...you’re favorite football team scores a touchdown. When you come into the ball park, you will be greeted by a person who is either in a bad mood or a good mood, depending on the weather usually. Don’t be afraid though, they are very friendly. Once you have gotten into the game then finding your seat could be the hardest part seeing as there are only 20,000 seats. Many people spend half the game looking for their seats. Once you have found you’re seat then you will be so hungry that you must go get some food. The food of a baseball game could cost you a pretty penny, but it is well worth it. Whether it’s a man who has over priced beer or a cotton candy stand in the corner, the food is a must in a ballpark no matter the price. The people that work at the stadium are very friendly and are always willing to help. So no matter what the weather, ballparks are a great place to get away. I wrote this paragraph trying to point out the great things about a ballpark. I know as a kid we went to a baseball game every Sunday just to get away from the everyday life. It is a good place to get some relaxation. I wanted to show how loud the crowd tends to get when a home run is hit by using the word “roar” so that the reader could get the picture. I also used a simile to compare the sound you hear when a touchdown is scored to the sound you hear when a home run is hit. The third line of the paragraph was intended to give a picture of either an angry person or a peaceful person when they take your tickets...
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...on, but she plays a very important role in the book. In the book no matter what happens it happens according to Scout, so it basically all centers her and has to do with anything that she does. She is known as a lot of things in the book both good and bad but needs to know when and where it is a good time to reveal what she knows. She is from the ages 6-9 when telling this book, but had wrote it as an adult, Scout has some very interesting character traits such as she is very loyal, to whom she cares about, tomboyish, she doesn't mind getting her hands dirty, and...
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...The Sopranos, drugs, and mobs, just a few things people think of when they think of “Dirty Jersey,” except of course the people, like me who reside in this beautiful state. Out-of-Staters imagine smoke stacks, tall buildings, city streets and thick “joisy” accents. Not exactly a flattering image if you ask me. This proves very annoying to the average “Joisyian” and it’s not true to any extent. Asking my friends what they thought about Jersey, I got the following response: “it smells, there are beaches… North Jersey is dirty and South Jersey is for rich people” another common reaction was “New York wannabe” and “Pennsylvanians garbage goes there”. I don’t quite understand why people have this opinion, but I certainly do not agree with it on any level. A major consensus remains that Jersey should be taken off the map! But why? To me all this prejudice toward Jersey never seemed to make any sense. Just as Jon Bon Jovi, Whitney Huston, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Springsteen do, I call the beautiful state of New Jersey home. I’m sure Frank, Bruce, Jon and Whitney don’t appreciate the bad reputation that Jersey gets for what ever the reason may be either. Some interesting trivia information: The Statue of Liberty actually is placed on New Jersey territory. So take that New Yorkers! All those pins and “I love NY” shirts with Lady Liberty on them are all wrong. “I love NJ” that’s right I said it, I DO LOVE NJ. Some people believe that New Jersey has a lot of malls, if this is...
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...Charley kills so many men at Gettysburg, he loses count, and ends up being shot at the end. After the war, which leaves Charley crippled, both physically and mentally, he considers himself old by the things he has seen and how they left his mind. He does not want to start a family because of this, and at the same time he can not hold a job. He says so himself: “He was tired and broken,” (pg. 98). Charley takes secluded picnics by the creek in an attempt to clear his mind of the thoughts of war that cloud his thinking and dirty his mind. He attempts to think of “pretty things”, like the pretty girls and parades prior the war. It doesn’t always work; Charley even contemplates for a second shooting himself with his revolver before he sets it down and tries to think of pretty things. Going to war, Charley looks for adventure, not expecting to come back a young man with a soldier’s heart. Charley leaves for war excited about parades and pretty girls, but by the time the first battle is finished, those things are the last thing on his mind. Throughout the book, Charley experiences things that leaves him scared and unhappy sometimes with just the thought of living. With all the things Charley sees in the war, nothing can change him back to how he used to...
