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    a “dirty Indian” into Reggie’s head and prevent him from connecting with what Bird views as the contaminated half of his ethnicity (Alexie 94). According to Bird‚ conflicts and hostilities between “good” and “dirty” Indians have existed since Europeans first colonized the Americas‚ but his view of history is skewed in favor of the side he supported during the 1970’s and the victors on each side of the wars (92). He physically abuses Reggie when he incorrectly describes his father’s version of history

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    SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read. 2. While you are reading‚ you

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    The importance of reading

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    The importance of reading :   Reading has at all times and in all ages been a source of knowledge‚ of happiness‚ of pleasure and even moral courage. In today’s world with so much more to know and to learn and also the need for a conscious effort to conquer the divisive forces‚ the importance of reading has increased. In the olden days if reading was not cultivated or encouraged‚ there was a substitute for it in the religious sermon and in the oral tradition. The practice of telling stories at bed

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    In this sermonette of The Pain of Gun Powder‚ The Joy of God Power‚ the scripture readings will be coming from Romans 12:2‚ and Hebrews 10:30. There have been many killings in this country. Every time you turn on the television‚ listen to the radio‚ and connect to social media‚ or opened the newspaper‚ we learn that many killings are destroying our society and innocent people lives have been a loss. The lost lives of the pastor’s congregations due to the violence of the killer and the one killed

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    Willa Cather‚ from “The Joy of Nelly Deane” (p. 223) Willa Cather writes the story of The Joy of Nelly Deane‚ describing Nelly’s joy as “unquenchable‚” especially‚ Nelly’s joy attracted all the Baptist ladies who admired the prettiest girl in Riverbend‚ Nebraska (Cather‚ p. 225). Nelly fluttered from one social event to another‚ parties‚ picnics and dances‚ and sings like a “prima-donna” in the Baptist Church choir‚ where she met Peggy‚ the narrator of the story. Peggy was named‚ by the Baptist

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    SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS (SAP) PURPOSE AND SCOPE Federal regulations mandate that a student receiving financial aid under Title IV programs must maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) in his/her course of study regardless of whether or not financial aid is awarded each semester. Students are responsible for understanding and adhering to the satisfactory academic progress policy. Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) will be measured at the end of each term for all students. Satisfactory

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    the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman didn’t exist... I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.” Just as many children look up to fictional characters such as Superman‚ parents rich or poor‚ look up to our school system to educate their children. However‚ too many of these parents are beginning to realize that proper education‚ like Superman‚ is nonexistent. In Waiting for “Superman‚” Davis Guggenheim addresses the teachers union about

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    Reading-Is It Important?

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    Soriano‚ Rachel English 091 July 19 2011 Reading-Is It Important? Reading can be such a broad topic in America today. How important is it‚ why do we read‚ the questions are endless but to what extent is reading really important? There are so many issues going on around the globe such as illegal immigration‚ abortion and the new health care reform. Reading is no where near as important as those topics‚ those issues can change one’s life forever and reading is just something we do without even noticing

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    A day in the life of Superman I nearly died today .I could not help but toss and turn in bed and think about how horrible my day had been . what would have happened if the Atomic Skull had hit me on my head. “Someone help me!” old .Auntie Mary was lost in the jungle. She could not find her way out and was shouting frantically for help.The sun was setting. Auntie Mary was shouting for help because she had now been captured by the notorious Atomic Skull. He was notorious

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    My Joy of Life

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    A recent experiment1 first demonstrated an acoustic time-reversal mirror ~TRM! in the ocean. A TRM2‚3 also referred to as the process of phase conjugation in the frequency domain‚4–8 focuses sound from a source–receive array ~SRA! back to the probe source ~PS! which ensonified the SRA. The SRA receives the probe-source field‚ time reverses it ~phase conjugation in the frequency domain!‚ and then uses the time-reversed data as the excitation for an array of sources which are collocated with

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