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Fall In Love One Of The Girls
1,521 words
"Among adolescents, so-called 'body talk' can be a
major topic of discussion. This is the time when
the body arrives to greet its owner, and how to
respond with its obvious significance. With ease
and enjoyment? With fear and constraint? With
abandon, if not reckless abandon?" Robert Coles,
(Coles 159). When adolescence occurs in the
typical teenager, one of the major transitions in
human life occurs. The body of a teenager becomes
the body of an adult. This metamorphosis that
occurs leaves the ...
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S E Hinton Gang Members
1,178 words
... s. Sometimes, Ponyboy is daydreaming and not
connected to reality, like in page 158, when he
tried to convince himself that Johnny isn't dead:
.".. That still body back in the hospital wasn't
Johnny. Johnny was somewhere else maybe The
supporting cast in the story is the gang and other
characters. The gang members have long
descriptions from Ponyboy's point of view, and
they are part of the plot development. The other
characters in the book do not have long
descriptions, and they usually app...
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Police Station Security System
1,726 words
The police station, like an enraged mob, became
chaotic as news of the robbery blasted the offices
of every lieutenant and captain in Metropolis.
Details of the crime still shuffle from detective
to detective as rumors separated from the facts.
The known facts showed that a professional, a very
skilled thief, managed to penetrate the Tractford
Mints security system of lasers, motion detectors
and cameras and steal 10 million dollars of
unmarked currency. Assigned to the case was
Detective Killch...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
824 words
Tombstone is a movie set back in the 1800 's
whenever people were allowed to carry guns and
murders in the towns were a usual thing. This
particular movie includes several legends of the
"Old West", such as Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp,
Texas Jack, Johnny Ringo, and several others. Doc
Holliday was the calm sarcastic type, who was
addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Because of
Doc's addiction, he was diagnosed with
tuberculosis which often made him sick. Doc's wife
was a party-type girl, with no car...
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J D Salinger S E Hinton
970 words
Imagine this: you write a novel, and it is banned.
All that hard work down the drain. To J. D.
Salinger and S. E. Hinton this is not a figment of
their imagination. This IS reality. Salinger's
Catcher in The Rye and Hinton's The Outsiders have
been banned in many school districts and public
libraries. These two mistreated novels, each of
the authors most famous, are proof of their
literary greatness. Their greatness can be found
in their literary style. Although these authors
are similar in some...
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Ponyboy And Johnny One Of The Socs Gang
411 words
Author: S. E Hinton Publishing Company: Puffin
books Copyright Date: 1967 Number of Pages: 180
Price: $ 5. 99 ISBN: 0 - 14 - 038572 -X In a small
town a gang made up of seven people are called
Greasers. Ponyboy, the main character in this
story is different from the others in his gang.
Ponyboy's brothers, Garry and Sodapop, support
their family because their parents died in a car
accident when Ponyboy was very young. The Greasers
are at a constant war with the Socs, or the
Socials, the richer we...
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Six Hours Eighteen Years
730 words
Oops, someone spilled red paint on the floor.
Touch it again, look around and feel the chill in
the room. Bullet holes jammed in walls, a little
girl with her honey golden hair matted in blood on
the floor, and baffled little Johnny holding his
toy. He didnt know it was loaded Johnny has had a
rough upbringing he learned it on television.
Another two childhoods wasted and gone, both to
places unknown. The boy begins his life as a
murderer, a crime that will consequently go
unpunished. The precio...
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Comparison Bloods Johnny Got His Gun Hollow Man
888 words
This essay is about the experiences that soldiers
faced during the W. W. I and the Vietnam War,
which in Johnny got his gun, written by Dolton
Trombone, Bloods edited by Wallace Terry, Hollow
man an essay written by Michael Norman are great
sources about the tragic events during the wars.
First of all in Johnny Got His Gun, its about man
named Joe, who is a victim of war. Secondly,
Bloods is three different people point of view of
the Vietnam war, the first one is fighting in war,
the second one...
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S E Hinton Easy To Understand
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The year is 1966 and if you were a kid growing up
in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You belonged to one of two
groups, you were either a soc or a greaser. Soc is
pronounced like society, and means just that:
money, nice cars, nice homes and a bright future.
Greasers are the poor kids from the bad side of
town with no future and no real hope. Always at
each other's throats, the two warring groups fight
to save face and prove themselves. The Outsiders
is the story of two of the Greasers who come to
realize that...
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S E Hinton Easy To Understand
1,206 words
... and not connected to reality, like in page
158, when he tried to convince himself that Johnny
isn't dead: .".. That still body back in the
hospital wasn't Johnny. Johnny was somewhere
else-maybe asleep in the lot... " The supporting
cast in the story is the gang and other
characters. The gang members have long
descriptions from Ponyboy's point of view, and
they are part of the plot development. The other
characters in the book do not have long
descriptions, and they usually appear in small
p...
