Spelling Bee - List of Words (with meanings in brackets) A Agreeable (to your liking) Appearance (outward show) Apprehensive (Worried) acquiesce (to agree) appurtenance (an accompanying part or feature of something) (sketchily indicate something) aristocratic (upper class) attenuation (decrease) (Overconfident) audacious ascendancy (power) adumbrate Abstinence (Self-restraint) Accoutrements (accessories) Acetaminophen (pain-killer) Aesthetic
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The poem ‘the planners’ is written by boey kim cheng. He was born in Singapore and is now teaching creative writing in an Australian university. This poem is about how Singapore was planned and built because of the insatiable desire toward perfection of the people. In this poem the poet uses various literary tools like alliterative phrase‚ oxymoron‚ irony and many others. There are also various kinds of tones in this poem. The main tones are lament and accusatory. In the line “They plan‚ They build
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I am Deborah and I know my God We are living in a day and time where 1 must be confident in what it is that God has called them to do. One thing I am for sure of is them that God has called he has already qualified. Before your parents even met‚ before you were formed‚ God already had a plan for your life‚ and The things in your life that have taken place up til now have all been a precursor to the next dimension you are headed to. There are confident people and there are confident cocky people
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Reality in Fiction: Little Bee “To be well in your mind you have first to be free” (Cleave 147). This quote taken from Little Bee not only grasps an evident theme in the novel but it also briefly identifies how the main character Little Bee struggles for freedom from society‚ her past‚ and ultimately herself. The novel is set in modern day Nigeria and the UK‚ where Nigeria is in the midst of an oil crisis and is struggling to keep it covert from the rest of the world. Little Bee is a sixteen year old
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“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees‚ no more pollination‚ no more plants‚ no more animals‚ no more man” (“Einstein Once Said…”). After careful thought on this matter‚ this can be a scary concept to process. Millions of years have passed with the honey bee gracing the earth‚ and in fact‚ the honeybee is the only insect that aids in the production of food that is consumed by the human race (“20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts!”)
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I would like to choose the movie Akeelah and the Bee and Stand in Deliver. Akeelah and the Bee explores the issues of education in a low socioeconomic African American community. In this movie‚ Akeelah comes from a working class family living in South Los Angeles. Akeelah is a bright girl‚ especially when it comes to words‚ but finds life at poor Crenshaw Middle School boring and unchallenging‚ so she doesn’t try. But her natural aptitude for words spurs the school administrators‚ led by Principal
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field of organizational behavior or OB‚ as we generally call it‚ is the study of human behavior within organizations. That is‚ what people think‚ how they feel‚ why they think‚ feel and act in a certain way. If we can find answers to the above questions then we can exercise better control over human behavior and channelize it towards a more efficient and effective functioning of the organization. In this course we will study individuals singularly‚ as well as in the form of teams and groups‚ and
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What kind of bees live inside the bee hive? There are three kind of honey bees that live inside a bee hive. Those three bees are‚ The Queen‚ Worker‚ and the Drone. They all have their distinctive jobs to do. And how do bees survive the coldness of the winter season? The Queen has the longest body compared to the other two types of bees. She is equipped with a stinger that does not have a fish hook like barb at the end of the stinger. The purpose of the stinger is to kill any rival queen when she
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The reading passage and listening lecture both discuss the main reason for the decrease in the honey bee population worldwide.The reading passege supports that the main reason is increase in the number of cell phone. However the listening lecture states that decrease in the bee population is not just about one thing‚ it is combination of factors. Initially‚ the reading and the lecture discuss same subject it is claimed in the reading passage due to cell phones. Because passage states that researchers
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nothing at all to intervening and taking personal care of the hives. The future of America’s agriculture industry relies heavily on what happens to the bees. Lorenzo Langstroth‚ also know as the Father of American Beekeeping and the Bee Man of Oxford‚
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