Many different conflicts emerge from Boyne's work. Most of them start with Bruno. The exposition details how Bruno is in conflict in with the world around him. He does not want to leave Berlin and does not want to do what his family, especially his father, wants to do. In this demonstration, an initial conflict is evident. Conscious or not, Bruno finds himself in conflict with the changing attitudes around him. Bruno is in opposition...
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The sentence that is correctly punctuated is the following one: "Let's get going," Ginnie shouted, "it's getting dark!"
Explanation:
The sentence above is a direct quotation. Quotation marks are for when you want to include someone else's words in your own writing. What is more, direct quotations contain a quote in which you report the exact words used.
In this case, the quote has been split. When you split a quote to introduce a parenthetical, you shouldn't capitalize the second part of the quote example: (it's getting dark!"). Also, the exclamation mark goes inside the quote because it applies to the quoted material, not to the whole sentence. For these reasons, the sentence chosen is the one that is correctly punctuated.
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A ukulele and a machete have a surprising amount in common, actually. Not the knife, mind you, but the Portuguese machete de braga. Back before the Hawaiian Islands were annexed by the United States, it was introduced to by Portuguese immigrants from the island of Madeira. The immigrants celebrated their arrival with traditional folksongs accompanied on a little four-string machete. In two weeks time, the Hawaiian Gazette was reporting about a band of Portuguese musicians delighting people with nightly concerts. Three Portuguese cabinetmakers, probably finding the furniture market not as lucrative as they had hoped, capitalized on the instruments’ new found popularity by opening their own machete stores.
The instrument was eventually redesigned and became the ukulele we are all familiar with. It was made of koa, a native Hawaiian wood long associated with royalty on the islands. This, along with the adoption of the ukulele…show more content…
Novelty ukes became a thing during an era of mass production and Americanization. It was not until the introduction of big band music in the 1930s that this fad ended.
Popularity for the ukulele grew once again in the 1950s, however, with the use of it in radio, television, and movies. It became enormously popular due to its use and immortalization by pop culture icons like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. This second wave of popularity receded in the 1970s due to the unintimidating instrument’s inability to compete with the guitar as psychedelic rock, heavy metal, and punk gained popularity.
Angela Duckworth was teaching math when she noticed something intriguing: The most successful students weren’t always the ones who displayed a natural aptitude; rather, they displayed something she came to think of as grit. Later, as a graduate student in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, she defined the term — a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal — and created a tool to measure it: the “grit scale,” which predicted outcomes like who would graduate from West Point or win the National Spelling Bee. As a result of this work, Dr. Duckworth was named a MacArthur “genius” in 2013, and the notion of grit has become widely known. Her new book, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,”
