answers that she gave me. Recently‚ she has read the entire Harry Potter series and the Percy Jackson series. This was surprising to me because when I was her age I wasn’t reading these types of books and I haven’t met any 11 year olds who have. These book series are lengthy chapter books that follow the story of two teens who live in a magical world. The Harry Potter series has seven books in total and the Percy Jackson series has three.
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LIGHTNING Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge caused by unbalanced electric charges in the atmosphere‚ and resulting in a strike‚ from a cloud to itself‚ a cloud to a cloud or a cloud to ground‚ and accompanied by the loud sound of thunder. A typical cloud to ground lightning strike jumps a 5 km (3 mi) gap through the air.[1] A typical thunderstorm has three or more strikes per minute at its peak.[2] Lightning is usually produced by cumulonimbus clouds based 5–6 km (3-4 mi) above the
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Ramirez‚ Gisselle Salvador‚ Jenny Period 5 11/7/14 Hermes: The Olympian God Who was Hermes/Mercury? Hermes was a messenger of the gods. Hermes is usually pictured with winged sandals and hat‚ wearing a toga‚ holding his well known staff. He was the link between the past and the present‚ the herald of Zeus and Hades. He was the god of commerce‚ travel‚ and invention. “Hermes was the cunning‚ streetwise god...he made the first lyre from a tortoise shell... a guardian of wandering things.. and
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book project was Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. The main character in this book was Percy Jackson his father is Poseidon the god of the sea and his mother is a normal human. In the book he discovers more of his abilities he inherited from his father and he learns to like his half-brother Tyson. Tyson is also a son of Poseidon‚ but instead of a human he is a Cyclops. He is younger than Percy and embarrasses Percy all the time. Although he is not smart he is incredibly strong like all other Cyclops
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Paragraph #1 The Last Olympian is written by Rick Riordan. It was published in 2009. It is the continuation of The Titan’s Curse. It is the final and fifth novel in The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is a fantasy and adventure novel on Greek mythology. The story takes place in modern day New York. Percy knows that as soon as he turns 16 he will have a choice in which he will have to decide to save the world or not. So he leaves with Camp Half-Blood for battle. Kronos is wanting to take
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The Lightning Bolt One day Zeus went to go see Posiedon. So they can make a deal so they dont have to fight. Because a long time ago they got into a fight about something stupid because Posiedon said he was better than Zeus. So they decided to make a lightning bolt. The lightning bolt was big‚ loud‚ lighting strikes every time it would flash. And the strikes were bright. It was as bright as a light bulb. So that day they got all their materials around. The next day they made the lightning bolt
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Seven Elements of Fantasy – Below are the seven basic elements of fantasy and a description of each. After reading your chosen book‚ use that information to fill in the blanks from each of the seven elements. If your book does not have one of the elements‚ please list that as well. 1. Magic Magic is the most basic element of fantasy. Magic is that in which charms‚ spells or rituals are used in order to produce a supernatural event. - In the book “The Lightening Thief” by Rick Riordan‚ there
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In the article starfields the main person telling the events in the nation is Dava she explains the world and why we get so much lightning and where it occurs. In her first explanation she explains that USA is in the middle of the region of lighting ally and its pathways and no matter what we are always going to be in the same place. Sometimes since the lighting is so bad they have to cancel the flights of the planes because its too bad to fly and if we weren’t in the center of that region then we
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The Lighting Thief By: Rick Riordan This book is about a young boy who learns that he has superpowers and is destined to be a hero enters a new school where he makes fast friends with a brainy girl and a geeky boy‚ makes fast enemies with an entire section of the school‚ and excels at their unique sport. No‚ I’m not talking about Harry Potter. The hero in question is Percy Jackson‚ who may not have a lightning scar‚ but does set out on a quest to
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Lightning Protection Systems Heath Howe English 101 November 5‚ 2011 Lightning Protection Systems Did you know that last year‚ in the United States‚ property loss due to lightning strikes exceeded one billion dollars? The average homeowner’s insurance paid $4‚296 per lightning claim and an average of two hundred fifty thousand insurance claims were filed strictly due to lightning. In January 2003‚ the American Meteorologist Society issued a bulletin endorsing the lightning protection requirements
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