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    There are many points to consider in creation of a good story that will capture and deliver the main idea to the audience. The most important of all those points is the setting - physical location and time in the story. For example, if the author writes a story about polar bears but set it in South America, the story would not go along with the plot, losing its ability to create a clear message for the audience; Or if the story doesn’t have setting, its characters are simply in a vacuum with no reason

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    My Teacher Experience

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    I had a wonderful experience during my time at Mr. Palmieri’s sixth grade classroom at Woodrow Wilson School in Bayonne, New Jersey. Mr. Palmieri teaches three separate sixth grade classes of Mathematics. He and his students were very welcoming which generally increased my inspiration to teach and pursue my career in education. While completing my field experience, I believe that I have fully grown professionally and academically. I felt comfortable in my assigned classroom and I valued Mr. Palmieri’s

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    it. I want somebody do something for me one time fore I close my eyes. Somebody got do something for me one time ‘fore I close my eyes Mr. Henri. Please, sir.” (Page 22). She chose Grant because he is the school teacher at the church for blacks in Bayonne, Louisiana, and is a very knowledgeable and powerful person in her eyes. Which also makes him the best fit to try to make Grant a knowledgeable and intelligent man before death. Although Grant didn’t necessarily want to even get involved with Jefferson

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    Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying Year • Published in 1993 Setting • Set in the late 1940s in small Cajun community and the city of Bayonne • Jim Crow laws in place, segregation- “separate but equal.” Page 25- describes separation. • Inequality between blacks and whites Character Analysis • Grant Wiggins o School teacher for black school o Wants to leave Bayonne o Dating Vivian, a white woman o “I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was

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    A Short History of the Basque Country Archaeological and ethnographic findings indicate that Basque [people] evolved from Cro-Magnon [...] in this area over a period dating from about 40,000 years ago until distinct features were acquired approximately 7,000 years ago. Two thousand years later the sheep, not native to these lands, was introduced and horse and cattle farming came into being, as shown by Adolf Staffe. These circumstances made it necessary for the people

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    Acute Manic Episode in Depressed Adult Female Cementing Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder I in the Presence of an Arachnoid Cyst Preceptor: Dr. Olga Abduakhadov, MD Bayonne Medical Center Psychiatric Rotation 1/5/15 – 1/30/15 Marie Pereira KCOM OMS III January 20, 2015   ABSTRACT Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that is characterized by episodes of mania, hypomania, or major depression [1]. It affects approximately 5.7 million adult Americans, or about 2.6% of the U.S. population over 18 yearly

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    mixture of poverty and economic barriers for African Americans in Louisiana. Another reason is because Antoine believes that “you have to go away to know about life” and that “there’s nothing but ignorance here” (65). Wiggins is afraid that living in Bayonne automatically makes him susceptible to a poor lifestyle and no matter what he tells Jefferson, justice in court is always going to be the same; when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. Wiggins’ memories of Antoine

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    Robert Smithson Analysis

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    Prominent for their work in the 1970s’ Andrew Goldsmith and Robert Smithson when they presented their unique brands of art styles to the public. Considered Postmodern artists due to their unconventional working methods and uses of non-traditional materials. Both artists use nature and natural elements as media in their work as well as often presenting their art in unconventional places. Protests on the treatment and preservation of the environment were prominent in the 1970s’, reflecting in the

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    when Brother and Bear rob the store, the gunfire leaves Jefferson as the only survivor. Although Jefferson is not guilty of any crime and there is lack of sufficient evidence, the racial discrimination and stereotyping rampant in the small town of Bayonne, Louisiana result in his sentence to death. The blatant racial discrimination of the 1930s and 1940s

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    This is the fictional story of a strong friendship between two LSU football stars torn apart by racial unrest. Gil and Cal, “salt and pepper” overcome racial tensions on the football field and become an inseparable pair. Back at home in Bayonne, LA, Gil’s brother Beau, a racist farmer on the Marshall Plantation has been murdered. When Gil hears of his brother’s murder his friendship with Cal is compromised because of their different races. Gil returns home to the plantation to find “A gathering

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