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    Fleur is unpopular on the reservation‚ and some gather to throw her out. In the summer of 1920‚ she leaves on her own accord for the town of Argus. Noticing a steeple‚ she walks straight to the church and asks the priest for work. He sends her to a butcher shop where Fleur works with the owner’s wife Fritzie‚ hauling packages of meat to a locker. Fleur gives the men a new topic of conversation‚ particularly when she begins playing cards with them. Pulling up a chair without being invited‚ she asks

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    Pearl Harbor is located. It talks about how peaceful and quite the place is and how many Japanese people reside their as well as Hawaiians. It also shows how it is a particularly calm place to live and doesn’t ever seem to mention that much going on. Summary: The book begins by explaining the arrival of the Taiyo Maru‚ which is a Japanese ship into the Honolulu harbor on the 1st of November 1941.Coincidently‚ the warm welcome that is normally given to a passenger ship whenever it is docked was not there

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    CHAPTER 5 SUMMARY PAGE

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    Summary Page for: CHAPTER 5 ART OF ANCIENT GREECE  Context: Cultural Belief System (religion) / History / Social / Political / Economic / Geographical Greek art influenced Western civilization to present / city states=democracy first evolved-also abstract reasoning‚ inquiry‚ philosophy‚ drama‚ poetry‚ & history / rugged mountainous terrain / Greeks felt themselves superior & called all other people "barbarians"/ After Persian army was repulsed Athenians established a democratic government headed

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    Marjane Chapter 1 Summary

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    Marjane thinks that since people are in different social classes‚ they can’t agree on what will make their people happy. For example‚ Marjane encounters differences in social classes in her own home. She has a maid named Mehri who cannot live with her family because her parents cannot afford to take care of her. Mehri falls in love with a man of a higher social class and is quickly broken up with him because it is believed you can only have a

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    Chapter 1- Michael J. Roscoe‚ a multimillionaire from New York‚ is assassinated by a guy who goes by the name Sam Green. Chapter 2- Alex Rider follows two suspected drug dealers to a barge on the River Thames. Chapter 3- Alex hops into a crane near the barge and lifts the barge out of the water with the crane; the barge collides into a nearby conference center when it’s in the air. Chapter 4- Alex is taken to jail‚ but MI6 bails him out; therefore‚ he has to accept the proposal they give him

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    Innocent III Chapter Summary

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    Longman Publishing. Summary Jane Sayers takes a large portion of her writing to paint a picture of what was going on with the world of the Holy Roman Empire up to Pope Innocent. She explains the papacy at the time and how it interacted with the modern world. Sayers goes into depth as to how he made all of his power grabs with kings‚ the fourth crusade‚ and his convening of the fourth Lateran Council. The majority of the book is a gross amount of details. The beginning of the chapter on Innocent’s life

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    Nematymarch 25‚ 2009Elements of narrative Ender’s game Narrative voice and point of view- 3rd person‚ subjective to Ender (Reveals Ender’s feelings throughout novel)-Point of view switches to Valentine on earth and reveals her feelings (subjective)-Most chapters start with a conversation between two unidentified characters‚ usually colonel Graff and Major Anderson discussing current events-Story mostly follow Ender WigginConflict-Character vs. self - Ender’s internal fear/struggle to being like Peter‚ a

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    Chapter 1: 1. William was being sent to Mr.Tom because William used to live in the city and it was bad there. So he was forced to live out in the country and his mom wanted William to live with a man who was religouis‚ so she picked Mr.Tom. 2. William has been hit a lot and told that he has been bad when he really isn’t. 3. We see that William’s mother was abusive and a liar to William. 4. Sammie is Mr.Toms dog and I think that Sammy will play a very important role as beg a main character.

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    Apush Chapter 7 Summary

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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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    symbolizes the small community that is forming “Lets have a vote.” Page 30‚ Chapter 1 2. Golding introduces the choir in the first chapter; he does this by having Ralph blow on the conch so the boys in the choir come to look what it was. Golding first introduces the boys in a creative manner. He introduces them as a creature. “With the diamond haze of the beach‚ something dark was fumbling along.” Page 26‚ Chapter 1. This introduction as a dark creature foreshadows the darkness that the choir

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