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Board Paddling Forward Lay On My Board Paddling Water
463 wordsSurfing the breaking waves on Mayport Beach gives a feeling I will never forget. I was 12 years old when my family and I lived on the shore of a small town known as Mayport. Two consecutive years we dweller in our cozy little beach house watching the gleaming ocean through our windows. Everyday I would take the path over the sandy dunes, dodging the prickly spurs and the sharp cati, onto the golden white beach. I walk toward the shoreline searching the soil for any treasures the sand may hold fo...
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Article I Section Term Limits
1,405 wordsThere is a movement sweeping the United States that state legislatures, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment, have the constitutional power to establish a new qualification for federal office, specifically, a restriction on the number of terms their congressional delegations may serve in Washington. The legal battleground covers two sections of the Constitution. Proponents of term limits will highlight Article I, Section 4, which they say gives each state the authority to prescribe the "time, place ...
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Hudson Bay Company Louis Riel
934 wordsWhen people hear the name Louis Riel, some fill up with anger, others fill up with a thankful sense of happiness, like me and my grandfather for example. Louis was Metis, this was the product of a Voyageur and Indian women having a child. The Metis were famed for their hunting and tracking abilities and were often employed individuals or groups as guides or interpreters. Their farming tradition had its roots in the Red River settlement of Manitoba. Following the massive exodus into Saskatchewan,...
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Miss Prism Lady Bracknell
2,481 words... us as a worthy suitor for her Gwendolen. He just doesn't make the cut of the upper class bachelors. He isn't on the roster of the best choice for mothers to make for their daughters. Quote: "I feel bound to tell you that you are not on my list of eligible young men... "Curmudgeon" [Lady Bracknell to jack 13 ] Lady Bracknell is interviewing Jack. She asked him what he knows. He knows nothing. She is glad to hear that. Lady Bracknell is speaking to Jack of her view of education. She thinks it ...
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Present Day One Day
1,093 words... longer will do. ' Different special rites according to which tribe they come from precede the tales. The Maidu, who used to live by the eastern tributaries of the Sacramento River in present day California, used to make the audience lie down on their backs to better promote quiet and attentiveness. The Cheyenne, of present day Minnesota to the Great Plains, introduce the tales by smoothing the dirt on the ground and passing his hands all over his body in brushing motions. Other tribes requir...
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Analysis Of The Atomic Cafe Documentary 1982
1,226 wordsAnalysis of The Atomic Cafe Documentary (1982) Atomic Cafe can be thought of as the example of a new genre in the field of documentaries. Some critics refer to it as observational grotesque. It is clear that producers strived to expose the sheer futility of duck and cover tactics, when it comes to protecting people from the effects of nuclear explosion. However, Atomic Cafe would never be able to become critically acclaimed, if it was only providing viewers with the historical insight on how did...
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Story Of An Hour Situational Irony
1,511 wordsThe irony is Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" Katherine O'Flaherty Chopin was the daughter of an immigrant Irish father and a French Creole mother. She was born on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis. Kate was very close to her maternal great-grandmother, Madame Charleville, who first introduced her to the world of storytelling. Madame Charleville spoke only French to Kate and told her elaborate, somewhat risque stories. While attending a Catholic high school, Kate studied both French and English ...
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Carry A Lot Of Scars Carry A Lot Beach
435 wordsJason Black The Beach by Alex Garland As for me Im fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand yard stare. I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars These are the words which Richard uses at the end of The Beach to summarize just how he feels after the experiences he had gone through during his time spent there. Just reading this conclusion alone instantly makes me feel that a lot has ha...
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Group Of People Patterns In The Lawn Students
608 wordsChanging the World in Three Easy Steps We should shave the ducks. I really think they could sport rather nice tattoo work on them. While the students are involved with the scissors and tattoo guns, the faculty could cut intricate patterns in the lawn. Possibly afterward, the resident herbalists will have lunch prepared with various odd plants we rarely eat. If the students at Gulf Coast Community College protest the absence of these things loudly enough, culture might become a little more releva...
