Learner Journal 4: Famine: The Irish experience 900- 1900. What is the reading about? This week’s reading is a chapter is taken from the book ‘Famine: The Irish Experience 900 -1900’. The chapter is titled ‘Conclusion: Famine and Irish History. The author highlights the state the country was in before famine. Clarkson adds that all Famines in Ireland was a result of hundreds of years of starvation. In this text the author aims to explain the due course up to the Great Famine. The author also aims
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The chapter starts out with Nick writing and depicting the burial service two years after Gatsby died. Nick describes the swarms of columnists‚ writers‚ and gossipmongers at the house after the murder. They take the information that they received and write up insane‚ edgy stories about Gatsby and the ways of his relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. Nick feels that Gatsby would not want to have a memorial service alone‚ so he attempts to hold a substantial burial service for him. From Nick’s attempt
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As I read the first page of Salamanca‚ I thought it was really a boring story but as I continued reading it‚ it becomes more interesting‚ I thought it wouldn’t be that interesting at all. The first chapter was all about how Gaudencio and Jacinta came to know each other. It started when Gaudencio decided to return to Jacinta Cordova‚ his wife of eleven days‚ which he abandoned in the pouring rain one early morning. The night when Gaudencio decided to return to Jacinta‚ he told his friend the story
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In chapter seven Hooks talks about feminism in the realms of class. Hooks explains that the focus of feminism came to be about the wealthy white upper class women who wanted the same opportunities as men of their own class rather than the focus of women receiving the same benefits to sustain themselves. Working class and middle class women were able to work‚ but they did not make enough money to support themselves. I liked this chapter because Hooks gave a resolution for the problem. Hooks explains
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If I had the opportunity to meet Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ I would first ask them where they got the idea to partner up and write a book answering mysterious life questions that have never before been asked. I would want to know details such as how long the total time was to write Freakonomics and what type of environment
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Tho Nguyen English 2/26/2013 Narrative Essay: Final Draft My First Day Fright Have you ever experience a moment where you have no idea where you are‚ and what you would have done in that particular moment? Well I have‚ and here is my story. It all started in late August of 2009‚ when millions of children across the country were looking forward to their first day of school. For me‚ I was not looking forward to start my first year of High School. I still had the middle school mentality. I was
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MESSIAH: “The historical record of Jesus Christ‚ the Son of David‚ the Son of Abraham…He will save his people from their sins.” (Matt 1:1‚ 21b) “Today a Savior‚ who is Messiah the Lord‚ was born for you in the city of David.” (Luke 2:11) “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said‚ ‘Here is the Lamb of God‚ who takes away the sin of the world!’” (John 1:29) “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ‚ the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: ‘Look‚ I am sending you My
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Whirligig Chapter 8 Jenny feels helpless as someone that she loves and close to is dying her grandmother. When the old woman tells Jenny to give her a ride around town‚ Jenny decides to help her because her mom wasn’t there‚ and she somehow desperately needed to see this place. So Jenny and her grandmother get into the car‚ and drive around the town. Her grandmother tells her to go places that don’t even make any sense‚ like a birch tree‚ and an old run down house. This old house was
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Civil War about an African American young man who escapes from the south to the north. The story drew an emotional connection as well the basic facts about African Americans escaping and what life was when they reached the north. At the beginning of Chapter Four: Leg Irons‚ there is a newspaper that talks about how the Union soldiers should seize slaves that were escaping from the north. They were label as “contraband of war” and that the government encouraged it. After the newspaper‚ the story begins
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Shaolin‚ Matt‚ the main character has a defining characteristic of being idealistic. To be idealistic one has to be merely honest. The concept of idealism is to act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal form. This idealism is rapidly seen in first chapter of book one‚ Matt develops a list of things wrong with him‚ he annotates the following‚ “Things that are wrong with Matt: 1.Ignorant 2.Cowardly 3.Still a boy/not a man 4.Unattractive to the opposite sex 5.Spiritually confused (14).” Matt wrote
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