TASIS Summer Reading Guide Answers The Catcher in the Rye 1. Initial Understanding. Why is Phoebe Caulfield so mature for her age? Could it have been from past experiences in which she needed to be the adult in the situation? If Holden hadn’t misheard the little kid singing the poem would he still have realized that he wanted to be “a catcher in the rye” or would he still be lost and trying to find his place in the world? I wonder what would have happened if Holden had just come home to his
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So Much Media‚ So little News The Elusive Big Idea So little comments So little attention So much information‚ so little Idea The disease of new media has greatly shrink human minds that rub off on more and more people in this technology-accelerating world at present. Daily life nowadays has significant changed compare to ten years ago that office workers used to waiting for subway by reading a daily newspaper‚ housewives seating at balcony and reading a newspaper in the morning. But now
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Why Are Business Groups More Common In East Asia? It is thought that since the early 1960’s business groups have been a vital asset to the industrialization and economic growth of East Asian Countries. A ‘business group’ is a group of legally independent firms bound together in a formal or informal way. They have shown extreme rapid growth throughout East Asia‚ and have become a very controversial topic when relating to East Asia’s financial development‚ often being referred to as “paragons or
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Why are individuals so important to the NASA project teams? People are the most important thing NASA has got as asset‚ they are things that make a program so successful‚ these people are form the social capital of the organization. Indeed‚ the most important builders of these social capital networks in organizations are the experiences people have working together overtime. In an organization like NASA‚ where most work is project work‚ being part of a series of project teams with overlapping but
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Successful colonization for the European countries was to colonize African nations in order to gain land and money. Gaining land was important for the European countries because they wanted to have an advantage in wars. of these European countries‚ such as Britain‚ France‚ Belgium‚ etc.‚ achieved successful colonization. In this essay I will be looking more on the side of actually colonizing the country and not what happened after the colonization to make it “successful (gain in money‚ change in
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In chapter 19‚ 20‚ and 21 in the textbook Out of Many‚ gives us a brief summary about some aspects that occurred in the nineteen century. The reading by James R. Barrett mostly focuses on the workplace for immigrant that migrated to Chicago while the reading by Kathy Peiss concentrates on women in the workplace. Immigrants came to the United States to escape the poverty and religious intolerance that they once had to deal with in their countries. It wasn’t easy for these European Immigrants to arrive
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In Raymond Carver?s short story So Much Water So Close To Home it begins with Claire the narrator‚ describing her husband the main character of the story Stuart Kane. Claire is a very eloquent speaker and usually can?t agree with Stuart so she keeps to herself. Stuart and three of his friends Gordon Johnson‚ Mel Dorn‚ and Vern Williams had planned a fishing trip to the Naches River just like they usually do every spring. How ever the events that would happen on this trip would affect Stuart?s and
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introduction of xtc in the Netherlands 30 years ago the drug has been very popular‚ especially as a party drug. In 2013 more than half of the Dutch people from the age of 18-25 admitted they used xtc at least once that year (Elsevier‚ 2013). So how did xtc become so popular in the Netherlands? Design The data used for this research was collected using two different methods. The first part of data was obtained through a large scale research about xtc use on large scale dance events done by Govert van
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reach an agreement on the main outline of an emergency aid plan until late March. On April 11‚ EU leaders finally approved a massive European bailout mechanism in addition to IMF loans‚ which Greece formally submitted a request for on April 23. Why did it take so long for the bailout plan to be adopted? The EU’s capacity to take swift and efficient action was sorely tested by the Greek crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel long resisted emergency loans‚ largely because of fierce German public opposition
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Why was the Treaty of Versailles so unpopular in Germany? The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty that was drawn up by the Allies and Germany after the First World War. It was made to prevent Germany from starting a war again and to pay back the Allies for the money they had spent. The Germans had hoped that the Allies would treat them fairly in the negotiations for the treaty‚ but the Allies‚ in particular France‚ believed that Germany should be brought to its knees. France was not as satisfied
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