authors tend to use specific techniques while writing‚ that make it easier to grab the reader and really engage them within the story itself. The Chocolate War is a strong example of how many authors follow this same formula for writing‚ and use it as a sort of backbone for their work. You can very easily tell how in just the first page of The Chocolate War‚ Robert Cormier uses this method of hooking in his reader. ”They murdered him”1 would probably be a shock to see as the first sentence to most people
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1. 	Robert Cormier wrote The Chocolate War. The copyright of the book is 1974. 2. 	In the exposition of The Chocolate War‚ Jerry Renault‚ the freshman quarterback‚ was receiving constant blows from opposing players. Jerry was trying to get the ball to his receiver‚ the Goober‚ but not having any luck. 	In The Chocolate War‚ the rising action was the majority of the story. At Trinity High School‚ the school that Jerry attends‚ there is a group of "elite" students called
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1. Robert Cormier wrote The Chocolate War. The copyright of the book is 1974. 2. In the exposition of The Chocolate War‚ Jerry Renault‚ the freshman quarterback‚ was receiving constant blows from opposing players. Jerry was trying to get the ball to his receiver‚ the Goober‚ but not having any luck. In The Chocolate War‚ the rising action was the majority of the story. At Trinity High School‚ the school that Jerry attends‚ there is a group of “elite” students called the Vigils
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The chocolate war Have you ever walked in to school feeling like you and no friends and that nobody likes you. That’s exactly how Jerry from the chocolate war feels. He’s always getting picked on and he also never follows the rules. At this school they do fundraisers every year. Jerry is a freshman who decisions not to sale and the result of that is that everybody thinks he’s weird. Just for that little reason they start picking on him. The victims and victimizers the way he and other student
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What are the different types of peer pressure shown in the book the The Chocolate War? This book has many different types of peer pressure. The main type of peer pressure shown in this is negative peer pressure. I say this because in this book Archie(brains of the secret group called The Vigils) gives everyone that joins the group an “Assignment” “Assignment” is kinda like a duty he gives people to prank someone else that they don’t like or don’t get along with at the school. One of his
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Drones at War The drone budget for the U.S military is 5 billion dollars? In reality‚ that is not very much money. Drones are used in many ways that are helpful to our country. They can spy‚ drop bombs‚ shoot things and take down terrorists. Drones can do these things very well and they are really cheap. They can save lives with their precise shots with nobody having to be in the vehicle to do these things. If we used drones in war we could save money‚ save lives‚ and the U.S would have another
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In 2004 Obama said: "The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws… we need to rethink how we operate the drug wars." according to the website http://www.commondreams.org. When the war on drugs was declared everyone thought it would be a could idea. Not knowing that in 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared the war on drug‚ his plan would only result in trillions of dollars wasted on an endless battle that couldn’t be won. President Nixon
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partnered with British Pathè to create an online video series titled‚ The Great War. British Pathè is a curator of newsreel footage from around the world and contains over 85‚000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. British Pathè provides a variety of archival footage from the First World War to be used in the production of the video series. “The Great War shows you the history of the First World War in the four years from 1914 to 1918‚ exactly 100 years ago. Our host Indy
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In today’s society‚ few have been informed with the ongoing drug war. The drug abuse that this nation has been through has grown exponential in the past decade. The nation is going down a never-ending hill. The outcome of this war could not be stopped. As few have accepted‚ the drug abuse cannot be contained. Just as Gary Mendell said “There is no single way to end the addiction crisis that has ravaged so many communities”‚ there is no containing the drug abuse to single town or community.(Katel)
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keep growing‚ so does the threat of an extinction level event . The global impact that a nuclear war would bring comes with many consequences. T Nuclear bombs must be banned and stockpiles removed to ensure that the human population does not annihilate both itself and its mother- Earth. United States of America dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima civilian populations to hasten the end of World War two. On August 6th‚ an Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan. When the uranium gun type atomic
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