Fellow Word Shakers‚ When I started reading the book‚ Night Hoops by Carl Deuker‚ I was very bored. I felt like I wasn’t relating to the characters and the plot was moving too slowly. I questioned whether I should start a new book; however‚ I persevered just like Nick‚ and I am very grateful that I stuck with it. After reading Night Hoops‚ I have developed a new mindset on how I should pursue my goals no matter what impediments obstruct my ability to reach them. Nick‚ the protagonist‚ always
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Dark and stormy night It was a dark and stormy night when she came to find me. I was sitting at my work desk‚ writing my daily report of the day’s work when my ears caught a soft knocking at the front door‚ timid but distinct against the fury of the tempest. Who could it possibly be at this hour and in this kind of night‚ I mused as I pushed back my chair irritably to answer the door. As I was about to slip back the latch‚ a small‚ seldom heard voice in the back of my head‚ which only spoke in
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Topic: The Cold War Research Question: The fall of the mutually friendly American Soviet relations was most significantly caused by the Soviet Union expanding it borders‚ violating its allied agreements‚ and imposing communist governments on its neighboring nations. Command Term: Analyze and Explain Dates: 1945-1990 Locales: Eastern/Western Europe Events: The end of world war two and the conferences during and following including Yalta‚Potsdam and Tehran. Also informations and influence of
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Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters
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Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate
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Emilia Tytro Art 11/18/11 Break on through….to Modernism Post-Impressionism: Cezanne‚ van Gogh‚ Seurat Cezanne Starry Night by Van Gogh date 1889 I chose Starry Night not only because it is my all time favorite painting since I was a kid but the movement and all the darkness behind it. It captivated me when I was seven years old and to this day I can’t get eyes off this painting. This painting uses a nighttime scene with trees; stars to have the audience feel comfort. Line
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had many ideological differences. The Soviet Union was the birthplace of communism and a huge proponent of it. Communism and capitalism are directly opposites. This caused tension between the countries which eventually led to the culmination of the Cold War. It was an obvious fact that the Soviet Union wanted to expand the size of its empire. The United States’ efforts to oppose this expansion were known as containment. The United States was able to contain communism by aiding West Berlin‚ intervening
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Twelfth Night is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in the early 1600’s. This comedy was written for the entertainment of the close of the Christmas season. Twelfth Night includes musical interludes as well as extreme disorder through out the entire play. Many plot elements from Twelfth Night have been taken from the short story of Of Apollonius and Silla by Barnabe Rich. The first live performance of this Shakespeare comedy took place on February 2‚ 1602 at Candlemas‚ however‚ this play was
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Beginning of policy of containment. Aided France in their resumed colonization of Vietnam‚ fear of Domino Theory. Precursor to Marshall plan. Triggered by Greece and Turkey possibly falling under Soviet rule due to economic weakness. Characterized Cold War as a conflict between good and evil Marshall Plan 1948 Harry Truman‚ George Marshall‚ European Recovery Program. plan for economic recovery in European countries somewhat to stop spread of communism. Spent billions. Poverty breeds communism‚
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Ricardo "Richard" Munoz Ramirez born February 28‚ 1960 is a convicted serial killer and is awaiting execution on California ’s death row. Before his capture‚ Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the mass media. Munoz’s crimes stem from murder to rape and home invasion‚ his first victim was on April 10‚ 1984‚ 9-year-old Mei Leung was found dead in a hotel basement where Ramirez was living at the time. Ramirez ’s DNA was matched to DNA obtained at the 1984 crime scene in 2009. On June 28‚ 1984
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