Mariah L. Thom Language Arts 8 Ms. Clear 22 March 2018 A Movie Star In The Making When I was younger I was always obsessed with watching any movie Selena Gomez was in. She inspired me so much that one time I was watching one of her movies she was in, and I bought the same purse and lip gloss she had in the movie and thought i was so cool. Selena Gomez is an amazing person, from charity donations to making girls feel worthy and beautiful. Although Selena Gomez had some rough times throughout
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train to pass. Our activities can do and stop to such an extent. Three out of four railroad intersection accidents happen inside of 25 miles of a driver's home. Train mishaps can be forestalled by the smallest things. We as drivers, grandparents, siblings, and parents need to put a conclusion to the a large number of superfluous passings. Here are some little activities that can spare a huge number of individuals. While at a railroad crossing never go on your telephone, dependably keep both eyes looking
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In January of 2008 I had my mom check on a program that is a community based that has changed lives of others to see if it would have an impact or work for me. My older sister was part of the program and I wanted to do as she did when she was my age. What is Big Brothers/Big Sisters? It’s a program in which volunteers over the age of 18 is matched with children with similar interest. To qualify for program one must be between 6-16 years of age. I will explain how this program has had an impact
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Title “Boring” if I had to summarize my life up that is the word I would use boring. My life is like a broken tape recorder, same thing every single day. Its not like live bad but I want something different something out of the box something I haven’t done before. I spend most of my days in the house playing games doing chores around the house the usual. I used to go outside but there is nothing out there for me since my brother left. He went to live with his dad and I stayed with my mom that was
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T is for Trip to Chicago So it all began, one afternoon when my dad gathered everyone into the van. We drove to aurora to a train station so we got our tickets and waited for the trian. My brother and i were really excited to go to chicago so we we heard the train coming down the tracks so when the train stopped we got onto the train then once everyone got on to the train we began to go we were sitting on the upper level of the train we had to stop every other town and drop people off and
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Sodapop is a 17 year old teenage boy, who is often described as a sensitive and emotional guy. He can make you smile even on your worst days. Soda is the middle child out of three. Soda is a character in the novel Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton. The author is a female but went by S.E. Hinton to approach more readers. Soda is a sweet charming boy who loves his family and friends. Soda throughout the book is obviously a sweet caring guy. He is very involved in his brothers lives as the “favorite”
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Parents influence their child’s culture by leading them to different activities. For example, as a kid, you don’t usually know what to do, so your parents help guide you to try and find something you love to do (baseball, football, basketball, etc.). In the story, My Mother Pieced Quilts, Teresa Palomo Acosta states, “Sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years, stretched out they lay, armed/ready/shouting/celebrating, knotted with love.” The mother had made these quilts 25
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better? "The Scarlet Ibis" written by James Hurst, similarly relates to the idea of the bug's death. The difference of the situation is that this thing happens to be between siblings. There are two main characters in the story, two brothers, the older brother's name is unknown, so he is referred to as Brother. Doodle, the young sibling is physically disabled, as it had been expected for him to die after birth. Surprisingly, Doodle lived and began to become a little better and he survived.
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Paul Watson is a Canadian conservationist that protects marine life. He is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Which is a group that’s focused on marine conservation. Watson majored in communications and linguistics at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Paul Watson was born on December 2, 1950 in Canada. He is the oldest of seven children. Paul has had four wives and his most recent Yana Rusinovich is also an activist.They got married on Valentine’s day of this year
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“Sonny’s Blues”, by James Baldwin, is a story about two brothers who have become distant from one another by their different aspirations in life. The unnamed narrator lives in their hometown, Harlem and works as an algebra teacher. Sonny, on the other hand, lives out his dream of playing jazz music away from Harlem. Baldwin uses suffering as a central idea, and control as an external conflict. Baldwin portrays the central theme of suffering through both characters, but more often with Sonny. Sonny
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