twain describes slavery‚ he argues against the institution of slavery by humanizing Jim. “I
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Justice During two class sessions‚ we have viewed the movie Crash. In this particular movie‚ victims and offenders are shown to be victims of racism and end up being shown as a racist under different circumstances. This shows various characters of different backgrounds and ethnicities going through a certain roadblock in their lives due to a personal matter that may be because of a racial thought. About twenty minutes into the movie‚ two black men‚ Peter and Anthony see Jean put her arm into
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Anorexia: Dying to be Thin by Kati McConville It was eight o’clock in the morning and it was time for Amy to wake up because she was going out to breakfast with her mother. This was something she hated doing. It wasn’t because she didn’t want to wake up early or she didn’t want to be with her mother‚ it was something much deeper than that. For the past three years Amy has been struggling with an eating disorder‚ an endless cycle of fasting‚ bingeing‚ purging‚ pretty much complete misery.
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In this movie the main character Jim Carroll was part of a winning high school basketball team. He had a promising future and numerous schools looking at him for collage scholarships. Jim and his friends all devilled in what some would consider minor drugs. Weed‚ prescription pills‚ and slowly began to progress into more harsh drugs like inhalants‚ cocaine and eventually heroine. The addiction itself was a slow progression that started out just because he was out with friends and everyone else was
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A Patch of Blue Elizabeth Kata 5/2/06 145 pages A. This story takes place in the nineteen-sixties. It is an urban setting. The story takes about two weeks. B. The point of view in this story is third person. It is third person because it say worlds like me‚ my‚ and I. C. The story starts out by telling us what has happen to Sileena. Sileena is the main character‚ she is 18 years old and she is blind. She is blind because about thirteen years ago her father had come inexpediently
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The documentary‚ Babies depicts four babies‚ each born in a different situation and location. It illustrates how children learn the same basic and essential information at a young age regardless of where they are born. These things include‚ building motor control‚ talking‚ walking‚ and developing a general understanding of their surroundings. The babies are Ponijao from Namibia‚ Bayar from Mongolia‚ Mari from Japan‚ and Hattie from the US. Each baby is exposed to a different environment from the
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Gandhi was a small Indian man that faced the British Empire’s policies of injustice‚ discrimination‚ and colonial control without using a single punch or bullet‚ or in any way using violence as a weapon. The fact that he defeated the British Empire by winning Indian Independence is considered as testimony that Gandhi should be given the status of being remembered as a ‘great man’ in history. Gandhi began his work against the injustices of the British Empire when he was still a young man in South
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The movie Glory is about a story within a historical event‚ which is known as the civil war. It is about Africa Americans fighting for not only our country‚ but also their own respect. The movie is also about how whites acted towards Africa American people. Although the North was essentially fighting the war to abolish slavery they still did not see the African Americans as equal. There are several questions one must ask when reviewing this great film. The movie is very factional with what is going
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The Line The "line" that the film’s title refers to is the poverty line‚ or the line between "the haves and have-nots‚" as one person in the film put it. The documentary highlights the stories of four people who have found themselves on both sides of the line: a former bank vice president who lost his job‚ a Louisiana fisherman whose livelihood is threatened by environmental degradation and hurricanes‚ a former homeless man‚ and a woman that grew up in a high crime neighborhood‚ lifted herself
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Sharon M. Draper captures the life of an average teen through the realest form of unreality exceptionally well. November Blues tells the story of November Nelson and Jericho Prescott after a horrible accident at their school. November Nelson is an average 16-year-old social butterfly in high school; she had a “perfect” life‚ a devoted boyfriend‚ a caring mother‚ and was well on her way with her “perfect” plans after high school‚ when her life took a turn for the worst. Her father died when she
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