In the story ‘’Marble Champ’’ by Gary Soto‚ lupe is someone that wants to be good at something other than school.But as I read I learned that lupe is someone that people would admire. This is because she’s smart‚hardworking‚and a good sport. The first reason lupe is someone to admire is because she’s smart. Shes smart by being a straight A student and by getting A’s means she studied hard and did all of her homework and stayed on top of her work. Another reason why lupe is smart is because she
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Between A.D. 90 and A.D. 118‚ the Councils of Jamnia affirmed all thirty-nine books of the Old Testament Canon. By the end of the second century‚ around A.D. 250‚ there was little opposition to the Canon Hebrew Scriptures. Although many Hebrew scholars considered the Apocrypha as accurate historical records‚ most all agreed it was not equivalent to Hebrew scriptures. However‚ what was to be included as Canonical books inspired by the Words of God in The New Testament would become very controversial
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Grade Nine Problems 1) Elizabeth visits her friend Andrew and then returns home by the same route. She always walks 2km/h when going uphill‚ 6km/h when going downhill and 3km/h when on level ground. If her total walking time is 6 hours‚ then what is the total distance she walks in km? Need A Hint? Answer 2) Joyce was decorating her store window for a going out of business sale. She wanted to make a figure that looks like the following. The shaded piece is made of a different material.
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Gary Heidnik also known as the “House of Horrors‚” was an American criminal who kidnapped women and kept them prisoner in his Pennsylvania basement. Heidnik dropped out of school in the ninth grade to go into the military. Heidnik served as a paramedic in the Army for 14 months before he was honorably discharged with a medical disability he received a diagnosis of schizoid personality disorder. His mother committed suicide soon after his discharge. She was a drunk who beat Heidnik as a young child
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In the book‚ Lizzie and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt‚ Willis and Turner don’t get along very well‚ but as Mrs. Elia Hurd gets moved into the house for the feeble minded‚ they find a friendship. Willis and Turner start to connect because they both like Mrs. Hurd‚ they both like Baseball and they both want to be special and set aside from the normal. Baseball was very popular back then and it was a way to show who how cool you are‚ When Turner moved to Phippsburg‚ he didn’t make quite an
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Justice Gary Gilmore’s letter to Nicole: The extract from Norman Mailers documentary novel‚ “The Executioners song” is about a letter that Gary Gilmore wrote to his girlfriend Nicole. He wrote the letter when he was in jail‚ for killing two persons. He wrote the letter after he had spent 22 years of his life in prison. The letter is from August the third‚ 1979. The letter starts with Gary telling about Nicole and her love and how he was not prepared for the kind of honest open love she gave
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Planet Nine‚ the new planet that has been discovered inside of our solar system. Planet Nine is a planet that astronomers‚Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown‚ have found with research and evidence. Because they used research and evidence Planet Nine hasn’t been seen but astronomers believe that they have enough evidence to prove that it is in our solar system. The evidence to prove that it is in our solar system is that scientists have recently noticed a change in orbits of space objects near by‚and
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Gary Larson is the creator of the enormously popular cartoon The Far Side. The cartoons unique style and creative style has helped it to become one of the most recognizable and popular cartoons of all time. Gary Larson was born August 14th 1950 in University Place‚ Washington (near Tacoma‚ WA) to Verne and Doris Larson. As a child he enjoyed drawing and biology as well as playing the guitar. He graduated from Curtis Senior High School and then attended Washington State University where he earned
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Little Rock Nine decide they would step up and stand for what is right‚ desegregating schools. Second‚ in 1954‚ the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown that segregated schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution‚ which guarantees “equal protection of the laws.” African Americans and many others
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America would be much different if the Bill of Rights was not in the Constitution to protect the rights of the citizens. Amendment nine gives a lot of rights to the citizens in the Bill of Rights. The ninth amendment protects the rights of the citizens that are not listed in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights. The ninth amendment in the Bill of Rights says‚ "The enumeration in the Constitution‚ of certain rights‚ shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
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