Odd Ball Quotes

Furthermore Wilt Chamberlin who played in the 60’s, in which he was only seven footer at the time and owned the league, held the previous record.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. Connor, Risa, and Lev were sent to be unwind until they ran away and started fighting for their freedom. Unwind by Neal Shusterman shows that if you want to be free you have to fight for it. The setting of "Unwind'' takes place mostly in the future state of Arizona and Ohio this can be proved by the quotes ." The blazing sun bakes the Arizona hard pan by day" and "Suburban Ohio neighborhoods never have streets that go in a straight line". The quote that I chose for mood was when Lev and CyFi got into an argument and started yelling at each other "I DIDNT STEAL THIS! he smashes the heel of his right hand against the side of his head" . The mood throughout the book has

In 1946, Jackie Robinson altered the course of major league baseball forever, he did what no man ever did before him, Robinson broke the color barrier after 15 years of it withstanding (“Jackie”). Before Robinson, there were no African Americans in MLB

Hardball author Chris Matthews discussed several philosophies of Italian writer Niccolo Machiavelli. Matthews used the following quote “Men are by nature as much bound by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.” Machiavelli discovered that to gain someone’s trust and loyalty, having the person perform a favor or task will achieve the connection. “He observed that when a city was besieged for many months, when the people had lived through tremendous hardship within the city’s walls, when they had suffered horror and hunger in defense of their prince, they were all the more loyal to him.” (Matthews 66) Thomas S. Foley, the former House majority leader, was rescued from a plane crash in Washington. The man, who saved Foley, never heard

Equality 7-2521 is the protagonist of the story he is twenty-one years old, scientific research is what gives meaning and joy to his life. He will not abandon it though he knows the severity of the punishment that awaits him if he's caught. He refuses to surrender the electric light to the authorities when he realizes that they will destroy it. Liberty 5-3000 is Equality’s long lost lover, and she looks up to him. Her spirit is shown in her actions as well as in her appearance. Liberty 5-3000 breaks the laws of her society to pursue her dreams. She sees Equality 7-2521 and often thinks of him even though the state bans a woman to become interested in another man except when it's time for marriage. One night Equality stayed out too late in in his tunnel, he refused to tell the authorities his whereabouts, and he was sent to prison. Equality finally escaped prison to show his invention to the Council. When he and his invention was turned down they threatened him so he ran into the woods to live by his own rules. He soon realized the “Golden One” was falling him.

Refugees are people who have no choice but to flee their homes because of either war, persecution or natural disaster. But even if they have different reasons of fleeing, they usually go through the same thing. Misfortunes, hardships and sacrifices are some of the things refugees around the world have to go through. Ha, the main character from the book Inside Out, shows some of those. But Ha also shows how those hardships change her throughout the book. She didn’t get along with her brothers before they had to leave Vietnam. She always wanted to find ways to get at her brothers and try to anger them. She also used to get angry right away, just like when she didn’t get what she wanted, she started to get angry and get what it was or do what it was that she wanted. She always thought of herself first, and did whatever she

The MLB went through a drastic adjustment as a result of the introduction of Jackie Robison to the league. The league at the time was a white league. He broke a wall that prevented the opportunity for people of colour to have a chance and show the true potential and skill of their abilities. Other than breaking a major colour barrier in the sports leagues, he helped with the introduction of more black players in the league. The league started seeing more and more players that were not white. Soon after in 1947, the next black player joined the Cleveland Indians. The players became much more comfortable with the idea of a minority playing with them.

The book Stand Off by Andrew smith is a sequel to his other book Winger. The book starts in the senior year of the main character Ryan Dean West. All Ryan wanted was to relax in his last year at Pine Mountain, but instead he is haunted by his past. His coach expects him to be the new captain and take his dead friends positions on the rugby team as the “Stand Off”, then somehow he gets roomed with a twelve year old names Sam Abernathy, a cooking wiz with extreme claustrophobia. Things gets worse when Ryan starts to only draw N.A.T.E( The Next, Accidental, Terrible, experience) which means he can't even draw for fun anymore. Throughout this book the author tries to show how a teanager would handle death and friends in high school.

Ender has been through many ups and downs and in this story; Ender descends into darkness mostly figuratively. For example, when Ender defeated the Formics without even knowing, he had a meltdown. “Ender grabbed Mazer’s uniform and hung onto it, pulling him down so they were face to face. ‘I didn’t want to kill them all. I didn’t want to kill anybody! I’m not a killer! You didn’t want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!’ He was crying. He was out of control” (298). This exemplifies how much this situation had constrained Ender, making it the hardest and most downfall moment of his life. In the quote it also mentioned Peter, the person he despises the most. Ender does not like the fact that the I.F.

1. Buck - A half St. Bernard and half sheepdog that was kidnapped and sold as a sled dog.

“ Don’t let your dreams just be dreams”. In the book Close To Famous, the main character Foster McFee really stuck to this quote. She had a dream of having her own cooking show someday. She then meets a guy at her school and his name is Macon who also has a dream that is hard to reach but not impossible. The last character is Rayka she is Foster’s mother.

Min Essay The character Min in the story "A Single Shard" possesses a few character weaknesses including being a perfectionist. Min was a man that strived for perfection. An example from the book that supports the statement is, "He shook his head and in a single motion of disgust scooped up the clay and slapped it back onto the wheel.

3.Strings hold many different meanings throughout the novel. The most important meaning of strings is that they assist each person to be reasonable and realistic.

Size Doesn’t Matter SCAT by Carl Hiaasen is a book that teaches us that it doesn’t matter if you’re big or small; you can make a difference in anything that you see as wrong. In the book, Nick and Marta are 14-year-olds who help Twilly and Mrs. Starch in a mission to reunite a panther cub with its mom, but they come across danger from the Red Diamond Energy Corporation. Focus on this: Nick and Marta are 14-year-olds going against a company that is rich and stubborn. By putting this, Hiaasen must be wanting to say that although Nick and Marta are just kids, they can still do their part in helping for a cause, just like we can. Another example that supports my claim is a quote from Mrs. Starch on pg.

The average height for a male living in the United States today is 5’9.5”. As a man who falls well below that statistic I have found myself to be