Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone is appropriate for the Sterling High School English IV curriculum because of the real life connections to world events and complexity of ideas. Important to realize‚ Beah’s memoir reflects many current world events. He shows us war and killing from a different viewpoint. Beah introduced to us that they were forced and drugged to join the war and had no choice: “ Of course taking more of the white capsules‚ as I became addicted to them”(121). In other words
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FRQ #3: Prompt 1 In the decades following the civil war‚ many factors altered the American city. As urbanization and industrialization developed simultaneously‚ cities were provided with supply of labor for factories and improved transportation. Commercial farming‚ followed by a shift in population of people relocating from rural areas to more modern cities greatly influenced the evolution of the America city. As well as a significant increase in immigration to the states‚ these are the most
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You would think that camping is fun and adventurous. Well‚ that is what I thought until I actually experienced it. My father told me we would be staying in a large tent overlooking the ocean. I envisioned being inside the tent with all this space and then looking out at the big blue ocean calmly flowing‚ as the sunset turns into bright bursting colors of yellow and orange. Little did I know about all the bugs that would end up biting every inch of our bodies‚ picking at our skin like little blood
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Summary: Scarlett O’Hara was a young charming lady living in Georgia. Almost every young guy liked her very much and wanted to marry her. However‚ Scarlett was infatuated with Ashley Wilkes. Maybe the guy liked her‚ but he married his cousin‚ Melanie Hamilton‚ which made Scarlett heartbroken. And then‚ at the party of Ashley’s engagement to Melanie‚ Scarlett met Rhett Butler‚ who had the reputation as a rogue. As the Civil War began‚ Scarlett accepted a proposal of marriage from Melanie’s brother
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It is safe to say that almost everybody who follows the news nowadays has heard of the name Michael Phelps. Upon coming to worldwide attention at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens‚ Phelps has taken the sport of swimming to new limits‚ setting records that seemed impossible just years before. He shocked the world with his record-breaking win of eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing‚ and also holds the record for most Olympic gold medals ever won. However‚ getting to that point was
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Michael Jackson: Pedophile or Victim? 4-21-11 2‚817 words Michael Joseph Jackson has always been in the public’s eye. Even after death people still talk about him. Whether it be about his extreme music and dancing abilities‚ his eccentric lifestyle‚ the many surgeries‚ or the accusations of him being a child offender. Of which he received the most media attention was
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that extremely high fever‚ with the worst headache imaginable‚ and struggling to fall asleep was terrible‚ but it eventually went away. Everything would go back to normal like going back to school and playing with friends. The book Plague by Michael Grant is the exact opposite. The kids that got a really bad sickness never got better. It has been eight months since all the adults and teenagers at least the age of fifteen have disappeared like flying in the Bermuda Triangle (☺ Simile). There is a
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The United States and the struggle for the American dream has been talked about time and time again through history‚ and Michael Moore has dedicated a huge amount of his adult life to documenting such topics. Michael Moore has been acknowledged for his controversial style documentaries such as his film on the attacks in New York City on September 11th and also his Oscar award winning film on the Columbine High School shootings. These projects of Moore ’s are sometimes misunderstood for their satirical
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While he and his friends are away for a talent show‚ their village is raided by rebels. The gruesome storytelling in A Long Way Gone is striking for many reasons on several levels. At one point Ishmael writes‚ “We are not like the rebels‚ those riffraff who kill people for no reason.” The narrative takes an unexpected turn by closing with Beah recalling a philosophical moment from his early childhood. In the final pages of the novel‚ Beah explains a story told to him and other children in his village
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A Long Way Gone Survival is a skill everyone’s born with but not many have to test it. In the memoir of Ishmael Beah‚ A Long Way Gone‚ he travels across the Sierra Leone bush to get away from the Revolutionary United Front(RUF) that is attacking his home village. Melissa Fay Greene from the Elle Magazine writes‚ “No outsider could have written this book‚ and it’s hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision‚ stark language‚ and tenderness. It is a heartrending achievement
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