Prompt/Question Explore one of these themes either family‚ heroism or the underdog in the story The Outsiders. Provide at least 3 excerpts from the text as evidence to support your answer. Heroes are everywhere; they live the same neighborhood as us‚ and eat the same cereal as we do. We just sometimes too blunt to realize it. Their heroic actions might be small-like sticking up for a bullied kid and other time they can be great like saving people lives like Spider Man. But the thing about heroes
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The Use of Foreshadowing in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein "But I forget I am moralizing in the most interesting part of my tale; and your looks remind me to proceed." (33) Foreshadowing is an important part of any novel. It can be use to heighten suspense because as a reader is going through a novel the foreshadowing is telling them that something bad is about to happen and it is their job to follow the clues and try to guess what it is. Through out the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley‚ the three
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McDonald’s Targets Starbucks Topic: The fast-food company expects to add $1 billion in sales by offering specialty coffee drinks in all its U.S. restaurants. Transcript of radio broadcast. Source: VOA 1. Listen to the audio and complete ------------------------------------------------- Principio del formulario This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. McDonald’s‚ the fast-food company‚ is heating up competition with the Starbucks Coffee Company. McDonald’s plans to put bars in
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an effective method of pathos when he talks about the story of his “grandma” and her death. On page sixty-three‚ Douglass says “My poor old grandmother‚ the devoted mother of twelve children‚ is left all alone‚ in yonder little hut before a few dim embers” (63). This is an excellent example of pathos because he attempts to appeal to the emotional side of the reader. He does this by using many expressive words such as tenderness‚ poor‚ old‚ and alone which causes the reader to feel sympathetic towards
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When colonists rebelled against Great Britain and destroyed British goods during the Boston Tea Party‚ Parliament became highly upset. This lead to the ratification of several laws that were enacted to control the colonies. The Intolerable Acts‚ basically punished all thirteen colonies. This also made the colonists hate Britain even more. In September of 1774‚ men selected from twelve colonies‚ came together to focus ways to combat Britain’s new legislation. This meeting was called the First Continental
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Fireproof Summary Share your opinion At work‚ inside burning buildings‚ Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter’s adage: Never leave your partner behind. At home‚ in the cooling embers of his marriage‚ he lives by his own rules. After seven years of marriage‚ Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. Neither one understands the pressures the other faces--he as firefighter and she as the public relations director of a hospital. Regular
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that was synthesized. Once all of the water had been displaced‚ I lit a toothpick on fire and let it burn for a few seconds until it was extinguished. I removed the pipet bulb and inserted the glowing toothpick into the bulb and observed the glowing embers reignite momentarily. Step 3. Using the H2 bulb from Step 1‚ I placed the bulb over the O2 gas delivery tube and displaced the rest of the water with oxygen. I removed the pipet bulb and introduced the gas to the flame. I observed no reaction with
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in the hands of chaos and destruction. The War Between the States‚ though appearing riled up by anger and fury‚ was actually extinguished through faith and fear. Lincoln’s use of parallelism in lines 61 and 62 helps to stomp down the remaining embers of the hostilities. "Fondly do we hope‚ fervently do we pray" conveys Lincoln’s notion that even in a time of war‚ America was still bound
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Basking in the hellfire‚ there I lay guzzling a venomous cask‚ drenched in pangs of sorrow and grief‚ all too aware that an end was coming. But there I stayed‚ immobile and unyielding—cemented in place by an unwavering propensity for sentimentalism. What I was is who I am‚ and as the cycles of time turn in their predictable paths‚ a clog comprised mostly of a yearning for what never was threatened to disrupt this natural order. But still I stayed there‚ slumped in place—a man with purpose‚ a man
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Science Autobiography The ember of science was first ushered into my life in the transitional period between preschool and kindergarten. I was a very loud and aggressive child at that time and as a result‚ I got lots of trouble during my childhood years. However‚ there was only one place where I would stay relatively quiet: the library. My dad would take me there every few weeks and I would venture into medieval worlds‚ teleport through time in magic treehouses‚ ride on dragons‚ and sword-fight on
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