The Michael L Printz Award is awarded each year for a book written and published for young adult readership. The award requires that the winning book exemplifies literary merit and written solely for persons ages 12 – 18. This award does not consider popularity as a criterion‚ nor does it consider titles that are written for adults that appeal to teens. Also not considered as a criterion is the message delivered in the book. In order to be eligible‚ the book must have been published in the United
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Brianna Kelley Mystery In the book Acceleration by Graham McNamee‚ a teenage boy named Duncan works in a subway station for the lost and found. He ends up finding an eerie diary which depicts a so called murderers mind‚ and what he thinks of people. He compares the subway to an “audition‚ or a cattle call” as he’s searching for the “right one.” Near the middle of the diary‚ Duncan starts to believe he saw the woman the killer will go for next‚ and decides to follow her‚ instead of confronting
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Meiotic Mysteries By: Karen Schindler In class we went over the cycle of meiosis‚ the sexual life cycle‚ and its stages. Meiosis has four stages which are‚ prophase I‚ metaphase I‚ anaphase I‚ and telophase I. In an adult before ovulation the oocyte goes back to meiosis forming a meiotic spindle of microtubules to segregate homologous chromosomes. When it reaches fertilization‚ the egg itself undergoes a second round of division segregating sister chromatids. Which is Prophase II‚ Metaphase II
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Explain Plato’s Analogy of the cave. Plato was a Greek philosopher who wrote a book called the ‘Republic’. He lived from 428-347 BCE. In this book he described an analogy of a cave in order to explain his theory of the World of Ideas and the Natural World. Plato’s analogy of the cave is an explanation about ‘the truth’. The analogy portrays that in order to find the truth we must question everything. This will be explained further. In the analogy of the cave‚ the cave represents the physical world
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Rhetorical Analysis: Allegory of the Cave The text I have used to do my rhetorical analysis is the “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato. In this text‚ Plato gives an explanation of his idea of the situation of humans in respect to knowledge by telling us an allegory. In his allegory‚ Plato says that there are a few prisoners seated in a cave behind a small wall facing a big wall. The only thing they can do is looking at the wall in front of them and listen‚ they cannot even move their neck or the
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Surrounded by an atmosphere of mystery there is always a secret waiting to be solved. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ hidden laws of nature unfolds as lives are destroyed when knowledge is acquired and understanding is unstoppable. The mystery ‚ the feeling of terror in the reader‚ and the supernatural elements are the essential ingredients in Frankenstein. Mary Shelley established an atmosphere of mystery in the novel by not giving the readers every single detail of an event or creation
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This essay will discuss the movie Mystery‚ Alaska and some of the psychological components that are apparent in the film. This essay will cover the topics of: ego‚ distractions that affect performance‚ and focus. While this movie encompasses a wide variety of psychological aspects‚ the ones listed above were what I felt to be most prevalent throughout the movie. The first topic to be discussed in this essay is ego. Ego in sports can be a crucial building block for success. Some say that ego
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NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE The Mystery of the Seven Deaths: A Case Study in Cellular Respiration by Michaela A. Gazdik Biology Department Ferrum College‚ Ferrum VA Part I – The Symptoms Imagine that you work at the medical examiner’s office for a major metropolitan city. As Chief Medical Officer‚ you investigate suspicious deaths and provide toxicology services for the county. Unfortunately‚ it’s been a busy week. In the past five days‚ seven people have died‚ all with similar
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Michael Ramirez’s cartoon illustrates how political issues take a back seat in the wake of natural disasters. The scene depicted shows two men up to there neck in water holding picket fence signs that are no longer fully visible due to the water. The men are standing on a street corner with one sign Houston Rd visible. The second street sign is being blocked by the first and underneath the two signs is a stop sign half covered in water. Clearly based on the water and the street sign Houston Rd its
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Woodcock‚ Cower‚ Aldershot‚ 1988 CAVE RESCUE BRIEFING SHEET You have been called to an emergency meeting as one of your company’s experiments in a cave has gone badly wrong. Six volunteers have been taken into a cave system in a remote part of the country‚ connected only by a radio link to the research station by the cave entrance. It was intended that the volunteers would spend four days underground‚ but they have been trapped by falling rocks and rising water. The only rescue team available
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