My Pet For the past year my family and I have cared for my Betta‚ Ghost. Ghost is a Veil Tail Betta‚ the most common type of fish in the Betta class. My pet is easily forgotten because he blends into his home so well. This Betta has an attitude like most males and is not afraid to show it. I would like to share details about Ghost’s habitat and unique characteristic. Ghost’s one bedroom abode is a one gallon pentagon tank. Ghost’s home is filled with filtered water set at room temperature.
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Into the Wild Student Version Reading selection for this module: Krakauer‚ Jon‚ Into the Wild. Doubleday: New York‚ 1996. All work to be done in the “Notebook” Activity 1: Getting Ready to Read Into the Wild is a nonfiction‚ full-length text by Jon Krakauer. Published in 1996‚ it is based on an article Krakauer wrote in Outside Magazine about Christopher McCandless‚ a young college graduate who went off to Alaska and died in the woods. Because Krakauer’s article drew a huge amount of mail
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Williams‚ Tasha Pet Peeve An irritating experience caused by others in which one cannot control Speaking for myself I have a very controlling issue that I am still working on until this day‚ so anything that is beyond my control irritates me highly. My advice is never go into any relationship lying about yourself. Always give the other person the option of deciding rather if they want to know you for you. Some people will say they’re pet peeve is hearing others smack while chewing food‚ others
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He had outstanding grades in college and excelled his father’s business to limits it may have never gotten to without his help. He also was very eager to learn. He memorized many books about the wilderness‚ trusting his memory on his life out in the wild. McCandless furthermore graduated a very nice private school at the top of his class. McCandless was also very ignorant in his decisions. He would always decline any type of money‚ food‚ or clothing from people when they offered it to him. It was a
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Into the Wild begins not with the birth of its main character‚ or even with the beginning of the journey that the book will trace‚ but with an important turning point late in Christopher McCandless’s trip through the American West: his final encounter with another human before he enters the Alaskan wilderness. The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey both start similarly‚ employing a technique the ancients called beginning in medias res — "in the middle of things." Though Into the Wild is a nonfiction
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“Pet Peeve” Every day people encounter many weird and disturbing things. For instance‚ I hate when people don’t wash their hands after they use the bathroom or even spiting outside right in front of you. There is one thing that really gets me. It’s when people don’t flush the toilet. Really‚ what’s so difficult about flushing the toilets?! You have already done the hard part!! Just by flushing you can save someone from vomiting or fainting. One time I walked in the restroom and I was confronted
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Pet peeves Some of my pet peeves are smoking‚ people going into my room‚ people saying the phrase “yah know” (when I don’t)‚ when people try to act all cool‚ when people take my sarcasm seriously‚ another is when I pick up a rock and skip it I all- of-a- sudden get a feeling to grap another and maybe the next one that stands out. The smoking part comes from the fact that the bathrooms in this school always smell like crap because of all the stuff that people do in them. It’s almost enough to make
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My pet peeves Everyone has pet peeves. That means they feel uncomfortable and frustrated with the bad manners which other people are showing. Maybe I’m a fastidious person. I hate some manners of others‚ but those might be normal for some people. My list of pet peeves are so long. Three things on the top of the list are public spitting‚ leaving a mess on the bed and asking question during movies. Firstly‚ public spitting is very rude‚ unsanitary and impolite. When I took the train in the Sprinter
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Avoid trans fats for health. Trans fat is an unhealthy substance‚ also known as trans fatty acid‚ made through the chemical process of hydrogenation of oils. Hydrogenation solidifies liquid oils and increases the shelf life and the flavor stability of oils and foods that contain them. Trans fat is found in vegetable shortenings and in some margarines‚ crackers‚ cookies‚ snack foods and other foods. The US FDA in 1999 proposed that the Nutrition Facts labels on vegetable shortenings and some cookies
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The Drive of Chris McCandless “Am I better off dead‚ Am I better off a quitter” (The Script). The meanings behind these lyrics are very powerful and explain Chris’s journey almost perfectly. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris’s takes on a challenge that is potentially fatal and he has the courage to continue on with it. Chris’s journey is a series of risks he is willing to take to achieve his goal. He has to make life threatening decisions that he could have backed out on at any given time
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