...watch his father beat his older brother to death and made his mother lie to the police on what happened to his brother. Here are some of the things that took place in Richards’s life that are questionable to whether this cause him to become what he became or was it just an excuse for him to lean on. I will dig into some of his life and then do my comparison at the end of my brief summary of Mr. Kuklinski life history. Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband and a father of three beautiful children living in a middle class neighborhood in Jersey City New Jersey. Mr. Kuklinski committed over 200 murders in a decade’s time which to this day was noted as the most murders committed by any one person in the history of the United States known to man. Richard was a unique person because he was able to live two lives while not only throwing off his family of what he did for a living but also his neighbors. His wife of over forty years never questioned her husband of where he was going when he left the house all hours of the night. All she knew his job...
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...the control of their life in their own arms, which actually volumes to an act of fantastic defiance, especially if we keep in thoughts the particular conditions of Ayah’s situation. Thus, though being a novel which seemingly prioritizes a man at least in its name, Ice-Candy-Man slightly but successfully subvert discussion of patriarchy and rights women will, option and durability along with the feministic features of sympathy and becoming a mother. In her novel The Ice-Candy-Man, Sidhwa deals with the problem of communal riots in the wake of Partition. Sidhwa's depiction of communal riots is touching as well as shocking. Children and women suffer the most. The horrors of Partition are depicted without histrionics. Lenny, the child narrator is eight year old. She suffers from Polio and records her observations about her surroundings in a detached manner. She observes social change around her and narrates it from a child's point of view. Lenni's mother, Mrs. Sethi and other Parsi women help Hindu and Sikh families and kidnapped Hindu women to move to safer places. Lenny's Godmother rescues the Hindu Ayah who had been forcibly married to her Muslim friend, the seller of ice-candies. Ayah reaches Amritsar safely. The analysis ofIce-Candy-Man reveals that the female characters pulsate with a will and life of their own. While these characters are unselfconscious of the biological essential ism of their sex, they cut loose the constraints imposed by the gender which is a...
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...Figure 4.8 from the textbook to fill in the following chart. Specify the type and size and description of the particle. In some cases, particle size will be less than some value or greater than another value. For instance, gravel is greater than 2.0 mm. |Name |Size |Description | |Gravel |>2.0 mm |Limestone, dolomite , sand mixture of pebbles and small rocks | |Sand |>2mm |Quartz, gypsum,mollusk shell, coral fragments basalt pumice. colloids | |Silt |>0.01mm |Sedimentary rock, water, wind, ice include colloids. | |Clay |>0.002mm |Plasticity, firm,silicate, granite, alumina limestone, colloids | |Colloids |>0.00001mm |Molecules, colored glass, tiny grain of sand, silt, and clay. | Part 2 Soils have been classified according to a system developed by soil scientists and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Using this classification system of soil orders, pick two locations on Earth, one in your current area and another area, and describe the order and the conditions that define it. (See Figure 4.12 in the textbook.) 1. Seattle Washington: 2. Bakersfield California...
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...Olaf Olafsson - ”On the Lake” While reading novels and books, the reader's emotions will be set on a roller coaster. If you had to illustrate the feelings you get while reading “On the Lake” by Olaf Olafsson, you would probably be illustrating a frozen ice pond, with you walking on the slippery surface. Suddenly you notice that the surface is cracking with every single step you take. Step after step the cracks become more and more pronounced, and you can only think of two things. First thing being reaching safety, while the second is wondering what made the ice start cracking? Splash! Suddenly, you fall through the thick layer of ice covering the beautiful blue water underneath. Though the water isn't near deep enough to drown in, the shock of the cold water flowing beside your skin, freezes every muscle, and spur's your memory of the small, almost imperceptible sound the ice made when it began to crack. Later, after you finally get out of the water, that memory dominates all your other memories of the event. You can now only think of the failure to find the problem in time, and by that stopping the accident from happening. Olaf Olafsson portrays in his novel "On the Lake," a marriage that seems happy. It's easy to pass by the moment the unraveling begins when reading it, but as the story reaches it's ending, the unraveling will create an “earthquake” of problems leaving you stunned. 1) Write a summary of ”On the Lake” The story's protagonists are the Icelandic couple...
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...journals. On an idle Thursday, when my mind was free of frustration, I read the crumpled, yellowed pages of my black leather journal and saw a natural progression from black to color. I had precisely captured all my experiences, but in an entirely aesthetic way. From then on, every time I opened my journal, I found myself in an unfamiliar environment writing to capture a mood or scene with creative language. It was my therapeutic getaway from reality. In the summertime, every Sunday, after taking a rattling cold bus, two smoky, humid subway trains, and picking up the best peanuts on 114th street, I would arrive at Riverside Park, New York. I wrote at least one piece every time I was there and shared my work with the same old man who perused the New York Times and the same skinny college student who sunbathed in her bikini. After noting any criticism they gave, I would return home, edit and embellish each piece. This is what I enjoyed most. This is what I wanted to do. But this is not what a first generation American son of strict Indian Muslim parents pursues. He is to become a doctor, lawyer, or businessperson—not a writer. My parents told me that I would either make it big or not make it at all, and no one knew for sure what was destined to happen to me if I were to choose the writing path. My...
