When does a son grow into his father`s shoes? Perhaps a young man named Telemachus can tell us the answer to this question. From birth he has never seen his father‚ Odysseus‚ because he fought in the Trojan War and is shipwrecked often. Showing us that he has never had a father figure to guide him into manhood and his mother is wrecked with grief and is plagued by suitors coming to court her for the throne. He himself is found cursing his father‚ but having a wistful wish for his father to come back
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The title alone‚ “You Can Grow Your Brain‚” made me think this article was going to be about how learning new things will make you smarter. I did not realize that it literally meant the brain can‚ and will grow when you are learning new things‚ or challenging yourself to learn new skills. We have always been told‚ “Practice makes perfect‚” and really‚ when you apply this rule to everything we do in life‚ it is true‚ and yet for some people‚ we stop challenging ourselves to learn new things because
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Mold needs four important elements to grow: moist‚ warmth‚ air‚ and darkness. I combined these four elements to conduct this experiment. Five different food sources were selected and incubated for seven days. At the conclusion of the experiment‚ I was able to view different types of mold‚ with the naked eye. Then I was able to compare and contrast any differences or similarities that I observe with the mold specimens. The five food samples selected for task #1 was a slice of white bread
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Some people believe it’s better to grow up in a small town. Other people think it’s better to grow up in a big city. My position on this would be growing up in a small town because you can go around and meet the people in that town and make sure you can trust them and not have to worry about people sneaking around trying to find something they can steal from you. Another reason I believe it is better to grow up in a small town is because you could go right off your back porch and target practice
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During the Industrial Revolution cities all over the world grew. The population growth affected the way many people conducted business. Business thrived in Great Britain due to the laws that encouraged business. People throughout these cities created inventions leading to faster‚ easier‚ more efficient‚ but also larger machines. These inventions eventually became to big for homes and moved into factories eventually creating factory towns. The way people conducted business mostly hurt everybody other
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THINK AND GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill Can you really think your way to wealth and success? After over twenty years of extensive study of many of America’s magnates of industry‚ Napoleon Hill concluded that within the power of the mind lies the “secret” to wealth‚ happiness‚ and success. In 1937‚ he published his findings in one of the first of its kind‚ a philosophical‚ self-help book titled‚ Think and Grow Rich. In it‚ he outlines 13 key principles gleaned from his study of successful individuals
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Plants grow when put under a sunlight. If a plants is placed under a red light‚ a blue light‚ a green light‚ and sunlight then which will grow the most? The hypothesis was if a plant is placed under a blue‚ red‚ green and sunlight‚ then the plant under the green light will grow the tallest of all plant. The experiment’s independent variable was the type of light the plant is placed under. The dependent variable was the growth of plants (in cm). Some variables that were ceped the same was the amount
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Exocytosis Lab Report Rough Draft Abstract: In Paramecium caudatum‚ trichocysts are 10^3 secretory vesicles that are released from the cytoplasm. We first observed how the presence of Alcian blue dye triggers normal secretion of trichocysts‚ and we then tested four different hypotheses in order to determine how the presence of Ca++ ions in the extracellular and intracellular environment affects the secretion of trichocysts. Our first our hypothesis tested whether extracellular calcium is required
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Equiano is from Nigeria and had his home broken into by two African men and a woman. He was kidnapped alongside his sister until they were split up. Equiano was sold to many African masters as he moved closer to the west coast. He was afraid of the white people who he had never encountered before. On the ship
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Essay 4: explain what is meant by the term species. How might a single species become two separate species? A species is a group of similar organisms that can breed together to produce fertile offspring. A species is a basic unit of classification. Members of singles species have certain things in common. Firstly they are similar to one another but different from members of other species. They have similar genes and therefore closely resemble one another physically and biochemically. They
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