Hannah Bunker Mr. La Plante AP® English Language and Composition Fourth Hour 24 January 2017 Extended Response I: Reading with a Critical Eye Books are precious pieces that improve one’s knowledge and help define one’s personality by relating themselves to characters within the text. As Vladimir Nabokov said in Good Readers and Good Writers “The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine.”(Nabokov‚ 973) I always believed that by reading a book you become
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION Course Description Effective Fall 2014 AP Course Descriptions are updated regularly. Please visit AP Central® (apcentral.collegeboard.com) to determine whether a more recent Course Description PDF is available. ENGLISH ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION COMPOSITION Course Description Course Description Effective Fall 2014 Effective Fall 2014 The College Board New York‚ NYare updated regularly. Please visit AP Central AP Course Descriptions ® (apcentral
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Academy for Young Writers SBO Schedule Proposal 2012-2013 School Year SBO: School-Based Option (Article 8B) An SBO is the process whereby the Principal and the UFT Chapter Leader agree to propose to the UFT represented school staff deviations from certain requirements of the various UFT contracts‚ such as staffing‚ class size‚ rotation‚ etc. In order pass a vote‚ the proposal must be approved by fifty-five percent (55%) of the staff who vote and the SBO must specify which provisions of the contract
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Julian Jackson Mrs. Baker AP Language & Composition 7may 2013 Argument Essay (Final Draft) Civil Disobedience is the act of disobeying authority but in a legal and civilized manner. It was introduced by writer Henry David Thoreau in his work named “Civil Disobedience.”This legal and orderly method of rebelling is often used in hope that a change will be made such as an unjust law. Many people often wonder whether Civil Disobedience still holds true in the day and age. Everyday civil disobedience
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Major Works Data Sheet Billy Budd 1. Title: Billy Budd 2. Author: Herman Melville 3. Date of Publication: 1924 (posthumously) 4. Historical Information: As divulged to the reader‚ Billy Budd takes place in 1797 in the midst of the French Revolution. Throughout the mid- 1790s‚ Britain enacted new quota requirements to enlist 45‚000 men in the Royal Navy‚ which was filled by means of volunteers‚ the Quota Acts‚ and most popularly‚ the impressing of men from merchant ships‚ as Melville
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legend of Santa Claus has been told for centuries and is still told to this day. Every year‚ many children make Christmas lists and send them to Santa. If they are good‚ they will get presents‚ but if they are bad‚ they will get a bundle of coal in their stocking. Santa is usually visualized as a happy‚ white-bearded man‚ with a red stocking cap‚ and a red suit with white cuffs and black boots. In other cultures‚ he is referred to as St. Nicholas‚ Sinterklauss‚ and Father Christmas. Santa Claus supposedly
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my mom that I know no santa‚ she will not put the gifts under the christmas tree‚ I thought. I believed in santa for 9 years‚ but when I was 9 years old‚ I knew that there’s no santa. Many 10-12 years old kids figured out that santa is not real. Some of them heard it from their parents‚ their friends‚ or their siblings. Me‚ I figured it out by myself. It was so shocking to me but I kept pretending that I believe in santa. I was afraid if I can’t get any presents from santa nor my parents. There
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speak to. Many would define health as " a person’s absence of disease‚ others would describe good health based on the status of mind‚ body & social well-being" (GCU Lecture‚ module 2‚ 2012). According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language‚ health is defined as "The overall condition of an organism at a given time". An individual’s overall health affects the nation‚ this is where stakeholders come into value. According to Keele‚ Buckner & Bushnell a stakeholder is either
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reaching an epiphany of some sort that reveals the focus of the story. Writers tend to end their story with a happy ending in which the main character experiences a spiritual reassessment or a moral reconciliation. In Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind‚ the main character‚ Scarlett O’Hara‚ undergoes a spiritual reassessment and moral reconciliation. At the start of the novel‚ Scarlett is a high spirited girl concerned mostly about her looks and holding the attention of everyone. She does not
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Definition of Wind Energy “Wind Energy - Energy received from the movement of the wind across the earth. This energy is a result of the heating of our oceans‚ earth‚ and atmosphere by the sun. Turbines convert the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical or electrical energy that can be used for power.” The German physicist Albert Betz calculated in 1919 the possible maximum amount of energy that can be extracted out of wind energy. He came to the result of 59.3% that can be extracted and named this
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