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Teenage Boys S E
524 wordsS. E. Hinton is considered to be one of the greatest writers about youth of all time. Since she often writes from a boys point of view, she uses her initials S. E. instead of her name Susan Eloise. She explains this by saying, I figured that most boys would look at the book and think, What can a chick know about stuff like that? She was born in 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was raised there and went to college at the University of Tulsa, with education as her major. She wrote her first, and proba...
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Lead To Death Gang Life
598 wordsGang Life In life, teenagers and adults join gangs for difficulties in their life. They feel that they need a group of people to understand and support them through the rough stage of their life. In the novel, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old boy who is a part of the gang called the greasers. His whole remaining family are greasers. Gang life can lead to death and trouble. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy is in a gang with all of the people he grew up with in the neighborho...
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S E Hinton Side Of Town
823 wordsI read The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, who at age 16 wrote this book. The book contains 156 very well written pages. The book would probably be placed in the adventure category. The book was written on things that S. E. Hinton experience in her life as a teenager. Almost everything that occurs in this book happened to S. E. as a kid. Let me tell you a little more about this book. In this book the narrator is a boy named Ponyboy. Ponyboy is a fourteen year old living at home with his 2 older broth...
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The Cause Of Crime Today
495 wordsThe world is not the way it was. At one time people could sleep with their windows up and doors unlocked. In today's society people have to lock their doors and close their windows. Crime is at an ultimate high, and the world is slowly falling apart. This is not the work of the older generations, it is strictly the work of generation X. Teenagers are not what they use to be. A long time ago teenagers were loyal, respectful, and helpful to their parents, but not anymore. Today's teens live their ...
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Point Of View Fish Tank
1,408 wordsIn thinking of films that are able to exemplify many film elements that are put together in an interesting and organized manner the movie Rumble Fish comes to mind. The director Francis Ford Coppola demonstrates how metaphors are able to help decipher a deeper meaning of the film. Rumble Fish is a film that is about growing up and seeing new things that have never been seen before. The two main characters who are brothers Rusty James and the Motorcycle Boy, experience internal conflicts. Rusty J...
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Ancient Mariner Wedding Guest
515 wordsIn The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, Coleridge brings us into a world of magical fantasy. Using many poetic devices, he takes us along the voyage to the ends of the earth and back, following a magical old mariner. Beginning at the end, the story of the seaman's travels bring him to a lovely wedding ceremony, forcing himself upon an unsuspecting guest, and he tells the tale, which has changed the mariner into the ghastly figure he is today. In the end of this almost epic poem, the ancient mariner ...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,677 wordsAndy Warhol once said, "They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. " Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators unique visions evolved. Shakespeare's delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in his classic Romeo and Juliet proves to only intensify through retelling and modern interpretation. Aud...
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Towns People Aliens Emma
647 wordsIt was a day like any other day in Decatur, except for the constant rumble coming from the sky. Nobody knew what it was. After awhile the rumble had turned into a low, discrete roar. A little girl named Emma, who lived in a ranch home heard these noises as well, and woke her mother up. Both being terse, not talking a lot, new something bad was about to happen. Emma was trying to be diffident, hoping nothing bad happens, about this unusual situation. After all of the confusion of the sounds, the ...
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Muhammad Ali Viet Cong
1,094 words1. Introduction 2. Body - biography - how Ali became hero - popularity - Muslim conversion - draft refusal - greatest fights - influence in society - depiction in popular culture 3. Conclusion Muhammad Ali: A Hero in Popular Culture I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given, I believed in myself and I believe in the goodness of others. (Muhammad Ali) Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest boxers of all time. Ali remains popular for over almost 50 years since his first g...
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Waiting In The Lobby Landing Gear Plane
443 wordsAfter many hours of waiting in the lobby, the plane finally left the hanger. I took one final glance at where I had been sitting for the past two hours and was glad that the plane decided to come. As I walked toward the plane, I thought about all the terrible things that I encountered while I was waiting in the lobby. The only bad thing was that the lobby would be the easiest task to overcome. When I boarded the plane and sat down all the trouble before that moment seemed to be erased. We starte...
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S E Hinton Isn T
309 wordsby S. E. Hinton RumbleRumblefish Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton Rumble Fish, by S. E. Hinton is the sequel to The Outsiders. The characters names are different, but it is still taken place in the same time period. In the story Rumble Fish, Rusty James is a greaser who has a lot of fights in and out of school. He meets up with the Motorcycle Boy and whenever Rusty is in a big situation or fight, the Motorcycle Boy always helps him out. Rusty isn? t a great kid. He has a police record and has been su...
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Dark Bear Overcast
224 wordsOhh how I loathe days like these where the temperature is sub-zero and the sky is games by the dark overcast. A overcast that blocks any rays of warmth and bring a malicious gift of frigid snow and sleet to further rain down upon my happiness. My progression through the woods was only accompanied with the sound of the crunching snow beneath my feet and a harsh wind bombarding my ears. I determined that the short cut through the woods would be the best way home from my friends house, wanting to b...
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Motorcycle Boy Was Shot Boy Was Shot Story
460 wordsNumber of Pages: 122 I believe that the story Rumble Fish has a very plausible plot because its about a boy who is a former gang member and always gets into fights. The boys name is Russel James, he is fourteen, he likes to fight, he always gets in trouble, and isnt very smart. The boy gets into trouble by fighting, getting drunk, and stealing, throughout the story, but instead of realizing he has got to stop and change his life around, he get in more and more trouble. In my opinion the story is...
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Dead Poets Society Prep School
1,015 wordsSchool Ties Brendan Fraser has evolved considerably in the few months between his admirable new film, School Ties, and his debut as a cave dude in Encino Man not that the movies really differ much thematically. Both turn on a teenagers driving need to win over his crowd, to fit in with the cool kids be he an unearthed Cro-Magnon, or as in this case, a Jewish quarterback who wins an athletic scholarship to a prestigious New England prep school in 1955. Ideally positioned to become a BMOC on an ot...
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Thunder Said A Fire Sermon Thunder Said A Fire Steel
737 wordsSol Funaroffs " What The Thunder Said: As Funaroffs " What The Thunder Said: A Fire Sermon" WHAT THE THUNDER SAID: A FIRE SERMON Where are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? T. S. Elio Cinematic Poe The Communards, they are storming heaven! damp gust of March wind swirls and scatters papers. And the hot, critical July days! tense wireless bristling with flashes, stammering, stuttering, awaiting what code, what code to translate Capital, Famine, Pr...
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Side Of Town Social Class
1,798 wordsThe Outsiders By: The Outsiders Summary The Outsiders By: S. E. Hinton This story is about a young boy of 14 named Ponyboy. He is part of a hood group called Greasers on the east side of town, a group of lower-class teenagers who wear their hair long and greasy, wear jeans and ripped-up T-shirts, and are at odds with the rich-kid bullies known as the Socs. This group of hoods are born into rich families from the west side of town, are of a high social class, drive around in Mustangs and Corvairs...
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