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“The Treasure of Lemon Brown”by Walter Dean Myers,is a story about a homeless man named Lemon Brown who teaches a boy named Greg the real meaning of treasure.Greg learns that a treasure does not have to be something of monetary value.The value of something is highly personal and only its owner can ever appreciate its real worth and pass it on to others. Greg’s father has a few things that he values such as his son’s education and his postal service job. He really values his son’s education because he had to leave school and did not get the education he needed to do something in his life. He also values his postal service job because even though he didn’t get the education he needed ,he still managed to get a job. As the dad said “I had to leave school when I was thirteen” and “...If I had half the chances that you have,I’d…” this shows that he really values his son’s education because he is trying to persuade him into succeeding in life. Greg treasures the opportunity to play basketball with the Scorpions. Playing with the Scorpions would be a great opportunity for Greg because he was not allowed to play in the high school team. His father had told him to do good in the next report card and he would be able to play in the team but Greg had a problem with that.His father told him “And you want to play basketball?That must be some kind of joke”(6),meaning that Greg was crazy if he thought he would play even though he didn’t get a good grade as promised on the subject…

The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands is a historical fiction book filled with elixir, recipes, and things that go boom. Set in London, England in 1665, Christopher Rowe is an apothecary, or potion maker’s, apprentice. He learns how to make everything from a cure for asthma to a healing salve for burns from his wonderful master, Benedict Blackthorn, who picked him from the orphanage out of all of the other boys. Knowing Christopher and his many endeavors, he and his friend Tom, the baker’s son,…

James Partrick is a DJ, curator, author, and educator. He curates and develops electronic music and art festivals and events. He has also won many awards including the American Composer Forum- MECA award. He also develops music production, composition, and sound design curricula for Dubspot in New York City and the Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis. He is also the owner of the Slam Academy that students take the electronic music training. James Patrick started the article…

Calvin Johnson Net Worth Calvin Johnson Jr. was born on the 29th September 1985 in Newnan, Georgia USA. His name is well known in the football fields, playing as wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. His professional career began in 2007 and already Johnson has a number of career achievements under his name, including, Detroit Lions all-time career leader in receiving yards and touchdowns, fastest receiver to reach 10,000 receiving yards and NFL single-season…

A few years ago I have a difficult dialogue with one of my best friends. I met him through a social network on the Internet. At that time he was living in Reno Nevada and our conversations were always about his marriage problems. In April 2011, he got divorced and in July of the same year my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to travel to Reno and met him. During my visit there, I also met his ex-wife and their children. At first she looked me as her rival or her enemy, but when we had…

reform is certainly an excellent question in the face of so much horror, but operating from this colonial template ignores perhaps a more fundamental and important question which will be explored later in this analysis. King Leopold II founded the colony known as the Congo Free State in 1885 as a personal profit-seeking enterprise through the extraction of minerals, ivory, and primarily rubber. He modeled his endeavor on the Dutch East India Company and only entered Africa after failing to…

Henry Morton Stanley, which was once known as John Rowlands, is an individual who played a key role in King Leopold’s plans. He too came from a life of being rejected and wanted so badly to make a come up from life of pity. Stanley was noticed for his amazing handwriting during his stay at the St. Asaph Union. As the book states “It was as if, through his handwriting, he were trying to pull himself out of disgrace and turn script of his life from one of poverty to one of elegance” (22) Stanley…

after graphically describing the brutality of imperialism, Harrison refers to the “fraud of freedom” perpetrated by the imperialists to “cloak [their] greediness”. What does he mean? Comparing the Two Poems 10. In “The White Man’s Burden” who does Kipling say will benefit from imperialism? How does that differ from Harrison’s “The Black Man’s Burden”? Who do you think is more accurate? Stanley Searches for Livingstone in Africa – Henry M. Stanley (1871) OVERVIEW One of the great…

King Leopold’s conquest of Africa sprouted from one explorer: Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Stanley’s career as an explorer all started when he was a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald. The Herald’s publisher at the time, James Gordon Bennett, sponsored Stanley to search for the famous English explorer, David Livingstone, who went missing in Africa searching for the source of the Nile River. (page number) The immediate aim of Stanley’s mission to find Livingston was to draft intriguing…

Sayles destroyed one of these generational gaps by having Delmore Payne go through a revelation and make peace with his father and son. Chet Payne was the son of a military family, so his life consisted of moving from base to base as his father, Colonel Delmore Payne, was transferred across the country. As they were unpacking in their new home in Frontera, Chet tried to talk with his father about joining the track team. Delmore, however, just continued to rant on about his father Otis, saying…