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    Maturity In Tom Sawyer

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    Throughout multiple exciting adventures and dangerous explorations in the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, we see Tom Sawyer mature. He matures through the love of Aunt Polly, Becky, Huck and other characters in the novel. In his search for treasure, Tom learns about personal accountability. Even in everyday life, we watch him develop from a boy into an adult. From a selfish young, mischievous lad, Tom becomes a sincere, kind and responsible young man. Before we continue, we should discuss

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    Imagine having a strong bond with a person who you are completely different in ways you view the world and as to ways you live your own life. Young children such as Tom and Huck grow to proceed a strong bond but battle different opticales throughout their lives because they share no connection in their households. A life filled with an enlightened home and supportive family was the life Tom was growing up to live in. However, a life filled with emptiness and no place to call home was the route his

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    Tom Sawyer has had quite a few mental experiences and I can relate to that. I feel like if I knew Tom I would be pretty close to him because of our similar personalities. We both like to explore and get our freedom and we both just want to be a good person. Tom just wants to live life the best he can and have fun he has many friends to help him conquer that. As for me I also enjoy life and think of life like there is many years to live for and just to have fun. I chose to do D.A.R.E

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    Both of the stimulus texts show the struggle of unwanted girls in different eras and countries and explore the theme of orphans. Jane Eyre is known as one of the most famous orphans in literature, therefore, the text would be ideal for the theme. The two texts: Chinese Cinderella and Jane Eyre, share some similarities; Jane Eyre is an orphan living with her aunt, Mrs Reed, and although Adeline lives with her father and her step mum she lives like an outsider just like Jane. In the autobiography Adeline

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    The Orphan Trains: Feeling Small Traveling up to 60 miles per hour in a chain of iron boxes weighing several hundred tons altogether can make you feel quite small; and even smaller if you didn’t have any control of the destination. It was a tight fit in each train car due to the thirty to forty other orphans packed in together with two to three adults. There was a strain on all orphans involved in this program. The orphan trains were a bitterly imperative movement put in place to disperse the population

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    never see adulthood. All too often they are abused, beaten, sold, put aside, or worse. So when an orphan has the strength of 10 men, the size of an NBA center, and all the reason in the world to go after the person who orphaned him/her, why wouldn’t he/she? This nightmare of an orphan is the monster from Frankenstein. And he documents many of the thoughts and psychological struggles of the millions of orphans today. The monster struggles with any kind of social activity and ostracizes himself from any

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    In the city of Lexington, Kentucky, there lives a small young family. The husband’s name is Frank Dean. The wife was named Suzanne Dean. They only had one child which was named Posey. Posey was a girl with brown hair and large grey eyes. The little girl was four years old and was an only child. The parent were trying their best to cheer up the girl by showering her with gifts but the girl remained depressed. Suzann and Frank were deeply wounded by the fact that they can not cheer up the little girl

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    This orphanage is located at Nangkaan Poblacion San Pascual, Batangas and has a lot area of 525 square meters. It can maximize 50 orphan or street children. It has eleven rooms and two toilet and bath. The area of administrative office, clinic, two classrooms and two bedrooms are 8x6 square meter. And also the area of playground and dining hall is 8x8 square meter. The area of the

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    I recently fell in love with the book, “Orphan Train,” by Christina Baker Kline. The realistic fiction masterpiece captures everything from average, relatable teenage angst, to the lives of immigrant orphans that are sure to tug on your heartstrings. I’m a sucker for tragic tales, and love a bit of humor here and there as well, and this book combines those with emotions I can’t even describe. It’s no wonder why Orphan Train is an international bestseller! The title alone is intriguing,, let alone

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    India is home to over 1.2 billion people with 4 percent of the population being orphans. India is overloaded with orphans and statistics show that the problem is not going to be getting any better anytime soon. There are many factors that contribute to the reasoning behind the amount of orphans, like poverty and some kids being forced into sex trafficking and prostitution. There are over 20 million orphans in in India because the country is very poor, some families simply can’t support a child

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