Eric Weiner was ready to go for an adventure. His plan was to search the happiest place to live in the world. His first place to visit was the Netherlands. The chapter begin when the author was in a café near in downtown Rotterdam. The place was really cozy‚ large and upscale. Because everyone was smoking‚ he lit up his cigar and ordered a Trapiste beer. While he was drinking this delicious warm beer‚ he noticed that Dutch is very similar to English spoken backwards. He stayed a long time in the
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Fleur is unpopular on the reservation‚ and some gather to throw her out. In the summer of 1920‚ she leaves on her own accord for the town of Argus. Noticing a steeple‚ she walks straight to the church and asks the priest for work. He sends her to a butcher shop where Fleur works with the owner’s wife Fritzie‚ hauling packages of meat to a locker. Fleur gives the men a new topic of conversation‚ particularly when she begins playing cards with them. Pulling up a chair without being invited‚ she asks
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Summary of Key Points: This chapter is based on two types of stories which are story line and testimonies. Story lines as the socially shared tales that are fable-like and incorporate a common scheme and wording (124). Testimonies are accounts in which the narrator is a central participant in the story or is close to the characters in the story (124). The book talks about four major story lines of color-blind racism. The first one is “The Past Is the Past‚” which mean that people must put the past
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Chapter 8 IT WAS STRANGE‚ DIANORA THOUGHT‚ STILL MOVING THROUGH the crowded Audience Chamber as spring sunlight filtered down on Brandins court from the stained- glass windows above‚ how the so clear portents of youth were alchemized by time into the many-layered ambiguities of adult life. Sipping from her jeweled cup she considered the alternative. That she had simply allowed things to become nuanced and difficult. That the real truths were exactly the same as they had been on the day she arrived
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from third person point of view. Half of the story is told in limited omniscient. The other half is limited. In third person omniscient‚ the narrator is allowed to jump into anyone’s mind. And in this story that’s exactly what is done in most of the chapters. For example‚ "came because they were afraid or unafraid‚ because they were happy or unhappy‚ because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims" (2). The focus is on the group as a whole‚ not individuals.
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Rainforest. The Brazilian government recognizes only 13% of the total land mass of Brazil as being designated to its native tribes. Of this 13% total land mass‚ 98.5% lies in the Amazon Rainforest (http://survivalinternational.org/tribes/brazilian). In Chapter 5 of Mann’s 1491‚ Mann retells the story of the Gonzalo Pizarro exhibition. The first recorded and written description of the Amazon comes from Gaspar de Carvajal‚ the chaplain on the Pizarro voyage. Carvajal’s account was not recognized as being
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In Cold Blood Summary The novel takes place in Holcomb‚ Kansas‚ a small farming town with a tight knit community. The Clutters are a prominent and cherished family known throughout the town. Herb is a successful farmer‚ married for 25 years to Bonnie Fox and is the father of four children. At home‚ two of his children remain; 16 year old Nancy and 15 year old Kenyon. Discovered by two young girls the next morning‚ the community is struck by the horrific murders of the Clutters on the night of
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Chapter 11 Gases assumes both shape and vol of the container compressible‚ form homogenous w/ 1 another D is smaller then liquids/solids and highly variable depending on T and P Kinetic Molecular theory 3/2RT = total kinetic energy ½ mu2 = average kinetic energy Urms speed of mol with average kinetic energy‚ its inversely proportional to the square root of M when T is the same EX. Determine how much faster a helium atom moves‚ on average‚ than a carbon dioxide molecule at the same temperature
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Geography 110 – 01; Chapter 6: Religion; Religion is essential for geographers to understand how humans occupy Earth because it is an important element in culture‚ and leaves a strong imprint on the physical environment. Geographers stay focused on the elements of religion that are geographically significant (ie: migrants carry their religion with them to a new location). Geographers distinguish religions into two categories: Universalizing religion – a religion that attempts to appeal to all
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Tuck Everlasting summary The book tuck everlasting a teenage girl who gets lost nearby where she lives and encounters a stranger she has never met before on her way she met a stranger whom she soon gets taken to meet a family who hold a big secret. But the girl‚ Winnie foster gets to decide to stay with the family or go back to her regular life. Winnie foster‚ a teenage girl who has been warned of the dangers in the world‚ but with a mind full of curiosity. Willing to sneak out to embark an
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