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    How does the colour of light affect the growth of a plant and which light is best The problem will be investigated is how does colour of light affect the plant growth and what colour is best in terms of speed of the growth of the plant By using the internet I discovered that the problem that I am trying to solve has been done before by various people. As I read the information given off the web it seems that plants that can only absorb certain types of colour of light for example blue or red

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    Tom should tell the sherif because. If Tom doesn’t tell the sheriff Indian Joe could end up killing him as well as huck. Another reason would be if he tells Tom would not have to worry about another person getting murdered. My Final reason would be if Tom would have told Joe would be a wanted man and would be sent to prison. But on the other hand if Tom wouldn’t have told anyone his chances of getting killed himself would be slim. My first reason would be that if Tom would have told the shefir

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    Two main characters in the novel Great Gatsby are Nick and Gatsby. At the beginning of the novel‚ Nick expresses his care and concerns towards Gatsby. Later on‚ Tom questions Gatsby asking if he really attended Oxford. Nick later expresses sorrow for Gatsby when he sees how he reacts to Daisy telling him she "loved him too” but Nick still feels used knowing he’d be an easy way for Gatsby to get to Daisy. The reason Gatsby wants to fall in love again is so he can “fix the past” though you clearly

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    Project TOMS: A Commodity Fetish Globalization is the international influence‚ change‚ and interaction within or between countries and or nations. This creates an idea of connectedness between the facilitating nation and the nation being influenced. Within this interaction and influence on another nation there becomes this desire to become a “trendsetter” through the use of products and other various commodities throughout the world. One such example can be seen through the United States which is associated

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    Tom Weylin and his wife‚ Margaret‚ both resent Dana because she is an educated black woman with proper dialect. The wife even goes as far as throwing coffee on her and slapping her‚ while the husband sends flirtatious signs her way and even tries to buy her‚ but Dana refuses. Dana tells Kevin of these experiences on the plantation‚ and he tells her she needs to leave‚ but she only agrees to leave when Rufus’s leg has fully healed. Nigel‚ who is a thirteen year old slave on Weylin’s plantation asks

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By: ------------------------- My class just finished a superb book named The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ which was written by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg‚ inspired by Hannibal‚ Missouri‚ where Twain lived. This boy goes through countless adventures through his childhood and into adulthood as we travel along with him

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    1968 by Tom Brokaw “Documentary: 1968” covered all the usual events of that year‚ protests over the Vietnam War‚ the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King‚ the race riots‚ women’s lib‚ black power‚ hippies and drugs. This documentary was a little different in that it was more of a personal take on the events as Tom Brokaw was already working as a reporter at that time and these were his personal recollections. Also‚ he interspersed many interviews with contemporaries of the present

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    This story‚ told by Washington Irving‚ was about a greedy man who made a deal with The Devil for money. The characters are Tom Walker‚ his wife‚ the narrator‚ Old Scratch (the devil incarnate)‚ and Governor Belcher (governor of the colony) are the main characters. Washington Irving used this story to reflect how selfish and greedy people were in New England in the 1720’s. The people were willing to do anything just to be rich. The story didn’t necessarily shape the time period he lived in; the story

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    ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American‚ allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved” by the Oxford English Dictionary. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Fitzgerald uses a green light to create symbolism and foreshadow the theme of the novel: the American dream. The green light is located directly across Gatsby’s dock and originates from the home of Daisy Buchanan. The scene in which Nick Carraway first encounters Gatsby‚ where Gatsby is standing

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald said of The Great Gatsby that it ‘contains no important woman character’. How are women presented in The Great Gatsby‚ and how can this be compared with the presentation of women in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men? Initially‚ it appears that the women characters are seen as inferior and are significant only in the relationship to male characters. A distorted view could be shown as both texts are written by male narrators. F.Kerr said that Fitzgerald felt “women are

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