Response to Lee D. Hailey English 111-27 January 29‚ 2011 190-193 Response to Wendy Lee’s Peeling Bananas It is not often that I have to read an article or essay several times before I can make an appropriate response. As I read Wendy Lee’s article‚ Peeling Bananas‚ I found myself side-tracked by my own thoughts and feelings of being an African American here in the United States. As I read and reread‚ there were several areas that seemed to jump out at me and make me want to respond
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2012. She had invasive lobular carcinoma type breast cancer. Invasive lobular carcinoma type refers to cancer that has broken through the wall of the lobule and begun to invade the tissues of the breast. Dana looked after me sense I met my friend‚ Jade‚ which I grew up with. Finding out she had breast cancer was so hard on us‚ but we kept all of our heads high‚ and encouraged her to stay strong. I remember when I came to visit; she had a hard time getting up‚ because they had used the muscle from
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the red wedding veil‚ the red banners‚ the red palanquin‚ and finally the red candle. I found this as a motif because it appeared in almost every section of the 3rd chapter. Ying-Ying also explains that her mother gave her a necklace made out of red jade. Red was a traditional color in Chinese culture‚ possibly a powerful color‚ as purple was to Europe. Another motif is the five elements. These five elements‚ wood‚ fire‚ water‚ earth‚ and metal‚ seem very important to Chinese culture. They appear
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How gemstones are formed? Minerals form under various conditions in the earth. Most gemstones form in the Earth’s crust; the top layer of the Earth‚ with a depth of 3 to 25 miles. Only two gemstone varieties - diamond and peridot - form in the Earth’s mantle‚ which represents 80% of the Earth’s volume. The mantle consists mostly of molten rock called magma with a solid upper layer. A few gemstones form in the mantle‚ but all gems are mined in the crust. The crust is made up of three kinds of rock
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Cause and effect essay: The American revolution. By Emma Jade Griffin The American revolution was arguably one of the most important wars ever fought. It focused on the 13 colonies gaining independence from Great Britain‚ because of British taxes. It is said that the colonials fighting in the American revolution literally stated they were fighting for “the cause”‚ many men young and old signed up to fight for theirindependence. They incorporated all sorts of men and techniques in the war and fighting
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The Xia Dynasty The first prehistoric dynasty is said to be Xia‚ from about the twenty-first to the sixteenth century B.C. Xia-dynasty was founded by the Si-clan‚ who were descendants of the clan’s foundation father‚ Yu. Because of the lack of written sources‚ historians have still not gained a correct idea of how the people lived at that time. According to the later tradition‚ Yu spent thirteen years to dig out channels and maintain dikes. When emperor Shun died‚ the officials disagreed with the
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the following day. He states to his new team‚ the Kilpatrick Mustangs‚ "You are all losers‚ But if you stick with the program you could all be winners at the end." Two of the teens do not get along because they are from rival gangs. Willie Weathers (Jade Yorker) is from the 88’s and Kelvin Owens (David Thomas) is from the 95’s. The first game is against the best team in the league‚ Barrington. The game starts out somewhat positive for the Mustangs‚ as they recover a fumble on the first drive‚ but things
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forge a connection between Asian and European markets and triggered periods of Enlightenment in Europe. The Silk Road started‚ mainly‚ as a way for trade to flourish between Europe and Asia. Many Europeans were interested in luxury goods such as silk‚ jade‚ spices and porcelain. Resulting‚ the Asians were able to prosper from the exporting of such goods. Asia’s economy‚ such as that of China specifically‚ remained heavily reliant on the money from the Silk Road trade‚ without regard to the origin or
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My artifacts are really special to my family because they have been past down for generations. They belonged to my great-aunt Billie Lewis Carroll. On her honeymoon in China she got them. She died of cancer at the age of sixty-three years old. She gave them to my great-grandmother‚ her name was Katie Lea Lewis. Katie was a good cook and a hard working housewife. She was also diabetic. My great-grandmother gave it to my mother. Jennifer Lea Burch. She works at a school as the secretary. A secretary
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Historian G.B. Endacott thought that the Hong Kong government was a consultative government. The definition of a consultative government is that it consults people’s opinions and listens to them. The features of a consultative Government are that it establishes communication between local associations‚ asks and listen to opinion of people‚ asks for opinion and support in decisions making‚ sets up advisory bodies to collect opinions and set up departments to consult people’s opinions. To a large extent
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