Pre-AP English II Summer Reading Assignment Mikell Sherman The Veldt Protagonist: The Nursery; a 40x40ft. room which can take someone anywhere their mind desires. Regardless to their commands‚ the nursery has begun showing George and Lydia Hadley images of Africa whenever they enter the room. Main Characters: George Hadley; married to Lydia‚ father of Wendy and Peter. George purchased a high-tech house for his family‚ only to regret the decision when it began to pull them apart and ruin his
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Raining Bad weather/ rain makes me feel happy -weather has little effect on our mood. -Usually the rain makes people miserable‚ but it causes the total opposite to me. I love the rain‚ It makes me happy! Is this a strange thing? Especially considering that most people become sad when the weather becomes worse. - but when it’s all dark and gloomy with rain pelting down‚ I feel in a good mood. I don’t feel the same when the sun comes! haha. Although‚ maybe it’s because I don’t feel comfortable
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An Analysis on “The Pedestrian” In “The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury wanted to portray an event that happened one night while taking a walk with a friend‚ stopped by a police officer who didn’t get why they was walking and stated “Well don’t do it again”(Person 50). The characterization and symbolism in this short story demonstrate how society might turn out when humankind depends upon technology. “We have too many cell phones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines
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What are X-rays? X-rays are a form of radiation that can pass through solid and semi-solid substances. In carefully controlled doses‚ they can be used to capture images of the body’s internal structures. How X-rays work X-rays are a type of radiation. Light and X-rays are similar sources of energy. However‚ light has a much lower frequency than X-rays and is absorbed by your skin. X-rays have a higher frequency and pass through the human body. As X-rays pass through the body‚ energy particles
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Max Gomez September 25‚ 2013 Public Speaking‚ SPC 2608 Professor Grimaldo Ray “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs‚ my kidneys‚ my liver‚ my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” Ray said. Ray Charles Robinson was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues‚ gospel‚ and blues styles. He was blind. He started to lose his sight
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Norhan Mansour Music 121 Extra Credit Ray Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. By the early 1960’s Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He’d come of age musically. He’d made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records "Georgia‚" "Born to Lose" successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He’d made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which‚ except for 1965‚ he’s repeated at least once a year ever
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November 7‚ 2011 Johnny and Ray One wouldn’t think that the lives of Johnny Cash and Ray Charles have anything in common. However‚ after viewing the movies Walk the Line‚ starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter‚ and Ray‚ starring Jamie Foxx portraying Ray Charles‚ their similarities are as striking as their differences. Both of these films are biopics chronicling the rags to riches lives of two of the most influential musicians whose careers began in the
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Gladys Contreras Dr. M. Leiby English 1B Honors 14 Oct 2010 Analysis Paper 1 A Means to An End “Cat in the Rain” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. He was able to portray women’s problems and also their ability to respond to their sadness with affinity. The story revolves around the relationship of George and his wife‚ traveling to an unknown place where the wife gets to voice out her sentiments in her life. Initially‚ George looks nice‚ but he is actually cruel. On the other hand
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established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording‚ rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser. By employing a short wavelength blue violet laser‚ the Blu-ray Disc successfully minimizes its beam spot size by making the numerical aperture (NA) on a field lens that converges the
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Satyajit Ray [2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker‚ regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist‚ Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films‚ including feature
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