Work cited Swerdlow‚ Joel L. “changing America.” Ideas Across Time: Classic and Contemporary Reading for Composition. Ed. Igor Webb 8th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill‚ 2008. 11-19. Print JEB High school named for a famous commander in America civil war and at that time‚ there are only American students. As day passing on‚ America is getting more and more immigration and JEB High school has half students not born in US. In JEB High school‚ the author asks students who can speak English very well a question
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Across The Dark Islands was written by Floyd W. Radike who was an officer in the National Guard. He wrote this book to show his experience in the National Guard before and after the war and to also show us how the conditions were in the front lines of the war.He was with his unit in the Battles of Guadalcanal‚ New Georgia‚ The battle of Luzon and also for a short amount of time in Japan. Floyd W. Radike was a junior officer who served firstly as a line company platoon officer and then as time went
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of understood only the first half which is enough. After reading a piece from Desert Notes by Barry Lopez‚ the message Mr. Lopez is trying to convey is to tell the reader to not to form conceptions‚ beliefs or ideas of something before actually knowing about it. This nicely fits the theme of preconception. In the beginning‚ you have the idea of something. It could be anything. You automatically think‚ for example‚ a desert is this and that. You assumed and expected a lot of things. Then‚ you realized
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The book Desert Solitaire‚ gives an excellent depiction of pioneer culture in Utah in the 19th century. In the first half of the book‚ the author‚ Edward Abbey focuses on dwellings of the pioneers; in the second half‚ he focuses on the recreational activities of the pioneers. In the first half of the book‚ Abbey discusses the temporary and permanent dwellings of the Utah pioneers. The first temporary dwellings he talks about are the grass huts made by the fur trappers (61-64). It took one fur trapper
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considered the world’s driest desert because the extreme cold freezes water vapour out of the air. Annual snowfall on the polar plateau is equivalent to less than 5 cm of rain. A desert is defined as an area of low and irregular rainfall‚ no permanent surface water and no substantial vegetation. Yes‚ because there is very little rainfall or moisture in the air‚ because most of the water stays frozen. Almost the whole continent is Desert‚ the largest contiguous desert on earth‚ and one of the dryest
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Food Deserts There is growing trend of cities across the United States that do not have access to food such as places in Buffalo‚ Baltimore‚ or Detroit. According to the USDA‚ a food desert is to qualify as a “low-access community‚” at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract ’s population must reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (for rural census tracts‚ the distance is more than 10 miles). You can even look up a food desert locater
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to a just desert. The just desert theory is a practical concept that purports a punishment is needed to preserve the social equity disturbed by crime; however‚ the level of punishment should be fitting with the crime. The Just desert model suggests that retribution justifies punishment because individuals deserve what they received for past deeds‚ but punishment based on deterrence is wrong because it involves an offender’s future actions‚ which cannot be predicted. Under the just desert theory the
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The Ecosystem - Deserts An Ecosystem is a biodiversity community where biotic and abiotic elements inhabit the same environment. There are many types of ecosystems located throughout the world and one of which is known as the Gobi desert. The Gobi is a large desert region that scales from 500‚000 square miles and spans across two countries (China and southern Mongolia) covering parts of northern and northwestern China. Like all deserts‚ the Gobi desert is a cold biome desert that consists
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Romantic love has been the subject of endless contemplation for poets of all periods. Intangible and complex‚ love is the highest manifestation of humanity. No topic in poetry has received more attention than romantic love. Conversely‚ the ultimate expression of love is through poetry. In each poetic period‚ the representation of romantic love has been informed by the social and cultural values of the time. Thus‚ across time‚ attitudes towards romantic love have shifted with changing values and beliefs
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Across the Universe All you need is love. “Across the Universe” is a musical film based on 34 compositions by the legendary rock’n’roll quartet – the Beatles. The movie is called after the same name song of the band‚ “Across the Universe”‚ which was released in 1969 and later as one of tracks of a charity album “No One is Going to Change Our World” at the label “Apple”. The plot has nothing to do with the Beatles’ members life. However the pictured in the movie events represent many characteristics
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