An interesting character in short story "Through the Tunnel" written by Doris Lessing is Jerry. Jerry is an interesting character because he is a determined‚ reckless‚ and maturing boy. The author portrays Jerry this way in "Through the Tunnel" to show a young English boy’s rite of passage from childhood to adolescence. Firstly‚ Jerry is an interesting character as he is a determined boy. Jerry finds the tunnel through the natives and resolves to "find his way through the cave‚ hole or tunnel‚ and
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Two Jobs My neighbor Sue lives in a nice house and has two luxurious cars in the driveway. Her overtime hours at work are being eliminated‚ so the money she is used to making is becoming less. So‚ Sue must decide whether or not to take on a second job to live the way she is accustomed to. There are numerous advantages and disadvantages in working two jobs. Before deciding on working two jobs‚ it would be a good idea to consider these positives and negatives
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Website/sponsoring organization names· Date you found the information· Date the information was published| Bryce W. WestoverJerry Garcia Biographyhttp://www.dead101.com/biojerry.htmAccessed 7/9/13Published 2006| Facts to Use in Your Speech· Dates of birth and death· Story behind losing his middle finger· How Garcia got involved in experimental drugs · Family· Name history|1. Jerome John Garcia born in San Francisco‚ 19422. Jerry loses a finger in a wood chopping accident at age 5.3. Garcia started experimenting
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History is everything but a great man’s biography. It’s what causes great men to rise‚ and sacrifice their lives for others. It’s what causes millions of deaths. In 1933‚ a genocide by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany killed six million Jewish people. This was one of the deadliest genocides in the world. Its horrifying stories are still told today through the books like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ Yellow Star‚ and much more. Similarly‚ Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli is another novel that keeps history
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People in England paid 25-30 times more taxes than the colonists‚ but the colonies were used to taxing and governing themselves. They made noise about being taxed without being represented but they knew for a fact that representation in Parliament was impossible‚ owing to the distance and time of travel. At the time‚ many of the British living in England weren’t exactly represented‚ either; there were plenty of irregularities in the system. But the colonists were extremely well-organized in their
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with: “...her decision was final and no one could talk her out of it.” There she was‚ sitting on the rocks by the shoreline‚ watching the sun sets while grieving of losing someone she loves‚ heartbroken and hopelessly lost. Tears of blood fall from her broken heart‚ she never thought they would be apart. She remembered he held her tightly in his arms‚ telling her that they would be forever together. Now that he’s gone‚ she knew he meant never together. It had been a few months since he
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Ms. Jerry Wyatt is a 21 year old white female with a high school education who completed a measure of career and occupational possibilities based off her interests and previous job experiences (Self-Directed Search).The Self-Directed Search (SDS) was administered to Jerry due to the client’s expressed interest in learning more regarding what careers and jobs she might enjoy. She had been looking for a new job for a few months and this assessment could provide Jerry with more choices to be considered
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Leading into reading the book Milkweed‚ I had mixed emotions. Milkweed‚ not being my first choice‚ and not looking too interesting by the cover‚ turned out to be a very good book. In the book Milkweed‚ by Jerry Spinelli‚ a young boy named Misha‚ looks for his direction in life‚ while searching for his past in the midst of the historical event‚ the Holocaust. You should read this book because‚ the main character Misha‚ is near the same age you are‚ the vocabulary and wording of the book is very easy
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Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Jerome John Garcia was born in 1942‚ in San Francisco’s Mission District. His father‚ a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia‚ had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties‚ and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer‚ Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948‚ while on a fishing trip‚ Garcia saw his father swept to his death by a California river. After his father’s death‚ Garcia spent a few years living with his mother’s
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The worst job I ever had Many of us have to go through different hurdles in our life and one among those is having the worst job. All of us have to work in this world and the jobs that we get may not be the best job that we like. “All things are difficult before they are easy” (Fuller‚ Brainy Quote). The printing job was the worst job that I ever had. I was assigned to print designs on the T-shirts. There were two huge machines that looked like a waffle maker with two hot surface sides
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