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Peter And The Lost City
842 wordsBY ANGEL MENDOZA email me at a please Last year, Peter looked for a lost city. It was in the Amazon jungle. He didn't fly. The plane was too expensive. He took a bus to Spain and a ferry to Africa. He crossed the dessert by camel. He did not find the lost city. He looked at his map and saw a mistake. The Amazon wasn't in Africa. It was in South America. So he decided to take a boat to Brazil. The boat was old, but it did not sink. The weather was bad. It was very windy and Peter was sick for two...
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Ran As Fast Dark Hair
723 wordsNumber the Stars was about a family who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark take in a Jewish girl to protect her from the Nazis that are taking over Denmark. Meanwhile, Ellen's parents go with one of the Johansen's family friends named Peter Neilsen. He was the fianc of their deceased daughter, Lise. The first night of having Ellen, Mr. And Mrs. Johansen had planned out what to do if the Nazis were to come to their apartment that night. They told Ellen that she was supposed to be, Lise Johansen. Lise i...
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Third Class Class Passengers
1,088 wordsThe R. M. S. Titanic was called the ship of dreams, and some called her the unsinkable ship. It was the largest steam engine ever built in the world. She was the most beautiful and biggest ship ever to set sail to the sea. In the summer of 1907, Lord Pierre, Harland & Wolf, J. Blue Islam, and White Star Line planned to build three giant ships (Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic). They were to be designed as the most luxurious ships in the world, and to be built with the finest woods and furnishings...
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American Troops High Ground
1,280 words... from heights on the other side of the Meuse, General Pershing broadened his attack to include the east bank. To control that phase, Pershing created the Second Army under General Bullard. Relinquishing command of the First Army to General Liggett, Pershing himself moved up to the level of army group. Despite the added strength on the east bank, the fight continued slow and costly, for Ludendorff looked on the offensive as such a threat to the vital railroad through Mzires that he eventually ...
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Chemical Weapons Mustard Gas
722 wordsNew weaponry and interventions can ultimately decide who will win a war. In World War I there were many new weapons introduced into the battle scene. These new weapons were more efficient in destroying and more powerful which made the death count rise dramatically. The new weaponry in World War I helped contribute to it being one of the bloodiest wars know to man at that time. One key weapon that played a part in eventually bringing the United states into the war was the submarine, also called U...
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Lewis And Clark Meriwether Lewis
1,104 words1774 was the birth year of Meriwether Lewis, of Albemarle County, Virginia Meriwether Lewis, who was to become a captain in the United States Army, secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the pacific, Governor of Louisiana Territory and helmsman extraordinary of the American frontier. (pg 6) Meriwether Lewis was born to a prestigious family. Some of his family members include: great uncle who was a part of the Kings Council before the Revolution and F...
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Soviet Union War Broke
1,121 wordsThere is evidence of Finland being inhabited as early as 10. 000 years ago. Those inhabitant's main occupation was hunting and fishing. They came to Finland by different routes - through Karelia and over the sea from the west and the south. There are many language groups: the Finnish, the Finnish Swedish (coastal area, the land islands), the Lapps (Lapland) and the Romany. There are two official languages in Finland - Finnish and Swedish. At present the population amounts to a little over 5 mill...
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Duke And Dauphin Huck And Jim
686 words-Huck's pap returns and kidnaps him -Huck fakes his death and runs away -A house floats by and they plunder it. -Huck sneaks ashore in a woman's dress to find out about the situation -They set off down the river, and they have an adventure on a steam boat, get separated by fog, and a boat hits them. -The Grangerfords take Huck in, and he escapes. -The Duke and Dauphin put on a play, then pretend to be a dead man's brothers, then sell Jim and get run out of town. -Huck stays with Aunt Sally, and ...
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World War Ii Equal Rights
675 wordsJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29 th, 1917 and died on November the 22 nd, 1963. He was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald as his limousine drove by the Texas School Book Depository building and through Dealey Plaza. He was in office from 1961 - 1963, he was the youngest man elected President, and the youngest to die in the office. Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard...
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Scarlet Letter And Moby Dick
988 wordsVengeance Can Only Occur Through Providence Man cannot get away with vengeance because vengeance is Gods job (Great Books, MD). Through this quote, one can conclude that man is not one to judge others and exact revenge. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two anecdotes that teach a lesson in regard to revenge. The Scarlet Letter, telling a tale about the commitment of adultery, reveals that revenge is unable to be done by man. Obsessed with finding his ...
