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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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    Summer Assignment - Essay The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Although the Civil War left slaves under the impression that they had won their freedom‚ blacks were still constantly the target of discrimination and it took many years for them to finally gain equality. In James Weldon Johnson ’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man‚ a story is told through the eyes of a man in this troubling time‚ who learns in his early childhood that he is black‚ but with the ability to pass as a white man

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    deep breathing and first light revelations I. prelude the grapefruit and lemon colored sunrise assures creation of angels and eulogies and obituaries and it guarantees life‚ it guarantees death something about seeing that the newspaper isn’t delivered by a teenage boy on a red bike‚ but rather a middle-aged man in a shoddy car is disappointing‚ to say the least the clouds and sweet morning air‚ the kind that feels like charcoal on skin and tastes like chemicals and ice shards lodged in your throat

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    How the Universe Inspires Me Supergiants‚ the largest objects in the universe‚ with diameters more than ten thousand times larger than our sun‚ and up to a million times brighter. Supernovae‚ the most violent and powerful naturally occurring events in the universe‚ releasing up to an astounding 100*1044 joules of energy‚ a number we humans cannot even begin to visualize. Black holes‚ specks of matter with theoretically no volume‚ yet with a gravitational force so strong that not even light can escape

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    baseball was never just a game for me; it was a lifestyle that I had fallen in love with. With that being said‚ the fundamentals of baseball had no immediate effect on me as a kid. However‚ as I have matured along with my love for baseball‚ I believe that the game my life has been centered around for nearly twelve years has shaped me into the person I am today.

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    Maggie Bergin American Literature 211H 1 May 2012 Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance From the beginning‚ Zora Neale Hurston was ahead of her time. She was born early in 1891 in Notasulga‚ Alabama. While she was being born her father was off about to make a decision that would be crucial to her in the development as a woman and as a writer; they moved in 1892 to Eatonville‚ Florida‚ an all-black town. In childhood‚ Hurston grew up uneducated and poor‚ but was immersed with black folk

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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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    identity to make me the person I am. The most influential thing that has shaped me is my culture. One of the biggest pieces of my culture that has done this is my participation in sports. Out of the sports I play‚ high school soccer has shaped me the most. Soccer in high school shaped my identity by making me more social‚ a leader‚ and open minded about diversity. Soccer has guided me in many ways to become the person I am. Especially in high school‚ the sport has showed me how to be much more cooperative

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    ZORA NEALE HURSTON In 1975‚ Ms. Magazine published Alice Walker’s essay‚ "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" reviving interest in the author. Hurston’s four novels and two books of folklore resulted from extensive anthropological research and have proven invaluable sources on the oral cultures of African America.  Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced

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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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