BLOCK:BE DATE:May 17 To Kill A Mockingbird Reading Questions Chapter 1 What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb‚ Atticus Finch‚ and his family? maycomb: a tired town in Alabama atticus+family: Mom is dead‚ scout and jem are siblings‚ 4 years apart 2. What do you learn about Dill’s character? Charles baker harris’ nickname is Dill‚ who is friends with em and scout. he comes every summer to stay with his aunt 3. What‚ briefly‚ has happened to Arthur “Boo” Radley? as a boy‚ Boo got in trouble with
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Technology has been a very big contribution to this generation. Like everything in this world‚ things age as well as evolve and change. One aspect that has begun to change is where and how we use technology. Three major examples are in the work place‚ how we monitor our elderly parents or siblings‚ and how it improved our medicine. While these three topics may seem very different‚ after reading two articles from the New York Times and one from The New Yorker‚ “Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor
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Why Lutheran Education? To say education was important to Martin Luther would be an understatement. Most of the historical focus on his life and works remains with his work in polemics‚ translation‚ and biblical commentary. Not only was Luther a life-long learner of the Scriptures‚ he was also a skilled educator‚ though one may not always find his name immortalized in the hallowed halls of education like one could find his contemporary‚ Philip Melanchthon. This attitude‚ however‚ betrays an aspect
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can change many things in history and the same applies to Canadian history as well. There have been many events that have had an impact on Canadian history and the Winnipeg General Strike is one of such events that have made an impact on Canadian history. The Winnipeg General Strike happened on May 1‚ 1919‚ when members from the Winnipeg building-trade union went on a strike due to their employers refusing to negotiate a wage increase (Colyer & Co.‚ 2010). It has positively impacted Canada
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Make Music; Make History Think of a flute. By contrast to today’s auditory technology‚ it seems like such a simple instrument; a long rod with holes in it to pass air through creating sound. So simple in fact‚ a flute may have been the first musical instrument I history. A in Southern Germany‚ a flute similar to the one you’re thinking of was found‚ only this flute is thought to be 35‚000 years old.1 This flute’s story‚ unlike its build‚ is anything but simple. This flute is thought to be the mark
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did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was then followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests was the March on Washington. On August 28‚ 1963 more than 200‚00 people gathered together at the Lincoln Memorial in order to take part in the black civil rights movement. The March on Washington is also known as the March for freedom and jobs‚ it was one of the largest political rallies in history. The purpose of the March on Washington was
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These stories‚ histories‚ thoughts‚ and values were all gone. The persecuted people were being told what they could and could not do. They had lost their independence over their bodies and minds. From these events‚ Bradbury gained the inspiration to write his novel. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Guy Montag‚ a fireman‚ lives in a society in which books are illegal and free thought is limited. Instead of preventing fires‚ Montag and his co-workers start fires to burn up any books. No one has time to talk with
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My mom always talks about how she left her education after tenth grade and never got the opportunity to pursue her dreams in fashion designing. She was married at the age nineteen and had her first kid at the age of twenty-one. One thing she always tells me is‚ how she was deprived of an education and I‚ being lucky to be in America have the option to get educated and pursue my dreams. Women’s Rights has been an enormous part of our lives‚ it leads to women getting educated‚ have gender equality
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However‚ ’In recent years the role of Vikings in stimulating international trade and peaceful commerce has been emphasised‚ and their war like activities played down.’ Their skills at trading were unparalleled‚ opening up new routes between eastern and western Europe. Wealth therefore flowed through Britain and Northern England where the Vikings chose to settle. Their lasting footprint on the History and Identity of northern England is obvious through countless place name evidence‚ the development of
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after the great scientist who confirmed the big bang theory‚ was the solution to this and it has been in space for the more than 20 years it was supposed to live. Over the time‚ the telescope has sent home so much information that mankind has realized how little they knew about the universe. This paper covers the needs for the Hubble telescope in space‚ the impacts that it has had in physics and science and what eventually happens to the telescope when its time expires. Introduction Scientists
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