Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth‚ thinking about how you’ll escape it one day‚ and how awesome it will be‚ and imagining that future keeps you going‚ but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’‚ tells a story about self-discovery‚ first experiences and the deep impact someone can have on a life. Miles Halter is fascinated by last words
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came along with becoming a Catamount‚ such as the rock climbing wall‚ the bass fishing club‚ and so on and so forth. There was one‚ however‚ that stood out among all of them. The WCU Fly-Fishing Club. I continued to see and hear more and more about the organization from various sources‚ like their Instagram page‚ and knew that it was something that I wanted to be a part of. I had my doubts at first‚ because I had never fly-fished before. Soon thereafter my roommate and I went to Valley Ballyhoo‚ a large
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"Expedition" -saavedra (1527-28) namatay sa sariling kawal -Alvaro de saadvedra Able to reach mindanao but they were not able to land .all was DUBBED AS DISASTROVs EXPEDITIOn by the king of spain -Villalobos Expedition -Ruy Lopez Villalobos .mission: to find the spice island .on november 1‚ 1524 he left Mexico .to resolve this problem‚ he directed bernados dela torre to tanday (samar) island to look for food. .the chieftain of tanday (Makandala) .in gratitude to Makandala‚ Villalobos
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA The novel “looking for Alaska”‚ is written by a famous author John Green. It’s a story of a teenage boy named Miles Halter‚ and how he leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. All the chapters leave you something to think about. This novel is very engaging and shows a lot of maturity. Not only does this novel leave you surprised with a few twists but it teaches you life lessons like love‚ loss‚ grief and forgiveness. I was really shocked
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1. New Story: Oral Read aloud of “A Fly Went By.” a. Prior Knowledge: Last time‚ I worked with Nealy was in the summertime. So we talked about the difference between summer and spring. We made a “T-Chart” about with the difference between the two seasons. Since I showed Nealy the title of the story. One of the first things Nealy talked about are the flies and mosquitoes in the summer. Nealy talked about how she hates bugs particular the flies and mosquitoes because they just a pain. b. During the
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The Lord of the Flies Essay The Lord of the Flies is a fiction novel written in 1954 by William Golding. It is about a group of school boys in World War 2 who are to be sent to safety. Everything changes once their plane crashes on a deserted island. The boys must learn how to survive together with no adults and their differing personalities. The scene I thought was important to the plot was the scene where jack and his tribe go out to hunt the pig they’ve been chasing for a while. Jack and the
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Outline Fishing General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose : To inform people some information about Fishing. Central Idea: Fishing as a hobby and as a job. INTRODUCTION I. Attention Material Fishing Line(Handline)with hooks and sinkers(Weight) 1.”Have you ever tried Fishing??” 2.Fishing is so simple‚ what you need is some patience‚ fishing line with hooks and sinkers and some baits such as (Shrimps‚ squids‚ worms) 3.Hope you can catch some fish.(Picture). II. Orienting
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delegates from across the territory. They met at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in November 1955 to write a constitution for the proposed state. Alaskans voted approval of the constitution in April 1956. The new constitution was set to take effect when and if Congress granted statehood for Alaska. Efforts finally paid off in 1958 when Congress approved statehood for Alaska. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Bill into law on July 7‚ 1958. Alaskans accepted statehood
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EXPEDITION OF CABOT Failing to hear from the Loaisa Expedition‚ King Charles I sent another expedition. He put Sebastian Cabot‚ another famed Italian navigator‚ in charge. The expedition consisted of four ships and 250 men. The expedition left Seville‚ Spain‚ on April 3‚ 1526. During the trip to South America‚ Cabot quarrelled with his captains. The men had been discontented because of the poor food. They mutinied when the expedition reached Brazil. But Cabot succeeded in suppressing the mutiny
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The Villalobos Expedition For thirteen years the Treaty of Zaragoza was signed‚ Spain respected the provision of this treaty and set no expedition to Asia. But from 1538 to 1541‚ King Charles I Of Spain entered into an agreement with Pedro de Alvarado‚ his viceroy in Mexico‚ regarding the fitting out of colonial expeditions to the Far East. An expedition was fitted out in Mexico upon orders of the king. It consisted of six ships and 200 men. Appointed its commander was Ruy Lopez de Villalobos‚ brother-in-law
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