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    Then I dipped it in the water. The next time we came the mine I tried the chisel for a while, however heat treating also makes the metal more brittle and after only an hour or so it shattered. Then I remembered that my blow torch was in the car, the melting temperature of copper was 1,984 F, and my blow torch could reach that temperature. I ran outside grabbed my blow torch and held the flame up to one of the chucks holding it the wall. Twenty minutes later one of my friends shout “Jon! HEY JON, YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE” A few minutes later I was back to work with the blowtorch, and with slightly less hair. However, I felt a part of the copper and it wasn’t even warm. I realized that there must be a giant chunk of copper behind the wall taking all of the heat. I called to my friends, “I going to take a Break,” and headed off to explore more of the caverns. I was walking down a strait passageway with about an inch of water. As I walk from up ahead for just a second I could heard something walking, and so I stopped. The walking stopped too…

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    something, someone else wants. For instance, when I look at Kylie Jenner, yes she has millions of dollars but when I look at everything she has and everything she wears, I look up to her. She is eighteen years old, so just about two years older than I. She is that older figure that I look up to for all the fashion advice. She has her own app which could symbolize the conch in a way. Whenever I get that notification I go right to the app and see what new stuff she has posted and take away so…

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    emphasizing its value in the small society. Everyone agreed on the rules and followed them, and for a while, the boys werecivil and respectful of each other. Everyone had the same goal of eventually being rescued. However, the power of the conch, like many tools of power, started to diminish. Rules only work when everyone mutually agrees on them. Jack split off and formed his own colony on the island, and conflict is plentiful. Ralph started to lose members of his camp every day. This was an…

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    It starts off with Piggy brainstorming and coming up with this idea; “We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us—” He beamed at Ralph. “That was what you meant, didn’t you? That’s why you got the conch out of the water?” After the discovery of the shell Piggy shares his intelligence with Ralph when he suggests to use the conch shell to call all the boys from around the island together. Then Ralph asks Piggy how to use the conch shell to call the others on…

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    My Mom's Best Friends

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    I wasn’t happy with that suggestion since I really wanted to go on the blow up slide, but I had not wish to be rude, so I reluctantly replied with “ok.” As we went around the festival all I could think about the blow up slide, sure the other rides were fun, but I was convinced that the slide will be so much better. The closer and closer we got to the slide, the harder and harder it became to hold in my excitement, which caused me to start to bounce around. Matt just kept laughing at me making me…

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    Alick: A Tragic Hero

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    A boat came around and had a big spotlight on him then sooner than he could say hey, they had him in the boat. After that they asked him all types of questions and then they said when we are done with getting other people out of the water we will head back. But they could never get everyone because most of the people died on the blow of the explosion, and other people got hit by falling debris and so many different thing’s took people's lives. It pissed Alick off that he was unable to do…

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    For example, at the start of the novel Ellie, Corrie and Kevin have been spotted by some soldiers and are being shot at, they run away and hide but soldiers follow them to where they are hiding. Ellie thinks of a plan that could risk lives which was to blow up a ride-on mower. They went with the plan and blew it up and killed three soldiers when it blew up. Even though ‘[Ellie’s] brain was operating like [her] lungs, in great gasping bursts’, Ellie manages to think of a successful plan.…

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    Amy, Amy, Amy. Adobe Photoshop, Amy Winehouse portrait. To make this Pop art inspired artwork, I simply used a picture of Amy Winehouse and manipulated it on Adobe Photoshop to make it look similar to the Marilyn Monroe pop art by Andy Warhol. The source of my inspiration was the Pop Art movement, more specifically Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup repetitive pop art. The reason why this movement inspired me to do my artwork is because I like it. It is very pronounced and…

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    It was supposed to be a normal class in Mr Volk’s class, until it started snowing outside and the topic came up. “Isn’t there an old tale about snowflakes and where they come from?” Kai asked. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s not snowing, we’re clearly at a race track.” said Colton while using his VR pod. Mr. Volk makes him put away the VR pod, “But I was using that!” exclaimed Colton. “Well now we will discuss what Kai has brought up,” Mr Volk said “and maybe you’ll understand…

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    Fantastic Four Analysis

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    Contrast between Fantastic Four of 2005 and the Fantastic Four of 2015 “In American films, the first science fiction craze came in the 50 's, fueled by cold war paranoia, and produced a wave of movies about space exploration, alien invaders and giant, radiation-infected insects.”(Moss) Science fictions is a type of American genre that discuss human relationship with science and technology. It is created to introduce science and technology to the audience as a form of entertainment. Fantastic…

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