The 39 Clues

of D1. Consequently, another two-sample Pooled t test was used to test the hypothesis that the mean delivery speed of deliveryman 4 (D4) is not significantly different from mean delivery speed of deliveryman 1 (D1) at a 5% level of significance and 39 degrees of freedom. There was sufficient statistical evidence at the 5% significance level (t=-5.436 and tcrit=-2.023) to reject the null hypothesis that the mean of D4 is not significantly different than the mean of D1.…

lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once --once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him…But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound…At length it ceased. The old man was dead” (Poe 39). The unknown narrator snuck into his neighbor’s house late at night to kill the old man. One glimpse at the man’s eye turned into his violent and sudden…

Think about how different our world would be if people picked who we married, who our kids would be, and what our jobs would be at the age of twelve. The Giver is a story about an old man who is the receiver of the community's memories, Jonas finds out about the dangerous truths about his community's secret past. Now that he has the knowledge, Jonas realizes that he must escape from their world to protect himself and those he loves. Lois Lowry wrote The Giver because she wanted her audience to…

JingJing Zhu Dr. Terrones Expository Writing 20 7 Oct. 2015 Mona: The Simultaneous Emotions of Denial and Horror while Coping with AIDS Elisa, the psychotic and sexually promiscuous murderer of the short story written by Reinaldo Arenas, represents more than just the archetypal villain. In particular, Elisa’s transition from being a lover to a murderer is a suspenseful plot twist; however, this transition is itself a peculiar shift in direction for the story. This caricature change does…

babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as to you have done to this….screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail” (I. vii. 39-61). Rachel, on the other hand, uses her feminine charms to manipulate the men around her to do her bidding, namely Paul Dierden, a man goaded by Rachel into framing Felix Dawkins, the foster brother of one of Rachel’s identical sister, for…

Leaders all around the world share something in common, and that one thing is the ability to speak. In George Orwell's Animal Farm and history, totalitarian leaders gain their power through the convincing support of the people. Animal Farm is a novel about the different social classes relating to the Russian Revolution. Napoleon the pig is a great representation of a leader because of his many constant changes through his use of rhetoric in propaganda such as speeches, slogans, Scapegoats, and…

In the book, Weir writes: “Designed for a mission of thirty-one sols, AL102 [a sheet that is in one of the airlocks] continued well past its planned expiration. Sol [a Martian day, 24 hours, 39 minutes] after sol went by, with the lone astronaut traveling in and out of the Hab [the habitat that Mark lived in on Mars] almost daily. Airlock 1 was closest to the rover charging station, so the astronaut preferred it to the other two” (Weir 154…

simply exist to provide eye candy. Susan Jeanne Douglas notes in Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media that “women in film [and television] are meant to be looked at; if they do much looking themselves-for information, for sex, for clues-they usually pay the consequences and are hated by all other characters and the entire audience” (Douglas 76). Sexuality is not a dirty concept, it is an essential to life. It affects motivation, personality, and emotion. If a woman is…

compelling. Art is a drive, a very complex desire and need, urgency and pleasure” (196). He provides many quotes such as Mary Franks to show that “being an artist” is having the passion to create the art work. The second response is from pages: 13-25, 39-48, and 179-193 in Jackman’s book. Jackman writes and provide quotes…

and died … He was terrifically intelligent. … He was also the nicest [family member]. … God, he was a nice kid, though. … I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. (38-39) From this quote, a lot of insight is gained about Holden’s childhood. Allie seemed to be someone Holden greatly admired and like, as he spends nearly a page praising him in the text. Holden’s love for Allie becomes incredibly detrimental when…