"Holes" is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. His ancestors have always liked how, if they name their sons "Stanley", their names will be spelled the same way forwards and backwards.
The story begins when Stanley gets in trouble for supposedly stealing baseball great Clyde Livingston's shoes. They actually fell on his head while he was walking down the street, but he was arrested anyway and found guilty. Stanley could either go to Camp Green Lake, or prison. He chose Camp Green Lake.
Camp Green Lake is a camp that isn't green, nor has a lake. In this camp, for "bad boys" as the book describes it, the attendees dig holes. To be more descriptive, they dig 5" by 5" holes, one each day. They are told that after months of this process, they will be transformed into hard working individuals, ready to return to society.
The kids are told that if they find something interesting while digging, they will get the rest of the day off, plus a shower twice as long as their normal 4 minute one. However, Stanley finds a fossil of a fish, but no one seems to care. However, later, Stanley finds a golden tube with initials on it, which he gives to .
"X-Ray" because he feels he owes him a favor. The camp counselors are quite interested in this.
While Stanley makes friends with a quiet kid named Zero, he starts to think about everything that's happening. As it turns out, the golden tube that was found was part of a lipstick container that had the initials "K.B." on it. This stood for "Kate Barlow", an "outlaw" whom Stanley remembered from a family story. However, this is just the beginning.
The main character of this story is, clearly, Stanley Yelnats, a described "overweight" boy whose family has an interesting history of bad luck. Other main characters include Zero (who's real name is Hector Zeroni), a quiet yet intelligent (but no one knows it) kid, and the rest of the kids at the Camp, such as "X-Ray", "Armpit", "Squid", "Zigzag", and "Magnet"; as well as Mr.
It is very hard to know if the mass of the universe is enough though because of black holes. The gravity in a black hole is so great that not even light can escape so its almost impossible to find a black hole because they can not be seen. ... I think that this activity is pretty well how it is by writing a report and there is no need for improvement in the future. ...
Stanley had a hard time digging his first hole, and everyday after that the holes were harder and harder to dig. If any of the diggers found anything, they were to report to the Warden. ... For the next couple of days, they all dug in the one hole to try and find other objects (even though they were digging in the wrong hole). ... When Stanley gets back to camp, his hole is dug for him, and he promises to teach Zero how to read. ... They tried to get out of the hole, but the deadly lizards surrounded them. ...
So how do they know that black holes do in fact exist? ... Scientists today call such an object a black hole. ... If you apply this rule to the solution that describes black holes, you get an object known as a white hole. ... In fact, just as a black hole can only suck things in, a white hole can only spit things out. ... Producing a white hole is just as impossible as destroying a black hole, since the two processes are time-reversals of each other. ...
Scientists, for the most part, are not the ones reporting directly to the public. ... NASA scientists reported the future growth of an area of decreased ozone, or "hole", in the atmosphere over Antarctica in February 1992. ... Numerous headlines followed indicating that this "hole" is indeed forming in the ozone over Antarctica. ... But it was never reported that just two weeks after the initial findings by the scientists, NASA came forth with new evidence that indicated that the previously reported conditions had vanished. The forming "hole" in the ozone over Antarctica had vanished and a...
Antarctic Ozone Hole Reaches Record Size The United Nations" weather organization came out with a report about the hole in the ozone layer. The hole in the ozone layer has now increased to its record size of 10.8 million square miles set only three tears ago. ... They also claimed that the hole could also continue to grow to its largest size ever in the span of about two weeks, but it can also suddenly decrease in that same amount of time. ... The increased size of the hole in the ozone is created by the use of common pollutants such as fuel and CFC's. ... Global warming has been a ...
The Purpose of this Report This report relates to the properties and design of the Butterfly Sprinkler made of 4 components, including; thermoset plastic housing, thermoset plastic spinning head, nickel plated brass pin and a stainless steel ball bearing. This report will research the materials, and the mechanical forces and stresses related to the main thermoset plastic housing and the nickel plated brass axel. ... By decreasing the size of the hole that the water must travel through, the water pressure is increased by 16x the original pressure in the hose, thus increasing the spread of rota...
When an animal catches the disease, tiny holes develop in the brain until the animal's brain is virtually destroyed. ... The neurons, over time, become so blocked that they explode, leaving holes in the brain. ... TSE's (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) are diseases that cause holes in the brain. ... The first case of Kuru was reported in what is now New Guinea, in the Fore tribe, who were cannibals. ... This resulted in many painful deaths in Britain, but still no cases have been reported in the United States. ...
Since that time, the degradation of the ozone layer has accelerated dramatically, and the Antarctic hole has grown disturbingly large. ... The word "hole" is a misnomer; the holes in the Arctic and Antarctic regions are really a significant thinning, or reduction in ozone concentrations, which results in the destruction of up to 70% of the ozone normally found between the ground and space. ... Skin cancer is the primary risk that individuals living under holes in the ozone face. ... Proceedings for the convention were started in 1981, after reports of frighteningly low ozone levels above An...
The ball shall through the green or in a hazard be dropped, or on the putting green be placed, as near as possible to the spot directly under the place where the ball lay in or on the obstruction, but not nearer the hole. ... He shall then report the facts to the committee before returning his scorecard unless he scores the same with both balls; if he fails to do so he shall be disqualified. If the rules allow the procedure selected in advance by the competitor the score with the ball selected shall be his score for the hole. ...