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CONTENTS

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NEXT STOP NYC New York City The Hard Knock Life of an East Coast Rapper Ellis Island – Gateway to the USA 9/11 Survivors

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EVENTS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD 20 The Titanic – The Unsinkable Ship That Sank 20 Pearl Harbor – Hiroshima – Nagasaki 22 Diana, Princess of Wales 26 Columbine – Mitch Jelinker’s Reflections 28 A LOOK AT IRELAND A Trip to Ireland The Story of Oscar Wilde

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR Ask Barbara about Love & Life Is it Love ... or Like ... or Lust?

The Story of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet (from Act V, scene iii) True Love Waits

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WHAT’S UP DOWN UNDER The Lucky Country The Opal People My Trip to the Great Barrier Reef My Boomerang I Sentence You to ... Go to Australia Australian English

TEEN ISSUES Shelly Robinson James Coia Pvt. Fitzgerald Reporting for Duty ...

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ASPECTS OF SOUTH AFRICA Hi everyone back home at Marshall High!

Hi again!

Hello back home!

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ANTHOLOGY POETRY AND LYRICS Empire State of Mind (rap lyrics) What Would You Like to be When You Grow Up, Little Girl? (poem) The Door (free verse) White September Sky (poem)

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LOVE POEMS Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (sonnet) Browning’s Sonnet 43 (sonnet) When I Was One and Twenty (poem) Today I Got a Valentine (poem) Love is a place (free verse) Love is more thicker than forget (free verse) The Rose (song lyrics)

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DRAMA The Importance of Being Earnest (play)

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FICTION Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (excerpt from novel) Titanic – Voyage from Drumshee (excerpt from novel) Captured by Terrorists (excerpt from novel) Frankie’s Story (excerpt from novel) Please Write Back! (letters - excerpt from novel) Climb a Lonely Hill (excerpt from novel) My Last Chance (short story) The Pinballs (excerpt from novel) The Way I See It (diary – excerpt from novel) Stone Cold (excerpt from novel) Black Dog (excerpt from novel) Street Boy (excerpt from novel) NON-FICTION Remember (personal narrative) In Gil’s Own Words (personal narrative) Applying for Entry to the USA Father and Son – Edward Steiner (eye witness report) Mother and Child – Henry Curran (eye witness report) Testimony of Toshiko Saeki (eye witness report) Lost at Sea (article/report) My First Word (personal narrative) Astral Swagman (personal narrative) The Most Important Day of My Life (personal narrative)

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ANTHOLOGY - THEMES NEXT STOP NYC Empire State of Mind Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close White September Sky In Gil’s Own Words Applying for Entry to the USA: Father and Son – Edward Steiner Mother and Child – Henry Curran EVENTS THAT SHOOK THE WOR LD White September Sky Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Titanic – Voyage from Drumshee Testimony of Toshiko Saeki The Most Important Day of My Life

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A LOOK AT IRELAND The Importance of Being Earnest Captured by Terrorists Frankie’s Story

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LOVE I S I N THE AIR Love Poems The Rose Remember The Importance of Being Earnest Frankie’s Story Please Write Back!

My Last Chance The Way I See It The Most Important Day of My Life

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WHAT’S UP DOWN UNDER Please Write Back!

Climb a Lonely Hill Lost at Sea Astral Swagman

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TEEN ISS UES What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up, Little Girl?

The Door The Pinballs The Way I See It Stone Cold My First Word The Most Important Day of My Life

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ASPECTS OF SOUTH AFRICA Black Dog Street Boy

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NEXT STOP NYC New York City. There’s no place like it. Washington DC may be the capital of the US but New York is the capital of the world.

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New York’s history and diversity are legendary. It’s the city of immigrants. Immigrants settled it and immigrants keep arriving to pursue “the American Dream”. They hope to go from rags to riches through a lot of hard work and a measure of good luck. Immigrants built the city and immigrants from all over the world make it run today.

The city is tough. It’s up to you to prove yourself, prove that you’ve got something to offer. “You ain’t gettin’ nothin’ for free!” The pace is hectic, the pulse intense.

There’s always the danger that you’ll get lost in the shuffle. Crime, prostitution, drugs, gangs – lots of temptations. Can you resist them? Unlimited opportunities – if you can manage to grab them, the sky’s the limit.

NYC’s the big apple. It’s the city of neighborhoods: chic Chelsea, exclusive Soho, bohemian Greenwich Village, crowded Chinatown, arty TriBeCa, shrinking Little Italy, colorful Harlem, Brooklyn with its ultraorthodox Jewish population and many more. It’s Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island – over 8 million people live in NYC. It’s a city of artists, celebrities, crooks, junkies, millionaires, transvestites – you name it…

So much to do! You’ll never run out of places to go and things to see in New York City. There’s Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, the Museum of Natural History, the UN Building, Ground Zero, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island… just to name a few.

The Sphere Fritz Koenig’s sculpture once stood between the Twin Towers.

Now – visibly damaged by debris from the collapse of the buildings – it stands in Battery Park as a memorial to the victims of 9/11.

