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The Friday Everything Changed Composition

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Even the Smallest Pebbles Can Create the Biggest Ripples in the Water When Thrown

The theme of The Friday Everything Changed is:

“A movement seldom happens overnight. For the most part, a change in attitude is brought about by small actions.”

The story proves this statement to be true because the conflict over the rights of the water bucket and gender inequality weren’t solved just as soon as Alma asked her question. The conflict was solved by the actions of Ms. Ralston saying she would consider the question, the girls standing up to the boys who were threatening them, and then finally, Ms. Ralston hitting the home-run which represented her defeating the gender inequality in the school. The evidence that her actions had a big impact on gender inequality were proven when she says on page 11, “”Next week Alma Niles and Joyce Shipley will go for the water.” When she announced that, none of boys the even protested against the fact that the girls would have the same right as they did now. Even though at first, they had protested a lot by the idea when it was first brought up by harassing the girls. Another character that shares the same message is Gandalf and he quotes:

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small everyday deeds if ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

This quote relates to the theme of the story because Ms. Ralston was just an ordinary person but her actions such as considering Alma’s question and hitting the home-run all added up to a big impact. The quote also relates to how these small actions were able to keep the schools conflict over gender inequality from continuing. However, there are many other ordinary people in real life whose small everyday acts had a big impact on us. Like my uncle who’s a police officer. Although I just consider him my uncle, he’s always doing his job everyday working with the RCMP and even though it’s not the most safest career, his small everyday actions of his job have helped society. Even though my uncle and Ms. Ralston are different in several ways, their small everyday acts have both had a big impact for the better. 

Intro-write English 9

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Gone with the Fog

Prompt Link – https://writingprompts.tumblr.com/post/171916161290/the-photography-of-jamila-clarke-is-definitely

To her, fog was never unusual under any circumstances. When one lives in a town next to the wide, open waters of the ocean, it is an everyday occurrence in their daily lives. A fact Zera knew all too well. People might’ve called her a child, but that didn’t mean she was oblivious to the truth right in front of her. The villagers of the town she lived in had told her that the fog shouldn’t be feared, and it was like an old friend that was always there. But she knew better. She knew the dangers that rolled in when the ghostly clouds grazed the earth and she knew that those dangers were not to be taken lightly. One could easily get lost in the veil of fog and never come back. But no one seemed to understand that.

Or perhaps, Zera pondered, that the townspeople wanted her to enjoy her childhood, to be blissfully unaware of the dangers that lied in the fog until they decided she was old enough. Even so, what she just couldn’t comprehend was why they told her not to fear the fog, but to fear the Lantern Girl.

Seeing the Lantern Girl was another occurrence in Zera’s daily life. Everyday, she would see her making her way around the entire village with a small lantern in hand. But the mysterious girl never spoke and would be seen exploring the village from day to night. Yet she, unlike the fog, never touched the earth and seemed to hover in the air, appearing almost ghost-like. What Zera found interesting was the fact that wherever the Lantern Girl would go, the fog would avoid the floating girl like the plague. It was like the fog feared the light that emanated from the little lantern in the girl’s hand. Since Zera never liked the fog, whenever she went outside in the fog, she was seen following the Lantern Girl like how a duckling would follow its mother. But the townsfolk scolded her every time for it, claiming the Lantern girl was a menace not to be trusted.

As days passed, the townspeople started to become more and more restless around the mysterious floating girl, with rumours about her escalating. Until one day, a sailor had attempted to drive the Lantern Girl out of the village by lassoing her and pulling on the rope.

Thankfully, to Zera’s relief, the sailor’s attempt failed and the rope that had hooked on to the Lantern Girl had snapped in half. But the next day, the fog, along with the floating girl was nowhere where to be found. While others wondered where the fog went, Zera wonders where the mysterious floating girl could be. But for now, Zera knows the Lantern Girl is gone, disappeared with the fog.

Gadolinium

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Gadolinium is a metal, magnetic, and rare earth element that is sorted in the lanthanides family at the bottom of the periodic table with an atomic number of 64 and it’s symbol Gd. It is created when different types of minerals and gadolinite (which it is named after) are combined. Also, it’s a soft metal that is white and silver and it cannot be found in nature.

It was discovered in Geneva on 1880 when a Swiss chemist named Jeans Charles Glalissard de Marignac found an unknown element while he was experimenting. Later, in 1886, what he had found was confirmed by a French chemist named Paul Èmile Lecoq de Boisbaudrand, who had given the element it’s name.

This element is used in microwaves, TVs, and in alloys since it can provide a higher resistance to hot temperatures. It is considered to be toxic and also slowly turns into a diluted acid if it is placed in water for too long.

Protons and Electrons – 64

Neutrons – 94

Atomic Mass – 157.25 atomic mass units

  1. Some questions I needed in order to research my topic was what was it and how it was discovered, when and where it was discovered, and who discovered it and why? I also asked what were it’s uses and whether or not it was toxic.
  2. The search engines I used were Google and Yahoo.
  3. The process I used to investigate this topic is that I asked myself the questions while researching the element on websites and finding the answers in them.
  4. I verified the information by comparing the information to other websites and seeing if the info was the same or very similar. Also, I cited the source by finding the links and then putting it here.
  5. The process of completing this challenge was a little difficult because there wasn’t a lot of websites that described gadolinium as I hoped there would be and it was time consuming when I decided to research more questions I had. Also, it was a little difficult to put it in my own words too. What I could have done better was to take more of my time into researching this element and adding in more information to this assignment.

Citations                                                                                                                                                                                                      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gadolinium                                                                                                        https://www.thoughtco.com/gadolinium-element-facts-606536                                                                                                https://www.chemicool.com/elements/gadolinium.html                                                                                                              https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gadolinium