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Mad Dog Marine Corps
1,858 wordsI place my boot on the neck of this commie bone bag, the toe resting on his chin. I think, I hate this wet heat he breathes. At least there is no rain in it -- for now. I hate his elusive sky, too. A sky filled with foliage, unlike the limbs and leaves of the hickory or oak trees back home. "Slats, you and Mad-dog planning to marry that commie better, " Luke hissed at me. I watch as reality seems to shift; 5 ' 7 ", 176 pounds of ground foliage in front of me apparently transforms itself into a F...
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Stood There Watching Lunch Pails Danny
566 wordsLunch Table Drama I was about eight years old. It was a hot summer day. My friend Danny aka El gorditaand I were on our way to the park. We were holding in our hands our colorful lunch pails, full of sweets. We were two chubby boys on our way to do something that we do best that is eating. We walked over to our favorite table, it was right next to the tier wheel. We just began to open our lunch pails, when two huge shadows were blocking the sun. We were frightened by there mere shadows. I looked...
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Prophet Joseph Smith Members Of The Church
1,244 wordsClose to the heart of every member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the memory of the "Mormon Trail. " The name Mormon is given as a nickname for members of this Church. We like to call ourselves Latter-day Saints though, so that is the term I will use. The Latter-day Saints believe in the Book of Mormon which was translated from golden plates given to Joseph Smith by an angel. It was published on March 26, 1830. It is "the most correct of any book on the earth, " a record o...
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Million Years Ago Five Hundred
1,312 wordsOn Saturday 12 th 2000, my family and I went on a float trip on the Huzzah River in Steelville, Missouri. The Huzzah River and its surroundings were a perfect location for me to look for my fossil. Since the water level was shallow, that enabled me to look to the river bottom. Almost immediately after I began my search near the edge of the river, I spotted a rock that appeared to have some sort of shell embedded in it. I decided this would be a good specimen for me to try to examine and identify...
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Men And Women Make A Difference
1,241 wordsMany large concerts occurred throughout America in the summer of 1969, but none were as well known and symbolic as Woodstock. Its impact on Americas culture and society as well as its youth will not be forgotten for many years to come. Four men named Michael Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts, and Joel Rosen man originally established Woodstock. The mens initial idea for the festival was to promote the idea of a new recording studio in Bethel, New York, which is where the event actually took pl...
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Rapid Expansion Blue Green
1,211 wordsUp until 1947, it was believed that the Cambrian Explosion marked the first true abundance of multicellular life. However, this was discovered to be untrue after Sir Douglas Mawson and R. C. Spring mistakenly came across numerous "fossil jellyfish" in the Ediacaran Hills while observing what was originally believed to be sandstones belonging to the lowest strata of the Cambrian. At first, these finding were dismissed as "fortuitous inorganic markings. " (AAS Biographical Memoirs. ) Several years...
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God Or Goddess 8 Th Century
1,619 wordsGreek architecture begins with the simple houses of the Dark Age and culminates in the monumental temples of the Classical period and the elaborately planned cities and sanctuaries of the Hellenistic period. As in any time or place, the raw materials available and the technologies developed to utilize them largely determined the nature of the architecture. The principal materials of Greek architecture were wood, used for supports and roof beams; unbaked brick, used for walls, especially of priva...
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Dead Sea Cystic Fibrosis
1,374 wordsSpecific purpose: The audience will know that the Dead Sea is devoid of all plant and aquatic life, why the sea is so salty and the health benefits. Thesis or central idea: The Dead Sea has a unique environment Main Points: a. The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water anywhere b. The Dead Sea is devoid of all plant and aquatic life c. The Dead Sea area has become a major center for health research and treatment Introduction: You know why they call it the dead sea? Because absolutely no...
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Yin And Yang Creation Of The Universe
1,647 wordsAt the start of every civilization many stories are told to explain life and how things began. Each culture portrays the beginning of life in a different way but are similar in many ways. The themes and gods may differ by name and physical features, but the part they play in creation are all too familiar in every myth. In Chinese mythology, the basic themes of revolve around the order from chaos theme of myths. Order from chaos can be defined as giving a basic explanation to how and why things a...
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Represents Evil Black People
1,535 wordsThe setting of Sula takes place in the rich, fertile hills of Medallion, a small, valley town in Ohio. The residents of this town refer to these hills, where the Blacks resided, as the Bottom. Morrison uses the first four pages of the novel to provide the reader with a general knowledge of the town of Medallion and the history of the Bottom. Its name originated from an old joke in which a white farmer gave a slave a piece of land in the hills and freedom in exchange for performing some difficult...
