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toc Railroad Commisioner
media type="custom" key="6261577" The job of the Texas Railroad Commisioner is to oversee the Texas Railroad Commision. The Commision used to specialize in making sure that the railroad established fair practices, but that was given as a responsiblitiy of the transportation department in the early 1900's. Now the Texas Railroad Commision specializes in surface coal and uranium mining, and the oil and gas industry, things such as pipelines, it also protects the public security. Despite the name, out of all the staff that work in this Commision only 7% work with the railroad.

Cell Phone Aow
I find wierd that cell phones edmitt radiation in the first place. Do home phones emitt radiation, too? Why can't somebody just invent a text phone so that it can't emitt radiation from calls and it would cost less then a normal cell phone? Also, why can't you program the phone to ask you whenever it is about to post one of your texts on facebook ,"would you like to post this message on facebook, yes or no."? a) the article is about radiation emitted from phones and proper etique of using phones. b) the article is intended for anyone that has a phone. d) the author wanted to inform people about the dangers of using cell phones and how to use cell phones politley.

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Pre-reading for City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau is an enthusiastic gardener, dog lover, ice skater, bird watcher, meditater, house builder, piano player, and a gourmet veggitarian cook, she lives in California. She has no children, but has two nephews and one niece, and has a puppy named Jockey. She also enjoys reading and writing. DuPrau was a former english teacher who recieved a BA in english literature at Scripps Collage. Curently she is an editor, a technical writer for Apple Incorperations, and a freelance writer. It is this talented person that wrote the City of Ember Series.

__bibliography__ www.amazon.com/City-Ember-first-Book/dp/0375822747 Search.barnsandnoble.com/The-City-of-Ember/Jeanne-DuPrau/e19780375890802/?itm=3&USRI=city=of=ember en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_DuPrau

Independant book study #1
__Vocabulary__ 1.endeavor- to attempt, to try, to put effort into something. "Nothing about this endeavor is certain."- page 2 2.serene- peaceful, calm, unruffled, fair, clear. "The picture she liked best was of the fourth mayor, Jane Larket, who had a serene smile and fuzzy black hair."- page 35 3.corduroy- a cotton-filling pile fabric with lengthwise cords or ridges. "His corduroy jacket was so old that that it's ridges had flattened out."- page 6 4.reams- a standard quantity of paper. "The storerooms held supplies of every kind- canned food, cloths, furniture, blankets, light bulbs, medicine, pots and pans, reams of paper, more light bulbs- everything that the people of Ember could possibly need."- page 9 5.ledger- an account book where business transaction is recorded. "The clerks sat at their ledger books all day, recording the orders that came in and and the goods that went out."- page 9 6.labyrinth- an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. "Pipework laborers worked below the storerooms in the deep labyrinth of tunnels that contained Ember's water and sewer pipes."- page 11 7.shawls-a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, esp. by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness. "And in uneven lines up near the ceiling were hooks that held coats and shawls and nightgowns and sweaters, shelves that held pots and pans, jars with unreadable labels, and boxes of buttons and pins and tacks."- page 24 8.resonant- resounding or echoing. " 'What you need to learn children,' she always said, in her resonant, precise voice, "is the difference from right and wrong in every area in life.' "- page 29 9.converse- to talk informally with another or others. "And when Lina took a message to the Can Cafe, she learned that on certain days the back room was used as a meeting place for people who liked to converse about Great Subjects."- page 30 10.kiosks- a small structure having one or more sides open, used as a newsstand, refreshment stand, bandstand, or place where advertisements and notices are posted. "It had a few benches bolted to the ground here and there, as well as a couple kiosks for notices."- page 32

__literary analysis page 46 paragraph 2__ Jeanne DuPrau uses language to create a tone of noise, and terror in this passage from The City of Ember. These are both connected. Where there are places that are filled with terror will be noisy or places that are noisy can be filled with terror. What if a giant lizard was attacking a city, would it be noisy? Probably so.

