about themselves or the world with the help of a teacher/mentor. Stories such as Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel‚ use schools as a setting for life-changing discoveries. The protagonists in both of these books‚ Melinda (Speak) and Tillie (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) go through personal troubles that are solved by an important teacher/mentor. Even though each girl is excluded at school for different reasons
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Analysis on “Diario para un Cuento” and “The Moon in its Flight” “The Moon in its Flight” by Gilbert Sorrentino and “Diario para un Cuento” by Julio Cortazar are both self- reflective fiction. There are two storylines in both stories. One is the romantic story‚ between Rebecca and a boy in Sorrentino’s narrative‚ and between a translator and Anabel in Cortazoar’s story. The second storyline is the narration of how to write the story. What makes the stories so interesting is that both
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NASA LANDED ON MOON: MANNED LUNAR LANDING WAS NOT A HOX A Term Paper Presented to Dr. Paul Ellison San Francisco State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for LCA 514: Preparation for Graduate Writing by Onkar Chaubal December 2015 On July 20‚ 1969 lunar manned landing was made by NASA. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. I am not saying that this was true based on the information provided by books or media‚ but can also be proved
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Mother Figures in It Used to Be Green Once and Going to the Moon In both Patricia Grace’s short story It Used to Be Green Once and in Nino Ricci’s short story Going to the Moon‚ the mother figures to the protagonists are caring and outgoing‚ but differ on their ability to comprehend specific situations. First and foremost‚ the characters that act as the mother figures in the short stories both care for the protagonists. The mother of the protagonist in It used to Be Green Once cares for all of
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Should We Explore Jupiter’s Moon Europa? The planet Jupiter‚ some 500 million miles from Earth is a very unique planet. Besides being 1200-1500 (estimates vary) times larger than the Earth‚ The planet Jupiter is surrounded by a small solar system by itself. The planet Jupiter has some 72 moons orbiting it at present count‚ and these moons come in all shapes‚ sizes‚ and physical variations. Many of these moons have quite interesting characteristics‚ such as the moon Io‚ which has volcanic geysers
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priorities or wants in one’s life. A story that represents that mindset enlarging is “Contents of a Dead Man’ Pocket” which is about man not going to the movies with his wife so that he can stay home and work. A different story that shows this is “Catch the Moon” which is about how a kid is forced to work at a junkyard and there he meets a girl asking him to find her a hubcap. In both stories the main character is faced with a conflict that makes them really that they had been selfish about themselves. The
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Did you know that Galileo was the first person to discover Jupiter’s moons? Galileo Galilei is known for many things‚ most of them regarding space‚ including being the first person to use a telescope to look at space‚ and he helped support Heliocentrism‚ the idea the earth orbited the sun‚ and also disproved Aristotle’s theory that heavier objects fall faster. Here are some things Galileo Galilei did to help influence science. Galileo is most known for creating the first telescope‚ but that is not
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Planets and moons in our solar system share many similar properties‚ but there are also many ways they are different. Some of the main differences come with the different geologic activity‚ composition‚ interior structure‚ magnetic field‚ and atmosphere that distinguish some planets and moons from others. The first way to separate the planets as far as their surfaces is breaking them into their two categories. The Jovian planets (Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune) are primarily composed of gas and
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In her novel‚ Full Cicada Moon‚ Marilyn Hilton uses repetition to show that Mimi or someone else cares about what is repeating. Authors can use repetition to show a theme‚ certain topic‚ object‚ or idea that is important to the story. If a word or phrase is repeated‚ you hear it multiple times‚ resulting in the idea sticking in your head. After Mimi’s first home ec class‚ Hilton repeats the phrase‚ “I have a notion”. “I have a notion that Mama and I will go downtown this Saturday. I have a notion
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think any of this could be true? And yet all of us‚ we participate in this myth‚ we create‚ perpetuate it (Vanderpool 304). Miss Sadie talks about the search for a home to Abilene Tucker‚ the 12-year-old protagonist in the 2011 Newbery Medal winner‚ Moon over Manifest (Vanderpool 207). Abilene doesn’t have a home and never has. Motherless‚ she is sent by her father‚ Gideon‚ to live with his old friend in Manifest‚ Kansas. Abilene has spent her childhood traveling the country with her father‚ looking
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