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Aunt Susan Banana Boat Beach
509 wordsMy name is Matthew James Schwengler. I was born on March 31, 1987 in McAllen, Texas. Im 13 years old and my parents are Michael and Patricia Schwengler. I have two brothers, Jason, who is 16 and Daniel, who is 10. I have lived in California since 1989. Every year in March and November my family goes camping to Rocky Point in Mexico. It is located on the northern point on the Sea of Cortez. We go with my Uncle Brian, Aunt Susan, my cousins Joshua, Angelica and Cody. My Aunt Susan's parents, siste...
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President Bill Clinton Hot Zone
1,084 words... and orphanages Richard Preston Where he was born and what some of his life was like. Preston was born in Cambridge, MA he got his Interest in reading when he was in the forth grade and shortly he became addicted to books and just like my grandpa be came a paper addict, where any paper with readable writing the person picks up and reads and if its take able the person then takes and keeps and cant put in the trash / recycle for fear it might die like shooting a animal. He also would get into ...
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President Clinton Protection Act
818 wordsTuna fishermen off the Pacific coast have been using dolphins in order to catch tuna. What occurs is fishermen set nets on specific dolphins, attempting to catch yellowfin tuna, which is found living in the same area as the dolphins. After trapping the dolphins, the fishermen simply pull them up onto the boat with the tuna and let them die. This procedure has killed nearly seven million dolphins since the 1950 s. The extremely high death rate of dolphins caused the United States? Congress to ame...
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Elizabeth Bishop Historical Events
892 wordsFrom the onset of civilization, society has increased its capabilities in the quest for survival. Methods of achieving fundamental needs have been belittled through modernization. In 1946, a time period defined by abundant technological advancement, Elizabeth Bishop describes the art of capturing a fish from water, an act once used simply as a food source, in her poem The Fish. As the narrator caught the fish only to observe and then release the creature, the reader develops a desire to discover...
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Baker Herman Bays Whale Watching Industry Whales
697 wordsHumpback Marine Mammals 1. Introduction Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) annually migrate from their summer feeding grounds off southeast Alaska to winter in waters off the Hawaiian Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico and northern Japan (Baker and Darling). The number of humpback whales in the Hawaiian waters generally peaks from mid-February through mid-March (Baker &# 038; Herman, 1984). Calving and breeding is an important function of humpback whales while wintering at lower latitude...
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18 Th Amendment Volstead Act
999 wordsII. PROHIBITION I. Introduction II. Early prohibition A. During 1800 sB. During 1920 III. The 18 th Amendment A. Who came up with it. B. How and when it was enforced. IV. Mob involvement in Prohibition A. Sherman Billingsley 1. Early years 2. Later years B. George Remus 1. Early years 2. Later years C. Mob in Chicago D. Mob in Detroit V. The art of Rum Running A. Who founded it. B. How it was enforced. VI. Steps toward repeal A. Who wanted it. B. Why they wanted it. VII. The End of Prohibition A...
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Man With The Yellow Hat Man With The Yellow Monkey
605 wordsChildren are susceptible to symbolism portrayed in literature. H. A. Rey is a clever man, who guilefully has incited prejudice views for nearly six decades, through his works of children s literature. The authors tales prevail in stores and in classrooms propagating throughout the world in disguise of a curious monkey. We must bring a stop to the folly of this collection of literature Ending the frolics and diablerie's of this devious rascal. I am not referring to the monkey. My comments pertain...
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Dick Whittington Spanish City War
798 wordsPier pressure Spanish City Sarah May 289 pp, Chat & Windus For a work that stops short of its 300 th page, Sarah Mays second novel takes in a variety of fictional forms. On the one hand it offers a detailed, but consistently oblique, portrait of a certain kind of pre- and post-war provincial life. On the other it supplies a series of intense, but no less oblique, love stories stretching out across time and continents. Then there is its habit of lapsing, almost on the instant, into a symbolis...
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Johns Hopkins N E
802 wordsHes showboating again Coming Soon! ! ! John Barth Atlantic Books? 14. 99, pp 448 Calling John Barth self-conscious is about as helpful as calling Kafka odd. The highly wrought games and puzzles of the postmodern novel Barth helped invent are already self-parodic. Barth writes double-helix narratives in which the tangled tango of life and art always threatens to spiral dizzily out of control. The plot of a Barth novel is never easy to summarise, because writing is the story: process as content, a...
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Water Or Air Action And Reaction Weight
770 wordsEverything is made up of elements Modern elements are less evocative but more numerous, they make up just over one hundred basic substances All things consist of particles called atoms The way molecules behave governs the workings of many machines, such as ships, airplanes, pumps, refrigerators, and combustion engines. Molecules of gases are so hyperactive that they will fill any space open to them In liquids, the molecules are less energetic and go haphazardly around in small groups In a solid,...
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