into more than 35 countries. Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones‚ another #1 New York Times bestseller. In 2011‚ Rick received the Children’s Choice Book Award for Author of the Year. Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons. PLOT: (SUMMARY) Meet Percy Jackson. He is twelve years old‚ and he decides to tell us the story of his past year. On the first day of summer‚ just after his sixth-grade year‚ Percy discovers that something
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Dear Mr Hughes‚ I am writing to you tell you about my opinions of your movie‚ The Breakfast Club. It is a movie classic which most people will see at least once in their lives. What makes The Breakfast Club so special is that the film was very different from almost every movie released at the time. It’s a movie made to target teenagers and the problems they go though. It directly talks about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that teens experience during the years that function as
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How do people learn (language)? How we teach language should be based on how people learn language. Do we learn language the way we learn everything? Or is there some special way our brains learn language? Today we will talk about some of the hypotheses which have been suggested for how people learn (in general) and learn language (in particular). This child has learned sign-language from his parents – but how? NATURE vs. NURTURE People who argue for language learning by NATURE
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The character in “where are you going‚ where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing‚ often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter‚ friend‚ sister‚ and object of sexual desire‚ uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth‚ young people wanted change. The changes
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How do you spend your free time? There are many different things which you can do in your free time. Personally I don’t have much free time. I am preparing to my mature exams. However‚ there always happen some free moments on the weekends. I don’t do any especially exciting things then. Sometimes I simply lie on the sofa and watch TV. I like series movies‚ like "Friends". I must admit that I also watch soap operas to entertain. In my mind you cannot learn anything watching TV so I generally choose
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What do you think a hero is? Well in my eyes Margaret Mead is a true hero because even when it was hard for woman back then to get a college degree she still managed to get her bachelor’s degree‚ M.A.‚ and Ph.d degrees. She went to polynesia to study how cultural differences influenced child rearing. She was a very independent and determined person. One of her quotes is “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful‚ committed citizens can change the world. Jimmy Carter announced that he was awarding
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Overcoming social media procrastination Are you someone who would open up facebook and skype on your laptop once you get home? Since most of us people are exposed to the internet‚ social media procrastination has increasingly affected us. Some say its controllable‚ but most people say it isn’t. The average person spends up to 24 hours or more a week online. Students like me tend to spend that time online while we should be concentrating on work. Students that procrastinate like me end up sleeping
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How do you respond to Gerald in An Inspector Calls? How does Priestley make you respond as you do by the way he writes? (30 Marks) The character of Gerald in An Inspector Calls is one that produces different responses; this is due to Priestley’s writing style. During the start of the play Gerald takes a low level status but by the end of the Play he is defiantly trying to save himself and the family. How does Priestley make us feel like that? Well it’s all down to the stage directions and how the
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You Live and You Learn Marriage is not always what you expect it to be. In today’s society‚ marriage is taken lightly and it doesn’t always end in‚ “happily ever after.” In the essay “Second Marriage”‚ the writer describes her learning experience with her first marriage and how she applied what she learned to her second marriage. The message that’s conveyed in the essay is that in marriage‚ it’s not only important to grow together as a couple‚ but also grow as individual people to strengthen the
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person’s life and it can be different for men and women. Not all transitions to adulthood are peaceful; they can violent transitions as seen in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and Joyce Carol Oates’ Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been. These two stories reflect how males and females are represented differently in society through the protagonist violent transition to adulthood. The Man Who Was Almost A Man by Richard Wright is about a young adult named Dave who wishes to own
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