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    Book Report Tangerine

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    Tangerine and the nice Lake Windsor Downs. The setting affects the plot because it affects how things are treated. For example in the development middle school, if you have a disadvantage you can't do certain thing. As cause and effect go, when the sinkhole occurred at Paul’s school, he was happy to transfer to tangerine middle because there he knew he could play soccer. The setting affects characters in many ways. For example one of paul’s friends on the soccer team, Shandra Thomas, lives…

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    Graniteville an Important Wild West Town: Bibliography on Graniteville During the Gold Rush There is a story that says “two Miners were able to get 17,000 dollars worth of gold in only 7 days” (PBS). In the 1800’s Gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which Created a surge of people want to come in the search for the gold filled quartz veins. Graniteville stands as a notable example of the Wild West. “Gold was discovered in Sacramento in…

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    1. Figure 4.3, Going Home by Jacob Lawrence. This piece was created in 1946, and was painted with gouache, which is an opaque type of watercolor. I personally did not like this piece, I’m not a fan of the medium used, but nevertheless I found it interesting. In my opinion, the low value and intensity of the yellows and greens are unappealing, I think they make this train or bus seem outdated and old, or just dirty. But I do enjoy the contrasting red and green, and the warm feeling that the…

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    problems. In the book “Tangerine” by: Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see that there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County, FL. Where else does a sinkhole swallow an entire school, fire burn underground for years, and lightning strike at the same time every day? With all of this chaos going on, Paul is constantly picked on by his brother, a football…

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    important in CO2 gas which helps regulate the Earth’s temperature. CO2 is also necessary in photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. Fossil fuels and other nonrenewable resources contain carbon. Carbon recycles through the oceans, which is a carbon sinkhole. When it is warmed, carbon is released. Excess carbon dioxide’s floats up to the atmosphere when we use fossil fuels, destroy vegetation,…

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    When a catastrophic disaster occurs, achieving and sustaining community resilience is the concentration and primary concern of the nation, states, citizens, and businesses. However, to achieve the goal of building communities that are resilient to disasters requires a collaborative effort. Disasters always occur at the local level. The local government sustains control of the total available resources used in the post disaster response and recovery efforts, regardless of the source of the assets…

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    According to the letter “Observations on the Filth of the Thames”, Michael Faraday claims that: the appearance and the smell of the water forced themselves at his attention and the whole of the river was an opaque pale brown fluid. Also, that the sinkholes smelled better than the…

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    down and check out something he has built but when she realizes something is wrong and tried to leave he pulls her down, forces her to have sex with him and then later kills her. He cuts her up and puts her body parts in a safe and takes it to a sinkhole. Most of the story is told from her in-between heaven, while in…

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    all he cares is himself and Erik is very selfish. Erik is very selfish because all he cares is being the top on the football team and being the best. On the other hand, Paul is caring because he does things before him like helping people out of the sinkhole he could of fell in but he wanted to help others. To conclude is that Erik will kill to be the star of the team and be on top so Erik is one of the most amazing and selfish villain in a…

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    Dystopian World Technology is very manipulating in the American Society today. As technology advances in the future, it could have more access and control to the citizens than it does now. There are different types of technology that is being used to make life so much easier, things that the human mind does not completely understand. Technology seems so wonderful until someone who is smart enough looks behind the scenes at what its’ purpose is really being used for. With technology having access…

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