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John Steinbeck’s story, “The Chrysanthemums” opens with a description of the setting. The first setting is on a farm in the Salinas Valley, in California. The main character of the story is Elisa Allen. She is unhappy, and discontent with her life. She is married to Henry Allen. They have no children. She feels as though Henry sees her as more of a masculine woman. Elisa turns to her garden to mask her true feelings. While gardening one day, a stranger stops by their farm. This stranger cons,…

about the people he loved. On a Sunday afternoon, when I was about five years old, my family and I went to have dinner and visit at my grandparent’s house. Since my grandpa worked at Dana he collected multitudes of toy tractors, trailers, and lawn mowers. My brother, Jacob, and I had finished our food and was excused from the table to go play. We immediately went into the office and opened up the display case like we…

Carbon monoxide is a gas with descriptive features being odorless and colorless gas that can be very fatal. Carbon monoxide can cause serious issues among the human body to the point where it can not consume more which either leads to an injury or a serious death. It is a very rapid death resulting from this gas it has maintained a nickname as the silent killer due to the feature of being odorless and colorless while being deadly. Even though it results in a fast death it would be very best to…

Pandora’s Box is a Greek story about a girl named Pandora who let out the evil in the world. Zeus, the god of heaven, made a box containing all the worlds evil and sent it to the brother of Prometheus, the one who bought fire to humans. Pandora fell in love with the brother of Prometheus, but the told her under no circumstances to open the box, at the time the earth was perfect no evil, no hate. Pandora got so interested in the box she thought she would just have a sneak peek and put it back, so…

Chapter 2 INTRODUCTION TO NOISE 2.1 SOUND: Sound is a form of energy that produces a sensation of hearing in our ears. Sound is produced by vibrating objects. The matter or substance through which sound is transmitted is called a medium. It can be solid, liquid or gas. Sound moves through the medium form the point of generation to the listener. When an object vibrates, it sets the molecules of medium around it vibrating. The…

As I went to bid farewell to my parents they asked me, “What is your plan?” To which I responded, “I don’t have a plan, I am just going to work things out.” They tried to persuade me that I shouldn’t leave, but I was adamant that I needed to start a new chapter in my life. “Why do you want to go backwards?” was a question they both asked me, and one I couldn’t answer. I had already made up my mind. By choice I left behind a life of comfort with only a backpack and a suitcase. It was…

The way we expect them to go out and better themselves is like telling a lawn mowing company to cut grass without a lawn mower. You simply need the tools for success. One of the major blows to success is we strip felons of their utility and mobility. African Americans are more likely to enter the system and felons are at heavy disadvantages, so we…

Video Games: The Positive Outlook Everywhere you look today, you see a child or teenager playing a video game. They can play games on their cell phone, their hand-held video gaming system, a tablet/laptop, home computer, or home video game device such as Xbox or PlayStation. An astounding 91% of all children play video games (Granic, Lobel, & Engels, 2014, p. 66). Video games have become a huge part of children’s lives with 97% playing for at least an hour a day. Although most research shows…

Mr.Wilkinson Assigned us (his Caledonia Careers Class) a project called the ‘Stock Market’ Project. He gave us each $5,000 (Fake of course) to buy stocks (also fake but we still used the real numbers) and to see how much we could make from spending as much of the fake $5,000 as we could. We made a spreadsheet to keep track of the money we earned for each stock we bought and we had to keep track of it every week. We bought a minimum of four stocks each to keep track of. We all had to see whether…

A Day in the life of Grant Koerner By Grant Koerner In my speech I will be telling you a couple of things about me. First thing I will be talking about is my part time job at Canton Home and Farm Supply, and the second thing I will be sharing with you is my hobby which is wood working.( add more to it ) My first talking point is my part time job at Canton Home and Farm Supply, which is located in Canton, South Dakota. Canton is about 15 miles from Harrisburg. During the summer I work pro…