Homemade Flour Tortillas 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 tsp salt 2/3 cup warm water 1. In a medium sized bowl‚ stir together flour and salt. Add oil and warm water‚ stirring to combine. Dump dough onto a lightly floured surface‚ and knead for about 3 minutes‚ until dough is smooth. Divide dough into 10 equal pieces‚ rolling each piece into a ball. Allow to rest‚ covered with plastic wrap‚ for at least 30 minutes. 2. Once dough has rested‚ preheat cast iron skillet over medium-high
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The country that I picked was Cuba. Cuba has a similar education system like the United States of America. Just like the United States there is 3 levels of school there is primary education middle education and secondary education. Then of course you have your universities and trade school for careers. Cuban education was nationalized in 1959 at a time when less than half the children had access to education. Today the island has the highest literacy rate in the world‚ although schooling does come
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& Logos in “The Letter from Birmingham Jail” Some varieties of inspiration come as passionate love while others appeal as injustice as did Martin Luther King in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King Jr. effectively crafted his counter argument by first directly addressing his audience‚ the clergymen‚ and then using logos‚ pathos‚ and ethos to refute his opponent’s statements and present his own perspective. After stating the general purpose of his letter‚ Martin Luther King
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Letters of an Ex-Slave Freedom is a very loose term which is interpreted differently by people of diverse heritage and culture. In the 1800’s and earlier it was believed by some that it was their "freedom" to be able to buy and sell fellow mankind on an open market‚ to be used as property for the betterment of the slaveholder’s own fortune. In this essay I will look at a letter from Frederick Douglass‚ an ex-slave‚ to Thomas Auld‚ his former master. The correspondence was in the form of an open
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Tanya Owens January 18‚ 2015 AP Language 3rd Period From Education Questions 1. What does Emerson mean when he says‚ “Nature loves analogies‚ but not repetition‚”? Analogies is a connection between two contents. The natural learning process loves when you can connect two pieces together opposed to keep going over the same things just to make it stick 2. Why is the relationship between “Genius and Drill”‚ as Emerson explains it‚ paradoxical? Emerson believes the
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Our class recently completed the reading of the book‚ The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963‚ as well as watched the movie by the same title. While both forms of media were entertaining‚ they each had their own perspective on the telling of the story. There were many similarities and differences in the ways the story was told. There were several similarities between the book and the movie. One way they were alike was Joetta thinks that the angel does not look like her because the angel is white and
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Ballad of Birmingham By: Dudley Randall For many years‚ this country has been unjust and humanity has not always been treated equally. Dudley Randall‚ who is most famous for his literary contributions‚ wrote a poem called "Ballad of Birmingham" representing the inequality and racism during the early 1960’s (Encyclopedia.com). The main themes of the poem are racism and the struggle of African Americans around the time of the civil rights movement in 1964 (Encyclopedia.com). Randall’s poem focuses
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Passage A of Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter to Birmingham is composed of specific stylistic strategies that effectively convey his central idea that the black community’s protests against segregation are justified as it has suffered from widespread societal restraint for centuries throughout history. King’s argument in this passage is facilitated by means of a syntactical structure composed of a long list of the abundant struggles that have faced blacks as well as an appeal to the legal and moral
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Dudley Randall’s poem “Ballad of Birmingham” refers to the bombing of a church in Birmingham‚ Alabama in nineteen sixty-three. His poem illustrates what it was like during the sixties; all the turmoil and destruction there was. Randall takes a real life‚ devastating situation that occurred on the day of this terrible explosion‚ and turns it into a beautifully written poem that expresses just how awful it was during the Civil Rights Movement. He describes a circumstance in which a little girl asks
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Letters from a Peruvian Woman Enlightenment can have various meanings but in the book Letters from a Peruvian Woman by Francoise De Gaffigny the definition of Enlightenment would be the attainment of spiritual knowledge or insight‚ which gives an individual a new perspective of another world/culture. In the book the main character Zilia is abducted from her Peruvian Empire where she has grown custom to their culture and lifestyle and taken to eighteenth century Europe. On her journey to Europe
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