Richmond High is hard to fathom. October 31‚ 2009|SANDY BANKS The sense of horror seems to be fading at Richmond High -- the Northern California school that made news around the world this week after a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped outside a campus homecoming dance while a crowd of students watched but did nothing to intervene. Local school board members in this East Bay city near Oakland want to promote safety measures -- fences‚ lights‚ security cameras -- on the drawing board for years‚ now about
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For the last 4 years of high school I have been my school’s mascot. It has shaped me in many different ways. Our mascot is Seymour Mule and his partner Annie Mule. We are Woodrow Wilson Senior High "Home of the Mighty Mules." Being a school mascot isn’t something you exactly plan to do during your high school years. But somehow I managed to do it and love it more than anything. I didn’t exactly choose to be our mascot‚ it happened due to luck. One day during my freshman year we had a practice fire
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Animals are controlled by other animals. The wolf pack follows the leader. The worker ants work at the cost of their lives to feed the queen ant. Though we believe we are higher than animals‚ humans are still animals. Every individual human does not always crave every answer to every question in the universe. Humans follow other humans for answers and directions. Traditions are beliefs that humans pass down to younger humans. The next generations are meant to follow these traditions‚ and it
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head of his household and kingdom. Laertes’ “mental anguish has rendered him immobile and ineffective” in comparison to Penelope During Odysseus’s absence‚ both Laertes and Penelope have suffered‚ physically and mentally. Considering in both homecoming scenes‚ in particular of his fathers’ in which Laertes in described to be “worn out by age and with deep sorrow in his heart”(24.) Whereas Penelope‚ in rather in extended scene is both are noted to have suffered‚ though are In her returned
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TECHNIQUES USED IN BRUCE DAWES POEMS Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like their meanings. Repetition: The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. Rhyme: Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike‚ including the final vowel sound and everything following it‚ are said to rhyme. Analogy: A comparison‚ usually something unfamiliar with something familiar
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This idea reminded me of last week’s discussion on the controversy over Westerns homecoming. Majority of individuals who par take in the festivities believe since it is a large community student tradition that the likely hood of getting a ticket will be minimized because “ I didn’t get a ticket last year” or “ its homecoming‚ it happens every year”. As a result‚ the idea that shared value systems bond communities together could explain the differing
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The module comparative study of texts should remain in the Board of Studies syllabus as it can provide a powerful insight into the human condition and social values of an era. The play “Away” by Michael Gow and poems published in “Sometimes Gladness” written by Bruce Dawe are both texts which reflect similar conditions that the typical person living in suburban Australia between the 1950’s and 1960’s experienced. There were many significant events that took place during these two decades such as
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for life. For example‚ if a parent constantly yells at their child for no reasons and shows no signs of love‚ the little one’s childhood would consist of nothing but bad memories. This is exactly what happened to Shelly‚ the Indian girl from the “Homecoming”. The female protagonist definitely suffered immensely due to the lack of parental love and the constant battles in the house. Her careless parents would never stop blaming her for every little thing causing her to run away from home at a young
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there is a wide variety of characteristics that go into our culture. The events I attended focused in on just a few of them‚ but I believe they are the most important ones. The first event I attended was Lip Sync‚ which occurred during homecoming week. It was located on a grass
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Homeric Nobility In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus exemplifies the aristocratic man idealized in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche depicts the aristocratic man‚ the noble man‚ very distinctly with qualities of mentality and behavior. An aristocratic man embraces his sovereignty‚ relishes in life‚ and refuses to feel guilt. Odysseus lives what Nietzsche describes as a good and noble life‚ a life characterized by action and war. Odysseus not only is King of Ithaca‚ but also the
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