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    consistent with the ability to regulate emotions in human children. Some apes are able to communicate intelligently with humans effectively. This is shown in a video clip from 60 Minutes where Ross Coulthart interviews Penny Patterson, caretaker of an ape known as Koko. Patterson attained her PhD in psychology from Stanford University in 1972 and has worked with Koko ever since. She says that she has taught Koko how to sign one-thousand words and that Koko is able to understand an additional two-thousand

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    James Patterson

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    drastically more interested and engaged in the books and kept going back to take the next. Haskins and Roberts focused on how the fast paced plot never once lets the readers lose interest. Throughout the novel, Max is the narrator, but at the same time, Patterson also adds his voice to get the audience caught up on other events (like when Angel gets kidnapped from Max and the flock). Max’s voice inside her head also talks at times and at other times, Max even speaks directly to the audience. In other words

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    Alex Cross Run Summary

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    English Book Review – Mkuzo Kuwani General Information Title: Alex Cross, Run Author: James Patterson Publisher: Arrow Books (2013) Price: $15.00 (R160.00) Type of Book: Fiction Number of Pages: 508 (including epilogue) Genre: Mystery/ Thriller Book Information Setting: Washington D.C. – present time Main Character: Detective Alex Cross – Metropolitan Police Department Plot: The story begins with Detective Alex Cross arresting renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for giving drugs to and sleeping

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    Essay on The Philosophy of James Patterson

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    The Philosophy of James Patterson      James Patterson should be included in an anthology because he has mastered the art of description and plot. He’s capable of creating lives in his books like no other author from past or present. He has created a fictional world inside of his Alex Cross series, where many fans of his like to live. With each new book he can fill a mind with unbelievable detail and imagery. A small two book series, nicknamed the “bird booksâ€?, blew away many critics. With

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    Maximum Ride, a thrilling, page turning, science-fiction series guaranteed to break hearts and raise spirits. Maximum Ride is a series written by a skilled author, James Patterson, who has written many award winning series. Readers can grow alongside the characters and feel the same hardships. This adventurous series follows the story of Maximum Ride and the challenges she faces as a “mutant freak” battling half-wolf half-humans to save herself and those alike her. The series has a meaningful underlining

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    Cat and Mouse is a novel by James Patterson, featuring his popular character Alex Cross. In this novel, Gary Soneji, the criminal mastermind from ‘Along Came a Spider’ returns. Soneji blames Cross for the time he has spent in jail for his crimes and wants to punish him. First, however, Soneji wants to commit crimes he knows will make him famous long after he dies. While Cross tries to find Soneji and stop his crime spree, he finds himself pulled into another case, the case of Mr. Smith, a cruel and

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    MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series of recent work in photography, New Photography, returned for its 30th anniversary. The New Photography exhibition is called Ocean of Images and is showing 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries. The exhibition was organized by Chief Curator of Photography Quentine Bajac, Lucy Gallun, assistant curator; and Roxana Marcoco,senior curator; with the assistance of Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

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    Uncertainty Information While measuring variables, uncertainty arose to accompany the values recorded, each of which depended on the measuring tool or documented uncertainty. A summary of the uncertainty information concerning the measured variables for the diffusivity testing of acetone and ethanol is included in Table 1. Table 1: Uncertainty Summary of Measured Variables Measured Variable Uncertainty Odds Reference Temperature ±1.0 °C 2.15-1 Online Instrument Documentation Pressure ±0.4 inHg

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    They received a special education, piglets were discouraged from laying with the other animals, pigs had the right of passage, pigs could wear green ribbons on their tail on sundays. Boxer was getting old and eventually "retired" they put him in a horse stall and a couple of days later a horse slaughter/ glue maker came and got him. Napoleon said it was really a vet that got a new truck and hasn't been able to repaint it. really the pigs sold Napoleon to the horse slaughter/ glue maker to get money

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    My childhood place There is a place that is a constant reminder of my childhood. This place is my room. Though it has changed since I was born it still reminds me of the time I spent there as a kid. My room is a medium sized room with two closets a small closet with a door and slanted ceiling and a large closet nearly four times the size but without doors only the rails where the sliding doors used to be. The actual room is a nice open room with a white ceiling and black carpet. The walls have

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