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Antonio Benavides ENG 008 Mr. Lewenstein Struggles When I was only a child, I didn't have much. At the time It was the year 2004, I was living in San Diego with my parents and little brother.  One day, we were In some sort of daycare and this mysterious lady walked in. She seemed to be holding a folder full of paperwork. She had asked for us  to go with her. I was confused at first, but she later told us that she was gonna help us find a new home. From that day forward, I never seen my parents again. The day that mysterious lady came was the day our lives had changed.  The reason why she was gonna help us find a new home, was because living at home was very rough. My dad wasn't all that great after all, he was very abusive towards my little brother and I. He was also an alcoholic for this reason, he was abusive. For instance, there was this one time I remember like It was yesterday, my dad was smoking a cigarette and he decides to use my arm to put his cigarett...

Antonio Benavides ENG 008 Mr.Lewenstein Comic Strip Shane and Rick both went out to look for food, they started to argue about the past. Shane was pissed because Rick wasn't suppose to be alive, and Shane had a relationship with his wife. During the argument Shane pointed the gun at Rick, he believed if Rick was dead everything would be fine. Rick started crying for mercy, as soon as Shane was about to pull the trigger, he was shot in the neck. The one who shot him was in fact Carol, Ricks son. Carol felt like his father was in danger, for this reason Carol shot him.

Antonio Benavides ENG 008 Book Out of My Past A book from my past is The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen. I read this book when I was in the 8th grade my english teacher had assigned us to read the book then, after we were done reading the book we were going to watch the movie. The book was about a young girl from a Jewish family, her and her family are to attend a passover seder at her grandparents house. During the seder she was magically transported to Poland in 1942, after she had transported she inhabits the life of  Chaya Abramowicz. She experienced the horrors of the Holocaust. When she gets back home she later finds out that the life she had inhabited was a relative from the past.

Antonio Benavides ENG 008 Mr. Lewenstein Remember The Titans: Racism Racism is discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race was superior.   The Holocaust  is a classic example of institutionalized racism which led to the death of millions of people based on race. While the concepts of race and ethnicity are considered to be separate in contemporary social science, the two terms have a long history of equivalence in both popular usage and older social science literature. In the movie Remember The Titans was about blacks trying to play football with an all American team. The white team mates would be races towards the blacks. For example, In the movie another coach from a different school was getting interviewed and he said that his all american team is trained to knock the chocolate off of people. Another example on the first day of school parents and students started a boycott because they didn’t want the bla...

Antonio Benavides ENG 008 Mr. Lewenstein Vietnam War In the article entitled Vietnam War, states that the Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the united states.  The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.  More than 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975.  A team sent by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to report on conditions in South Vietnam advised a build-up of American military, economic and technical aid in order to help Diem confront the Viet Cong threat. Working under the "domino theory"...

Antonio Benavides ENG 008 Mr. Lewenstein Vietnam War Free Write The Vietnam War was known as the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. It was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies, South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti communist allies. From air power to infantry to chemicals, the weapons used in the Vietnam War were more devastating than those of any previous conflict. United States and South Vietnamese forces relied heavily on their superior air power, including B-52 bombers and other aircraft that dropped thousands of pounds of explosives over North Vietnam and Communist targets in South Vietnam. While U.S. troops and their allies used mainly American manufactured weapons, Communist forces used weapons manufactured in the Soviet Union and China. In a...