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The Tell Tale Heast By Edgar Allan Poe

2008-02-28T06:59:00.000-08:00

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Vocabulary

Vulture: a large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person
Coutious: attentive to potential problems or dangers
Mortal:Of or relating to humsnitly as subject to death
Precisely:In exact terms without vagueness

Sentences

A Vulture was eating a death rat in my backyard.
In the streets i'm very cautious.
Every human being is a mortal.
Thats precisely I was looking for.

Cinder Edna

2008-02-26T06:55:00.000-08:00

1. to scrub He had to scrub the car

2. wicked

3. cinder Those are the cinders of my grandfather.

4. spunky My teachers are spunky sometimes when the students hehind badly.

5. to trim Every sunday I go to the barbershop to trim my hair.

6. occasion My mom's birthday's is a special occasion.

7. orphan My cousin is a orphan child .

8. casserole I love mom's casserole.

9. to stumble He strumble when he talks.

10. profile I have a msn profile.

2008-02-14T06:58:00.000-08:00

1.	The Underground Railroad was a highly organized system. False

2.	Many of those involved in the Underground Railroad were, Free blacks

3.	Why would the escape of a small percentage of slaves cause so much trouble? Because the daring were often exaggerated when reported in various newspaper.

4.	Harriet Tubman was not important to the Underground Railroad. False

5.	How did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affect escaped slaves? It made people angry with the law so they joined the anti-slavery cause.

6.	The first Canadian African American newspaper was produced by, Josiah Henson

7.	What might have happened if the Underground Railroad hadn't existed? If the Underground Railroad hadn't existed slaves were unable to escape from slavery and had been slaves fot the rest of their life

8.	Why did so many escaped slaves move to Canada? The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Underground Railroad
You are a member of the Underground Railroad. A small group of runaway slaves has come to your home to be hidden. All goes well until a neighbor who is not sympathetic to the cause becomes suspicious. What do you do?
If I were a member of te underground railroad and if a small group of runaway slaves come to my home I will hide them and give them some food then I will them to leave my home and continue their way to reach freedom

Name _____________________________

Date ___________________

Underground Railroad
If you were a slave who was planning to runaway, what kind of plans would you make? How would you know when the time was right to leave?
My plans to escape from slavery are that other slaves and I will be planning our escape one or two weeks before to make sure that everything result good then when we will wait until all go to sleep after that I will start looking for the north star and we will start running and each time that we hear a noise we will hide until the noise disapear then we can continue our way to freedom.

Name _____________________________

___________
(Key 1 - Answer ID # 0725050)

Meaning

Sentence

slaver

dangerous

successful

yoke

actually

treasure

extremely

industrious

runaway

10.

former

11.

various

12.

bondage

13.

trickle

Essay # 1

2008-02-11T07:28:00.000-08:00

Your life can be influenced by your environment or in other words everything that is around you for example your family friends and differents fields, now the environment are really influenced in the life of adolecnets like they are using alcohol drugs and having sex in a short age, the acquisition skiils makes you to inprove your daily life and to make you and other people to be more succesful in your life.

In the last 10 year enviroment has benn invloved in the life of all adolecents and had a tremendously impact because the adolecents has benn using alcohol abuse, drugs and having sex in a short age, some causes about this situation are the education that every adolecent have at home, schools are also responsible to have the education of their students correctly, and also help them to understand that some things that they do outside are wrong.

The skiils of arquisition are the things that we do in our daily life inside and outside home,some examples of the arquisition are what we do at school we study and learned new things and also we learned how to deal with life after we get out from home and start a new life. The skills of arquisition also influence to be a better person in life also this could help us to be a very sucessful with your self and also with other people.

In conclusion the environment is not all so good because it could cause some problems with the people also with your self however it could be good because you learn new things in your life and make the rigth decision when you have a problem.

Comparasion And Contrast My Friend

2008-01-03T07:06:00.000-08:00

My friend Blanca and I we have many similarities and also differences, my friend blanca if from Ecuador however she likes mexican musican and also the food, even though we are from differents countries we have some similarities in our life for example we like wrestleling and also we like the same soccer team wich is America.

Blanca and I we are almost similar because we have many things in common for example we like the same music and the same soccer team also we like wrestleling also we go to the same school and we are in the same class and another similarity is the we like to workout our bodies.

The differences between Blanca and I is the we are from differecnt countries, also i am older than she, both blanca and I have stright hair however she has long hair, on the other hand I have short black hair and finally i am taller than her

In conclusion Blanca and I we are very differents person however we have some similarities in common.

Comparison And Contrast Essay/ Duncan and Arla

2007-12-20T16:21:00.000-08:00

I am selling two houses they are so beautiful and also so alike, however at the same time both have some differences , but they have the same price, the good thing is that both houses have for a cold weather in addition one of then don't have a backyard however the other one have a big one.

Some similarities of the houses are that both have 2 bedrooms also they have a kitchen and a dinning room in addition both have the same price , the differences of the two houses are that they are not made with the same matirial however both houses are sold.

The matirials are so different one of the two houses is made of brick and the other one is made of wooden, although one of the houses need to be painted and the cost of the heat is very different one of them is very high and the other is moderate.

To conclude i thing that the differnces of boht houses are not so different however the are good to live with your familyin peace our houses have alot of space for the family our mission is to make your life better.xd

Argumentative Essay

2007-12-03T07:36:00.000-08:00

The use of steroids produces increases in lean muscle mass, strength and ability to train longer and harder. This is a good fact of use steroids but there are many effects like liver tumors, the reduce of sperm count and shrinking of the testicles. For women the growth of facial hair and changes of the menstrual cycle, this are some facts of the use of steroids and still knowing that they are harmful for your health the people are still using it.

People said that the use of steroids can have many effects on the human body some of them are good but other can be very hazardous for your health, the use of some steroids can possibly stun the growth potential of people who have not finished growing
Also steroids can cause the development of acne on the other hand there are some positive effects of anabolic that include vitamin D and calcium on muscles mass.

This drug can be used just to help you recover from injuries, this drug are manufactured legally or illegally in addition the people who use steroids combine several different types of steroids also when women use steroids women start to development of more masculine characteristics for example deepening of the voice and clitoral enlargement.

Using this drug can cause you many negative effects as such positive effects for example some of the negatives effects are the increased aggressive acts and may injure your self and others but the most dangerous one is when you injected because you can get infected of HIV in addition scientist found some positives effects of the steroids for example the increased of muscle definition muscle mass and strength and sex drive.

To conclude about this issue some articles and scientist say the people should stop the use steroids becuase it can cause many dangerous effects to your health, for example it reduce the sperm count, liver tomors and for women the growth of facial hair and changes of the menstrual cycle and finally the clitoral enlargement