back.” I pulled a special gem out of my pocket and showed my sister. “Alice‚” she whispered seriously. “This is the rarest gem in all the country. I learned about it in science class.” “Are you sure about this?” I asked to clarify things. “Oh‚ Yes. I am definitely sure.” She took the gem from me and studied. “It even has the gold inside of it. I can see through the red crystal‚ and there is definitely gold inside of this. Alice‚” She said. “This treasure is worth more than I can even count!!” “Wow
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Looking for the root This discussion post centers on possible causes of learning disabilities‚ specifically that of dyslexia. Common symptoms of dyslexia are difficulty in the areas of speaking‚ pronunciation‚ reading fluency‚ decoding‚ comprehension‚ and word retrieval (Society for Neuroscience‚ 2012). However‚ in languages such as Finnish and Italian‚ which are more consistent in their relationship between letters and sounds‚ the only evidence of dyslexia may be slow reading (Society for Neuroscience
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The two essays I chose for my final portfolio were Maira Kalman’s “Back to the Land” interpretive essay and Josh Neufled “A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge” interpretive essay. I found it quite easy when it came to deciding which two interpretive essays I would have to choose for evaluation because I was able to analyze both the purpose and audience clearly in the two essays. Also‚ with both Kalman and Neufeld’s essays I received positive responses‚ and felt that I could confidently write about both
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Help me please. Introduction It is easy to compare two characters—and do a good job of it—if you remember four points: * The Purposes of Comparison * Why * What * How These four points interrelate‚ but let’s start with the most important: the purposes of comparison. You can compare any two things—an apple and an aardvark‚ or a slug and a skyscraper. It’s easy to compare things like that: a slug is ___ whereas a skyscraper is ___. You could fill in the blanks without
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In our lives we experience different struggles and different problems. Each of us has our own trials in life. There are different types of trials‚ its either easy‚ moderate or hard. But how do we response in these trials? When we encounter the easy and moderate problems‚ we can easily survive it. But when we encounter the hard one‚ we always say we can’t do it. We can’t survive it. When I was a bit younger than today‚I always thought having problems and solving it was
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One day when I was nine‚ my family and I visited an apple orchard in the fall to pick to pick our own apples. About halfway through‚ I became hungry‚ so I decided to take snack on one of the many apples I had in my basket. Although once I bit into it‚ I was horrified to see a worm squiggling and squirming around inside of the apple. I spit out what I had already eaten and threw the apple to the ground as I screamed. Dropping my basket‚ I bolted out of the fields‚ not caring that my family was right
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In Gary Soto’s essay‚ “Looking for Work” he explains his fascination with the “perfect family” as a child. He watches television shows and wants his lower-class Mexican-American family to be a typical middle-class “white” family. In order for his family to achieve this he believes that money and wealth are the answer. Gary then goes around the block to find little jobs he can do. He gets some money and then meets up with his best friend Little John who wants to look for work too. Gary then recalls
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Paul Walker Paul Walker born in California in 1973‚ he made his bigscreen debut in the 1986 horror spoof “Monster in Your Closet.” After appearing in several television shows in the 1990s‚ including Charles in Charge‚ Who’s the Boss? and The Young and the Restless‚ Walker gained attention with a role in the 1999 film Varsity Blues‚ and his TV days were officially behind him. After working in teen movies such as She’s All That and The Skulls. Walker got his breakthrough role
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Rebecca Walker Rebecca Walker is a writer‚ philanthropist‚ feminist‚ and mother. She is the daughter of Alice Walker‚ who was also a famous feminist and writer. Growing up with a mother who was an active radical feminist heavily influenced her ideologies‚ although she states in her autobiography that she disagrees with many of Alice Walker’s more radical views. She has worked as a consultant on cultural diversity and gender roles for businesses like Sony‚ Microsoft‚ and JP Morgan.
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Chapter One: Q1) Ten words to describe Josephine Alibrandi are: Rebellious‚ Emotional‚ Intelligent‚ Mature‚ Embarrassed (by Nonna)‚ Self conscious‚ Sarcastic‚ Opinionated‚ Friendly and Observant. Q2) Josephine lives in a suburb called Glebe Q3) Josephine attends a school named St. Marthas. This school Is not Co-Ed and has nuns as teachers. It is full of rich‚ white kids. Q4) Her biggest problem is being stuck at a school full o rich kids with rich families. Q5) She is ‘illegitimate’ because
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