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This paper presents the resume of Alex Zara.

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"Areas of Interest: Sports Broadcasting & Sports Management Personable and energetic scholar; driven to become a successful Broadcasting Intern throughout the summer months; possess a dynamic passion to become a Sports Broadcasting Announcer. A tennis enthusiast with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, possess an outstanding work ethic with the drive to succeed."

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This paper relates that novelist and short story writer Alex Keegan, in his article "The Short and the Long of it", discusses the difference between writing novels and short stories, how writers write and what writing is. Next, the author evaluates Kegan's position, in the raging debate over whether writing is an art or a craft, that writing is both an art and a craft, both learned and inherent. The paper concludes that the author agrees with Keegan that by considering writing to be both a craft and an art and by acknowledging that writing does come with an organized guide, writing can be more easily learned and taught.

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"I found this description of particular importance for beginning writers and those who teach them. In many college and high school classrooms, writing is looked at as a chore and almost a punishment. Students do not want to write because it is boring or tedious to them. But most of all, students do not want to write because they are afraid that they cannot do it. They have been given years worth of papers marked up in red where the teacher was trying to take their voices and make them her own. If teachers understand that writing can be learned by every individual, and that every individual has a voice, the teaching of writing will become a much more beneficial discipline."

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In this article, the writer discusses that throughout the country, at-risk adolescents regularly experience many varied behavioral problems in school, including low grades or proficiency scores, a high number of school absences, disciplinary infractions, grade retention and dropping out. In many cases, the writer notes that the continual experiences of economic pressure, unstable family relationships, and a negative environment, in conjunction with the stress and uncertainty of daily life responsibilities and expectations may be too overwhelming to handle. The writer maintains that an approach by Alex Molnar for changing behavior, that dates back to the 1980s, is a reversal of this negative paradigm - thinking that a student has a positive reason for his/her behavior. The writer claims that this is an old way of looking at an old problem in a new way. The writer concludes that what Molnar suggests for educators to do unfortunately goes contrary to standard human behavior--thinking the worst before the best. However, as shown many times, if these teachers are able to transpose their own thoughts and behaviors, they can greatly enhance the entire classroom ecosystem.

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"Although problematic behavior by adolescents has long been a given at public schools in the United States, it was not until the end of the 19th century that cities began to face the issue and only early in the 20th century that an emphasis was placed on the emotional health needs of these troubled youths. Since then, this issue has received increasing prominence with the dissemination of numerous studies, models, and authoritative reports on how to work with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral needs by educators and government."
"Studies began to research information about the causations of problem behavior, which was then incorporated into specific prevention and intervention programs. As they began to analyze similar problem areas, researchers recognized the common antecedents."

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This paper explains that, at the Henry Horner homes, children are not looking to come over and play with the latest Matchbox cars because many of the children are already being lured by gangs and getting used by older kids in drug activities; friends are people you could trust, but at Henry Horner, Lafeyette, the child character in the book, didn't feel that he could trust anyone besides his family. The author points out that, to the kids of Henry Horner, the police become a threat because, even if they aren't doing something bad, they are constantly surrounded by bad things; therefore, if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, they are immediately accused of doing something. The paper relates that children at Henry Horner are desensitized to experiences such as violence, gang drug exchanges, and death; the children and the residents there have to put their emotions away and become stone on the inside.

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"In an area where the summertime is feared and school is a safe-haven, where it is dangerous to make friends as they might try to lure you into a gang, where drug lords run your neighborhood enforcing rules like a dictatorship with the manpower to back it up, you are stripped of your freedom. Sitting in public with a little kid can be embarrassing sometimes. "Mommy, that woman is fat!" or "Daddy, why is that man crying?" are questions that children will ask loud and clear without hesitation. They don't realize that other people can hear them or that other people have feelings that might be hurt. They are egocentric. However, for a child living in the Henry Horner homes where LaJoe and her children live, a comment like this can become life threatening."

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""The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley, the author of Roots, is a powerful book because it carries through on the theme of discovering black identity. Malcolm X was one of the primary religious leaders and reformers of the 1960s, but it took him a number of years to shed his old preconceptions of who blacks were in America. As he learned to accept his black identity, Malcolm began his short-lived career as a powerful force in the fight against racism in the United States.

