English 10 The Alchemist Discussion Questions Directions: Read the assigned selections and answer the following questions for each section. Answer each question thoroughly‚ using complete sentences and details from the novel. As you read and reflect on these questions‚ it is important to remember that The Alchemist is a fable. In fact‚ The Alchemist is subtitled "A Fable about Following Your Dreams." Like most fables‚ The Alchemist has a theme/moral that reflects a universal truth concerning life
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English 1 per 1 22 July‚ 2011 Holes 1. A. Zero admitted that he stole Clyde Livingston’s shoes. Zero got his nickname because everyone thinks he has nothing inside his head. B. Madame Zeroni is an old‚ Egyptian woman who was friends with Stanley’s great- great grandfather. She’s the woman who cursed Stanley’s family. C. Eyla Yelnats is Stanley’s great-great grandfather who caused his whole family to be cursed. D. Stanley goes to Camp Green Lake because he supposedly stole
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Book Review – Holes by Louis Sachar Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake because of a crime he actually did not commit. At the camp‚ bad boys are forced to dig a big hole every day to build character. Stanley makes friends with a quiet guy and together they disclose the secret of Camp Green Lake. But this is not the only story oft he book‚ you also learn about the history of Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a dry flat wasteland in Texas‚ there are not many trees or stones and most of
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A simple rock formation located in British Colombia‚ Canada‚ may not seem like much to the untrained eye‚ but to Charles Doolittle Walcott and other paleontologists‚ it is a treasure trove of thousands of uniquely preserved fossils. Millions of years ago‚ North America rested on the equator. Earth was still too young for terrestrial plants and animals to inhabit the hostile land; instead‚ they dwelled in the sea where a vast array of organisms thrived. The fossil records beautifully preserved
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kindred blood‚ and to lead the remnant into slavery”. In Creon’s opinion‚ Polyneices is so wicked that even gods do not want to see him buried. When asked whether the gods have covered Polyneices’ body‚ Creon replies angrily that “was it for high reward of trusty service that they sought to hide his nakedness‚ who came to burn their pillared shrines and sacred treasures‚ to burn their land‚ and scatter its laws to the winds”. Creon ‘s opinions are reasonable before Teiresias gives out the correct interpretation
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another of Ictinus’s masterpieces. As for the insatiable Lusieri‚ he returned to Greece in 1817 to load two more warships‚ the "Tagus" and the "Satellite" with gravestones‚ copperware and hundreds of vases. Indeed‚ the loading of Greece’s ancient treasures had become so fashionable that the captain of the "Satellite" moored his ship off Delos and removed sculptures that‚ following Lord Elgin’s example‚ he later offered to the British Museum. Elgin visited Delos in 1802 and removed an exquisite altar
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Even in an increasingly digital world‚ we continue to collect things like crows‚ filling junk drawers and bulletin boards with all manner of unnecessary “treasures”. The question is‚ if the preservation of human knowledge was at stake‚ what among our bedside tables and kitchen cabinets can stand to tell of our achievements? I am convinced an iPod‚ children’s picture book‚ and a Big Mac hold the future’s key
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SỞ GD & ĐT BÌNH ĐỊNH ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KỲ II – Năm 2010 Trường THPT Chuyên Lê Quý Đôn Môn:TIẾNG ANH - Khối: 11 CƠ BẢN Họ tên thí sinh: ....................................... Ngày kiểm tra: 10/05/2011 SBD: ...................................Lớp:............. Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút Đề này có: 02 trang‚ 40 câu Choose the best answer among A‚ B‚ C or D: 1. The first person ________ the classroom last Monday might know the reason. A. entered B. to
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defeated and killed in the battle of Panipat in 1526. Several palaces‚ wells and a mosque were built in the fort during the Lodi period. When Babur (the founder of Mughal dynasty) sent his son Humayun to Agra‚ he captured the fort and seized a vast treasure‚ which included the world famous Koh-i-noor’ diamond as well. Babur built a baoli (step-wall) here. Humayun was coronated here in 1530. Nazam‚ a water-carrier (saqqa). He also introduced the concept of square Persian-styled gardens here. Humnyun
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technique of calligraphy‚ which has some 4500 characters which some are still in use today. It seems that during the Shang Dynasty there was some sort of class system and this could be seen by how the kings of that time were buried with the people who served him and also with treasures this Showing that the kings were superior to the common folk. Also during this time the Chinese put into practice the world’s first system whereby individuals were selected for government service on the basis of merit and
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