Ransom J. Powell is a 13 year-old boy when he was encountered by the toughest decision of his life. All of his friends and family, who were eligible, had joined either the Northern or the Southern side of the Civil War, and now it was his turn. Contrary to his parent’s ideas, Ransom decided...
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Lieutenant Philip Caputo was just a young boy from Westchester, Illinois when he joined the marines. Philip was sick of the safe, suburban existence. He also joined the marines partly from the patriotic tide of the Kennedy era. Caputo joined the Marines in 1960. By the time he fulfilled his 3-year term, 24-year-old lieutenant...
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In the year 2025, life is very different, especially for seventeen year old Kayla Reed. In this future society, it is a policy that you get a bar code tattoo on your wrist when you turn eighteen. This tattoo becomes your identity in a sense that you when you go out and buy something,...
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“Surely she doesn’t think she could make it as a model? She’s far too fat!” Those words, from a complete stranger, echo in Ellie’s ears from then on. So she’s a little on the chubby side, no big deal…right? Wrong. All she thinks about is weight. Envying her two stick-thin friends, Ellie strives for...
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In The Truth About Forever, Macy McQueen is basically stuck in a life she doesn’t want. After her father died, her and her mom’s lives completely changed. They do almost the same things everyday, and nothing in their lives change much at all. With her father dead, and her sister living on her own,...
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