Silvia Baxter Miss Phillips Honors English 9 12 December 2010 “ A Separate Peace” Vocabulary Ch. 11-13 Inveigled Sentence- “Who else could have inveigled twenty people to the farthest extremity of the school to throw snowballs at each other?” Definition- To trick‚ deceive‚ wheedle Fortitude Sentence- “..a difference between us and them‚ a difference which everyone struggled with awkward fortitude to bridge.” Definition- Physical and/or emotional strength Incredulously
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Forms of exotic dancingIn a non-erotic sense‚ the word "exotic" applies to the fact that something is out of the ordinary or perceived by spectators as unusual. It can also apply to those dancers who master a rare or largely lost art form‚ including whirling dervishes‚ shaman dancers and religious dancers. Middle Eastern dance is often referred to as exotic dance in this way‚ though its use of hip/pelvic movement and isolation often results in its conflation with exotic dance in the erotic sense.
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from the Mayan storm god Hurakan was famous for helping create humanity and for being like wind and storms. Hurricanes like Katrina‚ Andrew‚ Sandy‚ and Inged and lots of others. Could be able to reach a diameter of 100 km-1500 km ‚and would be whirling around so I would stay a satisfactory distance away. Also it could have a chance to reach a rotation speed of 350km/hour isn’t that outstanding? The pressure at the center is able to reach 870-990 mb. now that is somewhere I wouldn’t want to be anywhere
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move across the arc of the sky. Motion - it’s everywhere in the universe. Nothing is really standing still. We humans ride on a sphere that spins on an axis as it revolves around a star‚ a rotating star in orbit with 100 billion other stars in a whirling galaxy that’s moving over 1 million kilometers an hour in an expanding universe. Some of this motion can be viewed over the course of a few minutes‚ and some requires centuries or millennia to be perceived. Over thousands of years‚ our ancestors
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are the most defining for Louie are sturdy and forgiving. Louie is sturdy in many different ways. Hillenbrand states‚ “The corporal seemed compassionate and regretful‚ and Louie felt grateful. The relief was just entering his mind when the buckle‚ whirling around from the Bird’s
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bold Lifts high a dress of silken gold. Oh‚ singing tree! Oh‚ shining rivers of the soul! Were Eve’s eyes In the first garden Just a bit too bold? Was Cleopatra gorgeous In a gown of gold? Oh‚ shining tree! Oh‚ silver rivers of the soul! In a whirling cabaret Six long-headed jazzers play. Langston Hughes wrote “Jazzonia” in the 1920s as a declaration of his anger of the oppression of black people in Harlem whom were not allowed to visit the high-end jazz clubs in the city. The title “Jazzonia”
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scarecrow is 12. Welty does not give the man a name because He represents Welty is proving that 13. The nickel is significant because 14. Natchez represents Its oak trees represents Its steeple and cabins represent Its little black children whirling around her represent Its paved streets represent 15. Missy who ties Phoenix’s shoelaces represents 16. The entry to the building was The stairs and its
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In 2005‚ the brave Kira Salak decides to travel up the Niger river alone‚ in a kayak. The book “600 Miles to Timbuktu”‚ by Kira Salak it tells all about her adventure. She started in Malain and had to go all the way to Timbuktu. The day she wanted to leave a major thunderstorm hits. Thunder booms and lightning streaks the sky. But no matter what the weather‚ she was going to make it to Timbuktu. Another event that happened during this long trip was‚ as Salak was traveling the calm river‚ the
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The awe-inspiring features of the world are seen throughout nature. Among these incredible characteristics are birds. Birds migrate in amazing numbers. Birdwatchers delight at the opportunity to see birds migrate. John James Audubon and Annie Dillard are two writers who were able to witness the flight of the birds. They each described the flights differently‚ though. John James Audubon has a pragmatic view and Annie Dillard uses diction in describing both the birds and conveying the effect the birds
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in a way ties it to one thing‚ "a tree." c. Even though humans think of things with two sides‚ the tree has three sides the three blackbirds with individual thoughts that differ but are somehow alike. Stanza III 3. a. Playful - The blackbird "whirling" in the autumn winds‚ like a child during fall. b. Detail - The blackbird’s act of flight is like a "pantomime" or performance. c. Blackbird enjoying the autumn winds‚ and contributing to its performance. Stanza IV 3.a. Unity - "are one" combining
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