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Midmost Ones Sound Square Midmost Ones Sound Bricks
347 wordsThe bricks immediately lining the vaults would be all burnt to useless scrolls, black as charcoal the next tier would be a little less withered, but hardly fit for service; and gradually, as you went higher and higher along the successive layers of kiln, you came to the midmost ones, sound, square, and perfect bricks, bringing the highest prices; from these the contents of the kiln gradually deteriorated in the opposite direction, upward. (Chapter 23, pp. 156) This particular quote plays on the ...
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Friends Game Father
607 wordsOne of my fondest memories in life is the summer time cookouts my friends and family used to throw every summer. Every Sunday through out the summer my father used to wake us up a the crack of dawn to help load up the car with all the food it could carry, and then head out to Glen Island Park in New Rochelle New York. During the ride my brother and I used to tease each other about who would throw the farthest in football and who would be the first to light the grille with dad. Once we arrived we...
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Dana Told Told Dana Felt
447 wordsSeveral months ago my best friend, Dana McFarland, tried to do a terrible thing. She tried to take her own life by overdosing on some pills. I was really shocked when I found out. I asked her why she didnt let anyone know how she was feeling. She replied, I felt like no one would understand. I told her she could always talk to me about anything, and I would do my best to try and help her. Dana told me that she had felt really depressed for weeks. She also told me she didnt know why she had been ...
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Coal And Coke Diamond And Graphite Carbon
448 wordsCARBON AND HOW IT EFFECT OUR LIVES Although widely distributed in nature, carbon is not particularly plentiful (it makes up only about 0. 025 percent of the Earth's crust). Yet it forms more compounds than all the other elements combined. In 1961 the isotope carbon- 12 was selected to replace oxygen as the standard relative to which the atomic weights of all the other elements are measured; carbon- 14, which is radioactive, is the isotope used in radiocarbon dating and radio labeling. Elemental ...
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Ralph And Jack Good And Evil
1,355 wordsWilliam Golding's novel The Lord of The flies presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island, left to try and retain a civilised society. In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes. At the opening of the novel, Ralph and Jack get on extremely well. We are informed Jack, shared his burden, and there was an, invisible light of friendship, between the two boys. Jack changes considerably throughout ...
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Suicides Alarm Japan Internet Suicides Alarm Japan Suicide
745 wordsInternet Suicide Before the advent of Internet, as cultural phenomenon, at the end of twentieth century, it would be quite impossible for the average person to think of words car, duct tape and suicide as such that are strongly related with each other, if put together. It is not the case nowadays, because locking themselves in the car, while letting the exhaust fumes from the engine to slowly fill cars interior, is the favorite suicide method of those who enter a so-called suicide pact online. P...
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Carbon Dioxide And Water Organic Compounds
1,157 wordsI. Introduction A. The Carbon Carbon I. Introduction A. The History of Carbon II. Occurrences in Nature A. Diamond B. Graphite C. Coal and Charcoal D. Amorphous Carbon III. Carbon Compounds A. Inorganic B. Organic IV. The Carbon Cycle V. Conclusion Carbon, an element discovered before history itself, is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. It can be found in the sun, the stars, comets, and the atmospheres of most planets. There are close to ten million known carbon compounds, many ...
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Science Fiction Fahrenheit 451
722 wordsFAHRENHEIT 451 A WORLD WITH NO BOOKS Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some books, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where all books are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught with books is that the books must be burned and in some cases the penalty may lead to death. In this tale of censorship and self discovery, Bradbury leads the reader through a short period ...
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Cannabis Sativa Biomass Fuels
1,171 wordsThe Forbidden Plant? With so many benefits, both industrial and medicinal, how could such a plant be illegal in the United States? Since 1937, the legalization of hemp has been the cause of much debate. However opponents of marijuana legalization have failed to acknowledge the benefits of hemp. These benefits consist of hemp being used to make cloth, fuel, and medicine. Hemp is commonly called cannabis sativa. There are other plants that are called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of t...
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Biomass Fuels Mary Jane
827 wordsHistory and Uses of Marijuana Whether you call it Hemp, Mary Jane, Pot, Weed; it doesnt matter. It is still Cannabis Sativa, or cannabis for short. And it is still illegal. The use of marijuana as an intoxicant in the United States became a problem of public concern in the 1930 s. Regulatory laws were passed in 1937, and criminal penalties were instituted for possession and sale of the drug. Marijuana refers to the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, which contains the non-narcotic c...
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Guy Fawkes November 5
1,726 wordsGunpowder History Of Gunpowder GUNPOWDER Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make gunpowder. Today gunpowder is not used as much as more powerful explosives After Roger Bacon published his formula for gunpowder, Berthold Schwarz, a German m...
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Daniel Jack
1,041 wordsJasper Newton Daniel was born in 1848 as the tenth child of thirteen. At the age of 12 Jack Daniel started a career that would last him a lifetime. He was hired out to work for a man by the name of Dan Call, a preacher at a Lutheran church. At Mr. Call? s distillery he learned the trait of making whiskey. Three years later he and Mr. Call were full partners in the whiskey making business. Mr. Call was a dedicated Lutheran. Just after the civil war his family and church told him to make a decisio...
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Earths Atmosphere Boiling Point
469 wordsNeon was discovered in 1898 by British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers as a component of the most volatile fraction of liquefied crude argon obtained from air. Upon applying an electric current to it, the chemists found that it had an orange glow, and they decided that it was not argon, but rather a new element altogether. Neon is not a very common element, but the places it is most abundant in are the earths atmosphere, and trapped within rocks in the earths crust. The place w...
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Didn T Four Hours
459 wordsSeveral months ago my best friend, Dana McFarland, tried to do a terrible thing. She tried to take her own life by overdosing on some pills. I was really shocked when I found out. I asked her why she didn? t let anyone know how she was feeling. She replied, ? I felt like no one would understand. ? I told her she could always talk to me about anything, and I would do my best to try and help her. Dana told me that she had felt really depressed for weeks. She also told me she didn? t know why she h...
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