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    The character Tree-ear in the story A Single Shard is a poor orphan boy from Korea who lives in Ch’ulp’o with a wise elderly man named Crane-man and worked for Min the master potter that had several different characteristic changes and also even mental changes. From the beginning from the end of the novel A Single Shard. In the beginning, he is more timid and hesitant than he was in contrast with the end when he is more brave and forward thinking. Tree-ear was a curious kid at the beginning…

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    Tree-ear, an orphan abandoned after the death of his parents, a kid with street smarts, and the apprentice of Min, a respected Korean potter. Tree-ear was sheltered and cared for by Crane-man his friend and surrogate father until he died a sorrow death. That is when Ajima and Min took him in as their own giving him the name Hyung-pil. At the start of the story Tree-ear does not have as much wisdom and smarts compared to himself at the closing of the story. At the opening of A Single Shard…

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    produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year. Plankton are more prolific, providing half of Earth's oxygen, but forests are still a key source of breathable air. 2. They're more than just trees, nearly half of all known species live in forests,…

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    Attribute selection is the process of identifying and removing as much of the irrelevant and redundant information as possible from a dataset. If the data dimensions are reduced, we will be able to improve the performance of the applied classification algorithms. They will function faster, more efficiently and will be with an improved classification accuracy. As an addition we can also execute data visualization, and increase the insight of the potential classification model [] . There are many…

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    The Bean Trees Analysis

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    reality”-Roopleen. This quote relates to both Ben Carson and Taylor Greene from The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver during their journey on accomplishing their goals. Gifted hands by Ben Carson is an aspiring story of how he started from Detroit and made his way to be an astounding pediatric neurosurgeon at John Hopkins by the age of thirty-three and never seemed to forget about his faith or family . The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver is a fresh coming of age story about Taylor Greene, who…

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    A Turtle and Some Beans Anais Nin, a renowned author, once wrote, “And the day came when the risk to remain a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” (“Quotes About Growth”). In the story, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, the courage to bloom is one of the many themes. Taylor, a young woman travelling westward, is unwillingly given a child. Taylor and the child, Turtle, eventually settle in Arizona. They live with a woman named Lou Ann, and Taylor works at an auto…

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    The Almond Tree In the novel, The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohan Corasanti. The Almond Tree introduces a young Palestinian boy who is born in the midst of a country that is falling apart. In the text, Corasanti showcases a multitude of religious and political conflicts. These conflicts, mainly occur with the Palestinians and the Jews. Corasanti depicts the oppressive actions of the Jews and the Palestinians rise from the ashes. From the beginning of the novel, Corasanti has portrayed the…

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    Why do americans fear immigrants from other countries? In The Bean Trees there are many examples of Americans overlooking immigrants and only seeing the Drugs and Violence that they come from. One character in The Bean Trees, Estevan is a immigrant from Guatemala who encounters stereotypes of Americans. In the United States there is a war on drugs, americans fear immigrants coming in the U.S. because of the drugs in their county. Also Americans feel that immigrants take jobs and space from the…

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    Whether your trip to the woods in Ridley High School was to visit your grandmother, sell your cow, or break a spell, no doubt you enjoyed the stay. Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim, follows the story of a number of well-known fairy tales - Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood, along with the addition of two original characters, the Baker and his Wife. The first act retells the original stories, with some slight changes, as all of them are intertwined in…

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    Morality In The Bean Trees

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    In her Romance novel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver alternates a pair of first-person narratives to tell the story of Taylor Greer, a spunky girl who leaves her Kentucky home and travels west. During her journey away from home, Turtle, a young toddler from Cherokee Nation, is placed in her care. The novel focuses on the pair as they make a new home for themselves in Tucson, Arizona. Throughout her journey, Kingsolver explores many themes; the debate of siding with morality over legality…

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