Due to its close proximity to the West Indies‚ avocados were still referred to as alligator pears in Florida‚ whereas in California the term aguacate was still widely accepted. This left growers with the increasingly difficult of selling a product with so many different names. Therefore‚ many horticulturalists felt it was beneficial to market the
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inspiration for this poem. The poem includes masterful imagery and other literary devices. The poem starts with McKays somewhat cheerful description of luscious tropical fruits: Bananas ripe and green‚ and ginger-root‚ / Cocoa in pods and alligator pears‚ (lines 1-2). At this point‚ the reader is not sure what path this poem will take. Lines 5 and 6‚ Set in the window‚ bringing memories/ Of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills‚ cause the reader to detect a sense of melancholy in McKays words. These
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Logan Killicks and runs off with Joe Starks. Janie has a dream about marriage‚ but is soon pushed in the opposite direction by the people around her. At a young age Janie discovers her conscious self as she sits and daydreams‚ observing a blossoming pear tree in its most fertile moments. In Janie’s dream‚ ¨She saw a
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Janie in her book‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is a young‚ vibrant African American living with her grandmother. She marks the beginning of her need to feel loved and wanted early on in chapter 2 as she gazes upon a pear tree. “She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees‚ the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the
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Student: Cindy (fictitious name to protect the privacy and identity of the student. Grade: Kindergarten Academic Objective: When given objects‚ Cindy will verbally tact/label colors with 80% accuracy over 3 consecutive trials‚ measured weekly. Student’s Level of Function as Identified through the Informal Assessment: Cindy’s skills in the area of expressive language is weak. Her receptive language skills are stronger than her expressive language skills. Her ability to recall earlier experiences
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into a metaphor that the author uses‚ which is the pear tree. The tree signifies the main character‚ Janie’s‚ life. For example‚ a new relationship could be a new blossom‚ which would grow as the marriage would. The blossom could die‚ once the marriage is divorced. Janie “saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered‚ things enjoyed‚ things done and undone” (8). When Janie comes back to her hometown after Tea Cake dies‚ the pear tree would just start growing its leaves again‚
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Gregory Marshall Ms. Greber English 10 Honors 20 March 2012 Their Eyes Were Watching God Many in the world go on a life long search for their identity‚ while others are born knowing their identity. In this bildungsroman Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston‚ a character named Janie try to find her identity by having different experiences with different types of men. Also‚ by going through a series of encounters and problems with other individuals‚ she tries to find herself. Logan
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Intelligence Failure at Pearl Harbor Tuesday‚ 27 November 2012 Mathew MacDonald 997612178 Prof. Wesley Wark Modern Espionage HIS343 * Throughout time‚ many published works have criticized the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941‚ with many scholars attributing the attack to a failure of the United States of America’s military intelligence. Initially‚ this conclusion seems reasonable seeing as it is highly improbable that the United States military‚ one of the most advanced
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woman bathing in front of the painting is seating in cold water. The painting shows how she is being pampered by her family. She has fruit in front of her so she can eat while bathing. The woman bathing has a shower cap on her with a pear dropping from it. The pear on her shower cap matches her earring in her ear. The artist has her looking off into the distance as if someone is coming to see her. Now looking at her left hand she has a ring on her pinky figure. Now looking at her right hand on the
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