A story written by and about a teen named Rachel‚ describes her experiences finding out that she has general anxiety disorder and how she overcame it today. In her story‚ she includes that she was struggling with a relationship‚ school‚ fall play‚ musical‚ and soccer all at once and it was stressful for her. Rachel was a junior high school‚ at the time of her story‚ being involved in school and taking challenging courses to help her to become successful in the future. Her first sign that she knew
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Connecting the snoring‚ the rain and Mama’s hair is to give the scene a calming and cozy atmosphere. This section of “Hair” compares all the safe and comforting things in Esperanza’s life to convey that when she experiences them it makes her feel secure. This is similar to a security blanket that children have as a baby‚ they hold them to feel safe when their parents are not close or all the time. Esperanza expressing that her mother’s hair comforts her‚ shows how close she is to her mother because
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Solimar is from a small village called Popocalco and she dreams of going to America in hopes of a better life. On her travels to America‚ she is involved in situations that make her open up her eyes to the dangers in the world. The guy that promised her dad that he would take her to California did not. He ended up taking her to another part of Mexico in which she would enter illegally as a drug trafficker‚ through an underground route. She was able to escape him with a group of young boys who were
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The documentary The Waiting Room directed by Peter Nicks‚ focuses on a typical 24 hour day in the over-crowded and under-resourced emergency room of Highland Hospital in Oakland‚ California. Within this hospital is a group of compassionate professionals that strive to provide the best quality care they can for such a diverse population that have been living without health insurance. Many of these Americans find themselves stuck for hours at this public hospital because they are given numbers and
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When Francis Scott Key wrote that he had seen our flag still waving there in the wake of the battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812‚ it entailed the continuation of a glorious nation that represents the very essence of virtue and liberty. That nation is our own beloved America. The flag that it waves‚ the Star-Spangled Banner‚ perennially flies as a beacon of hope throughout this vague and fledgling world. The depths of the dark Blue behind the shining stars manifests the dark and indeed troubled
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The Thought about Food Mankind differentiates itself from other species in its willingness to exhaust its environment in order to satisfy its immediate needs of the essential components: food and water. In order to satisfy the demands of an ever-increasing global population‚ we rely on an international‚ industrial food system. When it comes to global warming we think about how climate change will impact farming‚ but not how farming will impact climate change. The impact of the food system on global
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In the beginning‚ John talks about how at Franklin High School he was the bathroom bomber. John is famous for his proficiency with the “fruit roll‚” which is on Wednesdays when the lunch gives away old apples‚ and they roll them when John gives the signal. This only occurs with substitute teachers though. The one problem is if the students get the apples and then there is no substitute they’re stuck with putrid smelling apples. John then later states that he has given up all that stuff. Additionally
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The book‚ The Greatest‚ is about Cassius Clay‚ better known as Muhammad Ali‚ was known mostly for his career in the ring where he posted a 56-5 record throughout his career (37 by KO). The side of Mr. Ali that most people may not know is his political side‚ and what he went through as a child. He was raised in Louisville‚ Kentucky by his father and mother‚ Cassius Sr. and Odessa Clay. Mr. Ali was highly influenced by segregation‚ and so was his younger brother Rudolph. His boxing career started when
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The Selection In this novel by Kiera Cass‚ not even a corrupted society can stop a girl’s ambitious dream to make her own decisions. America Singer is a sixteen-year-old girl who was trying to figure out where she stood in life. She lives in a modern caste system. There is a total of eight castes and her family falls in the fifth division. The fifth caste is made up of musicians and other entertainers. She is reminded daily of her social status and how she has no say in her future‚ but then an opportunity
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The element that was investigated is chlorine‚ which was named by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810 for the Greek word chloros- meaning greenish yellow. The element was first synthesized in 1774 when the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele combined the mineral pyrolusite with the solution hydrochloric acid. Originally‚ Scheele believed that this newly produced gas contained the element oxygen. However‚ in 1810 Sir Humphry Davy proved that this gas was actually its own distinct element. The chemical symbol
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