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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 wordsThe 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 wordsTombstone 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 wordsImagine 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 wordsAuthor: 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 wordsOops, 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 wordsThis 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
1,016 wordsThe 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 wordsThere 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
1,214 wordsSteven 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 wordsPresentations 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 wordsWhile 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 wordsThe 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 wordsRobert 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
1,820 wordsMen 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 wordsThe 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 words1. 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
1,304 wordsGender 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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