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colleges as well (College Admission from Prep Schools | Ivy Coach Admissions Blog). These schools are known for offering “diverse academic programming led by teacher-scholars, many of whom hold advanced degrees in their subject areas” (The 50 Best Boarding Schools in the U.S). Holden Caulfield in the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger attended prep school, and although he disliked it immensely, he still formed a close relationship with one teacher in particular. That teacher, Mr. Antolini offers

maybe how you dance, sing, and perform. These aspects of everyday life is called culture. Everybody in the world has a culture, but not all cultures are the same from person to person. In the book, The Miles Between, a group of teens, who attend a boarding school, have a different way of life than I do. Even though there is many differences between our cultures, there are still some similarities peeping through all the differences. One of the most important parts of culture, I believe, is who influenced

Presidency Kent Mesplay was born on July 19, 1962 in Papua New Guinea. Mesplay spent his first ten years of his life in New Guinea, when his parents were Lutheran missionaries. Later in his teen years, he was attending a British boarding school at Wau. He went to the boarding school and was influenced by the international student body by tales of the World War 2. Wau had been one of the busiest airstrips in the world during the war. His closest friends at school were German and Australian, with teachers

Looking for Alaska is an inventive novel that let the readers know how to evaluate their place in the world and how to deal with one another. This book is hilarious, sad and compelling and it's more of a tale of how love is not as translucent as it seems instead of the boy meet girls love story. It also shows what young love and growing up really are in a brutal and honest situation, how the characters communicate and their relationships with each other and their pasts. Miles Halter or "Pudge" as

“the great perhaps” for one person is a daily activity for another person. Miles lived a boring life up to the point where he went off to boarding school. By the end of the book Miles has found “the great perhaps” by making real friends, being rebellious, and losing somebody close to him. Miles did not really have any real friends before he went off to boarding school. This was evident by the turn out of his going away party, which only two people even dropped by to say hello. “Although I was more

The novel portrays the american theme of freedom throughout the entire book. It is shown between every character in the forms of spirit, adventure, new challenges, and through the past that brought them to the boarding school. One major event in the novel applies to the theme of freedom and it is what happens after the Barn Night prank. After the Barn Night prank was accomplished and the group of pranksters had returned from the glory of the Smoking Hole, Alaska and Pudge fall asleep together when

maybe how you dance, sing, and perform. These aspects of everyday life are called culture. Everybody in the world has a culture, but not all cultures are the same from person to person. In the book, The Miles Between, a group of teens, who attend a boarding school, have a different way of life than I do. Even though there are bounteous differences between our cultures, there are still some similarities peeping through all the differences. One of the utmost important parts of culture, I believe, is

while working in the mills, especially in the boarding houses where they stayed. Unmarried women who worked in the Lowell mills lived in boarding houses within the area. A widow was usually the supervisor in these places and was responsible for the moral and physical well being of the girls. The women were required to pay about a dollar a week to live there and the money was taken directly out of their paychecks. About 30 women lived in the boarding houses with about six living in each room. The

“No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Yes, Ms. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering. But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.” (Brontë, Chapter 2). “No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do

The Name of the Star The Name of the Star follows Rory Deveaux, an American teenager from Louisiana as she attends her senior year at a London boarding school. Her arrival in England coincides with the outset of a series of gruesome murders by what seems to be a Jack the Ripper copycat. As the bodies pile up, Rippermania spreads throughout England and Rory gets stuck in the middle of it all when she becomes a witness after seeing a mysterious man on school grounds. A man no one else has seen and