...Immediately following his death and for many years following his death newspapers would continue to cover Roberto Clemente, his impact on the game of baseball in the United States but more importantly in the Caribbean, his humanitarian impact during his life and after his death, and memorials and remembrances to his legacy and name. The humanitarian efforts of Roberto Clemente ranged from giving aid to those who had been devastated by poverty and disaster, free baseball clinics to underprivileged children in Puerto Rico, and building of sports facilities for children and Puerto Rican youth to access for free. This incredible zeal, spirit, and determination to aid the suffering of the underrepresented and suffering people of the Caribbean and Latin America was what made Roberto Clemente a great man and role model unfortunately his love and passion was also what unfortunately what killed him as on December 31, 1972 after boarding a plane headed to Nicaragua loaded with supplies to aid the people of the nation which had been devastated by an earthquake, in order to ensure they reached the people who needed the aid and supplies the most, crashed almost immediately after take-off killing all those on board including Clemente. The majority of news coverage of Roberto Clemente’s life and legacy following his death to present day focus on the positive impact Clemente had on the communities he offered aid and support, his home island of...
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...GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS Grammar and Language Workbook G RADE 9 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 936 Eastwind Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 ISBN 0-02-818294-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 024 03 02 01 00 99 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1 Troubleshooter ........................................................21 Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45 Unit 1 Parts of Speech 1.1 Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective ....47 1.2 Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract.................................49 1.3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive...............................51 1.4 Pronouns: Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and Indefinite .....................53 1.5 Verbs: Action (Transitive/Intransitive) ......55 1.6 Verbs: Linking .............................................57 1.7 Verb Phrases ................................................59 1.8 Adjectives ....................................................61 1.9 Adverbs........................................................63 1.10 Prepositions...
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