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...Ice Man – Elmore Leonard 2012 The title “Ice Man” can be referred to a person we meet in the short story. His is called for “iceman”, but his real name is Darryl Harris. The Iceman works for “immigration and Customs Enforcement”. He is a white man who is racists, we can see that the way he treats the Indian boys. He seems like a cold man as his nickname “ICE” The short story takes place in the US and it is about Victor and his friends Nachee and Billy Cosa. Victor loves to ride bulls and he is very good at it. When Victor turns twenty he wins 4,000 dollars at the All - Indian National Rodeo in Palm Springs. After that Victor and his friends - Nachee and Billy Cosa, decides to celebrate his rides at the bar where they drinks some tequilas and talk. Victor tells his friends, how he learned to ride bulls while he was working for his boss Kyle McCoy. At the bar he sees police officers that are at the bar to check if there are any workers without permission. Victor also noticing that a white man (Darryl Harris) at the bar watching Victor and his friends. The white man is working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asks Victor about his age. The white man provokes and threatens Victor to accuse him for something he didn’t do. Victor and his “NDN brother” (10) Nachee and Billy Cosa are Indian. Victor is from a “Mimbreno Apache”(8) and his to friends Nachee and Billy Cosa is from “Mojave” (9) tribe. We don’t get so much information about the boys, but Victor is twenty...
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...You are in a very crowded fast-food restaurant and all of the sudden you hear an argument has been started between and older man and a younger man. The younger man spits into the older man’s face and runs away. The man is furious and starts to chase his attacker. You notice there is a wet floor caution sign in the middle of the restaurant. The older man loses his balance as he chased after the young man. There are chairs and tables all around. The younger man starts to throw the chairs at the older man. Witnesses try to restrain both the young man and older man. The younger man escape outside to the patio of the restaurant and the older man follows. The older man trips on a chair, when he gets up there is a lot of blood coming from his head....
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...“Probably!” Pedro hisses. “I don't trust probably!” he says as Josh starts to climb up the rope. “Just deal with it. We’re already pretty far up the mountain, so there isn't much we can do about it. Anyway-,” Jeff replies, until he is cut off by Pedro’s yelling. “Josh! The ice is crumbling! You're gonna start a landslide!” Pedro screams. “Huh? Wha-” he shouts back until the hook dislodges and he is thrown back onto the ground. “Agggggggggh!” “Oh my god! Are you ok!?” Jeff shouts as he sprints over. “Yeah, just a few bruises.” Josh says. “I’ll be probably fine.” he says as he looks off into the distance. “The sun is setting, so we should probably set up camp right now anyways.” “Pedro, try to find some dry wood that we could try to use to make a fire,” Jeff orders. “Fine,” Pedro grumbles as he walks off through the thick forest on the side of the mountain. After 20 minutes of searching, he finally finds something interesting. “Guys! Get over here!”,...
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...winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to slide across the ice on my feet. I found this fun and all, until one day it took a turn for the worst. We were at the local Wal-Mart and we had just got dumped on with four feet of snow. The snowplows were right in the middle of clearing out the parking lot so they were leaving paths of solid ice, perfect for sliding on. My mom never fancied me sliding across the ice. She would always say...
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...and how people are treating our planet. One of the facts that really caught my attention was that the water cycle is never broken – there is always the same amount of water on Earth. I never really thought about it that way, but as soon as I heard the narrator say that, I thought about all the cycles in life that happen every single day. The narrator then goes to mention that every species on Earth has a role to play. This also caught my attention Overall I found the film to be very factual as well. I thought about the facts of how our Earth is going downhill over time and it really makes me want to do something about it. I learned that global warming is really taking a large toll on our precious Earth. One example of this is the arctic ice cap is melting. It has lost 40% of its mass in the last 30 years. Another example of how the Earth is at risk is how by 2050, a quarter of the Earth’s species are going to be threatened with extinction. This frightens me and really makes me wonder what we as humans are doing wrong to affect our Earth this way. It frightens me that 70% of the Earth’s population lives in poverty. It frightens me that since 1950, the Earth’s population has nearly tripled. What are we going to do when those who lack basic necessities run out? Are those who live in poverty going to die off? When is this destruction of our Home going to...
