Prompt 1: Create your own open-ended response. Respond to any aspect you want to‚ but stay focused on a particular topic and consider the components of the response rubric. When initially assigned to read Evicted by Sociologist‚ Dr. Matthew Desmond‚ I was not sure what to expect. The idea of a privileged white male sharing the experiences of marginalized communities did not excite me. Now that I have completed the book‚ I can honestly say that I am glad I had the opportunity to read it. Desmond
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‘‘Religion and Rocketry’’ was more effective than Out of the Silent Planet for C.S. Lewis to express his thoughts about life on other planets and how they relate to us. There are many ways to express a thought or opinion. An author can choose to communicate his opinion through a non-fictional source‚ like C.S. Lewis did in ‘‘Religion and Rocketry’’‚ or through a fictional source. C.S. Lewis communicated the same idea he did in ‘‘Religion and Rocketry’’ through a completely fictional story called
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not care at all what the teacher was saying compared to the entranced girl. Line four uses the simile “wandered lonely as clouds borne” to show how the teacher and the girl both were in their own worlds while reading to prom. Line five days “ off Mount Parnassus” to show how far away the girl and teacher were while reading the poem together. Line six used the theme of darkness to convey his deep love and pull toward the poem and how is interest set her apart from
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for its prey‚ sometimes catching fish in midair. At the end of the day you can relax in a rustic yet sumptuous lodge on the shore of a sapphire lake and recount the day’s enchantments. In 1912 a volcano here erupted with a force ten times that of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Suddenly news of Katmai‚ a place hardly anyone had heard of‚ was on front pages around the world. Ash filled the air‚ global temperatures cooled‚ acid rain burned clothing off lines in Vancouver‚ British Columbia‚ and on Kodiak
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3. Depreciation percentage=$1‚640‚200/$15‚411‚620 = 10.64% New Fixed Assets=$15‚411‚620 + $30‚000‚000 = $45‚411‚620 $45‚411‚620*.1064 = $4‚831‚796 new depreciation Pro forma Income Statement Sales ($36‚599‚300*1.12) $40‚991‚216 Cost of Goods Sold ($26‚669‚496*1.12) 29‚869‚836 Other Expenses ($4‚641‚000*1.12) 5‚197‚920 Depreciation 4‚831‚796 EBIT 1‚091‚664 Interest 573‚200 Taxable Income 518‚464 Taxes
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Gospel: Matthew 3: 13-17 Homily: The gospel today was just like the gospel last Sunday. But today we celebrate the baptism of Jesus Christ. We celebrate Happy Three Kings‚ but now we celebrate it as epiphany meaning knowing Jesus. In the gospel today John doesn’t want to baptize Jesus. But why? Our priest told us that John doesn’t want to baptize Jesus because Jesus doesn’t have sins‚ and he told us also Jesus wants to be baptized because he took our sins. Jesus wants us to be saved from our sins
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The 1950’s-60’s70’s-80’s Miranda Moultrie Nixon Back Again The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election‚ held on Tuesday‚ November 5‚ 1968. Moon Shot On July 21‚ 1969‚ President Nixon spoke from the Oval Office to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin at the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon‚ Americans Neil Armstrong and Woodstock A village in New York state
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According to John Berger’s Ways of Seeing‚ “The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.” (Berger‚ 8) An object or a symbol from one period of time could mean another in a time today. Swimming at Oiso‚ Distant View of Mount Fuji by Utagawa Kokunimasa is a triptych made during the Meiji period (1868-1962) typically utilized as an altarpiece during the Meiji period in Japan. On the surface‚ this painting represents the transformation of the kimono throughout history. From early
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WAR HORSE: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2. Steven Spielberg is known for telling unashamedly emotional stories. What techniques does he use in this film to engage the audience’s feelings? What helps to separate something that is ‘sentimental’ from something that is genuinely moving? Steven Spielberg uses techniques such as suspense to engage the audience’s feelings. He first shows us how love has for his horse Joey‚ then how upset he was when he had to let him go. Spielberg engaged the audience because
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Analysis In Stefan Collini’s opinion‚ "Dover Beach" is a difficult poem to analyze‚ and some of its passages and metaphors have become so well known that they are hard to see with "fresh eyes".[3] Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which auditory imagery plays a significant role ("Listen! you hear the grating roar").[4] The beach‚ however‚ is bare‚ with only a hint of humanity in a light that "gleams and is gone".[5] Reflecting the traditional notion
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