Alex Standall in Thirteen Reasons Why Throughout Jay Asher’s novel Thirteen Reasons Why‚ he has demonstrated to the reader how one’s inability to make rational decisions can lead to another individual’s suicide. Over the course of the novel‚ the reader follows the events in the life of the protagonist‚ Hannah Baker that have led to her tragic suicide. One can argue that secondary character‚ Alex Standall plays a significant role in the story‚ and in Hannah Baker’s suicide‚ as none of the
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment - Day OF Empire Amy Chua believes that for a country to become a world dominant force‚ the country must be tolerant. A country that is tolerant isn’t promised a path to world dominance‚ but tolerance is a required characteristic for a world dominant force. Tolerance does not mean that all races are treated equally but that the races can coexist together and work to make their nation better. Intolerant acts such as ethnic cleansing prohibit a country to
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With Columbus Day rapidly approaching us‚ a day celebrated by millions upon millions of people who dearly believe that he is a hero‚ you begin to wonder. Do these people know what they are celebrating? While yes‚ he “discovered” the New World‚ however people fail to acknowledge that Columbus was in fact a mass murderer. In all likelihood‚ he brought to life “the worst case of genocide imposed on one nation of human beings by another”. Instantly you may have asked yourself why I placed quotation
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But the Fourth of July‚ Independence Day‚ is something more than just another holiday. It is the birthday of a great idea-not merely the idea of independence‚ not merely the idea of the rights of humankind‚ but also the birthday of a profoundly idealistic and profoundly influential charter of liberty. The revolution signaled by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4‚ 1776‚ laid down the principles which have been the foundation stones of human progress ever since-the
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An Astrologer’s Day is a story of an astrologer who conducts his business near a court. He starts his work almost at midday . He spreads his professional equipment‚ which consist of a dozen cowrie shells ‚ a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it‚ a notebook and a bundle of Palmyra writing . He’s a fine get-up of an astrologer‚ with his forehead shinning with sacred ash and vermilion. He has dark whiskers and sparkling eyes. To crown the effect‚ he wears a saffron-colored turban
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Thirteen Shooters (Luke Woodham) is an artwork‚ made by Robert Buck‚ which is on display currently at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Robert Buck‚ also known as Robert Beck‚ had his name changed to signify his transition in his art. Beck uses a variety of mediums‚ from prints to wood and animal bones. Beck’s work was featured in museums and galleries in Dallas‚ Los Angeles‚ New York‚ Toronto‚ and in London. Beck describes his works as a mean to relieve his stress caused by trauma. The artwork
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In chapter thirteen there is one specific passage that holds a lot of meaning. This passage uses personification with the sun and how it “[sent] up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark‚ he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made and went about his business all dressed in white.” This example of personification makes the sun seem like a person. The sun looks over the “door sill of the world” which is another way to say the sun was coming up and it got rid of the darkness
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It was a sunny day in Ardeche. The temperature was about 16 degrees celsius. Tuesday September 12th might seem like a lovely day to you‚ but if you knew what was going to happen later today that day‚ you would not exactly describe it as lovely. Today was the day I was going to spend on the river. I got into my yellow and green fresh looking canoe with a guy called Even. I changed partners many times‚ as we practiced doing a couple of different things with the canoe including 360s and speed paddling
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received the tapes but has no clue why he is on these tapes. In this journal I will be evaluating‚ visualizing‚ and predicting. While reading Thirteen Reasons Why I found myself evaluating Hanna Baker when she was talking on the cassette tapes about suicide and the map at the beginning of the book showing the locations of the thirteen encounters. Thirteen people who made her life so horrible that she commit suicide. The person that was most obvious to me was Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter was Hanna’s
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