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...How and why do Glaciers move? Glaciers are large masses of ice that are continuously changing and may be perceived as an open system with inputs and outputs. They take up 10% of the world’s total land area and are usually found in Polar Regions like Antarctica and Greenland and places where there are high altitudes and low latitudes. Fresh falling snow is made up of tiny ice crystals and after it lands it changes into solid ice. Newly fallen snow is light and porous, but as the snow becomes buried by more snow, the snowflakes change into granular ice called firn. As time passes the firn gets buried further causing the weight above it to compress it into solid ice. The force of gravity and the pressure of the ice cause the glacier to move downhill. The ice mass will stay stationary until it reaches a certain amount of thickness and when the ice reaches this amount of thickness, the pressure becomes great enough to cause the glacier to deform and move. The ice will move away from where there is the most pressure (thickest part of the glacier). Glaciers can retreat or advance depending on the amount of snow accumulation and ablation that occurs from year to year. If accumulation exceeds ablation, then the mass of the glacier will increase which causes the glacier to advance. If the snout moves to an area of lower latitude ablation will increase and eventually equilibrium will be re-established. Retreating and advancing of glaciers are very slow processes and takes hundreds...
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...Introduction Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin or inventor has been undisputedly credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavoured with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavoured with fruits and juices. Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition. Most are low in fat and calories but are bulky and filling. They supply dietary fibre and are important sources of essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Particularly important are the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E. When vegetables are included in the diet, there is found to be a reduction in the incidence of cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease and other chronic ailments. Vegetable and Ice cream are now combined and offered by Sherbet Snow Company a newly established Ice cream brand that will satisfy the taste and preferences of every individual. Sherbet Snow Company will offer customers in Tacurong City and nearest town a variety of vegetable flavoured ice creams, frozen yogurt, and drinks. It is an ice cream store designed to stand out as a healthy lifestyle brand with homemade ice cream using vitamins and minerals sourced ingredients, as well as establishing itself as a comfortable environment...
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...Sample Narrative Essay: Group Ice Bucket Challenge Thesis: event + meaning Part 1: Receive challenge; learn more about ALS; buy supplies – Allison, Breanne, and I were eating lunch in the cafeteria when Simon walked up with his phone. Hey!” Simon said, pulling out his smart phone. It was obvious he wanted to show us something. We said hi back, waiting for him to pull up what he wanted us to see. “You’ve been challenged on Facebook! Are you going to do it?” Breanne looked puzzled. “Do what?” she asked. “The ice bucket challenge!” Simon replied. People sitting at tables surrounding us all looked up and at us. One shouted, “Do it!” Allison said, “Well, we’ve been challenged, so we might as well.” She and I shrugged. Simon raised his arms in victory and walked away. Part 2: Drive home; conversation – We all struggled to pay attention during class that day. All we could think about was the ice bucket challenge. How cold would the water be? Would it hurt? Who would record us taking the challenge? Whom would we nominate to take the challenge after us? We talked about all this after school, driving in Breanne’s car to Allison’s house, a cozy ranch house off Keebler Street. Along the way, Breanne surprised us by suddenly swerving into the parking lot of our local Food Lion. Allison said, “Why are we st…” but trailed off, figuring out mid-question that Breanne was buying the ice we needed. We only bought ice. “Ice bucket challenge?” the cashier said, ringing us up. We all nodded. “We...
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...1 2 3 4 A White Christmas requires at least 2 cm on the ground on Dec 25. Snow cover maps are produced from data obtained by satellites. 5 Snow is unstable shortly after a heavy snowfall because the crystals need time to bond to the snowpack. 6 7 8 Hoar is another term for ice crystals. The lee slope is the downwind slope (ice crystals are prone to accumulate there since they are easily carried by the wind). 9 10 11 The extra weight from snowstorms triggers the avalanche. Skiing and snowboarding are human-caused examples of avalanche triggers. If a snowpack is determined to be very deep and at risk for failing, explosives may be triggered to force the snow down. 12 13 14 Orientation: The direction that a slope faces (i.e. west, east, north, south). “Smoothness” refers to a lack of boulders, obstacles, etc. 15 16 Deaths occurred during that time due to the presence of workers building the continental railway. A closed highway in western Canada can have a huge economic impact. (There are only 4 highways connecting British Columbia and Alberta). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The mounds (in the foreground slow down the avalanche) and the berm collects the snow preventing it from reaching the populated area. 25 The image shows an avalanche shed in British Columbia allowing snow to travel over a highway. 26 27 28 29 30 Avalanche cords...
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...Physicist alike are still trying to overcome. Which planet would we want to live on? We chose a moon proven to have liquid water under its surface, Enceladus. With other living options out there like Mars, or Titan (one of Saturn’s larger moons) we chose in our opinion one of the least taxing and more accommodating locations. Where and Why Enceladus? Enceladus is a one of the Saturn’s moons. Enceladus measures about 500 km (310 miles) in diameter. It has an orbit cycle of 33hrs around Saturn .It is the brightest of Saturn’s moons and currently the only known moon in our solar system to have a surface comprised of pure water ice. It also has many active regions that shoot plumes of water ice from its surface high above toward Saturn. This is important to note because this creates friction and friction creates heat. The average surface temperature near these ice plumes is about -135 °F which is far warmer than you would expect considering Saturn’s distance from our sun. Enceladus provides us with one of the most important things human’s need to survive. Water. With Enceladus’ surface being solid, and liquid water present beneath the surface it wouldn’t be difficult to...
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