Across The Dark Islands was written by Floyd W. Radike who was an officer in the National Guard. He wrote this book to show his experience in the National Guard before and after the war and to also show us how the conditions were in the front lines of the war.He was with his unit in the Battles of Guadalcanal‚ New Georgia‚ The battle of Luzon and also for a short amount of time in Japan. Floyd W. Radike was a junior officer who served firstly as a line company platoon officer and then as time went
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Brown V. Board of Education In the early 1950’s‚ racial segregation in public schools was normal across America. Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal‚ most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts. In Topeka‚ Kansas‚ a black third-grader had to walk miles just to get to her all black elementary school. Her father‚ Oliver Brown‚ had tried to enroll her in a white elementary school but was refused. Brown went to McKinley Burnett‚ the head of Topeka’s
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the first two lines‚ Byron express that the woman walks in beauty like a cloudless and starring night‚ that is‚ the woman is beautiful as a starring night is‚ too. This is the first time that the theme of darkness appears (in night)‚ contrary to the light which is expressed by the stars of the sky. That opposition is repeated along the three stanzas of the poem‚ because the author is talking about the beauty and that opposition is used to express it‚ to compare the opposition with beauty. In that
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Woo: The Joy Luck Club In this chapter we are introduced to the Joy Luck Club which originated all the way back in China when Jing-Mei Woo ’s mother Suyuan was in the city of Kweilin. At the Joy Luck Club a group of old Chinese women sit around and eat and after that they sit down in a table to play a friendly game of Mah-Jong. At the Joy Luck Club there are 4 major members‚ Lindo Jong‚ Ying-ying St. Clair‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ and Suyuan Woo. In the beginning of the chapter we learn that Suyuan has died and
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A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park discusses the story of a girl named Nya and her journey to find water. First‚ Nya‚ 11‚ walks half a day everyday 1 or 2 times in the blazing heat to fetch water at a pond in Southern Sudan for her and her family to survive. Secondly‚ Nyas family leaves 5 months a year to live by the big lake to survive. Also Nya’s little sister Akeer had a horrible stomachache she couldn’t even speak Nya said that she has seen it before it starts with a stomachache then diarrhea
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Ch.1 Vocabulary 1. Lagoon 2. Creeper 3. Startled 4. Flames 5. Scattered (about) 6. Asthma 7. Spectacles 8. Shimmering (water) 9. Dazzling (beach) 10. Giggle 11. Omened 12. Muttered 13. Conch 14. Eccentric (clothing) 15. Crumpled 16. Freckled Ch.1 Questions 1. How did the boys arrive on the island? The boys arrived on the island by the plane which crashed during a storm‚ killing all the adults on the plane‚ leaving a scar in the jungle. 2. How do Ralph’s and Piggy’s reactions differ when they know
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Chapter Summary Chapter seven talked about campaigns‚ elections‚ and the media. The legal qualifications for holding political office are minimal at both the state and local levels‚ but holders of political office still are predominantly white and male are likely to be from the professional class. American political campaigns are lengthy and extremely expensive. In the last decade‚ they have become more candidate centered rather than party centered in response to technological innovations and
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AP Government September 7‚ 2012 Chapter 2 Summary Within the first pages of this chapter‚ we are introduced with the topic of the constitution and actions of Gregory Lee Johnson. The case of Gregory Lee Johnson is about that of him burning an American flag and protesting that when the government became involved‚ it was against his freedom of speech. This is where the constitution of the United States comes into play and supersedes the ordinary law. The question though‚ what exactly is a constitution
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Chapter Summary I. The State and the Nation For an entity to be considered a state‚ four fundamental conditions must be met (although these legal criteria are not absolute): A state must have a territorial base. A stable population must reside within its borders‚. There should be a government to which this population owes allegiance. A state has to be recognized diplomatically by other states. A nation is a group of people who share a set of characteristics. At the core of the concept of a nation
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(1) 自然界的生態平衡是如何展現呢？人類的活動又如何破壞生態平衡？ (2) 人類和自然的關係應該如何平衡？ Human should not interfere with any of the relation between life and the earth. (F) Which factor enables sage to survive the long ages of natural selection in the dry West? Its small grey leaves can hold moisture. Grouse‚ Mule deer‚ Antelope depend on the sage Land management agencies decide to eliminate the sage to satisfy the demand of grazing land Immediate side effect of spraying on sagebrush‚ as illustrated in the example of Bridger
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