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    “Pillow Polo Unit” Pillow polo is a fast paced game that is played like the game of floor hockey indoors with a soft ended stick.  There may be two or more balls in play at one time making this game very aerobic. Safety Rules The walls‚ bleachers‚ and other hard surfaces around the gym present the possibility for injury in a ‘hockey’ like unit. Because there are no side boundaries in the game (walls are in play) it would be dangerous for two or more students to race to the ball for possession

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    high school graduation. Two very different parenting styles are used in the stories‚ “The Rules of the Game” and “The Daughter of Invention”. In “The Rules of the Game”‚ the mother lives vicariously through her daughter. She is prideful of her child’s accomplishments and rewards her daughter greatly when she succeeds. The mother and daughter learn to understand each other in the end and follow “the rules of the

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    Rules of the Game Pre Reading: A. Read the cartoon and answer the questions. 1. What country do the mother and daughter live in? They live in America. 2. Was the mother born there? How do you know? No‚ she wasn’t born in American. I know because in the cartoon the daughter asks the mother if she means America and the mother says no where we are from original‚ our mother country. 3. Why is the mother angry? The mother is angry because the daughter doesn’t know her and her mother’s origins

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    Victor had to go through during his school years‚ “Hair’’ from the Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley focuses on how it can be hard to accept oneself when society tries to say different‚ and “Two Kinds’’ from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan tells about a distraught relationship between a mother and daughter over piano lessons. Culture Clash is

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    I’m seized from words. It was either you was with me or against me! Betrayal and disrespect is what you faced me with which shows how much you care for me. Doing things within the dark thinking that I wouldn’t find out never was the answer to anything. Using the fact that you were single as an excuse to some hoe shit was never your get a way from situations! You have done me wrong and has taken me forgranted!!! Niggas will only do what you allow‚ I guess my heart was just to free for you huh? This

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    ENGLISH FINAL TERM ASSAY This essay will address the question that whether dreams have benefitted the main characters and those around them‚ or instead have caused them only harm and unhappiness and do dreams give hope to the characters during difficult situations. Some dreams are manipulated by powerful figures to make weaker characters act according to them or perform certain tasks as per their will. The reaction of characters when their dreams do not come true or when they discover that what

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    Question 1 In this case‚ A is trying to sell his 1970 MG for $12‚000. K offers $10‚000 and realizes there is a problem with the vehicle. A tells K that he appreciates the offer but others are coming to see the car as well‚ at this point he also says that he is going to get the problem with the car fixed and he will contact K back. K never agreed to anything here. He gives his offer and it was not accepted at the time by A. “To be valid and therefore legally binding‚ 5 conditions must be met. First

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    Shaun Tan (1974) -Conceptual Framework- Artist Shaun Tan grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth situated in Western Australia. As a young boy he was always known as the “good drawer” at school which‚ in a way‚ made him forget about being the shortest kid in every class. In 1995‚ he graduated from the University of Western Australia with joint honours in English Literature and Fine Arts and is now working full time as a freelance author and artist in Melbourne. Shaun started sketching and

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    nine year old chess prodigies can harness it. One does not have to be as brave a knight or as powerful as a king in order to gain respect‚ but the use of “invisible strength‚” according to Amy Tan’s‚ “Rules of the Game‚” is the power needed to access respect. Waverly‚ the protagonist in “Rules of the Game‚” uses invisible strength to gain respect from others by listening to the teachings of her mother‚ being knowledgeable about the thing that interests her‚ and learning to be gracious in losing

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    Amy Tan‚ author of “Mother Tongue”‚ wrote a novella on the difficulties of her mother speaking and writing English; or more simply put‚ learning the correct rhetoric. Throughout the story‚ she ridicules her mother for her lack of ability to better express her thoughts in the 2nd hardest language on the Earth but seems to do it in the most loving way possible. Well‚ she tried to the best extent she could. Given the context of the situation Amy isn’t a horrible person or hatful towards her mother‚

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