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    A Dark Future Ahead

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    Jason Zhou Pre-IB English Ms. Arnold Feb 5th 2013 “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength” A Dark Future Ahead a Comparison and Contrast of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 When discussing the topic of censorship by government in the future‚ one would most likely reference the two novels 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury both portray a similar dystopian theme. Both of these novels center around the same idea of a grim

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    Down a Dark Hall

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    Down a Dark Hall written by Lois Duncan is a book about a girl named Kit Gordy‚ going to a boarding school miles away from the closest town‚ which is a small village Blackwood. She comes to her new home for the school year with her new step father Dan and her worrying mother‚ who are ready to go on their honeymoon. When they see the boarding school that Kit would be staying at‚ it looked surprisingly different from what they saw in the brochure they were given. The three of them could not at first

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    Why Do Radishes Grow

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    Winter radishes take longer to harvest‚ but tend to hold their quality in the garden longer‚ store better‚ and have a more distinctive flavor. Radishes can grow throughout the year. You can plant and harvest different varieties of the spring and winter crop. Radishes grow best in cool weather‚ powdery soil‚ and consistent moisture. When it comes to growing radishes‚ as soon as the garden is ready in the spring‚ start planting. It is important that where you plant the garden gets at least six hours

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    lives have already become.” Both novels‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ by Mark Twain‚ and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ by Betty Smith‚ have become beloved novels for people of all ages. Betty Smith uses honesty to cast on the experiences of people from around the world and all different circumstances‚ while Mark Twain adds the humor of children and their intelligence. Although in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ the setting‚ such as the city life or the tenement building‚ tells the reader a

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    While schools may perceive failure as “bad‚” in the world of entrepreneurialism‚ failure can be an asset. Napoleon Hill‚ author of Think And Grow Rich believes that‚ “Every failure carries with it a seed of equal or greater benefit.” By allowing children to fail they learn from their mistakes and understand what to do next time to achieve those goals they wrote down. Good Communication Skills

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    Dark Box Experiment Essay

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    0 Window seal = 1 Dark box = 215 The independent variable here is the temperature of where the dished were placed meaning they could grow quicker. For the Incubator‚ you can see that the count of colonies was very small compared to some others but the actual size of the colonies were much larger‚ meaning that the bacteria grows faster than it actually repopulates. This occurred because of the immense heat it was in while it was stored in the incubator. The controlled and dark box is what surprised

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    "In a dark time‚ the eye begins to see‚ . . . " comes from a 1966 poem by Theodore Roethke. I believe it is a dark time as far as our understanding of the world around us and yet I also believe that in some way darkness can enlighten us. To me this quote means that during hardships is when people begin to understand. I disagree with this quote because when a person is in a dark period of their life they often loose the ability to understand thing clearly. Just as in the two plays A Streetcar Named

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    The book “Child of the Dark” is written from Carolina’s point of view. She begins writing on July 15th‚ 1955‚ the birthday of her youngest child and daughter; her daughter’s name is Vera Eunice. The story continues to detail her life during 1958 and 1959. Carolina wants to buy her daughter new shoes for her birthday but they are poor. They live in the favela (ghetto) and Carolina struggles everyday to manage to feed her family. She has three children total‚ two sons and one daughter. Her sons’ names

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    weight of battling racism‚ sexism‚ and classism is not enough‚ black women in America also encounter the many stereotypes that are associated with being a black female‚ which manifested dating back to slavery. In their autobiographies‚ Unafraid of the Dark: A

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    light vs. dark

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    ENC 1102 (MW 8:30-9:45) Professor McBride Light vs. Darkness In the myth of the cave Plato and Socrates discuss the theory of having prisoners trapped in a cave chained‚ in where they are shown figures of the world being cast by shadows. Until one of the prisoners is dragged out into the real world and he experiences a change in perspectives. After realizing how wrong his perspective of the world was‚ he decides to share this information with the rest of the prisoners that are still trapped in

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