For my personal response assignment I chose A Lone Journey by Aakash Pirani. This story was about a ship sent to space with a bunch of sick people and one captain whose name was Captain Lone. This captain was sent out to space with no one to talk but an emotionless A.I computer‚ after 263 days without contact with another human Captain Lone could not handle it and committed suicide. I noticed in this story that it really explains the sadness of being alone and not being able to talk or connect with
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From the book of Little Blog on the Prairie (written by Cathleen Davitt Bell) Visitor’s review on the family vacation spot called Camp Frontier. (In the story the main character spends her whole summer at Camp Frontier and in the story she explains the ups and downs of this vacation spot.) "Camp Frontier is a family vacation spot that can be found in Laramie‚ Wyoming. The main role of this place is for visitor to be able to reenact the year 1890. Also to see how people live during this time of
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Coyote‚ Skunk‚ and the Prairie Dogs While I find it rather creative to imagine a skunk and a coyote to conspire together to murder prairie dogs and rabbits‚ and although I feel I am doing a disservice to hundreds of years of Navaho storytellers‚ I am going to attempt to creatively edit parts of the story “Coyote‚ Skunk‚ and Prairie Dogs” as a written works‚ and retool it so that it makes more sense as a modern children’s fairy tale. Not that children would be interested in a story about killing
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Hip-Hop Pioneers The pioneers of hip-hop started to surface around the mid 70’s. The different components to Hip-Hop were Dance‚ DJs‚ and MC’s. Some say it originated in the Bronx‚ NY‚ with DJ’s like GrandMaster Flash who invented different techniques on the mix board. He later joined up with a group of rappers call Furious Five and created hits like "The Roof is on Fire." Another Influential Hip-Hop Artist includes Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels‚ also known as Run and D.M.C. The combination
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Pioneer Petroleum Corporation’s (PPC) has been through a diverse amount of changes throughout the years. They were originally were a merger of several different independent firms operating in the oil refining‚ pipeline transportation‚ and industrial chemicals fields. PPC then integrated vertically into exploration and production of crude oil and marketing refined petroleum products‚ but horizontally into plastics‚ agricultural chemicals‚ and real estate development. They decided to restructure
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The tall grass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America‚ with fire as its primary periodic disturbance. In the past‚ tall grass prairies covered a large portion of the American Midwest‚ just east of the Great Plains‚ and portions of the Canadian Prairies. They flourished in areas with rich loess soils and moderate rainfall of around 30 to 35 inches per year. To the east were the fire-maintained eastern savannas. In the northeast‚ where fire was infrequent and periodic wind throw represented
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Analysis of ’They Called it Prairie Light’ Boarding schools have been in existence for thousands of years around the world‚ in many different countries and cultures. History tells us that most of them have operated with the main purpose of broadening the horizons for the youth that attended them. The main purpose of Indian boarding schools‚ like Chilocco‚ was to acculturate and assimilate Indian youth into the white dominant society (Lomawaima‚ 3). It
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After school‚ I walk in the door‚ plop myself down on the leather couch‚ and begin to think about the western pioneer’s documentary we watched today in English class. Three distinct personality traits of these pioneers keep coming back to me as I ponder which ones to use in the assigned essay. Courage‚ perseverance‚ and passion keep pestering my mind. Courage is the strongest and most important characteristic. It took a lot of guts and spirit to move their entire family west of common civilization
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Early Childhood Pioneers [pic] Pioneers of Play Friedrich Froebel 1782-1852 Froebel pioneered the view that play acts as an organising function which integrates learning and helps children apply their knowledge and understanding in relation to their developing ideas‚ feelings‚ physical bodies and relationships. Froebel thought that schools should be communities in which the parents are welcome to join their children. He believed that parents were the first educators of their child. He
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Prairie Dog We were making our way through the midwest on a very cold morning when I saw an animal that looked like a dog‚ but seemed to be much smaller. As I tried to near it to get a better look it barked continuously until I was out of sight. I noticed that when the animals felt alarmed the whole village quickly steps into their holes. As well as noticing that I also noticed that they make a call when there is a predator near‚ and once that predator is gone they give out a second call. The small
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