9.9 of every 100‚000 teenagers are the cause for deaths. Steve Harmon is a high school student‚ who is sent to jail and is being tried for murder. The plot takes place in Steve’s jail cell and the court room. The lesson to be learned from the book is‚ if someone does something wrong they have to pay for it. The book is a murder mystery‚ that can entertain anyone. This book is a must read in my opinion. The plot of the book Monster includes setting‚ main character‚ and conflicts. First‚ the story
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In writing his novel “Monster”‚ Walter Dean Myers used his experience to keep the judicial system relevant to his points while still realistic. Steve’s attorney‚ O’Brien‚ is honest about her role in the system to Steve‚ telling him‚ “My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you.” Instead of pretending to be crusading for a not guilty verdict‚ O’Brien tells the truth that she intends to help hunt down the truth both for and against Steve as an unbiased tool of the court. This
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SLAMS Workshop October 2013 Problems and Suggested Answers PROBLEM 1 Jim drove his wife‚ Betty‚ to Southern Cross Station‚ so that she could catch the Melbourne-Sydney express‚ a special service operated by InterUrban. She was planning to spend a week in Sydney visiting friends. Having arrived at the station‚ Jim carried Betty’s luggage on board the train. They had just stepped into the carriage‚ when the train driver announced over the intercom that the Melbourne-Sydney express would
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The aim of this project is to implement Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with Quadcopter in indoor environments. While realizing this project‚ we will face some problems to be solved. Figure – 1 describes the overall system problem statements and constraints as a flow chart. Figure – 1 Problem Statement Chart 1. Simulation Before starting connecting parts and coding‚ we needed a simulation environment to observe the dynamics of the Quadcopter and the data flow from laser
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Poetry Slam On my visit to Bar13 I was instructed to watch a poetry slam. I have never experience such a vivid art of performing poetry. The only way I had experienced poetry before was by reading it from books. This has change the way I see poetry now. The poetry slam is a very competitive event in which the poets perform their work. The poets are judged by people of the audience. The host‚ who was pregnant‚ selected the judges who were instructed to give a numerical score (the score being 0 –
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Walter Dean Meyers’ Monster is a realistic fiction novel following Steve Harmon‚ a sixteen year-old student on trial for felony murder‚ navigate his way through one of the most challenging‚ nerve-wrecking experiences of his life. The novel focuses on time spent at Steve’s trials as well as moments in jail‚ while it also takes the reader back to moments of his childhood. Written in the point of view of Steve himself‚ the book is written as a journal and not only focuses on the events which are taking
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above six foot to dunk. A dunk occurs when a player jumps in the air and manually throws the ball downward‚ while holding it‚ through the basket using either one or both hands over the rim. Once their hand or hands are over the rim with the ball they slam it down. In the men’s division‚ the tallest man to dunk a basketball was seven foot seven center Kenny George(Elias Sports Bureau).The shortest man to dunk a basketball was five foot three guard Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues (2000-2012 Sports Reference LLC)
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“The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic‚’ who are glad to be what they are.” - Isabel Briggs Myers (goodreads). MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator‚ Myers Briggs Testing Instrument) is a personality assessment that was based off of the Jungian typology theory created by Carl Jung. Isabel Briggs Myers is the one responsible for this assessment‚ and the one responsible for my ungodly obsession with it. It was my Junior year in Psychology and our teacher‚ Mrs. Mais‚ took us into
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While I was researching about the US Open‚ I found some interesting facts that amused me. The US Open is one of the four most important annual tennis event‚ which are called the Grand Slams. The Grand Slams are only played for a certain amount of time and are all on different dates. I chose the US Open because I’ve always had questions about the way things were then and now and cant wait to see what happens to it in the future. I believe that the US Open changes a little at a time to improve every
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James Dean was born on February 8‚ 1931‚ at the Seven Gables apartment house located at the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion‚ Indiana‚ to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician‚ James and his family moved to Santa Monica‚ California. He was enrolled at Brentwood Public School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles‚ but transferred soon afterward to the McKinley Elemetary school.[5] The family spent several years
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