Generally places that are filled with noise from terror or noise from the terror of noise. DuPrau uses words like "earsplitting, growling, grinding, screaming noise..." to show the reader that there is noise, and that the noise is dreadfull. But when Jeanne DuPrau adds "...shot through with a hoarse racketty-racketty sound and underscored with a deep chuga-chuga-chuga. Doon clapped his hands over his ears..." she ammplifys the sounds by giving a closer description of the noise. Then when she says that Doon clapped his hands over his ears, she implies the volume; it is so noisy that you have to clap your hands over your ears. These noises lead to terror of noise.

The terror is just an add-on to the combo meal of noise. "In front of him was a gigantic black generator, two stories high." What is huge and is black, the color of death and darkness, that is terrorfiying? Anything. The toppings of terror are explosives, menatally, and literally. "It was vibrating so hard that it looked as if it might explode at any second." The reader will readily jump at the thought of a gigantic black machine that might explode. Anybody wonder what would happen to Ember if it exploded?

Jeanne DuPrau cleverly uses words of noise and then amplifys them with description. She also frys a not-so-happy meal of terror with the common ingrediants of disliking to people, bad color, big size, and rattling explosive temption. This is the way that she describs the object that keeps all of Ember alive.

Independant book study #2
__Vocabulary__ 1.frantic-desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc. "Lina joined them, but they seemed so frantic that it frightened her a little."- page 100 2.twiddled-to turn about or play with lightly or idly, esp. with the fingers; twirl. "Her gaze skipped from one spot to another, her fingers twiddled with the edge of her skirt."- page 104 3.beckoning-t o signal or summon. " 'Lizzie,' said Lina beckoning to the table in the corner of the room."- page 105 4.pored-t o read or study carefully and attentively. "With her elbows on either side of it and her chin resting in her hands, she pored over it."- page 107 5.vaguely-n ot clearly expressed. "She vaguely recalled the incident of the light pole."- page 112 6.blearily-b lurred or dimmed. "Granny looked at the docter blearily."- page 133 7.dismay-t o cause to lose enthusiasm. " 'Okay,' she said, but there was a look of dismay on her small pale face." - page 154 8.hasten-t o move or act swiftly. "Instead, they would pause briefly to murmur a few words to each other and then hasten onward."- page 157 9.egress-exit, way out. " 'It's meant to be egress, with two s's.'- page 171 10.gorging-to stuf and eat with food greedily. "She thought about the mayor, down in his room full of plunder, gorging on peaches and asparagus and wrappin his huge body in elegant new cloths."- page 178

__literary analysis 156 paragraphs 1-3__ Jeanne DuPrau uses language to create a tone of suspence and surprise in this passage from The City of Ember. First there is suspence when the door is opening. And then there a surprise when Doon see's al lot of food instead of a tunnel or road. Finally, there is an even larger jolt of surprise once Doon finds that the mayor is stealing from the city. Suspence is always a good starter to a passage because it creates wonder and surprise once the reader sees whats after the suspence.

Since suspence is the begining of many other tones in a passage what words create it? Duprau uses words that describe a slow opening of a door such as, "long moment" or "slowly", creating a mild amount of suspence. But she then masterly adds at the end of the second paragraph, "What he saw made him gasp." What did he see? Why did he gasp? This adds a tremendous amount of suspence that will make the reader become vulnerable and grope for the surprise.

Surprise, the ultimate factor that makes a book or passage good for reading. For instance, when DuPrau says, "There was no road, or passage, or stairway behind the door." The reader asks, 'Well, what was it?' "There were mounds of cans, heaps of cloths, rows of jars and bottles, stacks of light-bulb packages." This comes to be a surprise since Ember is a place full of shortages. Then, even more surprising, it turns out that the Ember's own mayor is stealing the citizen's badly needed food and light-bulbs from the storerooms. Now thats a surprise.