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. From the very beginning, even though Malcolm had not discovered his black identity, he had a very clear picture of what it meant to be a black in the United States. "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded ... "

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This paper is a character examination of the protagonist Alex, from the novel "A Clockwork Orange". It specifically deals with the role that music plays in this character?s life. It shows how Alex develops a need for control over himself and over his friends as well and how he finds it through music.

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"In the dystopian future that Anthony Burgess creates in the novel "A Clockwork Orange", our protagonist, Alex, shares with us his passion for violence. Alex finds an aesthetic quality in the physical torture and rape of faceless victims. Alex has other passions as well. As a child of the new ultra-violent generation, chaos is ever present in this young droog?s life. Because of this, Alex develops a need for control over himself and over his friends as well. It is through music that Alex finds this control and it is through music that we learn the most about his character."

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"In Alex Haley s transcribed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), readers are treated to several valuable lessons in sociology. Without summarizing the book in great detail, the story of Malcolm X reveals the significance of social and economic stratification in affecting people s religious beliefs and people s perspectives on social problems and life chances

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"In Alex Haley s transcribed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), readers are treated to several valuable lessons in sociology. Without summarizing the book in great detail, the story of Malcolm X reveals the significance of social and economic stratification in affecting people s religious beliefs and people s perspectives on social problems and life chances. This story shows a Malcolm X who grows out of a socialized value system emphasizing violence and hatred, into a de-socialized system emphasizing a new ideological orientation on race relations, to a re-socialized system nearing the viewpoints of Martin Luther King--a civil rights leader once despised by Malcolm. This research will examine this process of social development through the eyes of Malcolm X.

The Nation of Islam began in the early 1930s in the United ..."

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"Different writers illuminate aspects of American society from different perspectives, sometimes personal, sometimes empirical, sometimes speculative, and sometimes analytical. Often, commentators find that American society is wanting in some respect and failing to provide the nurturing and supportive social environment people need

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"Different writers illuminate aspects of American society from different perspectives, sometimes personal, sometimes empirical, sometimes speculative, and sometimes analytical. Often, commentators find that American society is wanting in some respect and failing to provide the nurturing and supportive social environment people need. In some cases, as with the analysis by Philip E. Slater in his book The Pursuit of Loneliness, the writer finds that American society has developed in a way that undercuts certain important values even as it substitutes others, while in other instances, as with The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the author shows how American society fails to deliver on certain of its promises to an entire class of citizens.


Slater finds that there are certain deeply-seated human..."

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"In There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, Alex Kotlowitz has written a powerful, sometimes discouraging, sometimes hopeful book, the story of two brothers, Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, who live in a world of crime, poverty, and little hope for an adequate education which would allow them to escape their dehumanizing circumstances. This study will discuss and evaluate ways suggested by Kotlowitz's book for improving education for disadvantaged children. The outlook is not as hopeful in general for such children as it is for the two brothers, because the author by his personal and financial involvement in their lives and education made them special rather than typical cases. Kotlowitz has given the reader that some hope exists for at least two children, has shed light on some of the problems in the education of the disadvantaged ..."

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This paper explores the complex themes of "The Beach". It defines the main themes as discovery, the darkness in man's heart, and the conflict of man versus man and analyses these themes with concrete examples from the book.

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"The primary theme of this novel is discovery. This theme includes both self-discovery and the discovery of something new and unique; an unfound and undisturbed paradise. The beach is a legend amongst young travelers in Asia. It is rumoured to be a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sane and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle and plants that have remained untouched by man for a thousand years. On this beach, there are said to be a few carefully selected internationals settle in a communal Eden. The narrator is Richard, a twenty-something man who has been subjected to far too many Vietnam War movies. He is adrift in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, and he desires something different, the ultimate travel spot unspoiled by man. Like most of the travelers he meets, Richard is bored with the usual dissonance of Thailand and craves something more exciting and risqu?. Richard is a regular, young, English man in his early twenties. Up until his recent journey to Bangkok, he has had no significant life-altering events in his life; he is a typical product of his technologically advanced environment and he wanted some action in his life."

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