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...(popular) 9. My English is ……………………………………….. your English. (good) 10. The weather today is ………………………………………. the weather yesterday. (bad) 11. This garden is …………………………………………….. that garden. (large) 12. Elizabeth is ……………………………………………. girl in our group. (beautiful) 13. I am ……………………………………………… girl in the class. (short) 14. What is ……………………………………….. film on TV today? (funny) 15. Who is ………………………………………… girl in your class? (pretty) B) Fill in the blanks as in the example: I went on holiday last year but it was a disaster! My hotel room was .. smaller than … (small) the one in the photograph in the brochure. I think it was ……………………………… (small) room in the hotel. The weather was terrible too. It was ………………………………… (cold) in England. The beach near the hotel was very dirty – it was ……………………………….. (dirty) all the beaches on the island. The food was …………………………………………. (expensive) I expected and I didn’t have enough money. One day I went shopping in a big department store and I broke a vase. It was …………………………………………………… ( expensive) vase in the whole shop. But ………………………………………. (bad) thing all was that I lost my passport and I couldn’t go back home. It was ………………………………………….. (horrible) holiday all my life. C) Complete the sentences: DAVID Age Weight Height Salary House 25 70 kgs 1.68 $800/month 3 rooms TOM 30 72 kgs 1.72 $1000/month 4 rooms GEORGE 35 75 kgs 1.80...
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...can be thought of as an active process of creating meaning in which the person is selecting, organizing, and interpreting the things around them (Wood 68). Meaning, people are constantly evaluating other people as well as their surroundings. For instance, a person may think that somebody is broke or a disgusting individual to talk to just because they wear dirty clothes. These types of perceptions are made from prototypes and stereotypes. Perception is not just limited to new people are situations, even old friends and family members as well as your self can perceive you in a different way just by a change in appearance. There are many things a person can change about themselves but see that can elicit a strong response from others as well as themselves. Those that know me know that I do not shave. Other than an occasional trimming my facial hair pretty much stays intact. Knowing this, I took it all off. Deciding to shave completely smooth was, for me, a difficult task. For days I was continually talking myself out of it. It took years beyond puberty to grow and at first it felt like just a rite of passage. But the more I tried to remove that the more I realized I may not the appearance of what is underneath. This was an uphill struggle and I felt like I could be perceived in a negative way. For this project however, this was the perfect thing to change and after all of the deliberation off it went. Once I convinced myself to finally do it the change was immediately...
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...“Is that you, Jem Finch? You got your sister with you,” Jessie was saying. I could hear her from my bed. Goodness gracious, I need it. No, I can’t. I must last. I must get over this. “So you brought that dirty little sister of yours, did you?” Jem exclaimed, “My sister ain’t dirty and I ain’t scared of you.” I was ninety-somethin’ years. I was too tired and old to get into this again. I just got over it. “You may commence reading, Jeremy.” There’s only 20 minutes. I can get through this. I will get through this. Occasionally Jeremy would skip a word, but I caught him for it and made him spell it out. This helped me get through the reading session, listenin’ for mistakes and fixing them. Eventually I couldn’t hang on anymore, so I sunk down...
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... 2 Our children are the leaders of tomorrow. That is why it is imperative that they are raised with care and understanding. Most children today are raised by parents with certain social expectations of them depending on their gender. If they happen to be boys, they are expected to be outgoing, mischievous, and always in the mood to get dirty. Since this is the boys’ expectations, the girls are expected to be the total opposite. Girls are expected to be dainty, pretty and nice. If these standards could not be met, then the child would probably be reprimanded. It is my belief that parents and teachers should stop enforcing these gender roles on their children because gender roles do not let the children find out what they like or want to do. It limits the children’s creativity, and makes children feel like outcasts, when they do not fit into these roles. When we confine our children to gender roles we are limiting them all of their rights as human beings. Most people do not realize that gender roles are detrimental to our youth. Since children are biased to like certain things according to these roles, this can be very confusing for them to establish their own identity. These roles are often...
