1. Title: A Lesson Before Dying 2. Author: Ernest J. Gaines 3. Date of publication: 1993 4. Genre: Historical Fiction 5. Biographical information about author: He was born January 15‚ 1933 in Louisiana. He lived on the River Lake Plantation. He started working in the fields when he was nine. He was raised by his aunt‚ Augusteen Jefferson. His parents moved to California during WWII and he joined them when he was 15. He served in the US Army and graduated from San Francisco State College in 1957
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Title: The One and Only Ivan Author: Katherine Applegate Date of Publication: December 2011 Awards: John Newbery Award Central Character/s: 1. Ivan: Ivan‚ a silverback gorilla who lives in a stationary circus. Ivan is a talented gorilla who can draw pictures and write simple words. He lives in his domain all the time‚ never leaving it for any reason. Ivan is good friends with Stella‚ the elephant who lives beside him‚ and Bob‚ a stray dog who likes to sleep on Ivan’s belly. 2. Stella: One of Ivan’s
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The Piano Lesson Plot Line We recently read the play The Piano Lesson and encountered an interesting plot line. The exposition of the story starts when Boy Willie shows up unexpectedly at his sister’s house. As the story progresses‚ we encounter the rising action. The rising action is when Boy Willie informs Berniece that he is selling their mother’s piano. The climax starts in a couple different places: when Sutter appears‚ and when Berniece plays the piano. The falling action and resolution happen
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from the rest of the economy. • Macroeconomics – is concerned with the economy as a whole. An overall view of the economy and aggregate economic behavior is studied. Emphasis on topic such as total production‚ income and expenditure‚ economic growth‚ aggregate unemployment‚ inflation etc is studied. • The problem of economizing is essentially one of deciding how to make the best use of limited resources to satisfy unlimited want • Opportunity cost is best defined as the value of the
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“The Lesson” Edward Lucie-Smith About the Poet Edward Lucie-Smith‚ a British poet and art critic‚ was born in Jamaica in 1933 and graduated from Oxford University in 1954. He has lived in London since 1951‚ where he worked as an advertising copywriter (1956-66) and as an editor of books on art. Among his works of poetry are A Tropical Childhood (1961) and Confessions and Histories (1964). His important criticism includes Art in Britain 1969-1970 (1970)‚ Symbolist Art (1973)‚ American Art Now (1985)
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with the amount of output it produces. When average costs decreases as output increases‚ there are economies of scale Margincal cost: refers to the rate of change of total cost with respect to output the incremental cost of producing exactly one more unit of output. Margincal cost often depeds on the total volume of output. Short-run average costs: the period of time in which the firm cannot adjust the size of its production facilities. Include fixed and average costs Long-run average
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Chapter 4- Race Lessons This chapter follows Dalton through his first academic experiences where he is introduced to the concept of race through personal experiences. In his first classroom experience his mother was given the choice of enrolling him in a predominantly Black‚ Puerto Rican‚ or Chinese class. He describes the fact that his mother was given the choice of which class he should join be stating‚ "The choices our race gave us were made quite explicit- by a government institution‚ no less
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The section of Sugita Gempaku’s memoir‚ “A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan‚ 1771” is a description of the advancements in modernizing medicine across different cultures. Sugita Gempaku was a Japanese physician found a Dutch anatomy book‚ allowing him to better understand the human body and take into account of all of the errors in the Eastern culture’s medical books. Gempaku probably wrote this as a remembrance of his accomplishments in life‚ whether he intended anyone else to read it can be put up
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JOURNAL READINGS‚ ONE STUDENT’S STORY‚ POEMS‚ CARTOONS‚ FOCUS QUESTIONS‚ AND CHAPTER-OPENING SUMMARIES. Remind students to use letters to label any in-class writing they do in their journals. Case Study for Critical Thinking: Popson’s Dilemma Purpose: To develop critical thinking skills by exploring a real-life situation that revolves around self-motivation. Supplies and Setup: “Popson’s Dilemma” in On Course Directions: 1. [Have students read “Popson’s Dilemma.” One way to be sure everyone
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One Flea spare is not an original title‚ it is derived from the third stanza of John Donne’s poem‚ “The Flea”‚ the first point in the script where a semiological analysis can take place. Semiotics‚ as defined by Fortier “...is the study of signs—those objects by which humans communicate meaning: words‚ images‚ behavior‚ arrangements of many kinds‚ in which a meaning or idea is relayed by a corresponding manifestation we can perceive” (Pg 19). Fortier mentions words as one of the ways humans communicate
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