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In the town of Sleepy Hollow, we find Ichabod Crane, the protagonist, who begins to notice the daughter of the richest man in town, Katrina. He decides to pursue a relationship with Katrina. However, this decision starts trouble with Katrina’s other suitor, Abraham "Brom" Van Brunt. There is a party at Katrina’s house later she breaks up with Ichabod. Heartbroken Ichabod makes his way home when he is interrupted by the Headless Horseman. The next day, Ichabod has disappeared and no one knows…

A. A personal trouble can be defined as a hardship faced by an individual in society due to their own character or temperament. For instance, alcoholism is not due to powers that lie outside the individual but characteristics this one individual pertains that makes him or her addicted to alcohol. In regards, to this example of alcoholism it is not good thing because it leads to a cascade of negative occurrences like losing your job, and damage to your liver. Some examples of this show are the…

The phylum chordate is one of the first phylum’s everybody learns in school. This is because it includes the human species and a lot of other animals that we know, in which they all have a spine aka vertebrate. All animals in the chordate have similar characteristics, sometime through their life cycle, this can include when they are an embryo. All of this phylum have pharayneal slits which are a series of opening that connect the outside of their neck with the inside of their throat, these are…

Earthquake Alarm Can you locate an earthquake? How about read its frequency? Alert others of it? You may not be able to do things like that, but there is a machine that can. Learn about this invention as you read about the ancient seismograph. With today’s advanced technology, you wouldn’t be surprised that there would be a machine that can do things such as locate earthquakes before getting struck. But can you believe this invention was created during ancient times? The invention…

Aristotle considered a tragic hero as a good man of high status who displays a tragic flaw and experiences a dramatic reversal along with an intense moment of recognition. In the play The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice written by William Shakespeare the main character, Othello, is portrayed as a tragic hero. Throughout the play he displays each characteristic of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. Othello was often considered as a good man of high status in the play. Many people…

The readings for this week consisted of reading chapters one through five of Morgan Giddings “4 Steps to Funding; Avoid Rejection and Get Your Grant Funded on the Next Try With This Simple Four Step Formula”. As the title states, Giddings’s work is about how to write grants in a way that will ensure the grant writer obtains funding. Giddings’s writing reads like an infomercial, and while it may seem silly at first, it makes valid points on how to write a grant. Giddings addresses the need for…

Chattahoochee River begins in the northeast of Georgia and continues down 524 miles to Apalachicola Bay, Florida. The river houses approximately 24 species of freshwater aquatic turtles, 37 species of salamanders and sirens, and 30 species of frogs and toads. Among the wildlife are 9 state threatened/endangered plant species. The river is used for multiple purposes, including supplying 70% of the drinking water for metro Atlanta, equivalent to about 300 million gallons of water, in a day; and…

sylvatica (Karraker, N. E., Gibbs, J. P., Vonesh, J. R., 2008). Also, species such as the Spotted salamander and Wood frog were very sensitive to salinity (Collins, S. J. & Russell, R. W., 2008, August 8), whereas other species such as the American toad (Bufo americanus) and the African clawed frog (Xenopus…

Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.As a part of this assignment I have been charged with reading three selections of this time period relating to this movement.From reading the selections I really got to better understand the romantic movement .The writing of that was truly trying to convey the writer or main character’s extreme emotion that was felt during his/her…

a didactic purpose. In many ways, it works to impart an appreciation for life and manners. Throughout the novel, characters are praised for their hospitality (as in the case of Rat or Badger), and criticized for their lack of it (as in the case of Toad). Additionally, Grahame wanted children to understand how to act towards others in certain situations. Sometimes Grahame speaks directly to the reader to comment on the importance of etiquette, whether table manners or honesty. Both through its…