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Architectural diversity For a few months after its completion in 1930, architect William Van Alen’s Art Deco style Chrysler Building was the world’s tallest building.

Harlem Once Harlem was an area that Whites didn’t dare to enter. As a result of the efforts of the city and concerned Harlem residents, Harlem has become ‘gentrified’.

People of all races and religions are moving into the area. Former President Clinton’s office is in Harlem.

Not everyone is pleased with this development.

Celebration of a united effort East (Greenwich) Village, famous for its artists, musical hot spots and cultural diversity, is also known for its Rites of Spring pageant. The procession celebrated the work of hundreds of volunteers who turned over 200 empty lots into neighborhood gardens.

Naked Cowboy This guy is a human tourist attraction on Times Square.

He plays his guitar for and is photographed by tourists. He has his own official website.

Once he ran for mayor of NYC.

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The Hard Knock Life of an East Coast Rapper

By T-Bag

More than a decade after his musical breakthrough, American rapper Jay-Z finally landed his first number one hit as a lead singer on the Billboard Hot 100 list. His 2009 hit single, “Empire State of Mind”, featuring R&B singer Alicia Keys, is a tribute to his birthplace New York City, where he spent his childhood and youth in the Brooklyn ghetto.

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East Coast rapper Jay-Z, born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4th, 1969, grew up in a single-parent household as the youngest of four children. Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria, had to work hard to maintain the household, because his father left when Jay-Z was 12. He never saw his father again. “That was when the hurt and then the healing began for me, from that day right there,” Jay-Z later told Vibe Magazine.

Living in the projects was not easy and Jay-Z has often admitted that he dealt drugs as a teenager. According to Jay-Z, the drugs were to be his ticket out of the hard knock life in the ghetto, but it was his rap career that would finally help him move on.

Today he uses his rap lyrics to express his feelings about his life in Brooklyn, dealing drugs and the knocks he took along the way. On his 1998 breakthrough album, “Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life”, he says: I’m from the school of the hard knocks, we must not let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot let’s stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty, uh-huh Let’s take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh And sip the Cris’ and get pissy-pissy The lyrics are from the title song, “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)”, which soon became Jay-Z’s signature song, earning him a Grammy and a concert tour that led to his stardom.

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The road to success brought Jay-Z many hard knocks in the process. When he couldn’t get a record deal, he and two friends formed their own record label. But things didn’t go as planned.

Jay-Z was soon arrested for stabbing a guy at a nightclub. Would the negative publicity hurt the sales of his new album? Luckily it didn’t, and Jay-Z used the stabbing incident as yet another one of the hard knocks in his rap lyrics.

Along Jay-Z’s rise towards stardom came the head-on collision between Jay-Z and West Coast rapper Nas. The two rappers loved verbally attacking each other in their songs, but when Jay-Z decided to use a vocal sample from one of Nas's albums without asking his permission, their mutual hostility was taken to the next level. Both artists were unbending and the conflict was not resolved until 2005. Due to the fame and commercial success of both artists, the quarrel attracted plenty of public attention. It is one of the most famous feuds in hip hop, especially in the aftermath of the East Coast–West Coast hip-hop rivalry of the 1990s.

In addition to making good as a rapper and producer, Jay-Z has managed to succeed in finding love and joy in his personal life. In 2003 he collaborated with megastar Beyoncé Knowles on her hit single, “Crazy in Love”, which apparently resulted in the couple becoming crazy about each other. Both avoided discussing rumors about a relationship but, in April 2008, they were married at a private ceremony in New York City.

Today Jay-Z has become one of the most financially successful rap artists in the USA. He has received a large number of awards for his musical work, both as a featuring star along with other artists and finally, in 2009, as a lead singer.

MTV has even ranked him the number one on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time.

In his 2009 hit single, “Empire State of Mind”, Jay-Z expresses his success this way: Yeah, Imma up at Brooklyn, now I’m down in Tribeca, right next to DeNiro, But I’ll be hood forever, I’m the new Sinatra, and since I made it here, I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere…

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Ellis Island – Gateway to the USA Between January 2nd, 1892, and November 12th, 1954, Ellis Island was both symbolically and in practice the most important official “gateway” to the United States of America.

The first immigrant to be officially admitted to the US through this facility was Annie Moore, a 15-year old Irish girl who had made the trip across the Atlantic Ocean with her two younger brothers.

Sometimes it is referred to as the “Island of Tears”, but in fact only about 2% of those who hoped to be allowed to enter the USA were actually rejected. Between 1892 and 1954, over 12 million immigrants came through Ellis Island. Approximately 40 percent of all Americans have a relative who came through the facility.

After 1924, the only people who were detained on the island were war refugees, displaced persons and applicants whose papers were not in order. The last person to be released from Ellis Island was Arne Petersen, a Norwegian merchant sailor who had been detained in connection with WWII. Today Ellis Island is, along with The Statue of Liberty, a national monument and museum that is visited by approximately two million people every year.

