Something like hope! By: Shawn Goodman *This book something like hope is about mainly about‚ 17-year-old Shavonne has been in a juvenile detention since the seventh grade. Mr. Delpopolo is the first counselor to treat her as an equal‚ and he helps her get to the bottom of her self-destructive behavior‚ her guilt about past actions‚ and her fears about leaving the Center when she turns 18. *Shavonne tells him the truth about her crack-addicted mother‚ the child she had (and gave up to foster
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Jack woke up‚ feeling tired as ever‚ as his alarm rang. It was the cold month of December and the sun was still down. With no lights on and so much snow‚ the town of Fort Good Hope would seem desolate and deserted to an outside observer. Jack drudgely rolled out of bed and managed to stand up. Leaning up against a wall and barely conscious Jack got dressed and brushed his teeth. Even though it was snowing extremely hard outside he had to walk to school. He couldn’t complain though‚ he lived very
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English 10 20 Dec. 2013 “Marathon of Hope” It was not something new for someone to run across Canada‚ but for someone to do that but with an artificial leg‚ now that was something different. Terry Fox was an athlete who lost his leg to cancer when he was only 18 and decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Terry Fox shoved any doubt that anyone had of him running across Canada on one leg to the back of their heads after he showed what he could do. Losing a leg to
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Life has become a quest: a quest for grades‚ a quest for money‚ and a quest for identity. Starting at a young age society conditions us to join this quest and sadly few people question the intentions of it. Similar to Yellow and Stripe in Hope for Flowers by Trina Paulus‚ we are constantly on a mission to get to the top of the pillar‚ to the top of society. It begins in school where we learn to compete with our fellow classmates to get the best grades‚ to get into the best colleges‚ to get the
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Analysis and interpretation of”A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope In the short story we follow Ellie‚ a nineteen year old Londoner‚ who over the course of an afternoon gets completely new priorities regarding her studying‚ social and everyday life. In the beginning‚ Ellie wakes up at 4 pm. after a rough night having taken various drugs and alcohol. She remembers her assignment due to the next day‚ discarding it to the lower bottom of her priority list. This gives us the impression of a shallow person not
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University of Mohamed-V in Rabat‚ University College in London and University of Southern California--where she earned her Ph.D. in linguistics. She is currently a teacher of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is about four immigrants: Aziz‚ Halima‚ Murad and Faten who try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar on a life boat. Each following chapter focuses on their lives before emigration and exploring the reasons for their decision
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Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914. Second Edition. By Eric Dorn Brose. Humanity Books‚ 2006. In this book‚ author Eric Dorn Ambrose‚ survey’s the history of technology and science over four centuries beginning around 1500 and ending with the outbreak of World War One in 1914. The book contains three chapters beginning with “The Search for a New Atlantis”‚ followed by “Science and Technology in the World’s Workshop” and closing with “Lands of Unlimited Possibilities”
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My second group observation called Hope Seekers Group‚ Initiated with the facilitator Nadine introducing the new members that were joining for the first time. Nadine started by reading the declaration of Unity. “This we owe to A.A.’s future to place our common welfare first; to keep our fellowship united. For on A.A. unity depend our lives‚ and the lives of those to come.” She also advised the new comers that they were responsible for seeking help if they ever felt the need to drink and to consult
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I may not be the most brilliant man you’ve ever seen. Although that might be a bit under-optimistic‚ it doesn’t mean I‚ Eric Zeng‚ can’t have extraordinary or thrilling memories of my apparently short past of ten years (FYI that does not mean I’m dead). I’ve traveled to many places in my life‚ met many friends‚ and had some activities that some have never done in their lifetime. I have one sibling currently at the age of five years old‚ though I might not talk about him occasionally. I’ve been to
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Born in 1903‚ Eric Arthur Blair‚ better known as George Orwell‚ was an English political novelist and journalist‚ who became a recognized writer due to his sharp criticism of political oppression around the world. Having experienced hard times during the Spanish Civil War and the Russian Revolution‚ Orwell turned into a biting critic of both capitalist and communist political systems. He was a devoted socialist‚ who believed in the consolidation of a government which aimed to support and ensure
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