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    Squirrel Psychology

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    If you think you have squirrels in the attic? You probably do. Either that or you or you have been providing shelter for a pretty big rat. If that is the case, I'd rather have to deal with getting rid of the squirrel! Squirrels are very active in the morning and afternoon. If you hear noise in the attic during that time frame, it is likely a squirrel. A tiny footstep in the night is apt to be a mouse or a rat hunting something to eat. Both critters could be damaging your home, but we'll…

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    Paul's Dilemma

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    Paul’s choice to help people out of the sinkhole boosted his self esteem and what he thought of himself. When the ground starts depressing, the portables with it on September 11, Paul makes the split decision to help the stuck kids out of the portables. After they help everyone out he realizes “I wasn’t a coward, and that counts for something” (86). Even though he admits he may still be afraid of Erik, he begins to look at himself differently. In addition, when Paul says,”I faced danger today,…

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    In Harper Lee’s novel, the title “To Kill a Mockingbird” is directly referred to early in the book when Jem and Scout are given air rifles for christmas. They are told by their father, Atticus, that to kill a mockingbird would be a sin. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. I think the meaning of the title to kill a mockingbird is a mockingbird itself is a delicate, peaceful, innocent, and pleasant animal, what I think it means is that characters like Boo Radley and Thomas Robinson the story…

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    In the book the three characters Atticus, Scout, and Jem start out being normal like they always do, but they meet a huge problem that will change not only the three of them, but the entire town to. In life most people change from being their normal self’s, to somebody else. People change from because something can shock them or make there out look on life change. Through out the story they change and become a whole new person with their own out look on life. Each character took the case…

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    Australian Lore Research Paper Outline Introduce your topic Australian Lore Answer these questions: Folklore: a collection of stories passed down from generations that include Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales. Legends are…A story regarded as historical but unauthenticated.Ex.The title of this story is called sydney’s big cats. The story is about a forest in Australia and the people that work there don’t think there are large cats but there’s been a bunch of people that say they have heard…

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    Sometimes people live a life just for show and when they are place in a compromising situation how would they really act. Greg decided to take the boot camp because he really feared for his life in prison and thought he could never survive. Also just because he wanted to prove to his best friend and others that he was hard. He made an enemy that would follow him. Also think Greg had a reality check when king was arrested he walked right out. He probably was thinking he should have made better…

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    novel and its film version supplement each other, on many levels, is the rendition with To Kill a Mockingbird. However, film can convey things that novels can't, and vice versa. Likewise, film has limitations that a novel doesn't. In the novel, Scout Finch, 6,and her older brother, Jem, 10, live in colorless Maycomb, Alabama, spending majority of their time with Dill (their friend) and scrutinizing their secluded and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and…

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    In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, I think the scene that I love the most is when Boo has just saved the children. When Scout meets Boo for the first time. She says something like, "Hey, Boo," and Atticus formerly introduces Scout to "Mr. Arthur Radley," saying that he thinks Boo already knows her. The connection that has been building between Boo and the children over the course of the novel has been alluded to, but not discussed in the open. Not only were there the gifts he left in the…

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    someone else. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is a story about a family living in the south during times when segregation was still very prominent. This was a time where it was dangerous to be a white person who supported black people. Atticus Finch, a white lawyer was assigned to defend a black man, named Tom Robinson, who was charged with raping a white woman. Atticus had a great amount of courage while trying his hardest to win the case and to protect Tom. Malala Yousafzai is a young…

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    Throughout the course of the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the main characters, Jem and Scout, change their views on the not so fair world they thought they lived in. In the beginning of the book, both Jem and Scout thought everyone was treated fairly and are as innocent as they are. The author, Harper Lee creates crazy events for Jem and Scout to face, that ultimately change their views on the world and also help them grow as people. Through the use of child-like innocence and point of view,…

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