Carlos Juan Finlay was born in current day Camagüey‚ Cuba to Edward Finlay and Eliza de Barrés on December 3‚ 1833.6 His father was a physician who had specialized in ophthalmology and fought along with Simon Bolivar. Although Finlay’s father was from Scotland and his mother was from France‚ they tried to embrace the Cuban culture and changed their names two years after arriving to Cuba. When he was 13 years old‚ Finlay was sent to France in order to start the first stage of formal education. He
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Character Sketch of Katniss Everdeen Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist and narrator of the novel The Hunger Games by Suzane Collins. All the events that happen in the novel have an influence on her. Katniss is 16 years old with straight long black hair usually worn in a braid. She has gray eyes‚ and olive skin. These traits are common in the Seam in the lower class miners of District 12. To begin with‚ when she’s in the woods‚ she wears everyday clothes and always carries a bow and arrows to
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confronted her many times about it. Father Flynn also wanted to uphold the rules‚ but also make the school more of a fun and welcoming place‚ without as many of the strict rules that were being enforced by Sister Aloysius. In the beginning of the movie‚ Sister Aloysius cared deeply about each student‚ but also wanted to keep tradition and sophistication
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Chinese ancestry believe in. This is pretty much saying in order to appreciate the good things in life you have to suffer some bad things. In my class Global Connections I read the book “To Live” By Yu Hua. In this book there is many parts where they are eating bitter. In the beginning the main character and his family are rich‚ they have a lot of money and don’t have to worry about food. Eventually he gambles everything they own away. Now that they have nothing they live out in the country in a little
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Even in his most upset moments‚Mr.Woodward is an unfailing attractive character in the novel “Finnie Walsh”‚written by Steven Galloway. Mr.Woodward first impressed me when he met Finnie after that unfortunate accident for the first time. He starts the conversation with ”Why aren’t you boys playing hockey today?” instead of blaming them or cutting down their arms.That is not easy for him to forgive.But he still made it.Maybe because Finnie’s sparkling and teasing wit bring Mrs.Woodward disapproval
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Grammatical Sketch of Botolan Sambal by Evan Antworth Grammar Sketch Analysis Botolan Sambal is an indigenous language of the Philippines spoken by 30 000 people in Botolan‚ Zambales. I learned that phonemes are significant phones (makabuluhang tunog). It can be defined by searching for minimal pairs. The consonant phonemes given in the book There are no affricates and dental phonemes. No minimal pair was given in the grammar sketch so I tried to find some. /bá.naʔ/
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decision? What would have happened if production had not been moved? 2. Assuming that the description of working conditions given in The New York Times is correct‚ it is ethical for the Ohio Art Company to continue using Kin Ki to manufacture Etch-A-Sketch toys. 3. Is it possible‚ as Mr.Killgallon claims‚ that the Ohio Art Company had no knowledge of labor problems at Kin Ki? Do you think company executives had any knowledge of
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Three-Paragraph Character Sketch Harriet Tubman is an old‚ African American‚ runaway slave. This was a woman that was very brave and fought for her rights/freedom. She just didn’t want freedom for herself; she wanted it for all African Americans. I would also have to say that she was a very smart woman. I say that because she carried a gun around with her‚ so if any of the other runaways wanted to go back she would threaten them with the gun because she knew that the masters would end up finding
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Greeks Brad Pitt as Achilles - Son of Peleus and Thetis. Leader of the Myrmidons. Diane Kruger as Helen - Queen of Sparta and wife of Menelaus. Lover of Paris. Brian Cox as Agamemnon - King of Mycenae. Brother of Menelaus. Sean Bean as Odysseus - King of Ithaca and friend of Achilles. Considered the most clever of the Greeks. Brendan Gleeson as Menelaus - King of Sparta and husband of Helen. Brother of Agamemnon. Tyler Mane as Ajax - King of Salamis. Second to Achilles among the
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A Character Sketch of Rudolph Steiner (The Green Door by O’Henry) Rudolph Steiner is the main character of the story “The Green Door” by O’Henry. Rudolph Steiner belongs to the middle class of American society of the beginning of the 20th century. He is a piano salesman‚ a commonplace citizen on the one hand‚ but on the other hand he is (as the author characterizes him) “a true adventurer; few were the evenings on which he didn’t go forth from his hall bedchamber in search of the unexpected”
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