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Desperate Act Stay Gold Home
936 words
There were all kind of feelings going trough my
mind as read the S. E. Hinton novel The Outsiders.
Envy, love, roughness, strength, happiness...
which leads me to think of this novel as a
dramatic humorist nonfiction story that represents
the reality that a society in every place in earth
has to face with. There are always to sides: the
good ones and the bad ones. Obviously it is not
possible to define each one because there are
different ways of setting a preference for who is
the good or the b...
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Century Literary Criticism Jersey Prentice Hall
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Steven Crane Steven Crane: How his excellent
setting and character description along with the
physical, emotional, and intellectual responses of
people under extreme pressure and the betrayal and
guilt he shows for his characters helps the reader
to better understand his works. Steven Crane is
not one of the most liked authors in the world. He
tends to become to engulfed in the scenery around
the action that is taking place rather than the
action itself. Readers do not always follow and
sometime...
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Femme Fatale Rita Hayworth
1,619 words
Presentations of female sexuality Sociologist
Charles Henry Horton quoted, The more developed
sexual passion is very largely an emotion of
power, domination, or appropriation commenting on
female and male sexuality. The feminine sexuality
has always been a topic of intrigue in society and
has been concealed through various channels.
Writers, artists, poets all commented on the level
of feminine sensuality in their works, all using
metaphors and simile underlying these themes. The
1949 award winn...
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Struggle For Power Low Key
454 words
While watching the movie On the Waterfront
directed by Elia Kazan, I was bombarded by many
timeless topics about the human condition. The
most striking of which was the struggle for power.
Throughout the movie, the desire to be in control
was the underlying motivation for the violence
witnessed. It was the foundation to the falling
out between family members and the basis for which
lives were taken. Kazan brings the classic
gangster story to a new level with the characters
depicting a modern rag...
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Ponyboy Sup 1 Ponyboy Sup 1 Socs
533 words
The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S. E.
Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships
and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the
Socs, two rival gangs. This novel suggests the
stories&sup 1; content because the Greasers are a
gang of social outcasts and misfits. This
novel&sup 1; s theme is very specific; people, no
matter what their social background, strive for
the same goals and experience the same
disappointments. This novel shows this theme
throughout a detailed story line. Th...
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Johnny Stecchino Dante Meets Maria
688 words
Robert Benigni is one of Italy's top movie stars,
on the order of Harrison Ford or Steve Martin; he
is called The Clown Prince. In this 1991 comedy
classic, Benigni plays Dante, a sweet school bus
driver who talks about as fast as fast can get. He
also happens to be an exact replica of Johnny
Stecchino, a tough-talking gangster whos on the
run after squealing on the other Mafiosos in
power. Unfortunately for Dante, he bumps into
Johnny's gorgeous wife Maria as she almost runs
him over. She not o...
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Assisted Suicide Jack Kevorkian
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Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest
evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the
greatest good. (William Mitford). The speaker
really nails one of the most highly controversial
topics since the modern human walked this earth,
what comes with death? Religions usually talk of
some sort of an afterlife, be it reincarnation, or
a concept of heaven or hell. They see death as a
type of rebirth and look highly upon the end of
their life on earth. Others see death as the end.
Somethin...
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Police Station Couldn T
1,805 words
The Modern Crucible? Shake Down? The police
station, like an enraged mob, became chaotic as
news of the robbery blasted the offices of every
lieutenant and captain in Metropolis. Details of
the crime still shuffle from detective to
detective as rumors separated from the facts. The
known facts showed that a professional, a very
skilled thief, managed to penetrate the Tractford
Mint? s security system of lasers, motion
detectors and cameras and steal 10 million dollars
of unmarked currency. Assign...
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Bright Future Aren T
622 words
1. If I could be any one of the characters in the
book The Outsiders, I would be Ponyboy because of
his many good characteristics. He is intelligent
which show by his good marks in school. He
understands that it? s wrong to fight unless for
self-defense. He is heroic; this shows by the fact
that he ran into the burning church to save the
children at the risk of his own life. Also, he has
a bright future and many opportunities in his life
because of his school grades and good-natured
personality....
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Young Girl Sound Track
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Gender And Sexuality Play A Key Part Within The
Film Dirty Dancing. Discuss. The film is set in
the year of 1963, John F Kennedy was still
president and the Vietnam War was not considered a
threat, the Beatles had yet not reached America
and the Freedom riders were on. In reality the
well known and loved, cult girly film, and classic
romance was made in 1987. There have been many
attempts throughout the film to represent the time
in which it was set and yet there are clear
indications that the f...
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