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    or a group of people, it’s extremely important to let someone know what going on, an adult, a teacher, your family members, your preacher, the list goes on for those individuals who are ready to assist you in your plight. Bullies are attracted to loners; people who are socially vulnerable. This is just a proven fact. Most kids who are bullied are afraid to speak up and let someone know what they’re going through which almost always lead to tragic results. Teen suicide is on the rise and most cases

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    between Kurt Russel and Kim Cattrall characters throughout the movie, passionate kisses, and women in lingerie. They have great use of special effects but some scenes where cheesy. I wish they did not make Kurt Russel character as much of an idiot and loner, this would have made the love story

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    counts of aggravated assault in connection with Wednesday's attack at Franklin Regional Senior high school.”( http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/alex-hribal-profile/index.html” Students at Franklin Regional Senior High school thought Alex was a loner, and this current event connects to the social learning theory because of Alex’s behavior. The Social Learning theory is by observing others and then to imitating them by learning through social behavior. People will asks their peers if being aggress

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    The Loner in the Rye It is tough being a lonely misanthrope. Hating society and being lonely are two traits that definitely do not go together and are hard to deal with. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield has just those problems. Holden is not a hugely happy guy, as he makes it clear many times throughout the novel. All he wants to do is connect with someone, but he has particularly high standards. Most of the time, he is the cause for his miserable attitude. Holden runs

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    Being that I am an only child, I am very family-oriented. When I was young, I lost my grandfather to esophageal cancer. As a result, I shut everyone out of my life, so I would not get close to anyone and have them taken away from me as well. The protagonist, Emily Grierson, in the short story “A Rose for Emily,” has shut everyone out of her life due to the death of her loved one, just as I did. Crystal’s essay, “One for us…” describes how Grierson’s community would not accept her private life, and

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    Theme Of An Outsider

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    page 26 he says, “I didn’t get why we talk about girls in that way,’ which is showing how even though he’s tough he is still young and innocent and doesn’t get why his gang talks dirty about women’ Also like Dara, Ponyboy’s archetype changes to The Loner or Outcast and he loses his hope. After Johnny kills a Soc to protect him, they go on the run from the police. They hide out in an abandoned church away from their families and society. On page 63 it says “he must have been as homesick as I was” showing

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    You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own. These are the basic set of rules that the driver gives In Nicolas Winding Refin’s Drive, a masterfully crafted a hyper stylized and brutal norie film. This work is a staple for movies that expertly use lighting music and expressions to say beyond what words ever could. The plot is simple, the Driver

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    Strength Of Dragons

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    In a world called Lafin, there exists multitple races; humans, beastmen, dwarves, elves, fairy, demons and dragons. Among these races, the race called dragons are the strongest. Why are they the strongest? They just wield enormous power that's all. They are often treated as a God by other races, and only the demon race dare to provoke them. They are the second strongest and only a stepped away from the dragons. Though dragons are powerful, they're not completely invincible as they are only few in

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    The Catcher in the Rye’s main character, Holden Caulfield has a major problem of alienating himself from the outside world. This proves to be the main conflict for Holden since it leaves him as a loner. The root of this problem is Holden not being able to connect with other people or understand their different backgrounds. When he encounters another person who seems to have conformed to a group or status he calls them a “phony”. When Holden is using this term he is showing his own biased opinion

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    Cooke bases his piece primarily on facts. His logic forces the reader to think more seriously about the issue of gun control and how it would not prevent terrible massacres from happening. Cooke writes of universal background checks: “it is certainly not possible to claim that they would prevent or even diminish the number of mass shootings” (Cooke 6). Gopnik includes a great deal of logic in his article, but, unlike Cooke, he does not rely solely on logic to reach his readers. Gopnik argues that

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