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Tall Grass North America
700 words
The grasslands of North American are called as
prairies; they cover about 1. 4 million square
miles or 15 % of the continent. They are widely
scattered for about one thousand miles in the very
center of North America, from the Rocky Mountains
to Indiana. Accordingly to the amount of rainfall
and temperature there are three types of prairies
grasslands: tall grass prairie in the east, mixed
grass prairie in middle part and short glass
prairie in the west. Grasslands are growing in
areas of limite...
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Ancient Olympic Games Ancient Olympics
1,470 words
Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games are
wrapped in numerous myths and legends and have a
long bright history. The ancient Greek Olympics
used to take place once per four years at Olympia,
a district of Elis. The first Olympic Games
occurred in 776 B. C. and the last in A. D. 393,
when the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I
stopped them. The Olympics were started like a
part of religious festivals and celebrations of
the power of Zeus, the dominant King of the
Pantheon of Gods. The Gree...
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Mechanical Hound Anti Social
1,357 words
A world without books that moves at breakneck
speed may sound like a wonderful world for the
average student who dreads reading books and
watches mounds of television daily. It is a world
where one does not need to worry oneself with
knowing Shakespeare or Thoreau. This world is
happy as the cumbersome book is eliminated and the
television, now the size of a wall gives us all
the social interaction that is necessary. A world
as such exists in Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451.
Everyone is happy as th...
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Fahrenheit 451 World Books
719 words
Fahrenheit 451 the temperature at which book paper
catches fire and burns (1). Greeting readers as
they study the title page, this quote immediately
intrigues the readers, even frightens them as they
realize the rather fiery and explosive nature of
the novel. Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451, written
in a frighteningly barren futuristic setting,
explores an era in which there are no books or
newspapers they are burned, and those who still
possess the forbidden material risk imprisonment
or even deat...
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Chinese New Year Peoples Lives
578 words
Our Lives Versus Firecrackers Bong! Bong! Bong!
These are the typical sounds one would hear
passing by a Chinatown around February of every
year. Indeed, these are the sounds of
firecrackers, which are distinctive features
Chinese people use to welcome a new beginning on
Chinese New Year. However, can anyone imagine how
many people have died or have been injured by
these explosive features? According to a report, a
firecracker storage area in China caught fire
which caused the death of forty-sev...
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Percent Of The World Rain Forests
484 words
The discussions these days are why are the rain
forests depleting? Well this research will help
change the opinions of many people. Some facts
about rain forests are, ? Tropical rain forests
occupy about 7 percent of the earth? s surface but
harbor as much as 50 percent of the world? s plant
and animal species. Also about 57 percent of all
rain forests remaining are in the tropics in the
Western Hemisphere: 30 percent are in Brazil. At
the current rate of deforestation, tropical rain
forests cou...
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Brave New World Escape From Reality
1,341 words
For centuries, science fiction writers have
thrilled and challenged readers with visions of
the future and future worlds. These authors
offered an insight into what they expected man,
society, and life to be like at some future time.
Though most of this insight was good, a select
group of authors have tried to give readers a more
realistic interpretation of the direction mankind
is heading toward. One such author, Ray Bradbury,
utilized this concept in his modern classic,
Fahrenheit 451, a futur...
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George And Lennie Mice And Men
1,622 words
? Of Mice and Men? by John Steinbeck is a novel
involving two extremely different main characters.
George is a reasonably intelligent, hardworking
ranchman. Lennie on the other hand always manages
to find trouble. He is equally as hardworking and
honest as George but his simple childlike mind
always finds him trouble wherever he goes. However
they have one thing that unites the two of them as
close as any bond can. This is that they both
share the same dream of owning their own ranch?
and after ...
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Death Rate One Problem
371 words
Medieval towns were very small, leaving very
little room for expanding, therefore the roads,
and the houses were very small. Since the houses
were made out of wood and were so close together
the risk of a big fire was great because the fires
were always in the house. Even though the town was
built so close together that wasnt the worst part.
Since the people back then had not come out with
water and sewage systems, people threw out all
their waste into the middle of the street where
other people...
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World War Ii Japanese Soldiers
887 words
The movie a thin Red Line was mainly about a
battle that happened during World War II. It
showed realistic examples of the combat style of
the World War II, and how the Japanese fought. The
movie? s title was named because it was said at
the beginning that there is a thin red line that
divides the sane from the mad. In this movie some
will earn metals others will do anything to get
out of the war before they die. This movie was an
excellent example of combat and face to face
fighting. At the beg...
