# POEMS no commenting plz!!!

eight octuplet octalingual octopus celebrate their 80th birthday and form an octet singing group on octigon shaped octocycles.

Ten decalingual choir members who happeened to ride decacycles looked for the tenth decagon in the scavenger hunt.

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The book i an reading is dragon rider. The part of the book that i am on connects to the world because everyone is learning things they never knew could even exist. this is something that happens in school on a daily basis. It is the entire point of school, going somewhere and learning new things every day. This connects to the book I'm reading.

spontanious word poem..... again.. dont comment plz!

Home is Buffalo
mom and seb reading a book in the sun
while kids paly and dance andsing
friends run around
walk and talk
loud yelling till the moon rises
playing in the grass
climbing a tree
far away from school
on the 16th day of summer

2 poems from class... : -\ plz dont comment...

so much depends upon the peanut butter smell
the crinkly foil
papery cover and the pink color
and the chocolate inside




So much depends upon
the rustling of the leaves on the ground
The birds with their new songs of spring
nature blooming all around

Essay bolg post

birtish imperialism srarted becouse "britain unenthusiastically became involved in Africa for numerous reasons, mostly to serve their own interests" (cusd.chico.k12.ca.us) they wanted land and colonization. "The policies of the British Empire concerning control of the African continent were dictated by their desire to maintain control of India" (pvchico.org) As most kingdoms and empires have.

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Overcoming odds is shown in nectar in a sieve when ruki survives through everything that is thrown at her. She withstands moonsoon, drought, famin and much more. Overcoming obsticals can happen in many ways. And ruki shows many of them in nectar in a sieve.

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Love is shown in a midsummer nights dream. Love is a very fradgile thing, and can be easily messed with. This is shown in midsummer nights dream when puck mixes up the young men and rearanges the love triange. Love is a questionable emotion but in the end works itself out. This is shown in the book a midsummer nights dream.

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War is also shown in things fall apart when a woman is killed in one of the near villages. War can be caused by the simplest things and in the end solves nothing. It often harms both sides of people. In things fall apart war is only thretened with. But so much as that harms the lives of both sides. Families loose children and okonowa is harmed when he has to kill the boy that nw calls him father. War can be shown in many ways, things fall apart shows a great example of this.

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Global issues and colonization are shown in things fall apart. People colonizing is an important part of global issues. People take a place, rich with culture and traditon and turn it into somthing simmilar to what they know. Not seeing how they effect the people they colonize. This is wonderfully show in things fall apart.

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Holidays and celebrations are shown in things fall apart. The ibo tribes celebrate holidays for their gods, for their crops, new years, marrages and much more. holidays are one way people express gratitude for somthing the believe in or care about. And the tradition of it is shown many times in things fall apart.

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Culture is greatly shown in the book things fall apart. The ibo culture is different from ours, and very unique. This book shows that different cultures all over the world have differnet beliefs and ways of seeing thing than us, but they also have many simmalar ideas and beliefs. They all have religous beliefs and political veiws and rules. In things fall apart this is greatly shown.

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Throughout the entire nectar in a sieve book change is happening, change in government, life style, weather. Change is all around them. change in gov. is shown at the beginning of the book, when Ruku talks about how her father no longer has power as the chief. And that the tax collectors now hold the real power. Change is weather is throughout the entire book, the many tsunamis, followed by the horrible drought, all causing a shortage of food, and over all chaos. Change is all around in Nectar in a sieve.

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Hope is also shown in the Nectar, Rukmani has hope for her family. She hopes thatthey will be ok any be able to live through these hard times. When she is baren she hopes for children. Hpoe is well shown throughout the book. Without hope ruku would never survive the hardships that overcome her and her loved ones. Hope is all she had to hold on to, which is why she is a great example of hope.

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In Nectar, belief is show in a different way. Ruku believes that you show strength by not asking for help when times are hard. But sticking it out till the end, and making the best of what you have. Kenny dose not agree with this, he questions and criticizes these beliefs because he doesn't understand them. Many people in the world put people down becouse of their belefs. Only because they do not understand them. This mistake is well shown in Nectar in a seive.

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Gender has been a problem for a long time. In Nectar in a sieve, this problem is shown. Woman don't have much of a say if their husband say otherwise. This is shown all over the world, for century's people have been defined by their gender. In Nester the male characters are able to find jobs, and make income. Wile woman on the other hand stay at home and watch their children. This book shows a great look on the problems with gender in most society's.

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In the book Nectar in a sieve, a different culture is show. Ruku's family and almost everyone around her are from a culture very different from that of the character kenny. Kenny is from a much more modern lifestyle, much like ours here in the US. He experiences a different culture and see's the differences first hand, that we could never understand.

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In the book nectar in a sieve, by Kamala Markandaya, Riki the main character has a struggle to overcome when she goes 6 years without having children. She only had one daughter, and in her cultur that is not a good thing. she ends up being under a lot of presure and stress untill a doctor and friend kenny and he gives her something that helps, after that she has many sons andis ok agian.

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In nectar in a sieve, by Kamala Markandaya the people have monsoons, these are narural storms that flood the feilds and destroy all of their hard work. This efects everyone in a bad way. if the field are flooded then the people have less food, less food to give to the land owner, and less food for their already starving familys. Natural desasters havea big efect on life.

soul music READING MIN 9

Susan, the strange girl, finds out that she is deaths granddaughter. so now she must fill the position of death until her grandfather is found. as this is happening another story starts. imp the bard sets out to play music for a living. and he has a big journey ahead of him.

soul music READING MIN 8

the second story on soul music starts with death in a big mansion realizing he remembers everything. He is a very confused person who sees things as they really are. He decides he wants to forget. so he leaves single mindidly to find a place to help him forget. this then makes a large problem. there is no death. that has to be fix.

soul music READING MIN

Soul music was written by terry Pratchett. This book is actually many story's that seem difficult to follow. the first story starts with the school principal is nervously looking through papers of a girl who she saw a a bit strange. All of the sudden the girl is in the room. this girl, Susan, has a enact for making herself "seem" invisible. Her teachers say shes always in class but they never see her. Eeveryone is confused by this strange girl who's parents just died. And something needs to change.