Amelia

According to the article, “Rio de Janeiro (City)” By Amelia Meyer one of Brazil’s largest cities is Rio de Janeiro often referred to as just Rio. Rio is a very large tourist destination and is the top visited city in the southern hemisphere (Meyer). The scenes in 3% show very bad conditions in Brazil. People…

bye and went to see some of his patients. He stepped outside of the house and he saw the streets. The noisy merchants were there selling their products and lots of people were there, buying them. He thought that once the plague was over, and he and Amelia were going to leave. When he arrived at his patient house a little kid opened the door, he was crying,…

2,300 years ago, the pre-Incans lived 10 miles northwest from the Peruvian coast. There they built Chankillo, a large fortified temple up against the western foothills of the Cordillera Negras (Lienhard). On the outskirts of this fortified temple about one kilometer east, there are 13 square towers aligned in a row on top of a ridge, each standing about 20 feet tall. On either side of the ridge are two towers on flat planes; an east and west observation tower. The pre-Incans are believed to…

The Squalus acanthus is nicknamed the dog fish because they are known to feed in packs which is similar to the habits of dogs, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium website. These sharks are classified as chondrichthyes (“Squalus Acanthias”). According to the article Spiny Dogfish, the dogfish’s relatives include the Pygmy shark and the Sleeper shark. The Squalus acanthus has an endoskeleton skeleton type. They live in the interdial zone up to 900 meters deep. The dogfish sharks swim in water…

and if you read it diligently you will discover in it my urgent wish that you reach the eminence that fortune and your other great qualities promise you." He was hoping to win favor with the Medici family and earn a position in the Republic again (Amelia). Although the offer did not go as he had hoped, many people over time have been influenced by his political…

Chris’ Story Kids all over the world have life-threatening conditions, like different types of cancer and heart diseases. There are so many conditions and diseases that could kill a kid. Those kids inspired Make a Wish foundation. Chris Greicius was a seven year old boy who had a dream of becoming a police officer so he could “catch the bad guys”. But, at the age six he learned that he was not going to live long enough to pursue his dream. But, that did not stop Chris from becoming a little…

In the market, companies are always fighting to get new and more customers. These companies don’t sell the same products but there’s still a rivalry between them : who’s going to attract the most customers. That’s the case of these two companies : Apple and Activision, which both of them produce technology supplies to customers : electronic goods for the first company and for the second, video games. Both of these companies’s ad are videos, but they show different approaches of advertising.…

Wei-Chen calls him and tries to say something about his hair,”Why is your hair Mmph” but then Suzy stops him and says, “ Nothing, nice perm.” Jin tried to change his hair so he could look more like his white classmate Greg (Yang 98). After his date with Amelia and having a fight with Wei-chen he changes himself completely. He had gone to sleep but when he woke up in the middle of the night he felt different. “ My head hurt, but the bruises on my face we gone. A new face deserved a new name. I…

The desire to fit in and have friends can be found in everyone, even the characters from Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese. Yang takes the reader through three different stories that all aim to show the importance of being true to yourself. Two of the main characters, Monkey King and Jin, attempt to assimilate into the societies that they live in, which results in the characters losing who they truly are, until they are finally willing to embrace their true selves. While…

Overtime is an unfortunate inclusion when working full time employment. Employers are able to require mandatory overtime to any of their employees with or without immediate notification to the employees, and can take disciplinary action if the overtime is not met, according to the State of California Department of Industrial Relations “ an employer may dictate the employee’s work schedule and hours. Additionally, under most circumstances the employer may discipline an employee, up to and…