MYP Summer Assignment When Bessa spots pale stranger coming towards their village‚ the entire tribe welcomes them because visitors are always a cause for celebration. Little did they know the strangers weren’t there to celebrate. They came to capture the strongest‚ and the healthiest‚ villagers and kill the rest. Amari whose fifteen-years old are one of those villagers. The pale strangers shackled all the villagers they wanted and took them on a 3 day walk‚ nonstop walking. Some were beaten‚ dragged
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All Summer in a Day written by Ray Bradbury teaches us to not take our anger out on other people. All of the kids at the school were very mean to Margot for no reason. She did nothing to the kids‚ they got jealous beacuse she had seen the sun and remembered it. The kids also made fun of her for looking different‚ acting different and talking different. The main pupose or theme of the short story is to not take your anger and jealousy out on others. One of the ways that the author shows this is when
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The Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement or Black Aesthetics Movement (BAM) was a subdivision of the Black Power Movement and focused primarily on African American musicians‚ writers‚ poets‚ playwrights‚ dancers‚ and other forms of self-expression. Founded by acclaimed writer LeRoi Jones (who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka) one month after Malcolm X’s assassination (1965)‚ BAM’s origins were politically‚ racially‚ and spiritually-motivated to draw attention to the dehumanization and
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8/14/12 AP Summer Assignment Theme 1: Interaction between humans and the environment The important geographic features of Southwest Asia are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The land didn’t receive much rainfall but the rivers provided freshwater for irrigating crops and travel. The artificial irrigation provided surplus crops‚ which resulted in a large increase in population and attracted migrators to the region. These rivers helped the region expand and grow into a larger civilization. The
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In the summer of "99 I had the chance to visit a friend that lives in Sao Paulo‚ Brazil. My friend from Brazil‚ Ana Radeau‚ had come to my town the previous summer and spent a semester at my high school. I had no idea of what to expect when I got there because Brazil is such a diverse country with the rainforest‚ along hundreds of miles of beach‚ and also with some of the biggest cities in the world‚ Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. But the picture I had in my mind was completely different from what
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which were matrilineal. Many Native American cultures were matrilineal societies. Peasants ID: A person of low social status. Many farmers were considered peasants in the 1800s. SIG: Peasants would revolt and cause movements that go against the economic reasoning. The movements were usually to gain recognition for their work and other reasons. Yeomen ID: A servant who gives assistance to royal households or other great households SIG: A yeomen farmer was the ideal American which is being independent
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Walden Summer Assignment Background: 1. Henry David Thoreau was many things‚ but the most important were him being a philosopher‚ a naturalist‚ abolitionist‚ and a poet. He was born in Concord Massachusetts‚ into a modest family with his two older siblings Helen and John Jr. as well as his younger sister Sophia. He went to Harvard College in 1833 to 1837. He took courses in philosophy mathematics‚ and science. He wasn’t satisfied with the traditional professions for college graduates so he
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I think summer vacation is very important to people all over the world. It gives them the chance for seeing new places‚ family gathering and have a good time and enjoys their selves. We use to travel in vacations. This year my family decided to spend our summer vacation in Cairo. I was very happy and I went to pack up my bags to be ready. While packing I was thinking of the new places that I’m going to see‚ I decided that our first place to visit must be the pyramids. On the fourth day of our trip
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That Summer The book “That Summer” by Sarah Dessen is a book about the relationship between two sisters‚ who have their struggles but come together in the end more as friends than as a family member. Haven is just another teenage girl that doesn’t agree with what her body looks like and tries her hardest to either be noticed by the guy she likes or hide in the crowd from the girls she wants to avoid. Haven is six feet tall her freshman year and lives in the shadow of her twenty-one year old sister
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On a hot summer day‚ a great place to go is to the beach. You would go out to the beach to enjoy the water‚ the sun‚ the activities that are happening‚ or just to be with family and friends. When you’re at the beach‚ there are some very distinct smells. You can smell the salt from the water along with the heat from the sand. My most favourite smell of all is the sweet coconut smell of sun tanning lotion that people put on themselves while they lay into the sun to basically "cook." If you’re
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