...Juan Peralta Ms. Venon Ferard DRE 097 1/24/2017 Everyone’s Son The morning after Maudlin’s first N.F.L game, Lorenzo Maudlin IV woke up in a hospital. With very little memory, Maudlin did not remember the tackle that left him unconscious on the MetLife Stadium turf on September 13. His mother, Akima Lauderdale, an alcoholic with an affection for selling cocaine, has been in prison in Georgia. His Father, Lorenzo Maudlin III, served roughly 12 years in a California prison. Maudlin and his four siblings bounced between relatives and foster homes. Every day Maudlin coordinated and managed catastrophe. Searching for food and gripping taunts for wearing the same clothes. Being pulled out of class by officers because his mother, Lauderdale, had been arrested again, then forced into the care of the state. In college, Maudlin was rushed to the hospital after injuring himself at practice, and again after a vehicle hit him while riding his scooter. His position coach Maurice Hart from Maynard H. Jackson High School in Atlanta said “I’m telling you, that’s the toughest man I’ve ever met in my life.” After a brief time, Lauderdale was sent back to prison in 2014 for charges including aggravated assault and voluntary manslaughter. In his parents’ place, a network of advisors, coaches, and teachers surrounded him, creating a surrogate family. With their help, Maudlin despise expectations. According to a 2012 presentation, 15 percent of students in foster care nationwide earn a high school...
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...Rotten Tomatoes staff first collect online reviews from writers who are certified members of various writing guilds or film critic associations. To be accepted as a critic on the website, a critic's original reviews must garner a specific amount of "likes" from users. Those classified as "Top Critics" generally write for major newspapers. The staff determine for each review whether it is positive ("fresh", marked by a small icon of a red tomato) or negative ("rotten", marked by a small icon of a green splattered tomato). (Staff assessment is needed as some reviews are qualitative rather than numeric in ranking.) At the end of the year, they identify the film that was highest rated as receiving the annual "Golden Tomato."[citation needed] The website keeps track of all of the reviews counted for each film and the percentage of positive reviews is calculated. (Major, recently released films can attract up to 300 reviews. If the positive reviews make up 60% or more, the film is considered "fresh," in that a supermajority of the reviewers approve of the film. If the positive reviews are less than 60%, the film is considered "rotten". "Top Critics," such as Roger Ebert, Desson Thomson, Stephen Hunter, Owen Gleiberman, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Peter Travers, and Michael Philips are identified in a sub-listing that calculates their reviews separately. Their opinions are also included in the general rating. When there are sufficient reviews, the staff creates and posts a consensus statement...
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...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: $204,600,000 (USA) (12 June 2015) Reviews: There are about 600 external reviews on the web Fans from Jurassic Park have reviewed the film rather negatively due to the change in cast however the feeling of nostalgia was brought to a lot of the fans. "Jurassic World can't match the original for sheer inventiveness and impact, but it works in its own right as an entertaining – and visually dazzling – popcorn thriller" – Rotten Tomatoes Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five and felt that it was "terrifically enjoyable and exciting summer spectacular" "savvy, funny, ridiculous in just the right way" Media platforms/merchandise: The film has several platforms that attracted the audience: websites, games, social media accounts, toys, shirts, mugs and many more. Fans: -There have been fan made trailers and remakes -There have been parodies made -Fans have made websites 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 ...
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...but feel the love run through your veins right down to your soul. We get out to strongly embrace each other as we always do. Immediately your nose is filled with the mix between bursts of fresh mountain air and the burning of bug spray that they had practically bathed in before venturing into the beautiful mosquito heaven! As the evening wears on we have the usual family dinner, shower, long talks filled with laughter, then finally bed. The next morning my Paw Paw, Meemaw, and I wave a farewell to my parents as they pull out on their journey back to North Carolina. Now we will start our own journey as we stroll through the amazing gardens that fill every square foot of his beautiful estate. He has a garden for every mood, a vegetable garden, a sculpture garden, a moss garden, a zen garden, a garden surrounding the coy pond, a japanese garden, and the list goes on and on as you tour his property that spans approximately 40 acres. The first couple of days are always nice, we walk, we talk, we swim, we do anything we please as I settle into my yearly summer escape! Then following my relaxing days comes the days of work. Being a very successful, active, and determined man my Paw Paw will always put empty hands to work. So we gather our tools, fertilizers, transplanted flowers, plenty of bug spray and water. We make slow intentional strides as we approach the golf cart (our chariot for the day)...
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...creating a vegetable/fruit garden. I picked the back corner of the yard which receives full sun but is not directly in your line of sight when you look outside from the house. My original plan involved putting a short fence around it to keep pups out but after examining the soil we had to change our plans. The soil in that spot is incredibly sandy, which is odd since in this area we have a lot of clay. So we think an old playset used to be back there and they dumped sand for the kids. So our options became either digging up all the sand and getting rid of it somehow or building raised beds. We chose option B. Obviously it was not a very difficult decision. But we were gardening and raised bed virgins so some research was in order. We learned we had a lot of options in terms of materials- Stone/brick-too expensive and too permanent in case our adventures in vegetable gardening do not go as well as we hope Landscape Timbers- cheap but very we unsure what wood they we actually made of and how they would hold up Cedar-pretty, resists rot, can do it ourselves but still expensive if making multiple beds Pressure-Treated-cheap, easy to use but conflicting info about it's use for food gardens. From what I have gathered from my online research, pressure treated wood used to be treated with arsenic which is not to be used in food gardens. However, they are no longer treated with that particular chemical and it is now safe to use in food gardens. I found the brand that...
