Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry, is a dystopian novel that centers around a character named Kira, who is born crippled. The novel starts off with the unfortunate news that Kira’s mother, Katrina, has passed away unexpectedly due to mysterious illness. She is now orphaned, since her father, who had the role of serving in the Council of the Guardians, had been killed by The Beasts during a hunt. In addition to struggling to survive without any parents or support from relatives, Kira must prove herself worthy to the Council, otherwise, she will be sent to the Field, where the disabled are left to be killed by The Beasts. Fortunately, Jamison, a member of the council, defends her during the trial against Vandara, the accuser who wants to occupy Kira’s…
William Blue also known as Billy Blue was born in 1767 in Jamaica, New York City. However, in 1796 Blue was living in Deptford, London, working as a chocolate maker and a labourer in ships in the River Thames. Later that year on the 4th October at Maidstone, Kent, Blue was convicted of stealing raw sugar and was sentenced to seven years’ transportation. Blue was travelling onboard a convict ship called Minorca with 297 other convicts. The convicts were housed below deck, in tiny confined spaces behind prison bars.…
Maya Moore and Angel McCoughtry are both considered legends in the WNBA. Have you ever tried to debate whether one player was better than another? Maya Moore is the superior player over Angel McCoughtry. Maya Moore is a better defensive player, offensive player, and also has a more successful career than Angel McCoughtry. Maya Moore and Angel McCoughtry are both a strong defensive presence making giant blocks.…
The parents of Westside High School senior, Chris Browning, were killed in a tragic car accident right outside of Savannah, Georgia when he was 8 years old. He now resides with Alan and Melissa Smith, who adopted Chris after a few short months after the accident. He also has a step brother Jacob (18 years old). Chris excels in baseball, as well as in the classroom. Chris grew up in a house where he did not feel so welcomed by his step brother, Jacob.…
Just recently the Rogers’s lady eagles’ B and C team basketball have finished their whole season! B team got first place in districts and second in league play only losing one game to Highland Park. C team got second in districts and second in league only losing two games and both to Highland Park as well. It has been an amazing season for them, and we hope that they all come back next year with the same intensity as before.…
The things that are the same in these two paragraphs are that they call them blue baby’s. They both have the charter Tomas and Blalcock. The little girl name Eileen Saxon and Eileen Saxon had anrare condition called blue baby. blue baby ment that she hand been born with an heart condition that starved her body for oxygen. The first acccount was about a man named Vivien Tomas svaing thousands of blue babys blue babys is an heart condition that blocks the air in the oxygen to the body.…
Imagine, it’s the year of 1932, on a hot summer day and it is over 90 degrees. Picture the muggy feeling, with sunscreen and sweat piled on. Iowa weather, being Iowa weather. Of course something to help cool down is a necessity right now but, where is there to go?…
Grands Rapids Christian High School provides many opportunities for student involvement and excitement. Our athletic program is outstanding, I, in particular, participate in the volleyball program. Our school has teams for almost any fall, winter, and spring sport. The sports that get the most hyped up about are football, basketball, and volleyball. One of the tools we use to gain more hype is Eagle Nation, our schools student section organizer.…
A raw, poignant story of a band of Brazilian street kids who survive -- if they can -- by their wits alone. Asphalt Angels is a realistic depiction of the life of street children in Brazil seen through the eyes of Alex, a street child of 13 in Brazil who has been kicked onto the city streets by his stepfather after his mother dies. He is alone and scared. Unfortunately, jobs that provide enough money for food and shelter are nonexistent. He eventually falls in with a surrogate family of street urchins who call themselves the Asphalt Angels, headed by two older teens, Roy and his girlfriend, Duda.…
Guardian Angel As the New Year came in we have seen a rise in how horrible most cops are treated. Officers are treated horrible people who abuse their power. This hurts more that the officers it hurts us. When we can’t trust one another we tend to fight and blame each other.…
M. Dumond Blue courage Research assignment. Blue courage, a way of thinking, a way of training and a way of life designed to support not only the integrity of the actions of law enforcement but also to support the purveyors of law enforcement. I spoke to an Officer a Sargent and my Chief asked them to define Blue Courage for me from their prospective and I learned the following. My Chief referred me to a book, {Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect (CRC press)}, required reading in my department.…
Grace Biskie - Home A place for anyone who would like to know more about God's words and miracles. Words of God are always important in our daily lives. It's either we have to read, listen or watch it in our bedrooms, living rooms or even on our garage doors in Wichita with our family or even when we are alone. We have to know that it is very important to always start our days with scriptures so we can be positive throughout the day. It's a shame actually that most people doesn't take these words seriously and won't even pay any attention.…
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia is interesting and highly informative both to a synesthete looking for more answers and to a passerby that may never have heard of the condition before. It breaks synesthesia down over the course of its chapters, beginning with examining each different major type of synesthesia and all of the intricacies that come with it. It addresses how these connections can integrate themselves into the concepts of a non-synesthete’s brain through metaphor and language, and explores the biology in which this trait is so ingrained in. The book ends with the acknowledgement that there is still much to discover about synesthesia, and doing so could give way to much larger insights into how the brain works and how we perceive the world.…
Thesis: The boundaries of knowledge and the capacity for humans to know is limited in Paradise Lost both because only God is omniscient and there is no point for Adam to understand more than what Raphael is telling him. The want to know or to gain knowledge is compared to an appetite in Paradise Lost. Milton says, “knowledge is as food and needs no less her temperance over appetite to know, in measure what the mind may well contain, oppresses else with surfeit and soon turns wisdom to folly” (216). Adam continues to question the archangel Raphael because gaining knowledge is like eating food, and humans need food to survive.…
From this I have been able see how some parts work and get to watch the engine and imagine how it is pushing the massive airplane forward. Then when landing being able to see the flaps and most of the wing separate mechanically to different locations in order to slow down and land properly amused me and I think seeing that just added to my passion for airplanes and aviation. This has made me desire to attend flight school eventually to learn all about the principles and physics of flight. From what I have researched I would most likely attend Mountain City Aviation because the staff are friendly and educated it is close to where I live and I have heard of some great success stories from their training. I love to travel and in the future I hope to travel to many places or do some sort of missions work in different areas of the world.…