college life I thought I could’ve done better. During my college life‚ I was not a full-time student. I was half working to support myself and my sister financially. I would’ve totally do that as my do-over in life if I had the choice. Although there are some pros and cons in these two choices‚ if I have the choice for a do-over‚ I would still pick the choice of being a full-time student. As a half working student‚ I missed out many aspects of college life. My major was Biochemistry and my minor was
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After reading Allison Baker’s " Better Be Ready Bout Half Past Eight" it made me realize that discovering one’s self is a situation our world is going through right now. In her short story one of Allison Baker’s main characters‚ Zach tells his best friend of thirty-eight years that he is going to have a sex change. Zach tells Byron that he feels trapped in the wrong body and that he is going to become a woman. Byron is shocked about what he is hearing and can’t seem to deal with the news. He’s
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What Would Happen If Half Of The Canadians Died? By Steffi Bael Have you ever wondered what would happen if half of the Canadians died? Well in the next few paragraphs I will be explaining what would happen. Hypothetically speaking‚ if half of the population in whole Canada vanished‚ definitely a severe suffering of economy would happen. We are all independent on our resources for living‚ natural and especially the human
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Cell Similes (Part two) Mitochondria: The solar panels in Camp Half-Blood take energy from the sun and transform it into electrical energy that the camp can use to power it’s facilities‚ just as the mitochondria uses the nutrients in the cell from the food we eat and transforms them into ATP‚ the chemical energy used in cells. Ribosomes: The campers do the “work” of the camp by creating the swords in the forge‚ and are often found all around the camp grounds‚ in the forge‚ and fixing the solar
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small places without any ventilation‚ light‚ plumbing or a place where their children can play even sometimes exposed to get robbed‚ having a high risk of diseases and without fire escapes. In this photo taken by Jacob Riis for his book "How the other half lives" we can see how people that pay a cent to spend the night (the ones that can afford it because many of those people don’t have the money to pay it) in those bedrooms with unsanitary conditions without any space to put
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‘Unrelated Incidents’ and one other poem. The language employed in poems ‘Unrelated Incidents’ and ‘Half-Caste’ effectively portrays the discrimination both poets receive. The writers’ use of language shows how they feel and how they deal with the discrimination. Both poems show positive diction. ‘Unrelated Incident ‘ is written as third person‚ making it feel we are being directly spoken to and half-caste is written in first person so the reader can empathise with the characters feelings. ‘Unrelated
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HALF-CASTE and PARADE’S END M-meaning Half-Caste is a poem written by John Agard‚ and is a protest about the way he is treated because of his mixed parentage. He believes that humour is an effective way of challenging people’s opinions. He mocks the idea of mixed race people being ‘incomplete’; he is baffled and amused at the idea of being a half a person; he is angry that people are prejudiced and narrow-minded. He speaks with his native accent in English and this along with his anger makes his
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Abstract: Finding the half-life of Aluminum-28 is the purpose of this lab. The class met at the Radiation Center and exposed small amounts of aluminum to energetic neutrons and watched the samples decay. After creating a table with background count and gross counts of the aluminum remaining at fifteen different one-minute intervals‚ this allowed the net counts per minute at each interval to be found as well. Next a graph of the net cpm verses time was plotted. After each interval was plotted
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Narrative Strategies and Chronotope of Violence in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun By Ayodabo J. Sunday Department of English‚ Elizade University‚ Ilara-Mokin‚ Ondo State‚ Nigeria Introduction As an event in a specific time and history‚ the exploration of the Nigerian civil war as a theme in fiction returns us to the focus on memory and its connection to narrative forms. The war happened in 1967-1970 when the South Eastern states‚ led by Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
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despite there being many varieties. Looking for Alaska by John Green and Half my Facebook Friends are Ferrets by J. A. Buckle both have excellent examples of the theme of friendship with the main characters‚ Miles “Pudge” Halter in Looking for Alaska‚ and Joshua “Josh” Walker in Half my Facebook Friends are Ferrets. Through comparing and contrasting‚ the differences and similarities between the two events will be examined. In Half my Facebook Friends are Ferrets‚ the major event in which the theme
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