Linda Curtis-Stolper
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I am a retired teacher, having facilitated learning experiences for gifted students of varying ages through a variety of program formats. I love learning for myself and enjoy helping others to learn as well. I am currently taking coursework that could allow for my ordination as a Commissioned Lay Pastor.
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Answered a Question in The Gift of the Magi
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Answered a Question in The Gettysburg Address
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Answered a Question in Reference
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Answered a Question in Reference
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Answered a Question in The Giver
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Answered a Question in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Answered a Question in Shoeless Joe
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in The Giver
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Answered a Question in Go Down, Moses
"Go Down, Moses" directly reflects the drive to escape slavery and achieve freedom. Moses was the Biblical leader sent by God to lead the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt after confronting Pharoah. The... -
Answered a Question in Reference
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Answered a Question in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Answered a Question in The Giver
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Answered a Question in The Giver
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Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
To indulge in something means "to yield to the desires and whims of, especially to an excessive degree". This neatly describes the major attitude toward life of most of the characters in The Great... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Nick grew up as a well-to-do son of business owners in a Midwestern city. Nick's great-uncle "started the wholesale hardware business" which made financially possible the comfortable and somewhat... -
Answered a Question in Dover Beach
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There are different organizations, support groups, and resources available to address the needs of children having different types of special needs situations. Educators who are going to be working... -
Answered a Question in Math
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Answered a Question in The Gift of the Magi
Della's problem in the story is raising the money she needs to purchase a suitable Christmas present for Jim. The first step in her plan involves saving as much money as possible from the amount... -
Answered a Question in Reference
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Answered a Question in The Giver
Yes, Sameness is the absence of differences within the community in which The Giver takes place. Long before the time in which the story is set, the community made the decision to adopt Sameness as... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
The character who repeatedly states that he "wasn't even trying" is Owl Eyes, the party guest that Nick had met in Gatsby's library earlier in the evening. Having spent quite some time enjoying... -
Answered a Question in History
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Answered a Question in Heaven
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Answered a Question in Mending Wall
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Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
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Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
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Answered a Question in A Separate Peace
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Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
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Music was an oral tradition in the same way stories were an oral tradition, passed on by "song-starters" and storytellers with well practiced capacious memories. For "consistency and precision," it... -
Answered a Question in The Ransom of Red Chief
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Answered a Question in Music
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Answered a Question in Our Town
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Answered a Question in Poetry
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Answered a Question in Ozymandias
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Answered a Question in Harrison Bergeron
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All but the word "wreck" of the words you listed were engraved "on the pedestal" of the statue remains. The inscription obviously represented the spoken thoughts of the deceased man, who considered... -
Answered a Question in Religion
During the events surrounding Jesus' questioning by the high priest and the other religious authorities, Peter denied that he knew Jesus three times, as had been predicted by Jesus. In shame, Peter...
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