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Gatsby Dream Long Island
1,226 wordsI see a feather outside the window. It floats low, moving randomly from the sidewalk to the grass. As it is just about to land on the road, a car passes by the feather and gives it a push to fly even higher. A couple more blasts of wind would send it into the clouds. The feather lingers in the sky, above the houses and the trees. The sun shines brightly and the birds chirp loudly, but the wind is beginning to end. The feather gently sinks little by little, but it has not hit the ground yet. It a...
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Millions Of Dollars Lava Flows
1,235 wordsVolcano's occur all over the world. The best know volcano zones occur on the destructive plate margin around the Pacific Ring of Fire. This chain of volcano's that lie along the west coast of central and south America, Japan and the Philippines, across New Zealand and into the Atlantic. Volcano's also occur in mid-ocean along the line of ocean ridges. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of ocean floor volcano's. When these volcano's erupt lava flows from the cracks building up the ocean floor. ...
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Don T Kid Day
355 wordsBasketball By Holly Bromeland I started out as a brand new shiny basketball. But since then I have gotten old and worn. I have had a hard life. You don? t know how cruel kids can be. I have been through everything. Once I was nearly ran over by a car. One day they left me outside, it was okay for a couple of day but then it started raining. Not just sprinkling we? re talking major downpour. Then the next day the kid sees me and just kicks me in mud. How rude, kids just don? t respect their stuff...
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Ozone Layer Million Tons
1,641 words? Ours, a water planet. The ocean covers 71 percent of the surface of the globe, and it constitutes over 90 percent of all habitable space on Earth. It? s total volume is around 300 million cubic miles and its weight is approximately 1. 3 million million million tons. No wonder that Arthur C. Clarke, scientist and writer, once remarked that it was? inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is ocean. (Mulvaney 28). Ocean pollution is growing out of control, and the clean up of our ...
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Trench Warfare Shell Shock
801 wordsTrench Warfare Every aspect of the war, is ugly and brutal. The worst aspect of this war was trench warfare. This trench warfare was so horrific, it cause many people to loose their minds, or even worse, loose their lives. There were many things that made this style of fighting brutal; the 3 significant ones are the fighting conditions they had to live in, the poor supplies they had to rely on, and thirdly the poor defensive conditions they were in with all the new weapons to use, like poison ga...
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Hundred And Fifty Fourth Dynasty
1,368 wordsTHE BUILDING OF THE PYRAMIDS From the reign of Djoser until the beginning if the New Kingdom, almost every pharaoh of substance and authority was buried under a pyramid. The pyramid, introduced by Djoser, reached its most definitive form with the Great Pyramid of Cheops, at Giza. At the end of this long tradition the splendid visions of the earlier dynasties had shrunk to monuments of poorly built steep-sided mud brick, that were no larger that about forty feet square, but a thousand years befor...
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Owen Describes Blue Light
457 wordsWar is and always will be a horrible place to be in or at. We can learn this from the two war pieces of the film Platoon and the poetry of Wilfred Owen. The main theme in Platoon is of the loss of innocence caused by the war. Owens poetry is somewhat different. He displays and conveys the images of the harsh living conditions on the battlefields of France. The settings in both pieces display similarity and get straight to the point. Platoon was full of mud, slime and humidity, whilst Owens poetr...
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Teddy Roosevelt Wallace Stevens
1,356 wordsPanama Canal It didn t take long for the world to realize that Panama is the narrowest strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. From the early sixteenth century, explorers, conquerors, treasure seekers, settlers, the military and engineers have descended on Panama to find a route that would join the two oceans. A modern day Panamanian anthropologist says, A road, a railroad, or a canal; they didn t concern themselves with the rest. That s been the story here for hundreds of years. ...
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000 Years Ago Ice Crystals
1,799 wordsWoolly Mammoths Remains: Catastrophic Origins? By Sue Bishop Since Ted Holden has repeatedly insisted that the mammoth whose remains were found in Siberia in 1901 was preserved by some great catastrophe as described in Velikovskys books, I decided to research the topic. I found several books on the subject, including the original book written by one of the scientists who actually examined, preserved and transported the mammoth remains from Siberia. Preservation of the mammoth remains was somewha...
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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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