The Treasure of Lemon Brown Your family is the greatest treasure. In the short story‚ The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers‚ a boy named Greg wants to play basketball‚ but his father says no and gives him a lecture about how he needs to improve his grades to play. Greg goes on a walk and meets an old jazz musician named Lemon Brown. Lemon Brown says that his family is his treasure and everyone should know that that’s their treasure too. This short story shows that family is worth more
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Hawthorne’s ambiguous ending in "Young Goodman Brown" leaves the reader asking one question. "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch hunting?" Most readers of this allegory try to answer this question‚ believing that Goodman Brown did in fact take the "dreary road‚ darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest." Hawthorne himself has avoided answering the question‚ and has instead left it up for the reader to decide Goodman Brown’s fate. The
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“My Faith is gone!” cried he (1038). This is Goodman Brown‚ a young man who is into Puritanism and catechism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story Young Goodman Brown. The character became skeptical about his religious belief when he listened to the voice of his wife Faith in the woods. When he came back from the woods‚ he shrank from Faith as well as people living in Salem village. Being reclusive from people‚ he died in the end‚ with no hopeful verse carved on his tombstone. As Hawthorne shows in
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On August 9‚ 2014 Michael Brown‚ an unarmed African American teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson‚ Missouri. This event led to protests that lasted for weeks to fight for Michael Brown’s rights along with African American rights. The police officer‚ Darren Wilson‚ who shot and killed Brown was declared not indicted by a judge which caused even more anger in Ferguson. Many people showed their anger by setting several buildings and businesses on fire. I believe that different
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Brown-throated sloths are astounding creatures even though they sleep for most of the day which is fifteen to twenty hours. They have a lot more features that makes them unique from other animals like the way their mouth is shaped. The Brown-throated sloths’ mouth appears as if the sloth is always smiling. In addition‚ the sloth is credited as being the world’s slowest animal and it is so dormant that algae grows on its body. Even though the mammal is so slow it still has the exclusive property of
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The historical perspective of Goodman Brown The story Young Goodman Brown was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835.The story itself is about a man named Young Goodman Brown who leaves home to go to the forest for some unknown and and ulatemly unimportant errand. While in the forest he meets a man who both dressed and looks oddly similar to him the man also carries a snake like staff. As they walk together they run into Goody Cloyse she is an older woman who Goodman as know since he was a child
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sti------------------------------------------------- Top of Form According to the depreciation rates used by the company and described in the Production Cost Report‚ if a company adds 50 new workstations at a cost of $250‚000 each and also spends $5 million for an addition to its assembly plant to accommodate the new workstations‚ then its annual depreciation costs will rise by | | | $1‚750‚000 | | | $700‚000 | | | $350‚000 | | | $17‚500‚000 | | | None of these-------------------------------------------------
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1. Brown Dwarfs A brown dwarf is a celestial body that has never quite become a star. A typical brown dwarf has a mass that is 8 percent or less than that of the Sun. The mass of a brown dwarf is too small to generate the internal temperatures capable of igniting the nuclear burning of hydrogen to release energy and light. A brown dwarf contracts at a steady rate‚ and after it has contracted as much as possible‚ a process that takes about 1 million years‚ it begins to cool off. Its emission of
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November 20‚ 2013 Juvenile crimes are the various offenses that children under the age of eight-teen commit. The acts involved in these crimes are called juvenile delinquency. The issue of juvenile delinquency has been a rising issue in the American society for decades. As we take a look into the factors behind this problem we will also look into what changes have been made to the juvenile justice system to combat this. Factors behind juvenile delinquency is said to be mental illness and
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"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."i These were the words uttered by the Supreme Court on may 17‚ 1954 in the ruling of the Brown vs. Board of Education Case that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of fifty-eight years earlier which stated that separate but equal was not unconstitutional. Brown is viewed perhaps as the most significant case on race in America’s history.i It seemed to call for a new era in which Black children and White children would have equal opportunities
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