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    5 tips on growing tomatoes in containers Growing tomatoes in a container can be rewarding if done right. But it can be disastrous if the wrong approach is used. Tomatoes are not the easiest plants to grow, but there sure are the favorite for many gardeners. The taste of healthy fresh picked tomatoes is a motivation to many people to grow tomatoes in a natural organic garden. The good news is you don’t need large space to grow. You can utilize that small space in your backyard and grow enough potatoes

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    Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe. By: Lexi Today My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a love story. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a “chick flick”. But, I was wrong. The book talks about many issues that people face of the 1920’s and 1930’s, and makes me and probably everyone think about what people have struggled through. The book addresses the issue of racism before the time of Martin

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    of August, people throw over-ripe tomatoes at one another the entire day, leaving people drenched in tomato carnage, but in utter happiness as well. In all, more than 100 metric-tons of tomatoes are used in the festival! It is quite questionable of how such a holiday came to be. It was back in the mid-1900s that La Tomatina began to be celebrated by the people of Spain. In the October of 1944, another Spanish festival, Gigantes

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    just had a big Klan meeting over there the other night. As soon as you set one foot in that gate, they’d shoot your head off in a minute” (Flagg 145). This is a prime example of one of many horrid quotes from the distinguished novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. This novel was written by Fannie Flagg during the 1980’s. It was a time that bigot minded voters sought for change and a backlash on the American Civil Rights era. Fannie Flagg was known as a witty humored, powerful activist

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    feminism, and surprising lesbianism. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg, published in 1987, is about the different events happening and people living in Whistle Stop and Birmingham, Alabama. Fannie Flagg uses many powerful characters to enforce several themes. Idgie, Ruth, Evelyn, Mrs. Threadgoode, Big George, Artis, and Jasper are a few of the main characters that help Flagg show the themes though out Fried Green Tomatoes . Fannie Flagg was born in Birmingham, Alabama

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    the world, and spend their lives searching for that person. Love is not difficult to find though. It exists in many forms, including love between family members, friends, different races, and even the love for oneself, both in the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Frannie Flagg and in one's own life.The first and most basic form of love is found in the family. From

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    chose to read Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag. The book is set in Alabama; it is mostly set in the early 1900s to the late 1980s. While in the early 1920s, this was the time of the Great Depression, a time where poverty and racism were well known. The story is told in both present, from the 1920’s - 1940’s, when the events were occurring, and past tense, when Ninny Threadgoode retold the events to Evelyn Couch, in the 1980’s. Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe

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    Character Sketch - Idgie Threadgoode The Key to understanding Idgie Threadgoode is that she is an individual who wants to be different from the rest of the world. First off, Idgie Threadgoode is a Tomboy. She was born to be Buddy 's (Her older Brother 's) pet, and from then on she never took on to be the girlie type. Idgie always knew she wasn 't like the rest of the girls, and she didn 't want to be either. Idgie almost spoiled her older sister 's wedding when she wouldn 't put on a dress. Finally

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    Ibrahim Kamit (apply key concept to film) Jurassic World (2015) Release: 12th June 2015 in USA Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi IMDB 7.1/10 (380,350 votes) Rotten Tomatoes 72% (critics) 79% (audience) Metacritic 59/100 CinemaScore (poll) ‘A’ grade from A+ to F scale Director: Colin Trevorrow Main stars: Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Irffan Khan Vincent D’Onofrio Ty Simpkins Nick Robinson Jake Johnson Budget: $150 million Box office: $1.670 billion Opening Weekend:  $204

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    Introduction We decided to do a project concerning the acidity in organic tomatoes and commercially grown tomatoes. Originally, we wanted to use home grown tomatoes compared to commercially grown tomatoes, but unfortunately the weather is not conducive to grow tomatoes in a home garden during this time of the year. We choose this experiment because we wanted to determine if there is a significant difference in the acid of the tomatoes. In addition, in determining the acidity level of the two groups and

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