A door slowely opening. A character finds an unexpected room full of food and light-bulbs instead of an expected tunnel to a better place. Then the character finds that the city's own mayor is stealing food from citizens. These are the types of things that Jeanne DuPrau uses to create tones of suspence and surprise in the book The City of Ember.

Boy, 12, Faces Grown Up Murder Charges
I find it strange that a fun loving, soft 11 year old boy would commit homoside. It says in the passage that he often hunted with his father. This means that he trusted and loved his father. So, if he loves his father why would he kill his father's lover? There were no witnesses. Also, the police should have checked the hole in the victem to see what kind of gun could have made this hole based on the groove, hole size, and what remains from the bullet. Finally, there are so many people who support Jordan, and they all say that he would have never done anything violent. I mean a person can't cover up their hatred for an object all the way, so there must have been a time when he was violent if he even was the murder.

Superman And Me Sum Up
The purpose of this article was to tell how important writing and reading is, and how students used to react to it in Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington. It shows how books can save your life.

The audiance "Superman And Me" is directed to are students. The way a person can tell is the fact that it put into a text book called Literary Types In Unit 4: Cultural Identitys.

The reason that this was written was to motivate readers into valueing books and the art of writing. The author does this by using real life experiences.

Utopian Societies [sec 2]
Utopian societies could be places with prospering, surplusses, technological advances, and\or ecology. Dispite these pros, I would not like to live in a utopian society because everyone is nice to each other, their is not a goverment sometimes, and some utopias want everyone to be the same or similiar. At first these characteristics may seem good, but they are not. If everyone is the same then how will people be able to destinguise themselves from the crowd? It's //good// to be different. Also if a utopia has no goverment how will people come up with agreements or have a leader to vote for to make decisions. Finally if everyone was nice to everyone else it would destroy a quite a few jobs such as police. Also when someone does do something bad such as steal, who will be their to help? No police.

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Narvaez Voiki Continued
I died in the Gulf of Mexico. My men were the first europeans in the interior of Texas.

Narvaez Voiki Descriptions
American hat represents that his men were the first in Texas. Dark skin represents that he was probably tanned from sailing. The navy suit represents that he spent most of his time as a conquistador over water. It also represents that he was sent by his country to capture Cortez. Foolish face and pink lips show that he was a complainer. The glasses show that he could not see well because he lost an eye in battle with Cortez. Second to last, his frail body shows that he was probably not the commander because Cortez was out for a month before him and still had more navy power. Finally, the cathedral in the background symbolizes that he died at sea.

Narvaez Story
Narvaez was born in Spain and sailed from Spain in 1526 to find Cortez for Spain. In the Gulf of Mexico he found Cortez who fought back. In the battle a spear was trust into his right eye. His eye was then useless. He returned to Spain with plenty of complaints. He was later sent back in 1527 to the new world to claim land between Florida and Mexico. He first was in Cuba during hurricane season and a hurricane killed quit bit of his men and horses. After this he went to Florida and went ashore and told his ships to meet him further up the coast. Unfortunately his ships never showed up. He and several of his men were forced to make rafts and try to float to Mexico. Narvaez died at sea in 1528, but several of his men floated away to with the current to Texas. They were the first europeans in the interior of Texas.

Narvaez Bibliography
James V. Reese, Celebrating Texas, Texas: Lone Star Publishing J.V., 2003 Randolph B. Campbell, Gone go Texas a History of the Lone Star State, New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003

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Symbolic Story Questions
1. The author continuosly said that the trolls had venom driping from it's claws. This obviusly meant that the characters in the story should not be put in contact with this venom. It might be something that causes warts, or it could be something that could paralyse you. In this case is it would paralyze you.

2.The reason authors draw attention to these ideas, is to get the point into your head. 3.I agree with the way the author made these generalizations, because it gets the point to your head, and makes it feel like the characters are a mouse trapped in a corner by a cat. Based on these I would have made a cutout of a mouse caught in a corner by a cat.