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    Looking for Alaska is about a boy named Miles Halter who is trying to find his Great Perhaps in a boarding school in Alabama. Miles met new friends in boarding school and a girl named Alaska Young who he then began to like/love her. The most important part of the story has to do when Alaska dies and Miles finds himself in the middle of trying to figure out if Alaska ever liked him like he did. Miles also is caught in figuring out his Great Perhaps after Alaska’s death. Alaska Young is a character

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    Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth‚ thinking about how you’ll escape it one day‚ and how awesome it will be‚ and imagining that future keeps you going‚ but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’‚ tells a story about self-discovery‚ first experiences and the deep impact someone can have on a life. Miles Halter is fascinated by last words

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    So everyone should have an ambition in life but simply having it is not enough. Whatever be the ambition‚ it must be backed up by contain efforts to achieve it. If a person sets an ambition before him‚ but does or to achieve it‚ his ambition is no more than an idle dream or a pious resole Different persons have different ambitions the nature of ambition from man to man‚ depending upon his family background‚ upbringing‚ s status and economic condition‚ etc. Thus‚ some peoples only ambition in is to

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    Book: Looking for Alaska by John Green # Character Trait Context of Quote & Page Number Response to Text 1 Warm “In the dark beside me‚ she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla‚ and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked‚ when the burning cherry of the cigarette washed her face in the pale red light. But even in the dark‚ I could see her eyes-fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every

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    CLIMATE CHANGE IN ALASKA? Scientists believe that a decrease of between 65% and 80% of carbon dioxide emissions is necessary to prevent the effects of global warming (?Carbon Dioxide?) and government taking actions to find solutions in Alaska. To create awareness the government has released new climate data‚ tools‚ and mapping of Alaska that will assist them to understand and prepare for future climate change (Wuebbles and Jain 2001 p. 99-102). Permafrost has been a major problem in Alaska and to resolve

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    Alaska Airline & Corporate Culture A unique cultural characteristic of Alaska Airline would be the benefits they allot their employees. After 90 days of working with Alaska Airline‚ an employee earns benefits which allows him or her to fly anywhere at anytime with 1 other individual. In addition to this‚ the employee is given 6 “buddy passes” each year which allows the employee to give 6 roundtrip tickets to people other than himself or the 1 person he chooses to travel with. The best part

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    The salmon of Alaska have been here for millions of years and over those years five specific and distinct species have evolved and developed. Theses five species are Chinook‚ Chum‚ Coho‚ Pink and Sockeye salmon (Morrow‚ 2013). These salmon all have very different looks and different timetables of life. However‚ they all share the same main lifecycle going from egg‚ to alevin‚ to fry‚ to parr‚ to smolt then on to their adult stage (Marrow‚ 2013). They have a difficult life and only a few eggs of

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    interprets it differently. In a way this person achieves some form of enlightenment from this revelation‚ and because of this they are more mature after the trial. An example of this was the death of Alaska Young from John Green’s award winning novel ‘Looking for Alaska’. In the novel‚ The title character‚ Alaska‚ died in a car crash. This severely affected the lives of the ones who loved‚ especially Miles Hartler‚ one of Alaska’s best friends. Following Alaska’s death‚ Miles‚ along with other friends

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    This essay will discuss the movie Mystery‚ Alaska and some of the psychological components that are apparent in the film. This essay will cover the topics of: ego‚ distractions that affect performance‚ and focus. While this movie encompasses a wide variety of psychological aspects‚ the ones listed above were what I felt to be most prevalent throughout the movie. The first topic to be discussed in this essay is ego. Ego in sports can be a crucial building block for success. Some say that ego

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    How good research look like? Following the standards of the scientific method:1- purpose clearly defined . 2- research process detailed . 3- research design thoroughly planned . 4- high ethical standards applied . 5- limitations frankly revealed . 6- adequate analysis for decision – maker’s needs . 7- findings presented unambiguously . 8- conclusions justified . 9- researchers experience reflected . What are the good element of sampling? Reasons for sampling : practically impossible to collect

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