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698 wordsWalt Walt Disney Walt Disney Walt Disney was one of the famous motion-picture producers in history. He first became known in the 1920 s and 1930 s for creating such cartoon film characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. He later produced feature length cartoon films, movies about wild animals in their natural surroundings, and films starring human actors. Disney won 32 Academy Awards for his movies and for scientific and technical contributions to filmmaking. He also gained fame for his develo...
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Four Marx Brothers Marx Brothers 61623
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Three Consecutive Fouls Basketball Was Born Ball
718 wordsHistory of Basketball Who is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball? His name is Dr. James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple childs game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a duck off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith...
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Appetizers You Press Send In Button Computer
423 wordsMany people line up to wait for a good dinner in a Chinese restaurant. While they are waiting patiently, the hostesses are busy greeting other customers and the waiters are busy serving others. To help the high efficiency of the service, the waiters use a computer to organize everything, such as drink orders, food orders, and checks. This computer which is simpler than other ones, is only used in a restaurant. To learn how to operate this computer, you dont need any technical knowledge of comput...
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Prove Her Love Built On Lies People
1,003 wordsIn the plays Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and Wild ducks by Henrik Ibsen there are many similar themes, which become event to the reader. A theme which is consistant though out these plays is the opposing values of the Ideal and the Real which come up in the plays. An Enemy of the People is a story about a doctor that discovered that the town he lives in, has become a cesspool. After discovering the town s beloved bath, which is supposedly helps people get better and is the main reason the to...
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Sense Of Humor Immature Person People
586 wordsMost adults consider immaturity a negative quality among their peers. At one time or another just about everyone has had the intended insult flung at them, Youre so immature! Is immaturity an insult? Hmmmph, how ludicrous. Ive always looked at immaturity as a positive quality. Here are some reasons why. Immature people are usually curious, unpredictable, rebellious, have willingness for change, and most importantly display a sense of humor. It is this sense of humor that keeps life in perspectiv...
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972 wordsLaurent Clerc Pioneer Teacher 1785 - 1869 Laurent Clerc was born in Labalme, France, on Dec. 26 1785. His father was Mayor of the town and the family could boast of a long line of magistrates in the Clerc lineage. At the age of one, the infant fell from a kitchen chair by accident into a nearby fireplace. He was burned on one side of his face and a fever left him totally deaf. He had uncle also named Laurent Clerc, who heard about the school for the deaf in Paris. When he was twelve years old, h...
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Gang Activity Labeling Theory
1,126 wordsTo the Editor of the Billings Gazette: The Old West has changed. Instead of youths traveling into the back country with their fathers to hunt game to support their families, youths are purchasing guns for show rather than theoretical use. Family structures have also changed significantly. Instead of mothers ringing the triangle bells for their children to return home for dinner, they are dialing the telephone in order to reach their son or daughter, via their beeper. Although, there is a signifi...
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Plants And Animals Million Acres
2,088 wordsPreservation of Wetlands Wetlands are in danger. We must try to help them because they are very important to us. They provide habitat and food for a variety of animals. They also provide the unique growing conditions needed to grow certain kinds of plants. The survival of many species depends on wetlands. A wetland is an ecosystem in which land meets water or a piece of land that is covered with a thin layer of water at least part of the year (Lisowski 1). Most wetlands in the Continental U. S. ...
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Foot In Front Surfing The Wave One
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18 Th Century Artificial Intelligence
1,050 wordsTurks gambit The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World Tom Standage 288 pp, Allen Lane This is Tom Standage's third pocket-sized book delving into the history of science and engineering, and yet again he has found a subject that is not only fascinating, but which also resonates with contemporary issues. In The Victorian Internet, Standage explored the development of the telegraph, which permitted long-distance instantaneous communication for the first...
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