Book Title: Rumble Fish Author: S.E.Hinton Number of Pages: 135 Genre: Fiction Setting Location: Tulsa‚ Oklahoma Time Period: Mid-1960s Characters Rusty James- Rusty-James is a fourteen-year-old kid who feels he can achieve any thing in life with his fists. He is the number-one tough guy among the junior high kids who hang out and shoot pool at Benny’s‚ and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother‚ the Motorcycle Boy. Rusty-James confesses
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The Arrival‚ by Shaun Tan‚ is a book that I found to be very interesting. I have never read a book without words before‚ so this was a new experience for me. During the times I read it‚ evaluated it‚ took notes on it‚ and read it again‚ I questioned how something so complex could be a part of children’s literature. I began to ask myself what age group would be able to look at this book and understand the story within. Children’s literature is usually seen as simple‚ straight forward‚ and easy to
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The reading‚ “The Poisoned Fish‚” presents a common problem called “Engfish” that many students in high school or college have. In my opinion‚ Engfish is whenever you write down something and it does not provide a comprehensive understanding of what is written. For example‚ if a professor asks a student to write about his or her dream house‚ the student must provide a well elaborate description of how is his or her dream house‚ providing details about size‚ measurement‚ weather‚ etc. I agree with
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The Death of Amy Latour Amy Latour’s body was found dead last night in her bedroom‚ evidence found at the scene suggests that Amy Latour was in fact strangled by her own maid‚ Celeste due to getting tired of taking care of Ms. Amy Latour. First of all‚ the crime scene showed signs that the murderer was in fact her maid. Due to the way the crime scene is set up Ms. Latour seems to be getting ready for an event‚ which means she must’ve been looking in the mirror‚ which also means she could see the
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The main protagonist is Amy Gumm. She is a girl from Kansas and she hates it there. Her mom is never there to take care of her and a girl named Madison always bullies her. Her life was disappointing‚ boring and tough. Amy always managed on her own somehow but she wanted to get away. Far away! One day she was sitting in her trailer like any other day but the suddenly off the ground and floating in mid air. She passed out in the middle but when she woke up‚ she was in the magical land of Oz. She arrived
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Extracting DNA from Human Cheek Cells: Conclusion The hypothesis of my experiment‚ if the strawberry DNA product was strandlike yet clumply then human epithelial cell DNA will be strandlike and clumpy too‚ was supported. This is because through the observations noted when the lab was being conducted‚ it can be seen that the human epithelical cell DNA was small‚ stringy‚ clumpy and squishy‚ just like the strawberry DNA product. Other observations of the human epithelial cell DNA was it was not only
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NAME: NURUL AISYAH NABILAH BINTI ARIFIN MATRIC CARD: 2013606088 CLASS: 1E LECTURE NAME: MISS BIOGRAPHY OF SYED MOKHTAR AL BUKHARY Early life of TAN SRI SYED MOKHTAR SHAH BIN SYED NOR AL-BUKHARY or everyone knows him as Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary was born in 12 December 1951 at Alor Star‚ Kedah Malaysia. He is the third of seven child was born into middle class family. His family hailed from Hadhramaut‚ Yemen. Before his father deciding to live in Kedah‚ his father had to travel as far
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Despite her poor decisions when it came to health‚ relationships and behavior‚ it was Amy Winehouse’s musical originality‚ good listening skills‚ marriage and tragic death what truly made her a larger-than-life singer and songwriter. Some signs of Amy’s talent drift back to 1996 when Amy was 13 years old. She received her first guitar and thought herself how to play (Shelokhonov). Stefan Skarbek‚ a famous songwriter met Amy when she was 14‚ he said “[he] knew she was incredible – [they] didn’t even
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Amy Curry is starting a new life in Connecticut after losing her father in a car accident. Amy has since then developed a fear for driving but is left with no other choice than taking the car all the way from California to Connecticut. The handsome boy next door‚ Roger‚ joins her adventure‚ making the road trip take an unexpected turn. Exploring new states‚ making new friends and getting to know each other. The whole story takes place in Amy’s car while you follow them throughout modern America.
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from in Amy Tan’s "Mother Tongue". Firstly‚ and most importantly‚ Tan wants to convey the message that words are more than just words and sometimes we must read between them to fully understand their meaning. Another message conveyed in this essay is that just because someone is using "broken" English‚ does not mean they do not fully understand what is going on. Finally‚ another important message is that standardized tests only test for standardized thinking. Throughout this essay‚ Tan describes
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