How do I write the introduction for my speech for 5th Grade Gradation?

A good speech will start with a meaningful and catchy introduction. Many people like to begin graduation speeches with meaningful quotations.  You can choose an inspirational quote that you think will inspire your classmates.  There are many of these on the internet.  I have included a link.  Choose something that relates to your class, and that your classmates will appreciate.  Then, explain how it is relevant in your speech.  

It is also a good idea to introduce yourself, in case some of the audience members do not know you.  If you are giving the speech because you are the class president or something like that, you should also state your role.  A graduation speech should be humorous but direct.  You might want to tell a tasteful (appropriate) joke that will mean something to your audience.  Starting off strong with a hook (catchy beginning) will make people more interested in listening to you.

Your introduction should be related to the rest of your speech.  People will be very emotional and you do not want to talk too long, but your audience will like it if you are funny and interesting.  You will want to talk about the past and the future.  Share some important milestones that your class has accomplished and what they meant to you.  You might want to consider field trips and projects.  You can also talk about what is ahead, and where your classmates are going.

In The Westing Game, how does Angela feel after she returns to the game from the hospital and no one has asked her a question? Why did she feel...

No one asks Angela how she got home or how she is when she returns from the hospital, but she is relieved that the focus is no longer on her. 

Turtle knows that Angela is the bomber.  When Angela is injured and ends up in the hospital, she immediately begins protecting her sister. 

“Just thanks. The fireworks would have gone off in my face if you hadn’t pulled the box toward you. Here, I brought your tapestry bag; I didn’t look at your notes or clues, honest.”

But she had removed the incriminating evidence. (Ch. 16)

Turtle tells Angela, “Don’t say anything to anybody about anything, Angela, no matter what happens.” Turtle thinks that Angela set off the fireworks wanting to get caught.  She fears it will be easy to force a confession out of her because her injuries have slowed her down, and she is scared.  

Turtle sets off fireworks in the elevator, but gets easily caught.  The police just send her to Judge Ford to deal with, and Judge Ford asks Turtle if she is protecting Angela.  When she asked her, she did not expect so strong a response.  Judge Ford is surprised, because everyone always underestimates Angela. 

Judge Ford realizes that no one has ever asked Angela what she wants.  Her mother and everyone else always told her what to do.  She was expected to marry a doctor and her whole life would be settled.  This was what Grace Wexler wanted, not Angela. 

When Angela comes home with Sydelle, she feels ignored. 

Angela looked back at the embracing couple; her father’s face was buried in her weeping mother’s tousled hair. They had not asked how she got home from the hospital (by taxi), they had not asked if she was still in pain (not much), they had not even peeked under the bandage to see if a scar was forming on her cheek (there was). (Ch. 22) 

Her parents are upset about Turtle’s juvenile delinquency, especially Grace.  They have no idea that Angela is actually more of a trouble maker.  Angela is relieved that she is not the center of attention.

Describe the electrical charges of the particles in atoms.

Atoms contain sub-atomic particles that have different charges. The atomic number of an atom is the number of protons within the nucleus of an atom. Protons have a positive charge. Once we know the number of protons in an atom,  the number of electrons is also known. That is because an atom is electrically neutral and the protons and electrons balance each other out. Electrons are negatively charged particles that are located outside the nucleus in orbit around the nucleus.

The nucleus of an atom contains not only protons but neutrons. Neutrons are electrically neutral. The sum of the protons and neutrons within an atom is known as the atomic mass. Because the mass of electrons is extremely tiny, it is not calculated in this value.

In the link I have provided to the periodic table of elements, we can look up the element oxygen as an example and figure out its sub-atomic particles.  It has an atomic number of 8 and an atomic mass of approximately 16. Therefore, the number of protons is 8 and the number of electrons is also 8 ( we know this from the atomic number). To find the number of neutrons, we subtract the atomic mass of 16 (number of protons plus neutrons) minus the atomic number of 8 (number of protons) to get the value of 8 neutrons.

I have included a second link to help visualize an oxygen atom to show where its sub-atomic particles are located.

Examine the boy’s “interior monologues,” the italicized parts of the story in "Barn Burning." What do these parts tell us about the boy,...

With the italicized sections of "Barn Burning," Faulkner is using a Modernist style of narration called perspectivism. In this style, the narrator is omniscient only in regard to one character, at least for a given part of the story where the technique is used. Thus the action of "Barn Burning" is experienced through the boy Sarty's perspective, and events are interpreted through the way he perceives them. The italicized portions of the story take us deep into Sarty's psyche and usually give words to either the conflicts he is experiencing or the hopes he has for resolving those conflicts.

As the story opens and Abner Snopes appears before a Justice for burning a barn, Sarty's thoughts voice his loyalty to his father, but the intensity of their expression indicate that the loyalty requires effort on Sarty's part. As they ride away in their wagon, Sarty begins to hope: "Maybe he's done satisfied now, now that he has..." As yet he cannot admit what his father did, but he hopes his father will change.

The next section of italicized thoughts occurs when Sarty sees the de Spain mansion. Interestingly, although Faulkner begins the section in Sarty's dialect with "hit's big as a courthouse," he goes on to convey Sarty's thoughts in expressions that "he could not have thought into words." This has the effect of giving Sarty a depth of understanding that his rustic speech would not have been able to portray while causing readers to feel the respect and empathy for Sarty that they would have for a more eloquent speaker: "the spell of this peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrive." Although one could say Faulkner "cheats" here by giving Sarty an unrealistic inner monologue, it serves to separate him from the crassness of Abner and breaks the bond of loyalty that Sarty had previously fought to retain.

