I’m Not Scared CHAPTER SUMMARIES CHAPTER 1: Main characters have a race‚ Maria hurts her leg. Barbara forced to complete a forfeit‚ Michele does it instead. Michele completes forfeit. Most of the main characters are talked about. Papa brings them a present of a model Gondola; Acqua Traverse is revealed. CHAPTER 2: There is a talk with Michele and Maria at the start. Michele finds Fillipo‚ there is a lot of description of Michele finding him. Michele at this point is horrified‚ he tries to
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Reading Summary Alanna Staton Liberty University Dr. Randy Tierce October 26‚ 2014 Creswell Chapter One Summary As an introduction to the text‚ Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches‚ Cresswell (2013) first provides a purpose and rationale for writing the book. Although the purpose is not clearly formulated by the author‚ it is shown that Cresswell’s (2013) primary intention when writing the book was to fully examine the five qualitative approaches to inquiry. ”
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Could you please describe for our listeners what that is?” “Tenrtry the singularity will be the time when AI will have figured out how to make themselves and us smarter. Once that happens the process will build on itself until the robots are smart enough to figure out how we can live forever.” “Is that possible?” The interviewer asks. “Living forever?” “Of course‚” Professor Ziggler says‚ “What does it matter whether our operating systems are made of meat or silicon?” “Whenever you are ready just
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that he comes off very confident and passionate about his beliefs in order to get the point across to his reader. He uses great forms of ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos all throughout his book‚ but especially in chapter two when he discusses that “Reasons are Bullshit”(Roth 38). Dr. Roth is a professor and mechanical engineer at Stanford University. Dr. Roth is also a founder of the design school there‚ at Standford. Dr. Roth shows various forms of ethos in his book‚ but he also shows it all throughout his
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Derek Clayton October 30‚ 2008 Mrs. Craft 4th period “Ida B.” Chapter Summary 1-5 In the first chapter‚ Ida B and her parents are in the kitchen talking and washing dishes. Her parents are moving too slow‚ she wants to go outside and play. She told her Dad‚ “There is never enough time for fun.” After a few more dishes‚ she was allowed to go outside. She grabbed some paper and a pencil to draw some things. Ida B decided to write to Canada‚ or so she thought. Ida
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December is coming around the corner. Jonas is trying to find the right word to describe his feelings. He thinks he is frightened‚ and then decides that frightened is the wrong word to describe his feelings. Frightened is when an unidentified aircraft flies over his community and orders everyone to keep their bikes aside and go into the nearest building. He is very wary about his language‚ unlike his best friend‚ Asher. Asher always mixes up words and phrases. Jonas remembers the time when Asher
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1. Jonas: Jonas is an upstander. Before his Ceremony of Twelve‚ Jonas didn’t put much thought into Releases. Yet after becoming a Receiver of Memory‚ Jonas gets memories about colors‚ music‚ death‚ love‚ pain‚ family‚ war and much much more. When Jonas sees his first Release‚ he realizes that his community is messed up and needs help. Jonas understands that people in his community have no understanding of love‚ death‚ family‚ etc. Jonas sees a situation‚ and takes a personal risk to go away so that
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This book chronicles the emergence of Shintoism and the transplantation of Buddhism into the Japanese soil by narrating the exploits of the Deities who create the country and the feats of medieval warriors who change forever the fabric of the Japanese society. The Deities IZANAGI and IZANAMI are appointed by their superiors of Heaven‚ the incumbents of the creation of a new world and should procreate to start a new dynasty on Earth. During the procreation phase‚ Izanami dies by giving birth to the
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Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where
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Chapter 9 summary In this chapter it tells a story about slavery before and after the Civil War. It explains the United States provision of slavery and how some people were misled on who ended slavery‚ how it was Abraham Lincoln and not John brown who was hung later in 1859 for his crimes. It later goes into graphic detail of how slaves were kept into slavery by whipping and separating families. It sort of reminds of the movie 12 years a slave I would recommend it. It’s sad but true story of
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