Hubner‚ John. (2005) Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth. New York‚ NY. Random House Inc. Last Chance in Texas is an eye opening look into the efforts of the juvenile justice system to rehabilitate youth offenders and integrate them back into society. The book chronicles the research of author John Hubner who heard about a facility in Texas that ran an aggressive and one of the most successful‚ treatment programs in America for violent young offenders. He was particularly
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The Last Scene in Shakespeare’s "Othello" In the final scene of Shakespeare’s "Othello" there is a great amount of dramatic action which leads to an appropriate ending to all of the action of the play. Othello‚ still under the influence of Desdemona’s beauty‚ smothers her because he thinks this is the only way to get justice. Before Desdemona dies‚ Emilia hears her say that no one is to blame for her death. Emilia discovers that it was Othello who killed her and convinces him that he was wrong
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Pharaoh refused. Because of Pharaoh’s refusal‚ God sent plagues. These plagues included sending frogs‚ boils‚ and darkness to the land of Egypt. In most of the plagues‚ however‚ the Israelites were not affected. God kept sending these plagues until the last plague‚ the plague that took the lives of all the firstborn sons of Ancient Egypt. After that plague‚ Pharaoh decided to let the Israelites go. After the Israelites started exiting Egypt‚ Pharaoh had second thoughts and sent his army after them. Then
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my Last Farewell” Rizal’s most important poem is “My Last Farewell.” It has 14 5-line rimed stanzas; each stanza has the rime scheme: ABAAB. Charles Derbyshire translated it from the Spanish; the Spanish title is "Mi Ultimo Adios.” Derbyshire kept the original rime scheme when he translated from the original Spanish to English. “Farewell‚ dear Fatherland‚ clime of the sun caress’d” José Rizal was in prison waiting to be executed when he wrote this poem as a final statement to his fellow
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The poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is often anthologized as an illustration of dramatic monologue. It initially appeared in the year 1842 in the Dramatic Lyrics of Browning. The verse is written in the 28 rhymed couplets of the iambic pentameter. This verse is loosely supported on historical incidents relating Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who used to live in 16th century. Theme The central themes are influence‚ power‚ marriage‚ egotism and aristocracy. It is likely to utilize blanket
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On September 18‚ 2007‚ Dr. Pausch gave his memorable “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a tradition at Carnegie Mellon University that when a professor is retiring‚ they give one last lecture as their final goodbye. The idea of this lecture is to give an hour long speech that covers everything an individual would want to say if you were hypothetically dying. In spite of this‚ in Dr. Pausch’s case‚ he was literally dying with a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer this being the
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Nicholas Jens Sorensen Man’s Last Commercial “Man’s Last Stand” was a commercial advert that first aired in 2010 during the Super Bowl. This advert was released by Dodge to promote their newest model of Dodge Chargers. By targeting such a small‚ select audience – which is thankfully getting smaller and smaller by the day – Dodge ended up having to make apologies instead of selling cars. This commercial ended up becoming so controversial‚ that it could be said to be “visual rhetoric gone
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For the duration of ‘My Last Duchess’ the Duke reveals his need to exert dominance over others. In the monologue he leaves no time after his questions for the envoy to answer‚ this quickly creates rhetorical questions which control the envoy’s speech revealing the Duke’s very egotistical persona. For example ‘Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling?’ . Furthermore the Duke calls ‘that piece a wonder‚ now’ the caesura before the lexical choice ‘now’ gives the line an ominous and sinister feel and
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“Despite our hardships‚ there were also joys in our childhood”. Explore the ways in which Li’s childhood was both one of great deprivations and one of great riches. The novel‚ “Mao’s Last Dancer”‚ was written by Li Cunxin. It tells his riveting tale of growing up in a poor family of six boys‚ living in a village in China under Mao’s reign. It goes on to share his eventual defection to the United States as an artistic dancer. His childhood was filled with both hardships and joys. But both helped
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Friendship Lasts Forever On the first day of school‚ Jared‚ like all high school students‚ had a different outlook on school. All summer long he had been thinking of the ways he could improve his grades‚ his friendships‚ and how he could make this year‚ his senior year‚ the best one yet. Jared knew all the steps he had to take after three long months of the summer that seems like wasted time‚ worrying about what his life would bring him to after college. College? That is still a process that
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