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    Cari's Story Summary

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    Cari story a smoker Cari’s story Felecia Williams ITT-Tech Cari a chronic smoker for years‚ who is developing a cough that is getting worse as the days go pass‚ she doesn’t realize that the cells in her body is slowly getting sicker by the day. Cari’s story An infection in Cari’s nasal passage and pharynx can spread to her sinuses because her sinuses open into the nasal cavity and the throat. The cough reflex makes a coughing response

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    Energy Story Summary

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    In the passage "Energy Story" it explains the basis of how electricity works. The purpose of this is to teach you about protons‚ neutrons‚ electrons‚ etc. it teaches you the negative‚ positive charges and how it works. Also includes things like conductors and insulators. Some examples of this is like how copper‚ aluminum and steel are good conductors or how rubber‚ plastic‚ and glass are great for insulating electricity. Some experiments that are shown in this passage is making positive and negative

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    Success by Chance? In Gladwell’s opening chapter of Outliers‚ he begins to tell us about where success comes from. Right away he makes clear that people do not come from nothing‚ to be successful‚ all on their own. He does this because you often here sports broadcasters say‚ “John Doe‚ came from absolutely nothing‚ to become this sports All-Start.” Gladwell uses the analogy of the tallest tree in the forest. He says that that tree does not get to be the tallest on its own. Gladwell reminds us that

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    “Girl” by Jamaican Kincaid‚ written 1983‚ is a short story that consists of one single sentence said by one character to another. The sequence of imperative sentences is interrupted twice by the second character to defend themselves and to ask a question‚ otherwise‚ the first character expresses advice and scolding in the sentences. The speaker lists instructions on how to behave properly‚ how to act around others and how to do household chores such as cooking‚ setting the table‚ sweeping and ironing

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    Tootsie's Story Summary

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    Last week‚ I described an article by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website titled Tootsie’s Story: Medical Error Takes a Life (http://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2013/02/tootsie_s_story_med.html). This article described an elderly woman‚ Tootsie‚ who was living with two chronic health conditions: congestive heart failure‚ in addition‚ patient only have one functioning kidney. These two conditions in addition to other growing ailments made her immobile. Tootsie was essentially placed on Synthroid

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    Short Story Summary

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    Zichao Huang Mr. Lambert English028 March 17‚ 2015 The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who is married to a man named Mr. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard does not have a very good heart‚ and she is sick. Something bad has happened‚ and people do not know how to tell her about it. Josephine is her sister‚ and she tells Mrs. Mallard that Mr. Mallard died in a train accident. Richards is Mr. Mallard’s friend‚ and he is there because he knew about the accident. Richards

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    love story summary

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    The situation that i want to tell is based on the true story which is it is about a school girl who have been raped and got pregnant. The situation happened around three years ago when I’m still in high school and that girl was my junior. Her boyfriend and his friends raped her on her first day of PMR examination. It happened when she followed her boyfriend for a date after the examination finished. Unfortunately‚ her boyfriend brought her to his rent house. Her boyfriend lied to her by saying

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    Lord of the Flies Epilogue All of us followed the Naval Officer to his life boat. We all went onto the navy war ship and then we were all assigned cabins. I was given one with a window. It was late and we were told to sleep. The doors locked‚ and the pale light of the moon shone through my room. In the room stood a sink‚ toilet‚ and a small cot. The room was made of metal‚ and the door had a glass window that reflected fluorescent light into the room. The window on the opposite side of the room

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    person who witnessed the aftermath of the earthquake‚ glanced over the ravaged ‘imperial city’ of San Francisco using photographs‚ along with its renowned citizens‚ who were distraught about their personal belongings being burned. In his article‚ “The Story Of An Eyewitness”‚ London argues that despite the tragic event that occurred‚ the citizens turned heroic due to maintaining their serenity‚ as well as working with one another to survive‚ regardless of their social status or ethnicity‚ and turning

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    Oh! Fondly I had known what it feels like to be in love‚ I had started searching for it a long time ago. This is so… so… overwhelming! It is so strong that I can feel it right now; warming up my heart‚ my soul and each one of my bones. [Picks up a flower from the garden and twirls around] Oh! But how unexpected love is! When I first met Ernest I did not know what to think about him‚ I did not know if he would be what I had imagined so I was extremely nervous. He was so absurd‚ so confusing yet so

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