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    methods are more effective than others. In Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear the idea of “getting on with it” is discussed. Although most people choose to grovel in their sorrow‚ moving on it truly the best way to handle a loss. Throughout Maisie Hobbs loss and hurt is a theme. The original investigation involves her helping a spouse and their suspension of infidelity yet leads her to a killer. Though the books has much loss Jacqueline Winspear stresses the point of moving on. When it comes to

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    The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate‚ Jacqueline Kelly. Calpurnia Tate is a eleven year old girl with six brothers‚ it’s summer in Texas so Calpurnia decides to cut her hair one inch at a time because her mother won’t let her. Calpurnia loves science‚ and she sneaks off to the river but what she doesn’t realize is that with one microscope there is so much life in every drop of water. Calpurnia is the narrator (first person). Texas‚ Calpurnia’s house‚ 1899. II Calpurnia is eleven years old she has

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    making‚ and outcomes of the after-school program. The school district wants the after-school program to be in line with existing school board procedures‚ any new jobs formed to be unionized‚ and to have the same level of input and power as Woodson. The Woodson Foundation wants to use “hard data to measure performance” which is something that the school district disagrees with. The NCPIE wants parents to

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    Structure‚ Agency‚ and Social Reality in Blumerian Symbolic Interactionism: The Influence of Georg Simmel Author(s): Jacqueline Low Source: Symbolic Interaction‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 3 (Summer 2008)‚ pp. 325-343 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.2008.31.3.325 . Accessed: 31/03/2015 20:24 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor

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    Snowflake Bentley written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Mary Azarian is a true story of a man who loved snowflakes. Wilson Bentley‚ born in 1865‚ grew up in Jericho‚ Vermont‚ located in the heart of the “snowbelt”. Bentley was fascinated with the crystal shapes and designs of snowflakes but it was impossible to save them long enough to study. His mother gave him an old microscope which allowed him to see the snowflakes better‚ but it was still not long enough to completely draw

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    Sacrificial Friendship In the book holes‚ written by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley Yelnats the main character is a poor‚ friendless‚ over weighted boy who is constantly bullied at school. He is arrest one day for a crime that did not commit. Stanley is therefore condemned to jail or to be sent to a place called Camp Green Lake for eighteen months as he is unable to prove his innocence. Stanley chooses Camp Green Lake. But upon arriving in the camp‚ Stanley discovers that it is actually a barren and desolate

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    fence to show the barrier between blacks and whites that needs to be broken down. The author Jacqueline Woodson uses Clover and Annie as two different colored girls that become good friends and break down a racial barrier‚ in which case is a fence separating them. The fence is the main symbol in this children’s novel‚ it shows the barrier in which whites and blacks are separated. Jacqueline Woodson uses an informal‚ childlike tone in the novel The Other Side. The reason being for these tones is

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    If You Come Softly is a young adult contemporary novel written by the author‚ Jacqueline Woodson. The novel incorporates the themes of love‚ discrimination‚ and racism. The protagonist‚ Ellie has a brief but significant altercation with a male student named Jeremiah in the hallway of her school. After the altercation‚ the couple falls into complete infatuation with each other. Since Jeremiah is African American and Ellie is Caucasian‚ Ellie is experiencing objection from many‚ such as her family

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    Across the world people struggle with friendship one example of this is in the story The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson. The Other Side takes place in a old world where being friends with another race is looked down on. In the story two girls Annie and Clover one white one African American live next door to each other and after a while they become friends. A theme from this story is friendship is important in life. I have 3 parts of the story where it was important or happened‚ in the beginning

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    ” (Michael Lewis-). One commonly agreed upon notion is a world at peace; this can happen when you’re not quick on judging in life and being open- minded. In the poem “Mending Wall‚”1914 by Robert Frost‚ The children’s book The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson and the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ all have in common is that there are characters in each who are open-minded. An example of this is when in the novel the Great Gatsby‚ the character Nick was always open-minded‚ he sates

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