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If you live in the D.C. metro area, there’s a fairly high chance that you may have heard go-go music. You may have been walking down the street in D.C. and heard people banging on trash cans and not even realized what kind of music it was. A Home to a well educated black middle class because of institutions like Howard University, DC, unfortunately, experienced a similar urban issue that was the same as with many US cities beginning in the late 1960s. After the assassination of Martin Luther King

Go The game go is a strategy game. It “combines beauty” with “intellectual” challenges, and “the patterns formed by the black and white stones are visually striking and can exercise an almost hypnotic attraction as” the game goes on (American Go Association). It is played with two people sitting across from each other with the game board in between them. The game board is usually a nine by nine, thirteen by thirteen, or nineteen by nineteen grid constructed of wood or bamboo. Beginners start out

Go is a fascinating game that, although created in China, gained popularity and permanence in Japan. Go planted its roots in the Heian Period and grew from there. The Heian Period, known as the Golden Age of Japan, was a very stable time with the imperial court at the height of its reign, especially in its early and middle years. Go provided a leisurely pastime and an opportunity for casual conversation that was not only entertaining in a stimulating way, but at the same time maintained the cultivated

Go Ask Alice      Have you ever had a problem? I'm sure you have because everybody sometime in there life does. The book I read Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author is all about problems, conflicts, and how to deal with them.      I would give a lot of information on the author if that was possible, but the author is anonymous so I can not do so.      From the very first page I had a hunch that this book was about a drug

Initially, after reading Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, I quite enjoyed the book; it is good at showing how difficult life can be, and the language was understandable enough that the reader could sympathize with the protagonist after reading about her ample, outlandish trials and tribulations. Upon a closer, second, examination, however, I was not so keen to love the book, for the language is definitely not that of an adolescent - much less a fifteen year old girl. Additionally, the turn of events also

Go Ask Alice #3 While reading Go Ask Alice there were a few quotes that stood out to me. The first quote says “How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten and sill function, still talk and smile and concentrate” (Sparks 2). Being that for years I’ve been battling depression, anxiety, and bulimia it’s insane to think that I’m still alive. I sometimes can’t even believe that I am an actual functioning human being. These disorders took over my life and

Horace Greeley sole reason for his quote” Go west, young man go west, was to get more young people to not only travel to the west but stay and make a better life for themselves. It says that the western part of the United States had a lot more opportunities for employment and a lot more opportunities to change your social status. The reasons why I believe Horace wanted more young people to travel west were to be given the opportunity to find employment and take better care of their families. The

The banning of Go Ask Alice is a controversial issue. Go Ask Alice has been banned in many countries, cities and states for many years because it gives an “negative effect of the world” (BioPeach). The main character, Alice, get hardcore addicted to drugs. Alice and the other characters’ foul language is argued to be inappropriate for school children. The American Library Association usually ban and challenged books with the best intentions to protect children from the difficult ideas and information

The novel Go Ask Alice, written by an anonymous teenage girl, consists of her thoughts, musings, and feelings throughout her ever worsening battle with drugs. Before the life-altering party that introduced her to this life of addiction, Alice was a typical teenage girl who faced the fears and unknown of moving to a new town and school, feelings of nonacceptance from her friends and peers, body issues, and pressure from her parents. The argument can be made that one of the many roots of Alice’s

Teenagers of every race, religion, and clique relate deeply to the words of the anonymous teenager within the book Go Ask Alice, by an anonymous girl whose life enters a place where, as most teenagers, she has no idea who to turn to, or where to go. "Oh dear god, help me adjust, help me be accepted, help me belong, don't let me be an outcast and a drag on my family," (Anonymous, 13). With these words, we are accepted into the girl's life, and into her heart and mind. I chose this quote