A.P. Summer Reading List Requirements 10th Grade Honors – Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Uglies – Summer Reading Project During the summer of 2013‚ all students who are entering grades 9-12 will read the book Uglies. For their summer reading project‚ students should choose one project from the choices below. Projects will be due to their English teachers on Friday‚ August 30. Create a diary or journal
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Cited: Man oOn Fire. Dir. Tony Scott. Perf. Denzel Washington. 20th Century Fox‚ 2004. Film.
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The notion of visual literacy has been transforming the age of digital learning and reflecting the transformation of datagogies for quite some time. Classical and Medieval theories of memory and learning‚ for instance‚ placed a strong emphases on how the visual format of words and lines affected the ordering of information in the mind. During the Enlightenment new emphasis was placed on training the senses through print and graphic technologies in a way that benefitted the rising middle class.[1]
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Our interest in the parallels between Frankenstein and Blade Runner is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form. Evaluate this statement in light of your comparative study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner. Composers construct their imaginations within characters‚ yet inexplicably explore and address the societal issues and paradigms that are prevalent of their eras. Albert Einstein‚ once proclaimed‚ “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has
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Showing and Telling About Language From hieroglyphics to modern communication‚ imagery and words have always been total opposites‚ while simultaneously one in the same. Show and Tell‚ by Scott McCloud‚ discusses this natural connection one makes between language‚ imagery‚ and words and the methods through which comic artists express this connection. The piece appears in his graphic essay Understanding Comics‚ prompted by McCloud’s experience as a comic artist and reader. Show and Tell specifically
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Happy Days is of course about the typical American family‚ filled with stereotypes‚ a lot like Dick & Jane‚ but in a grownup version. One of the kids‚ Edgar‚ idolizes Scott Baio‚ Chachi from Happy Days‚ in one scene he’s forbidden by his father to watch the show‚ because of what his classmates might think of
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One of the most brutal battles in American history is the civil war. This battle was a battle was a make or break moment for the U.S. One argument about the civil war was on the generals. Historians are still arguing this question. Who was a better general Robert E Lee or Ulysses S. Grant. Unfortunately this question does not have an official answer on which general is better. People often speculate that question. Ulysses S. Grant was a better general than Robert E Lee because the north won the
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I plan to write my Unit 3 essay on Heroism: Why Heroes are Important by Scott LaBarge. This particular essay intrigued me as I searched for who my hero was. Although my essay had its strength and weak areas‚ it has fulfilled its purpose by defining and explaining the thesis. Creating my thesis took a while. I read the essay repeatedly while I took detailed notes. Each time‚ new information was found. I examined the essay’s contextual issues and rhetorical strategies in search for the purpose
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The most beautiful things in this world are not tangible‚ the things you can only feel with your heart‚ the ones unexplainable to the rest. The power to inflict emotions upon an audience with just a story is a power I have always wanted to possess. I love the great storytellers but never believed I could be more than a consumer. For my senior project I will be creating a children’s story book. I have always loved reading children’s books‚ even now in my teenage years. Don’t get me wrong‚ I like Catcher
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The problem facing Scott Deeter and Ventria was denied the request to plant rice om a commercial scale‚ Deeter was facing the challenge to find the best way the inexperienced‚ high risk‚ investor supported company was going to meet their mission statement of being able to provide affordable human health products for the global community. In addition the company faced ongoing protest from various groups including environmentalist‚ food safety activist‚ consumer activist‚ and rice farmers. The original
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