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English Project. By: Brooke Burris. Strive toward freedom. By: Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote it describes The philosophy behind the successful boycott. Necessary to protect ourselves. By: Malcom X’s Malcom X’s interview tells how we

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  1. English Project By: Brooke Burris

  2. Strive toward freedom • By: Martin Luther King Jr. • Martin Luther King Jr. wrote it describes • The philosophy behind the successful • boycott

  3. Necessary to protect ourselves • By: Malcom X’s • Malcom X’s interview tells how we • Should have the right to defend • ourselves

  4. A worn path • By: Eudora Welty • Phoenix Jackson walks long • Distances to town to get • Medicine for her boy

  5. ambush • By: Tim O’Brien • His daughter asks if he killed • Someone, he tells her no, then • The story flashes back to him • When he killed someone

  6. Why soldiers won’t talk • By: John Steinbeck • Soldiers after war aren’t • “normal” because of events • In war

  7. An occurrence at owl creek bridge • By: Ambrose Bierce • The guy actually dies, but • His mind makes him seem • Like he didn’t

  8. A rose for emily • By: William Faulkner • Miss Emily Grierson, a creepy lady in town • Once dead people find a mans corpse in attic • Behind locked door, in a bed…..

  9. The story of an hour • By: Kate Chopin • Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies, she • Is happy but then finds out he is • Alive, then she dies of a heart attack • Because she was “morning his death”

  10. The yellow wallpaper • By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman • A lady goes crazy in a yellow • Wallpapered room

  11. adam • By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • Mr. Sousa’s wife had a baby • Named Peter he is very happy • Cause its his 1st child and • They thought it would never • Be able to happen

  12. The devil and tom walker • By: Washington Irving • Tom Walker takes money • From devil bad • consequences

  13. The tell tale heart • By: Edgar Alan Poe • Guy goes crazy and kills an • Old man because he had a • Weird eye and almost gets • Away with it then he hears • The heart beat and he tells • The cops

  14. The raven • By: Edgar Alan Poe • A poem about a raven taping • On a guys chamber door

  15. The fall of the house of usher • By: Edgar Alan Poe • Impossible to read/understand • Guy comes to house. A • Friend (owner of house) • Burries twin in basement, • She gets out kills him guy • Leaves house closes • In on itself

  16. Self Reliance • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson • Non-conformity……….. Good luck

  17. Nature • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature…………..

  18. Walden • By: Henry David Thoreau • Dude lived in forest with nothing from the outside world…..pay attention

  19. Thoureau Still Beckons, If I Can Take My Laptop • By: Cynthia G. La Ferle • Tries to do what walden did but can’t live without laptop

  20. Civil Disobedience • By: Henry David Thoreau • Listen to Dr. Shubert

  21. On Civil Disobedience • By: Gandhi • Dr. Shubert teaches this very well

  22. The Crucible

  23. The Scarlet letter

  24. the adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  25. Sinners in the handsof an Angry god • By: Jonathan Edwards • Priest speech

  26. Speech in the Virginia Convention • By: Patrick Henry • Give me liberty or give me death

  27. Declaration ofIndepenence • By: Thomas Jefferson • You should know. This states why we are free

  28. 9/11 • By: George W. Bush • To calm America

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