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...to talk to you about an experiment I did in my childhood with an incubator. It was a joyful experience for me. The first important thing I needed to do in order to hatch chicken eggs was to find an incubator. That was the easy part since I could borrow one from my school. It wasn’t actually an incubator. it was a device that students in 5th grade had to make, and it worked like an incubator with a few differences. The device could only be used to maintain the temperature needed for the experiment. The rest I had to do by hand. It was plugged into electricity 24 hours a day, and it had a lamp inside it to make the area warm and light. Finding the incubator was pretty easy. Using it was a little harder. I had to find the right eggs, if I wanted to hatch them and turn them into chickens eventually. First I had to make sure they weren’t stored for more than 7 days. Old eggs weren’t going to turn into chickens. And I also had to make sure that they were stored in a cool humid area, and were not damaged, and didn’t have any holes or cracks. Size of the eggs was important too. They had to be of a normal size; not so big or small. I had a pretty hard job making sure they had all these qualities. Finally I could find six eggs that had these qualities. Over all this part wasn’t easy or even fun for me. Now that I had all the things I needed, I had to start the process. I had to turn them 4 times a day for 18 days. The whole experiment took 29...
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...able to recognize where it would be appropriate to give it. She does have softness toward her family internally that she does not express due to inability until she is overcome at the death of her grandmother. 2. On page 771, the narrator describes herself by listing the qualities she lacks. What do we learn about her? What does this approach to self-description, or self-assessment reveal about the way she thinks? Because of the way she is treated by her family, as an outcast, she adopts a self-deprecating attitude toward herself. We learn that she is not as dainty as her sisters and does not engage in the same activities as they do such as embroidery. She thinks of herself as a lesser part of her family and states that she is not "pretty or nice" like her older sisters. The narrator is the youngest of a group of sisters and is bullied by them and her father for being different, for not conforming. She distances herself to find some sanity within her family unit. Thankfully, her Abuelita is able to make her feel useful and appreciated. The narrator does not think very highly of herself and this is reinforced through violent home behavior that ends when she leaves her home, this is why she finds such solace in her Abuelita's...
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...English assignment 1. Characterise the victim/girl. The victim is dressed like a hugger. If you look at the close it seems dirty, and it looks like she got raped. She looks poor, but also like she could be pretty if she had taken car of herself. If you ask Grace McColl she looked like nobody had taken car of her, like her parents were dead, or didn’t existed for her. She has had a difficult childhood, and has been let down so many times, so she doesn’t really trust other people anymore. And the way she talks to people isn’t as pretty as it could be. 2. Characterise Grace McColl. Grace McColl is a very strong willed detective, who keeps her mind on the job and the goal (to find the killer). She like her job and like to help other people. Just like the victim/girl, she also had a difficult childhood but she manage to get over it and got an education and a real life job. She can relate to the victim, and can tell a lot of things because of that. She know how it is for the girl, she know how it is when you can’t trust anyone. 3. Discuss the difference in gender roles between the victim and Grace McColl. The difference between Grace and the victim is that they both had a hard and difficult childhood. The effect it had on the victim was just a lot different, than the effect it had on Grace. Grace grows up and got a job, and a life. The victim ended up just like her parents. It’s like the social heritage, some manage to break it, and some don’t. some place they are...
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...that his nose is broken. Thankfully I didn't kick that hard. He should be fine in a couple days. It's already been two, and I think he's out of the hospital wing already.* *Well I'm grateful that it's basically almost healed right now. But this is now a difficult situation. Alma wants a good excuse to kill Gale, but I don't want him dead. It's a weird thing. The dinner bell rings, interrupting my thoughts, and I leave for dinner.* /I know Boggs probably wants me dead right now, but Coin likes me, I'm pretty sure of that. At least more than some others. I make my way to the dining hall, waving to Katniss as I pass her./ *As I near the hall, someone bumps into me. Gale.* /I'm close to the room when a large figure I strangely recognize crashes into me. Boggs. I take a step back, but feel like that's wrong, so I resume my original position. I don't think I'm scared to fight back, but some guilt seeps into me as I take in the bandage on his nose./ *I see his eyes stray to the gauze where he kicked me, and can tell he's guilty. "Hey, I respect you for that."* /I'm shocked. He respects me for fighting dirty?/ *"For playing dirty, that's right. Sometimes, you got to do what you got to...
