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    Cay Review Questions

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    Date: 2/5/16 The Cay Review Questions Chapters 5-10 Respond to the following questions in complete sentences using RACE. Use textual evidence from the novel to complete your answers and record the page number or chapter. 1) Who is Phillip’s shipmate? Describe him. (Personal characteristics‚ beliefs‚ and physical attributes) Chapter 5 Phillip’s shipmate is very old Negro‚ ugly‚ with a flat nose and broad face named Timothy. He has wiry gray hair and a scar on

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    Phillip’s Change In The Cay Phillip undergoes a change while trapped on an island called a cay‚ a cay is an island surrounded by coral reefs. It all starts when Phillip and his mom get separated when a torpedo hits there ship. Phillip is raciest and he has to overcome his racism to survive on the cay. At the beginning Phillip and his mom get separated and he gets stuck on a raft with Timothy‚ an old black man. Phillip treats Timothy like an animal and is extremely rude to him he calls him

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    The Cay Book Vs Movie

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    the night” The movie never had this line in it. The movie starts on the boat and in the book it starts on the island where this line is. That’s why I like the book better than the movie in The Cay by Theodore Taylor. When on the raft for the movie it skips a part of the story which makes Phillip and Timothy closer the part of the book when Phillip falls into the water and gets chased by sharks. The movie has much less detail. As well as this also‚ it doesn’t say that Philip was scared on the island

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    Olivia Mello Mrs. Chudy Timothy of the Cay 13 March 2024 Timothy of the Cay Timothy of the Cay‚ by Theodore Taylor‚ is a book split into two stories. The first story is the backstory of a black 70-year-old man named Timothy‚ and the second story is about a blind 12-year-old boy named Phillip. In Timothy’s story‚ it is explained that ever since Timothy was young‚ his goal was to own his own ship. Even though he didn’t have enough money for it. As he grew up‚ he tried earning enough cash to purchase

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    Timothy McVeigh

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    Timothy McVeigh Background Born April 23‚ 1968 in Lockport NYC‚ U.S.A Died June 11‚ 2001 at USP Terre Haute‚ Indiana‚ U.S.A Middle name is James Parents were William McVeigh and Mildred Noreen Hill (divorced) Nationality: American Occupation: U.S Army soldier and security guard Prison Registration # 12076-064 Cause of death: execution by lethal injection Childhood Timothy was the only son out of 3 siblings (middle child). His parents divorced when Timothy was 10 years old. Raised by his father in

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    Timothy Leary

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    Connor Wade 12-A Period 8/9 10/16/12 1960’s Report Timothy Leary Timothy was an American writer and psychologist known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. He lived from October 22‚ 1920 to May 31‚ 1996 and was born in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ the only child of an Irish American dentist who abandoned his wife when Leary was 13. He attended the College of the Holy Cross and enrolled as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point under the pressure of his dad

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    raised in the book The Cay by Theodore Taylor. The book is about a white eleven year old boy named Phillip who is rescued by an elderly‚ black man named Timothy after their ship is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine during World War 2. Phillip loses his eyesight after being hit on the head by a large plank of wood during the evacuation while Timothy reveals that he is illiterate‚ which causes them to be dependent on each other. They stumble upon an empty‚ deserted cay and must help each other

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    The Cay In The Cay‚ the author Theodore Taylor wrote a moving and heartfelt story of the change of a friendship and survival of two people. It centers around Philip and Timothy as they find themselves stranded on an island in the Devils mouth. The story begins on an island off Curaçao in 1942 during World War II. Philip‚ an 11-year old boy‚ is an American living there because his father is an expert in aircraft fuel and works at the islands of refinery. Philip’s mother is unhappy there and

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    Book Report : The Cay 2006 The Cay is a breathtaking novel of Theodore Taylor . Though the book was written more than 30 years ago ‚ it still remains very popular and became a classic piece of American literature . It was a landmark work for its author ‚ because it won 11 literary awards ‚ including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award . The genre of the book is action ‚ adventure and young adult fiction .The main characters of the book are Philip Enright Junior ‚ who is also the narrator of the story

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    Timothy Leary

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    Timothy Leary "Turn on‚ tune in‚ drop out." That saying has turned into the slogan of Timothy Leary ’s mind-expanding movement. Although a graduate of both West-Point and Berkley‚ and a Harvard professor‚ these were not his greatest lifetime achievements. Throughout his publicized life‚ he became the spokesperson of the psychedelic age. His devotion to the belief that LSD and marijuana were gateways to enlightenment resulted in a new church‚ numerous prison sentences‚ and a following of

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