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Alaska’s Lessons of Death Death touches everyone, whether we like it or not. When reading Looking for Alaska by John Green, he forces you to see that and why we, as humans think of life after death, because we can’t handle the thought of complete nothingness. The book starts with the strange protagonist named Miles Halter and we see him start at a new school in Alabama for his junior year. He wants to find his “Great perhaps” in life and he thinks going to this school will help him find it,…

Independent Reading Task Paper Towns by John Green Paper Towns is an award-winning novel by John Green. The novel is a story set in a small town in Orlando, Florida. The story is narrated by and follows the main character, Quentin. As the reader follows Quentin we learn about how he thinks and more importantly how much he likes a certain girl, who he hasn’t spoken to since they were kids. But one night, she leads him on an adventure until dawn and then disappears the next day. The focus of this…

In the novel Looking for Alaska written by John Green, Miles “Pudge” Halter is looking for his “Great Perhaps” to happen, and later finds himself living it after moving to a boarding school in Alabama called Culvert Creek. The fictional book focuses on Pudge the adventures he has with Alaska, the crazy, wild, clever girl that he meets at the school, along with a few other friends he meets on the way. Miles talks to Alaska often realizes that there is some mystery to Alaska that he can not quite…

written about. Does that make sense?(Green 128)." Alaska also mentions death often through the book, by talking about the death of her mother that she blames herself for. However, this theme is most strongly expressed when Alaska suddenly dies. Her death also strongly enforces the themes of both friendship and coming of age by forcing Miles to deal with grieving her death with his friends all coming around to support each other in a time of hardship. John Green wrote these themes in because they…

Have you ever wanted to be like Superman? Or saw someone having actions like him? It is a stereotype that Superman is always supposed to save lives and never fail! In “ Superman and Me “ Sherman Alexie and and Superman have many connections. Throughout the story Sherman Alexie is trying to become more like Superman. Superman and Sherman are working to save lives and make the world better by breaking down doors, saving lives, and teaching to never give up. In the text “ Superman and Me “…

THE GREENS The party established in 1992 has four elemental significance i.e. ecological sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy and peace and non-violence. The party tries to maintain fair trade deals which can keep the transparency going in order to maintain peace and build trust. The Greens are not enthusiastic about the trade agreements that are taking place as these trade agreements according to them are not keeping in mind all the environmental factors and are only interested…

In looking for Alaska the point of view if from Pudge (MIles Halter), the main character. By having the point of view from him it leaves a sort of mystery about The other characters. Miles Halter is the new kid at Culver Creek High School, so he doesn’t know anybody. As the reader we learn things about the other characters in the book at the same Miles does. The point of view is very important in this story and if the same story was told from a different point of view the story would change…

They are called The Fastest Man Alive. Did you know that there are four people who call themselves The Flash? Did you know the are two TV shows of The Flash? Did you know that Gerdener Fox Created The Flash and The Justice League of America Jay, Barry, Wally, and Bart are the four Flashes. Barry and Wally are part of The Justice League of America (JLA). The Rival is Jay’s opposite. The Reverse Flash is Barry’s opposite. Zoom is Wally’s opposite. Flashpoint messes up everything. There are more…

in this case she has a pointed shape to her nose. Her head is green in color with light green and yellow vertical stripes that run all the way around her face. The skin almost has a scaly texture. Moving from her eyes down to the area that covers her ears you will see an orange/red stripe; this is how they get the name red ear slider. Her top shell also known as the (Carapace) is round and smooth to the touch. The shell is a light green to yellow color with black line patterns that outline the…

The results from this experiment show that caffeine can be extracted from a tea bag due to solubility properties of the natural substances found in tea. The two major substances that the caffeine was separated from are cellulose and tannins. Due to the insolubility of cellulose in water, it was easily extracted. Tannins are soluble in water but were neutralized with sodium carbonate to produce water-soluble salts. Caffeine is soluble in methylene chloride which allowed separation of tannins from…