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...store that would offer gardeners a one-stop shopping place for products, plants, gifts, and services.Garden.com is a virtual store, selling a wide variety of gardening and gardening-related products. It also offered a range of services, including an online magazine, an online landscape planning and design tool, a plant finder tool, a monthly newsletter, a garden reminder service, a weekly sales and promotion e-mail, and celebrity-hosted chat sessions. In addition, a “Garden Doctor” service was made available for answering gardening questions. The company was launched on March 1996 and it was doing well after initial launch and December 26, the company ceased its customer service operations. November 15, 2000, a phased shutdown of the company’s retail operations and the sale of its consumer business assets began - Project Scope Project Name: Garden.com Project scope is to build a new website which caters the needs of the Gardening Industry. It is $50-70 million business in America. -Highly fragmented and no clear winner,, no new company accounts for more than 1% of the market. -Plants are not commodity market -Gardens tend to be affluent and willing to pay widely to variety of prices for the same item. -Perception of quality and amount of except advice to biggest factors in purchasing decision. Objectives: Be the virtual superstore and resource center of the gardening supply business. One-stop shop for quality gardening resources Product scope description Web will be...
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...It was a warm, breezy summer day in 2005, with the vibrant green leaves swaying in unison with the slight wind that sent the sweet aroma of the freshly cut grass around the yard. Fuzzy, my small mutt at the time, rolled around on the blanket that sat on the ground, wrinkling it up as he went. Little did we know we were about to be called upon by the Lord above to do a little bit of something new today. It was time for our weekly picnic that we always had with each other and my dolls. Just as we were finishing up our creamy peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches we heard a loud shrill, “HELP! GET IT AWAY FROM ME!” I looked immediately over to Fuzzy and we sprinted across the tree-lined trail to my grandmother’s home. We came upon her standing on a green plastic lawn chair with a large wooden shovel in her hand. “Grandma, what is wrong?” I shouted from afar. “It’s a snake! There is a snake in the flower bed!” she panted out frantically. Being the rebel I was, I strolled over there rolling my eyes at my grandmother’s silly sense of panic and began searching for the snake. If only I could go back in time and do what any regular kid would do when they sense panic in an authority figure. I would have sprinted the other direction in a heartbeat. I ran to the distress call of my grandmother only to find her weeping in the corner of the yard. “Heavenlee, listen to me, call the police,” she said with a quivering voice. This made me shudder just a little bit. My grandmother was...
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...Aim: My aim is to ask the children in an afterschool facility to make a flower/herb garden. These children are currently attending Bizzy B’s Afterschool in Dublin 9. Introduction: A school age childcare facility should offer a range of activities to cater for all ages of children in their care. The advantages for parents is the knowledge that their child is being cared for in a safe and happy environment. That it is locally based in the community and provides for parent to return to work. The advantages for children is in providing a safe and enjoyable experience in which to play, socialise, have a say in activity planning and interact with children their own age. Children can do their homework if parents request but this should not be the main focus. (Plan, 2015) Plan: My planned proposal of the activity is a play based learning and development activity. My aim in this assignment is to choose a group of children aged between 6-10 years. I will consult with the practitioner, parents and children to gather as much information as possible and enquire about allergies and illnesses such as asthma and obtain permission. I intend to recycle a freight palate and sand it completely to remove any risk of splinters. Remove some of the boards to leave four large slot openings, place some roof felting on the back to act as a base cover and weed block. I will ask the group to lay out flower beds in the empty slots using either herbs or early spring bulbs. Each member of the...
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...How to Buy a Weed Trimmer? Are you looking for a great solution for removing weeds and cleaning your garden? Then, a weed trimmer is completely for you. Main function of the weed trimmer is cutting clutter weeds in yards, sidewalks, gardens, etc… The machine is popularly used in landscapes or private homes. There is a plenty of weed trimmers available in today’s marketplace. They vary greatly into different categories, including types, shapes, features, prices and more. This is the reason why finding the best weed trimmer is an essential task. It takes our honor to tell you efficient ways for buying a weed trimmer. Keep on reading and consider important factors that affect your buying decisions. Benefits of a weed trimmer An advanced weed trimmer has powerful strength in removing tough weeds. Most of weed...
