shooting. It is a first person narrative from the point of view of Valerie Leftman‚ whose boyfriend Nick Levil was the shooter. Interspersed through the novel are newspaper articles about the events. Valerie and Nick have compiled a Hate List‚ a list of people and things they hate; Valerie sees it as an inside joke between the two of them‚ but Nick is more serious. When he brings a gun to school and starts shooting people‚ Valerie puts herself in front of his next victim and is shot in the leg. After this
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If you were to ask many Americans whether hate speech was covered under the first amendment‚ many would be surprised to find out that in most circumstances it is protected. For the augment essay‚ I plan to argue that hate speech should be covered under the first amendment‚ and its coverage is essential to the idea of free speech. As an African-American male growing up in the South‚ hate speech was not an idea to be debated or a conceptual item to be reflected upon. It was the reality‚ as raw
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Cathy and Alan Crimmins thought they were going to spend a relaxing family vacation with their seven year old daughter (Kelly) and some close friends‚ on a lake in Canada. However‚ on the last day of their vacation Alan and Kelly are returning their friends to shore in a small boat‚ when the boat was struck by another boat. Kelly and the friends are shaken up but have little physical damage. Alan was not as lucky. He sustained substantial damage to the left side of his body‚ including his head.
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The Hate List by Jennifer Brown is about the aftermath of a school shooting. Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend Nick was the shooter‚ she had no idea that he was going to shoot up the school but she was implicated in the crime because she made a hate list of everything her and Nick both hated. Nick had taken his victims off of the list. Valerie was wounded trying to stop him and then Nick took his own life. After the summer Valerie had to come back for her senior year and face the guilt and move on with
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Even though technology‚ such as Turing’s machine and the Enigma‚ was beginning to emerge‚ the society still held a rigid law against homosexuality. In this case‚ Turing’s colleague‚ John Cairncross‚ stated clearly: “You can’t tell anyone‚ Alan. It’s illegal” and “Do you know what they do to homosexuals? You’ll never be able to work again‚ never be able to teach.” From these dialogs‚ we can draw a conclusion that homophobia (“dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people”) and heteronormativity
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If you had to choose between your friends and families‚ which would you pick? I have a love hate relationship with my family. I have a tendency to mess up anything I do. Or maybe they are too much of perfectionist that it seems like I do everything thing wrong. The entire day could be fine but later I could get yelled at for the simplest reasons. For example‚ I got in trouble for falling down. I was really happy this one day. I was able to hang out with my best friend and it was the first time
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Society’s hate of woman is actuality‚ now I’m not a Feminist I assume that life as a woman it is substantially harder than being a man. I’m sure my concerns have clearly made issues considering one’s social establishment‚ culture and claim viewpoints. Think it is a bias remark to state that all through history has the male race was dominate. Notwithstanding when it came to religion the male’s viewpoints or tradition out weighted the woman’s. Throughout history women were and still are referred to
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to show their excitement. Secondly‚ the costumes perfectly show the characters’ emotion and characteristic. For instance‚ after Noelle witnesses that Craig says love to Nia who is a girlfriend of Craig’s best friend‚ she changes a shirt which has “I hate boys” on it. It explains that Noelle feels pretty
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Hate speech and symbols of individuals or groups opinions have been around for countless amounts of years. Hate symbols are symbols that represent a group of people or idea that have extreme hate for that group or idea. They can be in any range for a small amount of hate to an extreme hatred. Some may know the meaning and history of hate symbols‚ while others may not have any true idea of what it really means. Some are even forced into believing what others want them to believe. Throughout the different
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country that’s not your own then you respect the culture history and language of said county and if you can speak in their home language‚ well that just shows how respectful you are ............never expected a Ron Howard film to be filled with so much hate‚ as for those Americans that like this racist shit‚ well lets be honest‚ there’s really no surprise there‚ each to their own bigotry........nuff said Read more (15 lines) Reply · 2 The Motor Report via Google+11 months
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