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Billions Of Years Volcanic Eruptions
367 words
Planet Earth is our home in space. It is a planet
of continuous changes that started billions of
years ago and that will continue for billions of
years to come. Sometime the earth undergoes
changes or movements that are rapid and effect our
environment and safety. These rapid changes are
known as natural disasters. These include
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons
(hurricanes), tsunamis, floods, droughts, fires,
and other events which are indications of
interactions of mass and energy on t...
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Sparked Fires That Have Grown Internet As Cold Relationships
753 words
Relationships in Cyberspace The Internet, is an
ocean of technology, a land where ease of use and
instant gratification rules. It is out of this
primordial computer-ooze that a whole new way of
thinking and acting is forming. Lives are being
built, and destroyed in this world of bits and
bytes. Cyber romance is on the rise. No one knows
much anything about you. Its strange that even
without the formality of a face, relationships are
spawned. Although the idea of meeting a
cyber-someone is exciti...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Buddhist Religion
1,249 words
In 1950, a careless act turned into tragedy when a
fire burned wild and swept away over 17, 000 acres
of forest watershed land in the Capitan Mountains,
Lincoln National Forest. When the fire had died
off, a badly burned cub was rescued from a charred
tree. This cub, later named Smokey, was taken to
the National Zoo where he lived out the rest of
his life. Smokey was soon used to create an
animated bear aimed at informing people of forest
fires and fire prevention. The Smokey the Bear ad
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Thunder Said A Fire Sermon Thunder Said A Fire Steel
737 words
Sol Funaroffs " What The Thunder Said: As
Funaroffs " What The Thunder Said: A Fire
Sermon" WHAT THE THUNDER SAID: A FIRE SERMON
Where are the roots that clutch, what branches
grow Out of this stony rubbish? T. S. Elio
Cinematic Poe The Communards, they are storming
heaven! damp gust of March wind swirls and
scatters papers. And the hot, critical July days!
tense wireless bristling with flashes, stammering,
stuttering, awaiting what code, what code to
translate Capital, Famine, Pr...
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Red Badge Of Courage Color Red
1,488 words
The Red Badge of Courage, by its very title, is
invested in color imagery and color symbols. While
Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to
stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example,
describes the both the literal image of a dead
soldier and Henry Flemings vision of the sleeping
soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the
idea of death. In the same way, red describes both
the soldiers physical wounds and Flemings mental
visions of battle. In the process, it gains a
symbolic meanin...
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End Of Act Town Of Salem
922 words
Revenges Evil Ways Arthur Miller uses the theme of
revenge many times in the play The Crucible. The
hysteria in Salem in 1692 was escalated by the
element of revenge. The role of revenge
intensified the feelings of the Salem people.
Abigail Williams was an example of someone out for
revenge in 1692. The Putnam's were another example
of people setting out to settle vendettas of their
own during the witch trials. Reverend Parris was
another individual ready to settle is own feuds.
Abigail Williams...
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Coy Mistress Writing Process
1,722 words
Few would argue that on the surface level of
Marvels To His Coy Mistress the speaker is a lover
advancing a conventional carpe diem line of
thought. He systematically reasons with his
desired object about the futility of delaying
their interlude when the hours available to them
are limited, but the lyric may simultaneously
function as a metaphor for Marvels endeavors as a
metaphysical poet. Metaphysical writers view
poetry as an intellectual exercise, an opportunity
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T D D C
512 words
English Snowmobile Engine Ryan Polls English 101
The Technology Of A Snowmobile Engine If you study
and look at the history of a snowmobile engine, it
has improved in many ways. I feel they have
improved in two major ways. Number one being in
performance, and number two they? re more
environmentally safe. In order for you to
understand how this has happened, I will explain
to you the engine of a snowmobile. A snowmobile
engine is called a 2 -cycle engine. This means
unlike a 4 -cycle which you w...
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Group Of People Witch Trials
859 words
The deterioration of Salem? s social structure
precipitated the murders of many innocent people.
Arthur Miller? s depiction of the Salem witch
trials, The Crucible, deals with a community that
starts out looking like it is tightly knit and
church loving. It turns out that once Tituba
starts pointing her finger at the witches, the
community starts pointing their fingers at each
other. Hysteria and hidden agendas break down the
social structure and then everyone must protect
themselves from the pe...
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Billion Years Ago Development Of Nuclear
973 words
Table of contents Page 1: The development of
nuclear energy. Page 2: What is nuclear winter.
Page 3 038; 4: Effects of nuclear weapons. Page
5 038; 6: parts of a nuclear reactor. The
development of nuclear energy In 1972, scientists
discovered a natural chain reaction had occurred
nearly 2 billion years ago in a uranium deposit in
the west-central part of Africa. Two billion years
ago, radioactive decay had not progressed so far a
sit has today because of this, he are contained
enough U- 2...
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