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...As a group, we decided to plant kale. Kale is a group of vegetable cultivars within the plant species Brassica oleracea. Interestingly, Kale is considered to be closer to wild cabbage than most domesticated forms of Brassica oleracea. Our decision as a group as based on how much energy was required to grow kale. Because kale was really easy to grow well in different climate, we felt strong about our decision because of changing seasons and temperatures were decreasing. We planted both our kale plant and seeds on the bottom of our garden plot. Because of our plants location, I was concerned that our plant will not receive as much sun light because of the building located directly across and the solar panel locate above our plant. I was also concerned on the effect water will have on our plant since our garden plot was located on a slope which had a lot of deep rooted weed and lots of small rocks....
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...The two works that will be compared and contrasted in this paper will be “A Raisin in the Sun” and “The House on Mango Street.” “A Raisin in the Sun” gives insight to the lives of the members of the Younger Family who will inherit a check for $10,000 from Mr. Younger’s Life Insurance. Each member of the family has a different idea of what to spend the money on, two of the members of the family, Mama and Ruth, both want to use the money to move into a new house. Walter Younger wants to use the money to open up a liquor store with his friends that he believes will help solve the family’s financial problems forever. Walter’s Sister Beneatha, wants to use the money to help pay for her school tuition as she is going to medical school. The play revolves around each member making choices and having to deal with the outcome, or consequences of their actions. For Example, Mama uses half the money to buy a new house for the family to live in, in an all-white neighborhood. This causes the neighborhood to send Mr. Linder, their representative, to negotiate with the Younger’s and convince them to not move into the neighborhood by bribing them with money. The Younger’s then refuse this deal and move in anyway even through all of the racial prejudice. Another Example would be Walter, using his share of the money, along with Beneatha’s to invest in the liquor store. But when he does, he finds out that the person he is investing with has run away with all of his money leaving him with nothing...
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...Color affects people emotionally and physically, so it is an important aspect to designing beautiful landscaping that everyone will enjoy. If it is used correctly, it creates drama and interest by drawing the eye towards the most attractive areas and further away from the less perfect spots. It also changes the mood that a person feels as they spend time in the garden. And as all gardeners know, the fastest way to add color is with the proper placement of flowers and foliage. The following are several tricks to use when considering how to use color the most effectively in the garden. Don't Forget the Seasons Gardens look the best when they are tailored to the seasons. In the spring, there should be more soft pastels. Brighter colors are best saved for the summer. And fall plants should have an array of...
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...An island garden is one that sits alone in your yard surrounded by lawn. Such a garden is meant to be viewed from all sides; therefore, some serious thought should be given to the planning and planting of an island garden. I have seen numerous island gardens where the homeowner has planted some type of tall ornamental grass, such as pampas grass, in the center of the island garden. Around the ornamental grass would be planted a circle of the same kind of plant; e.g., salvia or clumps of catmint. A final third circle would consist of an even lower growing type of plant - for instance, some type of ground cover. I have seen other island gardens that consist of a bunch of blooming perennials, with no method to the madness. Shorter perennials are lost in the middle of taller...
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...matter of perception. Weeds spread profusely far faster than flowers. Unlike flowers, weeds are vigorous competitors for light, nutrients and water that all garden flowers need. Their presence may provide a natural way to bring missing nutrients to the soil’s surface, but weeds will push out the flowers that are intended to grow in a flower bed. Weeds are unattractive to most of us. Weeds are a form of plant that grows where it does not belong or where it’s not wanted. A flower grows where you plant it and it blossom so beautiful where you want it to grow. A weed is something that grows anywhere. Weeds are unattractive to most of us. Because they have prickles and thorns that stick you as you are trying to get them out of your garden. When they grow they take over your garden and grow to a certain point and then turn all brown and ugly. They roots grows very deep and destroy the roots of your flowers and that then makes it very hard to kill them off, before they kill off your flowers that you have planted . Weeds makes it hard for other flowers to grow in the same bed , because they pull all the nutrients and light that s need for your flowers to grow. Flowers are those plants that we intentionally plant in our gardens to grow. Flowers are something with life and different rays of colors and beauty that enhance your garden with beautiful scents and all different kinds of shape and size. Flowers that you can cut and use as show pieces for you table or office on your desk or maybe...
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...pride in what you have grown. Gardening is hard work, it is a work out to till up the soil and add fertilizer, pull the weeds and keep the weeds from taking over the garden on a daily or weekly basis. Even though gardening is time consuming, everyone should have a garden because gardening provides nutrition, is relaxing and provides better health. The main reason I started a garden was for the nutrition, plus the raised beds were a handmade mother’s day present from my husband and teenage boys. I wanted to provide my family with the best vegetables and know where they came from as well as making them proud. I would know that there were no chemicals used to aid in their growth. I am alright with smaller produce knowing that it wasn’t exposed to chemicals and pesticides. Everyone on our street has a garden, we all grow different things, and share. It is nice to try new things, and learn from each other as well. We all grow our vegetables organically. We are able to give our families better nutrition than what we could afford at the stores. While nurturing my garden I found how peaceful it was to be out there in the dirt, watering it every day. Soon the seeds would poke up through the ground and I would look for progress every morning. This process is very relaxing for me personally. I have expanded my garden this year and doubled its size, adding more work, more food, and relaxation. Gardening...
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