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media type="custom" key="4710301" media type="custom" key="4665797" media type="custom" key="4596524" media type="custom" key="6251377" =Railroad commissioner.= The current Railroad commisioners are Victor Carrillo, Elizabeth Jones, and Michael Williams. Unlike the name of the job, Railroad Commisioners regulate the oil and gas industries although they were initially created to regulate railroads, terminals, wharves and express companies within the state. The three-member commission is a state agency.The commisioners were initially appointed by the governor, but an amendment to the state’s constitution in 1894 established the commissioners as elected officials serving overlapping six-year terms. No specific seat is designated as Chairman; the Commissioners choose who among them will serve as Chairman. =Click on the bee to go to my Independent Novel: B  = =__3/11 Curbing America's sweet tooth __= A.) This article is about sugar and why you should cut back on it. B.) This article is written for most Americans, because there are statistics about the amount of sugar Americans consume. C.)The author's purpose is to help people become aware of the amount of sugar they are consuming and why to become healthier. =__3/4 twelve year old faces grown up murder charges__ = A.) This article is about a kid named Jordaan who killed his Dad's fiance. He was charged as an adult of homicide. This is unethical, therefore, a group called the Jordan Brown Trust Fund formed to help him go to Juvenile Court. B.) This article was written for adults. The writing was formal and the story was found on CNN, a news channel for adults. There was also high vocabulary, there were a lot of words that I did not know. C.) The author's Primary purpose in writing this was to make adults knowledgable of this case so that they may be inspired to help Jordan Brown.

=__22/23 Superman and Me __ =

A.) This article is about how books changed an Indian boy's life, he got an education and became a teacher so that he could help future generations of Indian children. He was an extremely smart child while all of his peers tried to stay in the stereotype that they were all stupid in anything non-Indian. Sherman Alexi did not believe that this was right and claimed that "reading saved his life" now he wants to "save" other Indian children too.

B.) Sherman Alexi wrote this article for an audience of Highschool students. His writing was formal and he used high level vocabulary that most highschool students would be familiar with. The article spoke about reading and how books helped him, encouraging the audience to read more.

C.) The Authors primary purpose in writing this was to motivate highschool students to read,

=__Symbolic story representation __ = 1.) They always come back to these in the characters' thoughts and dialogue. 2.) The author draws our attention to the helicopters in foreshadowing, she brings up falling a lot because that is the only way to escape yet it is brought up earlier in the scene, and they keep bringing up the Gallagher Academy because the kidnapping attempt connects to the Gallagher Academy. 3.) I will represent these by drawing each out, for falling I will draw a man that looks like he is falling__.__ = =

__ De Pineda Bibliography __
 1.) Alonzo Álvarez de Pineda. October 20, 2009. [|Wikimedia Foundation, Inc] ., October 23, 2009. ([] ) 2.) Spanish Explorers. March 20, 2008. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|www.elizabethan-era.org.uk]. October 20, 2009. ([]) 3.) ÁLVAREZ DE PINEDA, ALONSO. January 8, 2008. Texas State Historical Association and the [|**University of North Texas.**] october 23, 2009.(<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] )

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