Annie Oakley I am a woman. I am able to get an education if I so choose. As an adult I will be able to own property and vote. I am not spending my childhood learning how to become a wife and a mother. Whether she knew it or not Annie Oakley helped to give me the rights that I have today. Annie was a woman too‚ and famous sharpshooter. She could shoot better than any man of her time. She helped to show women that it was okay to do more “masculine” things. And‚ she helped women to realize that
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Attempt Score 30 out of 30 points Instructions Stuff exam - Please select one answer for each question. - You can change your answers any number of times - You can take the test any number of times - There is no time limit for the test - The exam will be removed form blackboard on the 12th of December - The correct answers will not be displayed after the test Question 1 2 out of 2 points Correct How many pounds of natural resources does the average American consume each day?
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As Creon and his men race to correct their error‚ Annie enters through the plantation. She is dressed in white‚ holding a veil in her hands. Surrounding her is a chorus of dead Confederate soldiers‚ two of which are her brothers Earl and Paul. “Look at me‚” she says‚ “men of my fatherland/setting out on that last road” (102). She speaks directly to the dead‚ and the dead answer. The chorus taunts her impending death‚ for which Annie takes offense‚ asking that the spirits wait until she is dead
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We’re Alive‚ Thanks to… A Dog?!?! In January of 1922‚ Dr. John Macleod walked into a small high-ceilinged room surrounded by crisp white walls and a small blue cot. On that cot lay a gaunt-faced young boy named Leonard Thompson. He was barely 14 years old ‚ in a coma‚ and slowly dying from a previously incurable disease. Macleod had been testing a hormone that could cure this boy and people just like him from their life threatening illness‚ but had been unsuccessful in finding something that would
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A Biography of Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence‚ Massachusetts on August 25‚ 1918. He was born to first generation Jewish parents from Russia. At the age of ten‚ he began learning to play the piano‚ at one point in his studies at Hebrew Union he thought of becoming a rabbi. Latter he was awarded an honorary degree‚ for he became a rabbi of sorts (Gottlieb.) However‚ he went on the major in music at Harvard University. Although‚ his interest at college was in becoming
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goes out of the classroom. The bag on her desk begins to move. Now write a story about the day that the teacher put a bag on her desk‚ and it started to move. Make the reader feel that he or she is there in the classroom. The Bag on the Teacher’s Desk Narrative Everyone has done something that he or she will always remember. Think about a time you did something special that you will always remember. Now write a story about the time you did something special that you will always remember. Something
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slip into your pocket. In the U.S. it should be a law or need for teachers and staffs of schools to carry a weapon (most likely a gun) for protective reasons. If this happened massacre rates in schools would drop to around 0. One interesting story is the story of the Clarksville School District‚ were superintendent‚ David Hopkins‚ who supplies his teachers and staff with the 9-mm handgun. At least sixteen people‚ including the janitor and a kindergarten teacher‚ wear them to school each day. He didn’t
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Annie Dillard in the passage uses a vast collection of metaphoric comparisons and interesting diction in order to show how special and unique a writing profession is. Annie Dillard said‚ “The line of words is a miner’s pick‚ a woodcarver’s gouge‚ a surgeon’s probe.” In this statement Annie Dillard utilizes a comparison between words and a list of specialized tools that require skills to operate correctly to say that writing is a specialized profession requiring skills to be able to properly harness
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MANAGEMENT COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA FEED BACK FORM STUDENT NAME STUDENT NUMBER MODULE PROGRAMME kk b Q3s INA (t--‚ Overall Assessment CONTENT/ SUBJECT MATTER/ METHODOLOGY — K - Demonstrates an authoritative grasp of the subject matter/ methodology Demonstratesinsight and understanding Demonstrates a good level of understanding Clear expression of ideas‚ some understanding of subject matter Limited awareness of ideas Lack of understanding ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: APPLICATION
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THE ANCIENT GREEKS NAME ___Harrison Funk_________________________________ To complete this worksheet use the information found on the following website: http://www.mythologyteacher.com/GreekIntro.html GREEK INTRO 1. At roughly what time period was the golden age of ancient Greece? 500 B.C. 2. Who was an ancient Greek writer of fables? Homer 3. Who was a Greek mathematician? Pythrogras 4. Why should Americans study ancient Greece? We oew everything to ancient Greece. GREEK CITY-STATES
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