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Minutes later Tower 1 crumbled in front of us like in some movie.

It was so bizarre that you expected a producer to turn up and yell ‘cut’.

Richard Prescott Stearns Worked on floor 8 of the north tower

9/11 Survivors

I remember thinking there is no way I walked down 77 flights to die 3 floors from safety. We climbed back up to 4 where a firefighter punched a hole in the wall to get us out.

Here is an excerpt from Sue Frederick’s account of her own experience on September 11th, 2001: I truly never expected to add “survival of a terrorist attack” to my résumé.

The mayor was correct when he talked about the toughness of New Yorkers. It was amazing how calm, supportive and helpful everyone was throughout the day.

Here’s my personal account of the day.

My company was close to ground zero.

When the plane struck the building it felt exactly like an earthquake. The only advanced sound was a large windful swoosh. At first we had no idea if it was a bomb or the building had been struck.

Our personnel immediately headed for the stairs as smoke began filtering quickly down. One wall outside our company had been pushed in so far it was impassable. The only stairway open got us only as far as the 77th floor when we came up against a door that was jammed shut.

In the WTC stairways down were not a straight shot. At various levels you had to cross hallways and through additional doorways to continue. We were invited into another company’s offices on that floor while their people sought out an alternative route. We went into a conference room and turned on the TV.

Sue Frederick Was at her desk in the north tower

The building shook again We learned our building had been struck by a plane but it was not announced at this point that it was a terrorist attack.

As we watched TV the building shook again and what we thought was debris from our own building began striking the windows of the conference room so we immediately left.

We know now that this was building number two being hit by the second airplane.

Within 5-10 minutes, someone had found another way out and we began our trek down the stairs. We had to walk through a hallway at this point where

The floor began to lower under my feet and all I could think about was that it would crack open.

Eric Levine Was at his desk on floor 64 in the south tower

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the ceiling was being hosed down by an employee from the company we had taken refuge in. This is what I mean by the spirit of New Yorkers. It is because of their initiative that we got out.

No one from the building security or city rescue had been able to get to us at this point as the only way up or down was stairwells. All the elevators had been immediately knocked out by the flames and smoke shooting down the shafts from the explosion of the plane’s fuel on impact.

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The stairwells were flooding The calm of the people around us as we walked down was amazing. People who had been hurt or were having a problem getting down were being assisted at every point. When congestion slowed us to a stop no one shoved or made a scene. We respectfully waited until we could move again. People passed information up and down the line to try and keep people informed about what was happening and those with blackberries [handheld wireless email devices] sent as many emails as they could for folks around

People yell at us to run. We look back and the ash and smoke cloud is rolling over the building. That low rumbling is in the air and we know that the second tower has collapsed...

William Frankenstein Student in his junior year at Stuyvesant High School

them, as none of our cell phones worked.

We finally got out of the smoke when we hit the 35th floor. It felt great to breathe fresh air and lifted everyone’s spirits. We also started running into building personnel. Around the 27th floor we ran into firefighters climbing up.

I can’t imagine what it must have been like to walk up that many flights with all the gear they had. They looked so winded at that point.

I doubt that they made it out before the building collapsed and my prayers and thoughts are with them and their families now.

By the 7th floor, the stairwells were flooding with water from what we assumed were the firefighting efforts.

We were feeling buoyant when we hit 3 and thought we’re almost out of here. It had taken us a little over an hour to get this far. But the adventure it seems was far from over.

A tremendous whoosh of air At that point, as we learned later, building 2 collapsed and hit our building.

Once again it felt like a bomb had gone off as the building shook again and there was this tremendous whoosh of air that almost knocked us off our feet.

At that point the lights went out.

There was so much debris that our way out was blocked. I remember thinking there is no way I walked down 77 flights to die 3 floors from safety. We climbed back up to 4 where a firefighter punched a hole in the wall to get us out. We made a human chain hanging on to the person in front and the person in back of us as we made our way out into the 4th floor rotunda in the dark.

We got our first glimpse of what looked like a war zone. We walked

Feel dust in throat.

TV people going on shooting footage like mad…

People are crying, cursing.

Everybody looks white from the dust.

Anshuman Das Worked in an office near the World Trade Center

through ankle deep dust and out through a doorway to the outside plaza in front of the US Customs building. As we were led to a stairwell to street level we climbed over girders and moved around office furniture and layers of office papers, twisted metal, broken glass and other debris.

‘I am grateful to be alive’ By now we were wet and covered in this ash. People all looked like their hair had turned pre-maturely gray. We were told to walk quickly up the street. Within minutes (we now know it was no more than 4) we heard a rumble, turned to see our tower begin to collapse and a large cloud of black moving up the street.

We ran.

I am convinced that it is by God’s miracle that I got out. I am grateful to be alive and grateful for my family and friends. Amazingly, I never felt afraid and I believe that was because I truly felt God’s hand upon me. It was not my Time.

I’m not sure what is next. But for now smelling the flowers is just fine with me.