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    Odyssey Chapter 3 Summary

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    their families back in Ithaca. After a ten year war with the Trojan army odysseus and his men fight their way back home. On the way back Odysseus’s men are turned into swine and he is held captive as a “Slave” and that took up most of their time. In chapter 3 him and his men are stuck on the island of the Cylclopies. ( The Land of The Cyclopies)Odysseus tells his best fighters to come with him they are curious and end up in a cave with the cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus keeps them hostage and eats some

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    Chapter 5 And Chapter 6

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    CHAPTER 5 AND CHAPTER 6 DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE Receptiv e Languag e Language Associations between sounds‚ words‚ and objects in one’s environment promote language development DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE Understan d Sounds Understan d Words Sentences Sentences build from syntax (word order) to produce language. Observing others helps produce pragmatics (social rules of language). Metalinguistic Awareness forms around 5 years old DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Bilingual Second Language

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    Chapter 11 Summary Chem

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    Chapter 11 Gases assumes both shape and vol of the container compressible‚ form homogenous w/ 1 another D is smaller then liquids/solids and highly variable depending on T and P Kinetic Molecular theory 3/2RT = total kinetic energy ½ mu2 = average kinetic energy Urms speed of mol with average kinetic energy‚ its inversely proportional to the square root of M when T is the same EX. Determine how much faster a helium atom moves‚ on average‚ than a carbon dioxide molecule at the same temperature

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    Geography 110 – 01; Chapter 6: Religion; Religion is essential for geographers to understand how humans occupy Earth because it is an important element in culture‚ and leaves a strong imprint on the physical environment. Geographers stay focused on the elements of religion that are geographically significant (ie: migrants carry their religion with them to a new location). Geographers distinguish religions into two categories: Universalizing religion – a religion that attempts to appeal to all

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    Paper 1: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics The main theme in this book is feminism‚ which is a movement to put an end on sexism‚ sexist exploitations‚ and oppression. Throughout the chapters‚ Hooks‚ protests against the anti-feminist movement because they have been misguided by patriarchal mass media spreading lies that males are not welcomed by feminists. The patriarchal mass media tends to focus more on the feminists who are anti-male and depict a picture to everyone else that feminist

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    Chapter eight of Unbroken goes from describing the risks of flying in combat to describing the reality of death and how the men attempted to cope with that. In this quote‚ the narrator makes a point to highlight that each death was not only a number‚ but an actual person. The narrator offers insight into how extreme the circumstances were during war and how many real people died—people who were once friends and family. This quote is significant‚ because‚ while so many people died during the war‚

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    Apush Chapter 30 Summary

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    Chapter 30: Conservative Resurgence‚ Economic Woes‚ Foreign Challenges ‘74-89 (I thought we were done reading! ) Personal Pursuits and Diversions: Yuppies (young urban professionals) were all about fitness/consumerism: labeled the “Me Generation” for selfishness Jaws‚ Rocky‚ Star Wars‚ disco‚ Disney World‚ Super Bowl‚ cable TV‚ punk rock (SEX PISTOLS!) Stuff like Springsteen’s “Darkness at the Edge of Town”‚ movies Nashville and Chinatown showed problems/corruption Changing Gender Roles

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    transition that has taken place to what the house is now. The next sound given was the landslide of Tic Tac on page 16 to explain that the house is old and short of lonely with a creepy vibe to it as Ray tells One Eye he is not allowed to go behind the curtains. The last sound that has caught my eye was rivulet of spilled milk on page 20 because it’s explaining how lonely the park is enough for him to hear it and he looks but‚ the company of One Eye make him not care what others see or think of him anymore

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    Pride Chapter 39 Summary

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    In Chapter 33‚ it talks about how the house seemed smaller and quieter after the trip south. Maya reasoned that she had given up some adolescence for knowledge‚ but my improvement was more appreciated than the loss. Bailey (brother) was much older too. Bailey made friends during the summer with a group of slick street boys. Bailey’s language had changed. He had started releasing slangy expressions in his sentences like crazy. When Maya would try to tell Bailey her adventures and misadventures‚ Bailey

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    Sadly all good things must come to an end‚ and that is the case in the final chapters of Huckleberry Finn. After returning the gold to the dead man’s daughter and escaping the two thieves‚ Huck stole the money from the King and hid it in the dead man’s coffin. Huck and Mary Jane developed a plan to tell the townspeople everything‚ but that took a sudden change when they all of a sudden exhumed the body to truly identify the man and in turn‚ exposing the money. As the townspeople tried to figure out

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