Alexandra Simmons Professor Collum English 1302.0410 February 21‚ 2013 “Saving Sourdi” Part I In “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai‚ the author creates Sourdi and Nea’s characters using description‚ narration‚ dialog‚ and commentary. Description “Sourdi looked like a statue that had been rescued from the sea. She was smooth where I had angles and soft where I was bone. Sourdi’s face was round‚ her nose low and wide‚ her eyes crescent-shaped like the quarter moon‚ her hair sleek as seaweed.
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given California’s water shortage‚ billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent to build a plant to make salt water into fresh water. However‚ besides the cost there is the issue of what to do with the waste created as expressed in the book The Ripple Effect: Perhaps the most contentious aspect of desalinization‚ however‚ is how to dispose of the highly concentrated salt brine left over from the plant’s water cleansing. Every hundred gallons of desalinated seawater yields fifteen to fifty gallons of drinking
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Earth’s Rotation Earth ’s rotation is the rotation of the solid Earth around its own axis. The Earth rotates from the west towards the east. As viewed from the North Star or polestar Polaris‚ the Earth turns counter-clockwise. The North Pole‚ also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole‚ is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth ’s axis of rotation meets its surface. This point is distinct from the Earth ’s North Magnetic Pole. The South Pole is the other point
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"How Cell Phones Have Changed Our Lives" What invention do you use every day? What invention could you not leave your house without? For me‚ it would be a cell phone. Forty years ago if someone would have said that everyone would have a cell phone‚ people would think they were crazy. According to a U.N. Telecom Agency report‚ the world has about six billion cell phones. That’s roughly one for eighty-six of one hundred people. There are several reasons why I believe that the invention that I think
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The Fox and the Crow A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree. "That’s for me‚ as I am a Fox‚" said Master Reynard‚ and he walked up to the foot of the tree. "Good-day‚ Mistress Crow‚" he cried. "How well you are looking to-day: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds‚ just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds." The
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Unit 5 |1. |Rising air expands and cools; sinking air is compressed and warms. Typically‚ the size of the temperature change is: | | |A. | | |5oF/1000 ft change in elevation going up‚ and 3oF/1000 ft coming down | | |
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Daylight savings time‚ it happens two times a year‚ causing a multitude of occurrence‚ some of these being good‚ while some are not so good. However‚ it has been a hot topic for debate recently. To keep daylight savings time‚ or to kick it to the curb is the question many congressmen are asking themselves. Keeping daylight savings time allows the people of the United States to continue with years of tradition implemented during war time that has been a part of their daily lives ever since which is
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Atmosphere of Earth From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "Air" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Air (disambiguation). "Qualities of air" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Air quality. Blue light is scattered more than other wavelengths by the gases in the atmosphere‚ giving the Earth a blue halo when seen from space onboard ISS at a height of 402–424 km. Composition of Earth’s atmosphere by volume. The lower pie represents the trace gases
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Is it surprising that scientific evidence supports a young earth perspective? Is it surprising that there are scientists that believe in a literal Genesis? To me‚ it is not surprising that scientific evidence support a young earth perspective because the Scripture which I believe is the owner’s manual of the earth proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the age of this earth is in thousands and not millions or billions years as believed by evolutionist. I commend the efforts and all the hard
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McCarty 1 Tammy L. McCarty Jan S. Ward ENG/270 09/12/2014 In Saving Sourdi‚ the little sister‚ Nea attempts numerous times to save her sister. First Nea attempts to save Sourdi from an unruly customer. At which she gets berated not only from her mother but also Sourdi. The second time is from Sourdi’s boyfriend Buck. The third time is from an older man‚ her Uncle’s friend‚ with which Soursi marries. The fourth time she involves Buck when she attempts to save her from her husband.
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