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Unpleasant, imposing, detached, all of these are what a phone call represents now a day’s, or that’s at least what Sherry Turkle is trying to prove. Along with her argument that texting is leading people to lose valuable social skills and to become more emotionally detached from each other. Turkle utilizes large amounts of pathos to portray the damaging effects texting has on different people. Elaine is one of the teenagers that Turkle interviews, about the effects texting has on people. Elaine…

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story of bravery and courage. The main characters are Rikki, a mongoose who is the story’s protagonist, and three snakes - Karait, Nag, and Nagaina - who are the antagonists. Other characters are an Englishman and his wife and their son Teddy; Darzee and his wife who are tailor birds; and Chuchundra, a musk-rat who lives in the Englishman’s home. The story takes place in a bungalow and its garden in a British army post in India during the late 1800’s. The story begins when…

Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, was born in 1170 in Pisa which is a city of Italy. He was the son of Guilielmo and Alessandra. One of his accomplishments was the Fibonacci Sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers where the last two numbers equal the next number. Like 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on. You can calculate it by this formula, F(n) = (2/Ö5) {- [-2/(1-Ö5)]n / [1 - Ö5] + [-2/(1+Ö5)]n/ [1 + Ö5]}. Another one of his accomplishments was that he helped to promote the use of the…

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, born on February 8, 1834, was believed to be the youngest of 14 children. His father, Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleyev was a teacher at a local gymnasium. Around the time Dmitri was born, his father went blind and later died in 1847. Consequently to support the family, his mother Mariya Dmitriyevna Kornileva began working at a small glass factory in a nearby town, and eventually started managing it. On December of 1848, the factory burned down, and the family moved to St.…

s: Translations are the process of moving around all of the coordinates that make up a shape. All the points move the same distance in the same direction. The transformation is isometric which means that it does not change in shape or sides. If the pre-image moves either right or up the coordination would be adding. If the pre-image moves either left or down the image would be subtraction. The picture to the right is an example of translation. The answer to the question at the bottom would be…

Flatland is a two dimensional world, whose citizens consist of shapes like triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, and circles. This world is divided into a class system where the more sides or angles you have, the higher in class a person is. In Flatland, all figures must be regular and by regular they mean equal sided. Every shape is in its more honorable state if it has equal length in all sides. But there is the the rare situation when an irregular shape is born. Irregular shapes are…

Power is the ability to do something or act in a certain way. Brute Force is to make someone do something against their will with strength or physical action or movement. The power was dominant on the island because the were kids. Kids are accustomed to there parents to tell them what to do. They don’t know what to do so the rest of the kids elect Ralph as leader and Ralph uses the conch for power. Jack had the most power in this book. He was leader of the hunters in the beginning and…

determined by the atomic number, not by the atomic weight. Mosely used a device known as an electron gun to fire streams of electrons at different elements. He found out that different elements give off different frequency of X-rays. Mosely calculated these frequencies and discovered that the frequency relating to atomic number gives off reasonable results, while frequencies of the atomic mass is unpromising. Not only he concluded that elements should be classified by its atomic number. He…

In the Lord of the Flies, the boys on the island are young and proper kids from Britain. They are merely school children who have never experienced a tribulation as great as being alone on an isolated island. The boys have only past experiences and knowledge to to figure out a way to survive on the island. Growing up civilized helps the boys to create a structure by which to live and an ordered way of doing things. However, while on the island, the boys experience a loss of innocence while…

completed a unit on number lines, integers, and rational numbers. State, District, and National Standards Met The two AZ College and Career Readiness Standards, found on the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) website, that will be taught during this topic are: 6.NS.C.6. Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates. b.…