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    Should A 17 Year Old Teen Ali Amin Be Sentenced To 11 Years in Prison? 17 year old in Virginia by the name of Ali Amin was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison because of his support of the terrorist group ISIS. He ran a pro ISIS twitter account and helped an 18 year old friend escape to Syria to help ISIS battle militants and rebels. “Amin, who peaded guilty in June to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, tweeted approximately 7,000 times from the apparently pro ISIS account

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    there are constantly rebellious teenagers in story plots in books and movies also. Teenage rebellion is commonly used in literature endlessly because it is a reality. It is continuously used to demonstrate a lesson by understanding the character’s opinion. Teenage rebellion comforts people on knowing why they are so dissent. William Shakespeare’s ,“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, is based on teenage rebellion. Additionally, there are movies that relate to “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, like “Mulan”

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    Teenage rebellion is everywhere, it is throughout literature, movies, and song lyrics. In this case it's about Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, compared to Jack and Rose from the Titanic by Cameron, James. Teen rebellion is everywhere and I don't believe it's gonna change anytime soon. Teenagers rebel, it's natural, it's only because we discover new things everyday. I believe that Jack and Rose are teenage rebels, they fall in love even though they have different social ranks, sort of like

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    While society exists, so shall rebellion. This is because society is defined as a group of people organized under a leader, while rebellion is defined as an act of open resistance to the aforementioned established government or ruler (Online Dictionary). To counter inevitable resistance, governing forces create constructs of purity in line with their beliefs, that are made to be desirable by those they govern. In both Fahrenheit 451 and Wall-E, the governing forces present use this technique, by

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    Rebellion is defined as an act of violent or open resistance to an established government [institution] or ruler. In the novels In the Time of the Butterflies, Purple Hibiscus, and Never Let Me Go. The role of rebellion is very prevalent and in some cases are represented in the same context. In Purple Hibiscus and In the Time of the Butterflies, The main characters, the four Mirabal sisters, face political oppression from an oppressive militaristic dictator. Kambili, in Purple Hibiscus, learns that

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    Many works of literature have similarities due to the characteristic qualities and plot lines that occur throughout the story. The novel Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, follows 48 hours of Holden Caulfield, a young troubled child. He experiences mental and emotional changes throughout the novel, much like Jim Stark, in the movie, Rebel without a Cause. This movie, directed by Nicholas Ray, examines the life of a teen who is constantly moving and the conflicts that transpires while

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    Everyone at some point in their life has felt like they cannot seem to fit in with society’s standards when all they were doing was trying to be themselves. This conflict can happen to both rebels and outcasts. An outcast individual is someone who is neglected and excluded from society or home. They are usually pushed to the back burner and often ignored or not even noticed because they are different or not wanted. Langston Hughes, who wrote the poem, “I,Too” expresses what it is like to be an outcast

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    The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J. D. Salinger in 1951. The protagonist Holden Caulfield tells us of an episode in his life where he finds himself utterly troubled and lost. The odd thing about Holden is that he seemingly has a “good life” nevertheless he is severely negative about almost all of his surroundings, mostly of the people he surrounds himself with, in addition to those he meets along his way. This essay will discuss why Holden Caulfield can be seen as a ‘rebel without a cause’

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    place called that so nobody believes them. Although rumors say that it was a land of freedom. The year is believed to be 2038, but The Dark Sun started a new time system, so nothing is for shore. There have been countless rebellions but each one failed.

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    The movie Rebel without a Cause presents the social issue that both teenagers and their parents in the time struggle for locating themselves into the right and appropriate social identities, yet they also have the difficulty of facing this issue. For the adults, they tend to dodge the fact that they should undertake the responsibilities of guiding their children during the awkward and confusing period of growing into adults. On the other hand, the adolescences often behave radically and dangerously

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