The next passages again reflect Sarty's hopes that Abner will change, but readers now understand his hopes are vain. Finally, Sarty thinks, as he runs to get the oil for his father to burn the de Spain barn, that he could run, but he concludes, "Only I can't. I can't." Just as Sarty's protestations of loyalty turned to disloyalty and his hopes for his father's reformation have turned to despair, so this claim that he can't run away foreshadows the very act he says he can't do.

Sarty's internal monologues allow readers to enter into the conflict of the story and to experience the growth of Sarty from unwilling loyalty to hope to rejection of his father's despicable behavior.

What are two similes in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird that show Jem's progress in maturity?

One simile author Harper Lee uses in To Kill a Mockingbird to mark Jem's progress in maturity as he grows up is found in Chapter 7 when he relays to Scout what happened the night he went back to the Radleys' property to retrieve his pants in the wee hours of the morning.

After that night, Scout noted that Jem hardly spoke a word. It is not until after school starts up again and they begin finding more items in the knothole of the oak tree that Jem starts speaking again. While crossing the schoolyard on their way home from school one day in the afternoon, Jem preludes his story of the night's events by saying, "There's something I didn't tell you ... [a]bout that night." When Scout interrupts, saying, "You've never told me anything about that night," Lee uses a simile to describe Jem's annoyed yet pensive actions:

Jem waved my words away as if fanning gnats. He was silent for a while, then he said, ... . (Ch. 7)

Next, Jem describes how he found his pants laying on the fence, neatly folded, and mended. Waving away Scout's words indicates he wants her to be silent because what he is about to explain is very difficult for him. His silence further shows that he has been thinking long and hard about what he is about to explain. Jem's thoughtfulness indicates he has been thinking long and hard about Arthur (Boo) Radley and beginning to think that their judgements of him may be completely wrong, which indicates Jem is growing up.

Another good simile is spoken by Jem to Miss Maudie the day after Tom Robinson's trial. Jem feels angered by the jury's guilty verdict and disillusioned by Maycomb because he now sees Maycomb's people as hateful, racist people, whereas he once saw them as good and decent folks. Jem explains his feelings of disillusionment in the following simile:

It's like bein' a caterpillar in a cocoon, that's what it is ... . Like somethin' asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like. (Ch. 22)

Jem's feelings of disillusionment show that he is maturing beyond the innocent boy he used to be. As a boy, he only had a perception of goodness and innocence, but now, the things he has witnessed has allowed him to see the evil that exists in the world, something he could only see if he is maturing.

What is a specific example that exists for each biochemical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic chemical reaction type. Why might they be of...

You are looking for specific examples of biochemical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic chemical reactions.  A specific biochemical reaction is amide bond formation.  Small monomer units called amino acids bind together in long polymeric chains called proteins.  The order in which specific amino acids bind together gives rise to the specific protein generated.  All of these amino acids are bonded together by amide bonds.  Amide bonds are formed when a carboxylic acid is condensed with an amine to produce an amide with a water molecule as a byproduct.

A specific example of a pharmaceutical reaction would be the inhibition of the COX-2 enzyme.  COX-2 is an enzyme that is involved with inflammation and pain.  When a small pharmaceutical molecule can bind with the enzyme in its active site, it can disrupt and inhibit the COX-2 enzyme's ability to perform its function and reduce pain and inflammation.

A specific example of a diagnostic chemical reaction is a test for serum albumin levels.  Albumin is the main protein found in blood serum that is involved with the transport of many species through the circulatory system.  When a blood serum sample is treated with a chemical called bromocresol green, it binds with the albumin to produce a colored complex whose light absorbance can be measured with a spectrometer to calculate albumin levels in the blood.

All of these reactions are important to healthcare professionals.  There are millions of different chemicals and chemical reactions in the human body and the study of medicine and pharmaceuticals relies heavily on gaining a better understanding of this chemistry.

What is Hope's real name?

Joan Bauer's novel Hope Was Here, is a wonderful coming of age story about the title character, Hope, making her way in the world. Hope Yancey is an engaging and unique character who is moving to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, with her aunt Addie in order to work for a man who is dying of Leukemia. Addie is a short order cook and Hope is a waitress. Every place she goes, she writes "Hope was here," to prove that she was there and had made an impact on the place. 

Her real name is revealed on page six of the novel. Hope states: 

"But my mom, Deena, left me with two things. One I kept--her gift of waitressing; the other I threw away--the name she gave me at birth which, I swear, was Tulip. How a person can look at a two pound baby all wired up in a hospital box and think Tulip is beyond me."

Hope has only seen her biological mother three times in her life: on her fifth, eighth, and thirteenth birthdays. On her eighth birthday, she asks her biological mother why she named her Tulip. Her mother explains that she once saw a movie that was set in Holland with an actress running through tulips and looking happy and free. Hope's mother explains: "I wanted to think of you that way. Happy and free. Running through tulips." Hope states that it took her twelve years to break free from the "curse" of her name and all the teasing that went with it.