In his book Forgotten Fire‚ author Adam Bagdasarian investigates the Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a twelve year old Armenian boy named Vahan Kenderian. Through Vahan‚ the reader experiences the atrocities committed during the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey. The Turks‚ who were Muslim‚ viewed the Christian Armenians as inferiors and treated them as such; under Turkish law‚ Armenians had nearly no rights‚ no fair justice in Turkish courts‚ could not bear arms‚ and were taxed far higher
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Summary Gates of fire is a story about Xeones‚ a Greek boy who is a survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After awhile of living in his village it is over ran by Argives ‚ Xeones then wonders the countryside with two friends and spends his early years as an outlaw. Until one day he is captured enslaved by the Spartans ‚ where they keep him with the other slaves called Helots. He is then paired with Alexandros‚ the son of a high ranking Spartan officer‚ who
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In the chapter the Fire Dana is home recovering from her first encounter in another dimension‚ however‚ as she is recovering she begins to feel dizzy and sick again‚ then she appears in a room with a boy who is playing with fire. As Dana watches the boy she sees that the stick he is holding has ambers of fire‚ as do the curtains. Dana acts quickly by disposing of them‚ the boy then notices her she begins to question if it’s Rufus. As they get acquainted we discover the boy is Rufus however he is
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Say No to the Right to Be Forgotten The Right to Be Forgotten is a controversial issue that many people are debating. According to Jeffrey Rosen‚ there are three categories of the right to be forgotten. The first category is the individual’s right to delete a photo or data that he or she posted. Second‚ if the individual’s post has been copied and re-posted by another person‚ the individual has the right to delete the data from that other person’s account even without his or her permission. Lastly
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Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Naimark‚ Norman. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts: The President and Fellows of Harvard College‚ 2001. When asked why I chose this book‚ I would normally respond with some answer conjured up from the depths of my lying brain. But I’ll be honest; I chose this book because it didn’t have as many pages as the others on the list of approved readings‚ that way I could read it faster. I would normally
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Rivera‚ Alexandra August 29‚ 2012 Summer Reading-“Catching Fire’’ The book”Catching Fire” is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen‚who won the Hunger Games‚and she is going to have to go in the Hunger Games all over again.The author for this book is Suzanne Collins‚and the type of this book is fiction and suspense. The main character
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Streets of Fire (Anarchy) remake Tom Cody (the protagonist) and Raven Shaddock (the antagonist) used to be friends‚ before a quarrel over the love of Ellen Aim (the singer). Ellen chooses Tom over Raven‚ but Tom leaves her to answer the call of duty to Afghanistan. Brokenhearted Raven turned to a gangster kingpin. Later Ellen finds her quality as a rocketing rock star nationwide under the management of a successful Billy Fish (label company boss) who owns her as his golden goose. Ellen‚ to recover
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Figurative language can be used to convey the tone of a poem. In the poem‚ “Forgotten Planet” by Doug Dorph‚ literary devices such as figurative language are used to convey the tone of affection in a more clear and meaningful way. To begin‚ imagery is used to paint a clear picture in the reader’s head of what fondness looks like. For example‚ the narrator describes an important moment with his father‚ “I don’t remember any meteors. I remember my back pressed to the planet Earth‚ my father’s bulk
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“The Forgotten Offenders” Until recently the female offender was generally overlooked by an overwhelmingly male-dominated criminal justice system. There are so few women in prison in then men. Approximately 5‚600 out of 196‚000 inmates in state and federal prisons are women. Because of the small proportion of female prisoners‚ female facilities are not as well-equipped as male prisons. Educational and vocational training programs are limited. Life requires a plan in all of at least five basic
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The Forgotten Door This book was about a 12-year-old boy‚ named Jon who fell through a magical door that transferred him to another world. When he fell through the door he hit his head on the rock floor of a cave‚ which caused him to lose his memory. He could not even remember his own name or how old he was. When he managed to walk out of the cave he saw a doe and followed it until he heard someone yell at him‚ it was Mr. Gilby. Mr. Gilby said‚ “Devil take you.” “You ruined my aim!” ”What you doing
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