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Authors of any piece of literature have a vast arsenal of weapons to use in order to entice readers. Among biggest and most powerful weapons in said arsenal are rhetorical devices; these weapons are capable of aiding the author in his attempt to change his readers. In the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass the author, Douglass himself, through the use of adroit allusions to the bible and descript imagery that depicts the absurdity of slavery as an institution.…

The Truest Wisdom Are The Facts Filed Below Your Conscious If possible, she liked to think she was getting better at treating her friends well. She did not agree with everything they did and that was okay. Her best friend was someone she barely agreed with. It was either one or the other of them that did not think the other one was in their right mind, but it did not stop them from caring about each other. Then there were the others. No, she did not understand them at all (most of the time), but…

The movie Hidden Figures was a movie about African American mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space Race. In 1961, Katherine Johnson worked as a “computer” in the segregated West Area Computers Division of Langley Aeronautical Research center in Hampton, VA with her colleagues, Mary Jackson, an aspiring engineer, and Dorothy Vaughn, the unofficial supervisor. After a successful Russian satellite was sent into space, the pressure to send Americans into space increased. Katherine’s…

Student strategy: Student A starts by drawing 11 circles, which is what I saw. When asked to explain what he did, he said that he first drew 2 circles and then 9 more. He then added them together by counting them all to get 11 pennies, which is the answer. When solving the problem, he adds them by counting from 1 to 11, and he seems to have drawn 2 circles and then 9 more, following the time sequence. However, I never saw him count 2, 9, and then all of them, I only saw him count 1 to 11.…

Flying across the ice, the two time U.S. gold medalists Alex and Maia Shibutani danced their hearts out to Paradise by Coldplay only to lose their third gold medal at the National Figure Skating Championships. Their dance and song choice touched the lives of people all around the world, but wasn’t enough to hold their own against the skaters to come. Although the title was the lost, the words to the Shibutanis song of choice speaks volumes. Songwriter Christopher Anthony pulls at the string’s of…

My Favorite Sport I was 5 going on 6 when my mom first took me to Iceland Skating Rink in Sacramento. After a few visits at Iceland, I ask my mom if l could take lessons. Hesitant my mom agreed, not knowing that I would not only like it but be good at skating. So the journey began! My mom had seen a coach working with children my age,her name was Judy. Tall and Lean Judy was a nice Drill Sargent who produced winners and l was one of them! In order to be good at Ice Skating you must…

Introduction Have you ever had a pet that you loved so much get really sick? Have you ever gotten a new puppy? Have you ever been getting ready to do something really important and you thought you couldn’t do it? Have you ever been somewhere really nice with your family? Have you ever gone on a weekend trip with friends and family? Well I have done at least one of these things in each of my memories and you are going to hear all about them. When Nero got really sick Has there ever been a…

upon her were normal. They also made life easier for her; she could simply have fun and enjoy life. Her father's attitude was undoubtedly the main reason that she picked a man like Torvald to marry. Unconsciously, she was still seeking a father figure, a continuation of her childhood. As she herself realized, ."..I passed from Daddy's hands into yours. You arranged everything . . . and so I came to share it--or pretended to..." (Act III…

CBM Preparation The CBM that I will be conducting will be the hiding assessment. This assessment will show “Children who are able to subtract with ease and efficiency know the parts of number and see the relationship between composition and decomposition of numbers and addition and subtraction.” Kathy Richardson, Assessing Math Concepts: Hiding Assessment. Didax Publishing, page 26. The probe will first be probing for the student’s ability to see part-whole number relationships. For each of the…

“I’m not quite sure but I will figure it out soon,” she replied. I brushed it off and didn’t think anything of it. Thursday came around and I knew that something big was going to happen today. If it was going to be good or bad I didn’t know. The day started out like any other day.…