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    My mom woke me and my brother up yelling at 10:00 we were confused because our baseball game was canceled because it was raining hard. She said we left our bikes outside at first we didn’t get up because we were tired. We didn’t believe her also because our older brother said he was going to bring them in because we couldn’t. So then we jumped out of bed to check our bikes to make sure there wasn’t any damage to them. We just left our bikes outside because the sun was out and would dry them for

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    called Raymond’s Run by Tony Cade Bambara‚ the protagonist Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker‚ known as Squeaky minds her older brother who has mental retardation. Looking after her brother and keep herself up as a fabulous runner really make her strong physically and mentally; she is a girl who strongly believes in practice to get anything better‚ and she respects anyone who works hard as well. Squeaky‚ who is known as the fastest runner in her school always takes care of her mentally challenged brother

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    Character: Orville Wright Orville Wright/Narrative Hook: Ever been on a plane well if you have thank me because I invented the first plane with my brother Wilbur and that was modified through the years to the planes we have now. Background info (birthplace‚ birthdate‚ any relevant childhood info.‚ relevant relationship info.‚ etc.): I was born on August 19‚ 1871‚ in Dayton‚ Ohio I was one of five children of my mother Susan Catherine Koerner‚ and my father Milton Wright‚ a bishop in

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    Week 3 – The Balanced Scorecard – Kaplan and Norton Squeaky Brakes focused mainly on financial perspective of our business‚ ignoring operational aspects. However‚ Kaplan and Norton suggest that there are four perspectives‚ which must be considered. * How do customers see us? (customer perspective) * What must we excel at? (internal perspective) * Can we continue to improve and create value? (innovation and learning perspective) * How do we look to shareholders? (financial perspective)

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    hard to put others first‚ but in the end‚ it is the right thing to do. At the beginning of “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Case Bambard‚ Squeaky’s main focus is running and winning‚ but by the end of the story‚ Squeaky comes to realize that life isn’t all about her self. At the beginning of the story‚ Squeaky is a confident girl and she knows that she has talent. She is a very fast runner; in fact‚ she is the neighborhood’s track star. She is confident that she is the fastest‚ this is seen when she states

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    With the two stories Raymond’s Run and Maniac Magee‚ they are similar and they also have differences. They both have the sense of friendship at the end of Raymond’s Run and Maniac Magee. I think these two stories are saying sometimes you need friends in life. In Maniac Magee Maniac/Jeffrey meets a girl at school named Amanda Beale. Amanda shows Jeffrey her books in her bag and Jeffery is shocked. Jeffrey wants to borrow a book and then they both start talking to each other and then Amanda has to

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    purposes. Such as internet‚ TV‚ radio‚ newspapers‚ magazines and others. In this individual talk I’m going to discuss two of them. That is- TV and Radio. First I’m going to start with TV. The TV is one invention‚ like the car‚ computer and wheel which has changed mankind and the way that we do virtually everything. The TV was invented in the early part of the twentieth century and was only available in black and white. And in nowadays almost every household owns at least one TV set.

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    widely admired. The composition of a story is usual‚ all of the events going after each other. The climax of the story is then Squeaky saw her brother Raymond’s run. The narrator is Hazel‚ known in her neighborhood as “Squeaky‚” a young black girl verging on adolescence. I think the main conflict is an external conflict which is‚ Squeaky against Gretchen. Squeaky wants to prove and maintain her reputation as the best‚ and wants to show Gretchen that she’s not afraid of her. She has something

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    cousin he cares about repetition . while also Raymond Run is a short story that talks about a girl named squeaky and a boy named Raymond squeaky is Raymond younger sister‚ squeaky is responsible to take care of he younger brother Raymond . Squeaky like running she run in lots of events and she always win . squeaky hates gretchel while also gretchel was her competitor‚ on the day of the race squeaky wins the race but she realizes that she can do many things other than racing . There are some differences

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    Run‚” Squeaky‚ is held back from obtaining her goal which is friendship. She struggles to get friends because of her arrogant proclivity‚ mostly from instances that occur with her older brother‚ Raymond. This is also the same for the Lin girl‚ from the story “All-American Slurp” because she finds difficulty adapting to the American culture. In addition‚ having to overcome the embarrassment of her family. Together‚ Squeaky and the Lin girl have both difficulty making friends. The reason Squeaky struggles

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