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    The Color of the Soul In the article "How It Feels to Be Colored Me‚” Zora Neale Hurston narrates how she was raised in a color community. When she was a little girl she was not aware that she was black. It was by the time she was sent to school that she realized the fact. This new racial identity would not make her feel bad about herself . Hurston was a strong‚ determined woman and somehow being colored would make her stronger. She says‚ “I have seen that the world

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    In this experiment‚ the class examined how the rate of photosynthesis was affected by different light colors at different distances in shoots of a Cabomba plant. The plants were placed in two different beakers‚ one with recently boiled and cooled distilled water and the other with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution. The three different color photoflood lamps used for this experiment were white‚ red‚ and green at four distances of thirty‚ sixty‚ ninety‚ and one hundred-twenty centimeters away

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    to put his hands in his pockets‚ or to make eye contact with other captives. His gaze was to be directed down at all times.” (hillenbrand 147) This was the japanese making him feel invisible because his gaze had to be down at all times and he could not speak so it made him feel like he was nothing. Making American POWs feel invisible was one of many ways to break them and to get secrets out of them‚ for example “The Bird beat him daily. Louie bore it with clenched fists‚ eyes blazing‚ butthe assaults

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    6/26/14 Speaking of Love: How Does It Feel Different? According to Mortimer J. Adler in The Great Ideas‚ Love is a deep expression that consists of affectionate feelings for a person or thing. When we think about love‚ the first thing that comes to our minds are emotions‚ loyalty and faithfulness. Many people might think that they fall in love with that special person they have in their life but we might be concerned whether or not that is truth love? Can we satisfy our life for the one who will

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    How I feel about teen Tobacco use in America By: Mariah Yourczek Tobacco in my opinion is one of the deadliest things for you. It can cause permanent damage to your lunges and most of the time it causes cancer. A lot of people lose their lives early in life because of tobacco use. People lose lots of years off their life because of smoking cigarettes. In the past couple decades most teens try some sort of tobacco at a young age. And most end up getting addicted at such a young age. Tobacco

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    color is yellow. It makes me feel cheerful and energized! I love the bright sunny color and the way it makes me feel. It is never sad. It reminds me of summer and the sun. It is warm like the summer and if you can’t tell already‚ my favorite season is summer. A few of my favorite flowers are yellow‚ for example‚ tall yellow sunflowers and the yellow daisies. I also like yellow roses. However‚ while I like most things that are yellow‚ I would never wear the color yellow. I feel like it draws too much attention

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    A Colored Persons Life Aibileen a black woman who has been taking care of white babies and cooking and cleaning most of her life since her teen years. Her mother worked as a maid and Grandmother was a slave. Aibileen took care of 17 babies her whole life the 17th baby was Mae Mobley‚ baby to Miss Leefolt. Aibileen has been a maid to white families since her teenage years. Not living a regular teen life she had to take the path of a maid. Following her ancestors footsteps. Her mother was a maid and

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    The Effect of Different Light Colours on Plant Growth Dianne R. Calub Marshela Alpha B. Gesmundo BS-Environmental Science Prof. Jayson Antonio Chemistry Department January 04‚ 2012 Abstract The goal of this study is to learn how the colour of light affects photosynthesis‚ to identify the effects of different coloured lights on plant growth‚ and to identify the potential use of different light colours as a growth regulator. An experiment was performed with the help of 7 students. Mustard

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    slaves to do there work in the fields so now they have to do all the work with cotton. I didn’t like how they treated us black people because we are all people just a different color don’t mean we had to be treated differently from the non-colored people. We should all have the same

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    repeatedly against the system where many would run away for a short period of time before capture and punished. Anti-slavery grew as both side of colored whether black or white abolitionists created movements and defied the laws to help slaves to escape from their masters. David Walker‚ born free as a son of a slave published a pamphlet‚ Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World‚ where he wrote asking those of the world to search in history if any other race were ever treated differently as human

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