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    Holes By Louis Sachar

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    Stanley Yelnats‚ the main character of Louis Sachar’s ‘Holes’ was fat‚ friendless and frightened at the beginning of the novel‚ but by the end he has changed dramatically. The plot of the novel revolves around Stanley being sent to Camp Green Lake‚ the setting of the story‚ for a crime that he didn’t commit. Here‚ Stanley learns the true value of friendship‚ kindness and the role of fate in his life. Stanley finds himself in some hairy situations‚ but with the help of his good mate Zero‚ he works

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    Louis Tiels Trial

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    Louis Riel Trial 1. Riels defense lawyer wanted to make Riel seem and look insane so his punishment wouldn’t be as harsh. If he was able to convince them that Riel can’t hold responsibility for his actions because he was not himself and he didn’t do it because he chose too‚ then they wouldn’t sentence him to death‚ but rather to an insane asylum or such. 2. Riels prosecutor was trying to convince the jury that riel led the rebellion sound mindedly. 3. Witness

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    Holes By Louis Sachar

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    Have you ever been to camp? ““Rex! Alan! I want you to come say hello to Stanley. He’s the newest member of our team.”” (Sachar‚ 17). In the story‚ Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley is caught with stolen shoes. He’s sent to a camp‚ Camp Green Lake in fact. He dug holes there‚ in order to “straighten him out”. The theme of Holes is perseverance because he sows rebellion‚ displays overcoming failure‚ and also‚ represents the idea of survival. In the story‚ the counselor‚ Mr Pendanski was asking Zero

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    Louis Riel: Biography

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    Louis Riel was born in the Red River Settlement in 1844. He was a promising student. He was sent to Montreal to train for the priesthood when he was 13. Because of his father’s premature death in 1864‚ Riel lost interest in the priesthood and he withdrew from the college. An attempt at training as a lawyer ended similarly‚ and by 1868 Riel was back in the Red River area. Ambitious‚ well educated and bilingual‚ Riel quickly emerged as a leader among the Metis of the Red River. In 1869-1870 he

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    I have to say that this is one good movie‚ its pretty different from your average WWII movie. Its not as propaganda based as your American war movies like saving private Ryan or pearl harbour. In this movie we get to see the war effort from the Russian communist point of view. Its like a hide and seek thriller that uses the battle of Stalingrad as a disguise for the battle of courage and determination that we see going on‚ on the big screen. A lot of historians say that the battle of Stalingrad was

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    East St. Louis

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    Almost anyone who visits in the schools of East St. Louis‚ even for a short time‚ comes away profoundly shaken. These are innocent children‚ after all. They have done nothing wrong. They have committed no crime. They are too young to have offended us in any way at all. One searches for some way to understand why a society as rich and‚ frequently‚ as generous as ours would leave these children in their penury and squalor for so long-and with so little public indignation. Is this just a strange mistake

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    Spartans could not do when it came to war. From the time that Spartan men were born‚ they were evaluated for their future services to the Spartan society. Each baby was sent to have the ten‚ ten‚ one test done on them as explained in the novel‚ The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. This test was to check and make sure that there were no deformities. If there were the children were killed because they could not help the military‚ therefore had no purpose in their society as a whole. Sparta was a militarist

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    Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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    Joseph-Louis Lagrange is usually considered to be a French mathematician‚ but the Italian Encyclopaedia [40] refers to him as an Italian mathematician. They certainly have some justification in this claim since Lagrange was born in Turin and baptised in the name of Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia. Lagrange’s father was Giuseppe Francesco Lodovico Lagrangia who was Treasurer of the Office of Public Works and Fortifications in Turin‚ while his mother Teresa Grosso was the only daughter of a medical doctor

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    The Giver by Louis Lowry

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    The Giver by Louis Lowry Chapter 1-2 1. What did the word "frightened" mean‚ according to Jonas? The word "frightened" meaning according to Jonas was a "deep‚ sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen." 2. About what were Jonas and the other children taught to be careful? Jonas and the other children were taught to be careful about language. 3. How did Jonas decide he felt? What was causing this feeling? Jonas felt apprehensive. The Ceremony of Twelve was causing

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    Profile Pirates of Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze   2nd April 2013 Entrepreneurial Profile Pirates of Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze   2nd April 2013 Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ‚1955 to his parents Mary Gates‚ who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II‚ who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed signs of intelligence

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