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    In The Landlady, Roald Dahl, the author, used five unusually words that consist of, brisk, congenial, conjured, rapacious, and compulsion. Brisk has an origin of French and English. The meaning of brisk is the same as, active, fast, and/or energetic. In the story Roald had said “He walked briskly down the street,” so he was saying that Billy was walking quickly or fast down the street. The next word that he used was congenial, which means, pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or…

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    Initiate's life before the Call Before the Call, the initiate, Ponyboy, is a 14 year old boy who lives with his two brothers Sodapop and Darry. He lives in a society where the population is separated into two different gangs : the Socs (the rich kids from the West-side) and the Greasers (the kids from the East-side). The Socs are a very brutal gang that enjoy bullying and attaking the Greasers : "Not like the Socs [..] for kicks" (page 3). 2. The Call, where conflict is introduded…

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    Socs Vs Greasers Analysis

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    The Poor Souls of the Rich Children “Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be happy. So when he grows up, he will know the value of things, not the price” (Man of Honor). The Socs have it worse than the Greasers. There is clear evidence that the Socs have it worse than the Greasers because they are exposed to violence and are not given any boundaries to their games. Some may say that the poor kids struggle more because they have to learn to make a living for themselves and…

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    The book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki begins with the author stating his good fortune to have a chance to learn valuable lessons from two fathers, one rich and one poor. The author states how his dad was very educated but struggled financially. Whilst, his rich dad had a very little education but knew a lot about business. The author states about the different lessons ho got to learn about financial education from both his fathers. This book focuses on developing financial…

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    books before The Big Rich, including Days of Rage and Public Enemies. Burroughs grew up around the families of the Big Rich and was amazed by them. He wrote The Big Rich in response to the lack of knowledge about the families who were once considered Texas nobility. The book focuses around the lives the Big Rich, Roy Cullen, Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison, and H.L. Hunt. The author summarized the four men as “a ‘good ol’ boy’, a scold, a genius, and a bigamist” (19). The Big Rich tells the…

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    The sporty group has most of the grade. This group is the popular kids of the school. They wear the popular sports clothing like Nike and Adidas. They play sports like football, baseball, wrestling softball, basketball, and run track. They are the rich kids of the school, they have nice phones they have sack lunch every day. They don’t have bad grades they always have good grades. They have big, nice houses. They do not live in Homedale they live outside of Homedale. The group does not show…

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    Cereal And Caryopses

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    protective outer layer of a grain. It protects the grain from environmental damages like frost, rain, wind, insects, and extreme temperatures. Husk are usually not consumed, but they can be processed into fiber supplements (Brown, 2015). Known for its rich fiber source, bran makes up about 15% of the grain. Bran is the hard outside layer that protects the grains’ soft endosperm (Brown, 2015). Making up about 83% of the grain, is the endosperm. The endosperm contains all the grains’ starch and…

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    parents’ schedule is pretty busy because people are at work so they cooked us dinner and freeze the food. When it comes to time we reheat food in a microwave. I remember a time when I was in junior high school I think in 8th grade my dad made some fried rice and fried dumplings. At lunch when I was eating it and my friends seen me and they started making fun of me and everyone was looking at me and I got so embarrassed and never brought food to school ever again. An early memory of food is…

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    Fiji Research Paper

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    will discuss Fiji ; its main food components , delicacies , religion , and manufacturing. Fiji has many food components in their dishes here are a few of them . Coconut is used in kokodo and palusami . Fish is used in lovo , kokodo , and palusami . Rice is in madrasi masala dosa . Taro root and leaves are used in Rourou . Sweet potatoes , cassava , and breadfruit are some other components used in Fijian dishes. Most of Fiji’s delicacies conclude of the components that are listed above . Lovo…

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    The Gullah And Geechea

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    Florida referred to as Geechee. The word “Gullah” is short for the “Gola” people of Angola, and “Geechie” refers to the “Gidzi” people of Sierra Leone. The Gullah/Geechees ' are comprised of many ethnic groups, in Africa that included those from the Rice Coast - the Wolof, Mandinka, Fula, Kissi, Baga, Mende, and Limba; and those from the Gold Coast - Angola, Calabar, and Congo. The influx of these specific tribal groups on the southeastern seaboard and Sea Island plantations and their linkage…

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