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    Summarize-Within this chapter‚ the author‚ Kurt Vonnegut‚ introduces the novel by assuring readers that everything in this book is pretty much true‚ especially the parts about the war. He begins his explanation of his experiences beginning with him and his wartime friend‚ Bernard V. O’Hare‚ returning to Dresden in 1967 with funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. While being driven in a taxi to the slaughterhouse where Kurt and Bernard had been locked up as prisoners of war‚ the two men became friends

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    people he affected and he encountered‚ especially Francis’ own mother‚ Pica. The author emphasizes greatly that she suffered great abuse from her husband for helping Francis. The author’s writing style is compelling and factual. The chapters in the book were relatively short‚ but each showed a different aspect of Francis’ life. The author used sophisticated words in a better context‚ and infrequently‚ and relevant to the situation and aspect in the

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    CHAPTER 1 Theme: The first discoverers of America‚ the ancestors of the American Indians‚ were small bands of hunters who crossed a temporary land bridge from Siberia and spread across both North and South America. They evolved a great variety of cultures‚ which ranged from the sophisticated urban civilizations in Mexico and Central and South America to the largely semi nomadic societies of North America. Applying evidence- * Paleo Indians-utilized land bridge as a important hunting tool(nomadic)

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    Chapter 7 pgs.182-194 The Rise of Cultural Nationalism Patterns of Education • Republican vision included enlightened citizenry‚ wanted nationwide system of free public schools to create educated electorate required by republic • By 1815 no state had a comprehensive public school system‚ schooling primary by private institutions open only to those who could pay o Most were aristocratic in outlook‚ trained students to become elite. Few schools for poor • Idea of “republican mother” to train

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    divided into three sections‚ one for each author to enlighten us with what they know and have dedicated years of their lives prior to learning. The book starts off the first section Stars‚ Planets and Life with Neil deGrasse Tyson including some chapters by Strauss. With his ability to make difficult concepts accessible‚ his oratory skills and his sense of humor makes this section of the book both funny and informative. From measuring the circumference of the Earth and the distance of the Earth to

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    the Greek tradition of geometry‚ and they felt uncomfortable with concepts to which they could not give a geometric meaning. This is why‚ two century’s after Bombelli’s Algebra‚ we find Euler writing in his Algebra of 1770" In the beginning of chapter two‚ my favorite part‚ Nahin talks about the "constructions dealing with the square roots of positive lengths". He talks about the impossibility of doing a geometric construction. He says that i was invited to make solving problems easier and more

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    In the story‚ A Rose for Emily‚ the author‚ William Faulkner‚ describes Emily’s house and Emily so that a very vivid image is engraved in your mind. The house appears to be run down‚ unclean‚ and mysteriously uninviting. This description is in direct relation to Emily. The exterior of the house is described as run down. In the narrator’s words the house is described as a “decaying mansion that no outsider has entered in the decade before her death”. The word decaying is directly related to the

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    This video was very informative as well as interesting to watch! One thing I found interesting is how when they are testing baboons and found that dominant baboons did not experience stress such as‚ high levels of blood pressure as much as the baboons that were below the dominant baboons whom experience high levels of stress. Another interesting fact about the video is how they are talking and showing proven research on how stress can negatively affect you’re health such as; causing ulcers in the

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    Every cheerleader gets fired up when someone tries to argue with them‚ whether or not cheerleading is actually a sport. It could be a cocky football player in one of their classes‚ a teacher that talks down about cheerleading‚ or just a friend that wants them involved in something more “athletic.” When in all reality‚ cheerleading requires just as much effort as any other sport. Varsity.com states that there isn’t an actual definition of a sport‚ but there are many qualifications required to be considered

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    Encountering God Chapter One: In the first chapter of “Encountering God” the author Diana Eck starts by explaining that the book is her experiences in encountering different religions. “All of us have rivers deep within us‚ bearing the waters of joining streams.” I loved this starting quote it feels like she is open to any view. She knows that different beliefs are a good thing‚ and that we all have to experience different people because we need to be mixed together for us to grow and form our own

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