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...Malaria Tiffany Holbrook SCI115 Biology December 6, 2012 “The development of a genetic vaccine against malaria, its mode of administration, and its possible mode of action. “ Malaria is a desease in which there are vast research studies going on to develop a vaccine. Malaria is a life threatening desease caused by paprasites that are transmitted to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. Malaria is preventable and curable however there is no effective vaccine in place. Malaria kills about one million people each year. The hardest hit is countries that are undeveloped like Africa. The children of Africa are the most vulnerable due to the poverty: no food and dirty water. Dirty swampy water is breeding gound for mosquitos. 1 in every 5 childhood deaths is due to malaria and its effect of the desease. In my research of this desease I came across PATH Malaria Vaccine Iniative. They work in connections with GSK(GlaxoSmithKline) who have developed the Vaccine RTS,S/AS for the treatment of Malaria. GSK is one of the worlds leading research Pharmacuetical headcare companies. They have been working on the improving the Vaccine since 1980 and have finished with PhaseII test study. They did this study in children ages 1-4 and adminisitered the vaccine along with child vaccinations that they would normally get. The study came back positve and they saw a decline in the study group that clinical Malaria incidents were down. The RTS,S/AS is administered intradermally with a...
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...Analytical Essay – My Son The Fanatic For many people it can be hard to break out of the social inheritance, which we all have. It takes time, effort and often, a lot of money. This is just one of the many things, that is happening on in the short story “My Son The Fanatic”. My Son The Fanatic is about Ali and his father Parvez. It takes us threw Ali´s life and how his father Parvez, has a big impact on Ali´s life it. It also shows us the ups and downs in the little families’ lives. The main focus in my analysis is going to be the relationship between Ali and his father, and also on how the relationship develops, how the father helps his son. I also want to look at, the impact that Ali has in his father’s life. If he changed him in any way, maybe Parvez is just living his own life, without any influence from his son, Ali. I will also tell a bit about the environment in the short story. The short story My Son The Fanatic is a about a boy Ali, whom goes to college. He is very religious, a Muslim. He is independent and sees Parvez' beloved Britain as a fraudulent cocktail of "a sink of hypocrites, drug takers and prostitutes.” He seems to bear no resemblance to his father and be very resentful towards his way of sees life. His father Parvez is the caring, protective husband, whose dream is Britain itself; to have his son grow up, educating as an accountant, shine at cricket and school and then set off to marry a good girl and commence his own life. He...
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...with her parrents. She is pretty, smart and she fits in well with the life of school. Nancy Lee does well in school and the teachers like her "You have been an excellent student" (P.61 L.31). She is at senior art class at the George Washington's high school, where she just painted a picture, which is in the competition of the art scholarship of the year. At the beginning, she wins the competition, but when the judges find out that she is a Negro, they give away the 1st. place to another person. Nancy is a girl with her heart at the right place as she thinks much of other people "now mother can have a new coat next winter" (P.63. L.10).This is what she is thinking about doing in the future if she would win the scholarship the next years. The dreams of Nancy also show that she is a goodhearted person, especially when it comes to people of her own race. The way that her dreams is pointing out her goodness, is the dream about America being a country without race discrimination. Nancy Lee and Miss O'Shay, who is the vice principal, have some things in common. They are both from another country, and both the Irish and the black people who immigrated to America have been exposed to discrimination "years ago we were called the dirty Irish" (P.67. L.1) and "we were invited to go back where we came from." (P.67 L.2). Another thing that Nancy and Miss O'Shay...
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