Jonathan Lozano English 2 HP 23 August 2014 English II Honors Summer Reading 2014 Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) Main Ideas/Questions Details A quest consists of five things. Things to consider. Is every trip really a quest? a) A quester. b) A specific destination. c) A purpose to go there. d) Challenges and trials that will be faced on the path. e) A real reason for the quester to go there. Item (a) is simply the person who goes on the quest. Items (b) and (c) the
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Prime Directive Response When dealing with foreign sentient species‚ it is crucial to maintain what is know as a prime directive. This is the notion that a species may explore distant planets‚ but must take certain precautions when dealing with other sentient species to prevent any change in their progression. In the novel Speaker for the Dead‚ the citizens of Lusitania go to great lengths to preserve their prime directive‚ but the indigenous species appear to benefit from their encounters with
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Examination Day Essay Qs 2013 Choose a novel or a short story or a piece of non-fiction in which there is a character or a person with whom you feel sympathy. Say why you feel sympathy for the character and show how the writer makes you feel this way. Choose a novel or a short story or a piece of non-fiction which has a shocking or unexpected ending. Briefly say what happens in the story and then go on to show how the author makes the ending shocking or unexpected. 2012 Choose a novel or a short
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Every person has a role model or someone they look up to. For some people it may be a super star who has set good morals or a pastor who has guided them through a difficult situation. Many people look up to a parent just like Alice Walker did. Walker has written many stories and novels which have been very popular and praised greatly. She says that the creativity for these works‚ along with her beautiful and colorful flower gardens‚ are all thanks to her mother Minnie Walker. Her stories are in fact
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About Thanksgiving Day "O that men would praise the LORD for his goodness‚ and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" -Psalm 107:8‚15‚21 and 31 Thanksgiving Day is celebrated with lot of joy and enthusiasm not only in US but other countries as well. It symbolises the feeling of gratitude‚ people feel towards God for bestowing constant grace and love. More commonly it is celebrated to thank God for the bounty of autumn harvest. The official thanksgiving day is celebrated on the fourth
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and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body‚ an institution‚ or a private individual. The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use‚" and in this sense is used in fields such as computer science‚ mathematics‚ statistics‚ electronics and biology. This research is intended for public‚ institutions and researchers’‚ use as their resourceful information. In particular‚ this study will
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A2 LAW – ANSWER TO ASSIGNMENT 3.12 a) Aswina threw a dish at Celia breaking one of her teeth. The most likely charge here would be assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH)‚ under S47 Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA). ABH is a triable either way offence that could be tried in either the magistrates or Crown court. It carries a maximum punishment of 5 years in prison. The actus reus is either that the defendant committed the actus reus of assault or battery and that the assault
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knows exactly what would have happened if D-Day at Normandy in World War II had failed. Stephen E. Ambrose attempts to wrap readers’ minds around the idea in his article D Day Fails. One of the most surprising aspects of a D-Day failure is that it still does not necessarily result in a Nazi victory. Moreover‚ the failure of the attack on Normandy would bring up a Soviet Union victory or‚ even worse‚ a time where there is a completely communist Europe. A D-Day failure would have drastically altered the
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Did you know that Venus’ average surface temperature is 462 degrees celsius! This is one of the many reasons why I think that Ray Bradbury’s - “All Summer in a Day” setting isn’t possible. Venus is a different planet from earth. It has constant rain‚ and has wildly different surface temperatures. The mass of the planet is much greater than of Earth’s. These different circumstances on Venus‚ are very hard for humans to adapt to coming from Earth. Since the atmospheric pressure is 92 times greater
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Columbus Day just comes once a year and has a lot of advantages you can avail from it. It was the day when Christopher Columbus discovered America. A use that is commonly seen of sales on special events are specially found on Columbus Day as a block buster in making your wishes come true to buy items you will need. It is the time for electronic gadgets and Apple products to come in to use‚ buying is expectedly made with proper coupons and you can get IPhones you would want. You can get a deal that
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