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Dr. V is a hero for these people for alleviating preventable and curable blindness in the world. He is a winner of the highest honors, and “chief” of this huge, world-class eye hospital complex. A strangely arresting man—with his gnarled arthritic hands and feet, his gray rumpled suit, his seventy-odd years and a perfect “poster man” at the same time—a brilliant mirror of compassion to all. His work is not only a response to the great need he sees every day. It is motivated by his belief that “intelligence and capability are not enough to solve our problems. There must be a joy of doing something beautiful.”
Facts About Robert Allman (1918–1994): • At the University of Pennsylvania, Allman was an intercollegiate wrestling champion and captain of the Quaker wrestling squad during his senior year. • He was the recipient of the Class of 1915 Award, bestowed annually on a member of the senior class who most closely approaches the ideal University of Pennsylvania student-athlete.
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Kana tried to walk quickly, but the wind kept her movements slow. She could feel her very bones vibrate like wind chimes after each blast.
How should I summarize throughout my STAAR Test?
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Create a unique sentence that could be used in a persuasive essay using the transition "Although."It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life so, as I do, if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me more appreciate what I had left.
The words stuck in my head: “Roll it around, roll it around.” By rolling the ball, I could listen where it went. This gave me an idea—how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind, I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it groundball.
Kana could tell that he had asked her a question. He did that rising intonation thing that her Japanese teacher of English had explained to her. She had aced the test where she had listened to a CD of English sentences and had to mark down which ones were questions and which weren’t. But that didn’t help her much here. The question could be for anything. She would have to fall back to her primary defenses. “No. No English,” she squeaked out at him. It was a magical phrase that almost always made foreigners go away.
Based on the information below, what is the overall tone of the passage.
Her umbrella slipped out of her hand for the third time and she jumped back to grab it. Over the top of the umbrella she saw a giant shape trudging up the sidewalk with huge, slow steps. She froze. She knew that he was a foreigner. Definitely a foreigner. And not the one that taught at her elementary school. This must be the new high school English teacher. There was no other reason for a foreigner to be in a town this small. Foreigners teach English. That’s why they come here.