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    The Big Muddy It is the longest river in all of North America and the fourth longest in the World. It runs through a total of 31 different states and 2 Canadian provinces. The river has served as a main route of transportation and trade throughout the history of the U.S. as well as a border and a communication route. I’ve been to the Mississippi in Minnesota and Missouri and it is a big, muddy, slow moving river with about as much history as a river can have. Now in the book, The Adventures…

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    I was born in Africa and moved to America at the age of two. Little did I know that that single move would cause my life to meet the people I would meet and the opportunities that I would encounter. Once I came to America, my family and I moved to New Mexico so my father could complete his Ph.D. in mathematics. There two of my three younger brothers were born but New Mexico was only my backstory. At the end of my first-grade year, my family and I moved to Texas which was where I finally…

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    beautiful landscapes to witness in the nation. Number Twelve: It is the Birthplace of Santa. Or Saint Nicholas, anyway. He was born in Patara. Number Eleven: Turkey is Full of Biblical History. It's possible that the Virgin Mary is buried near Epheseus. Noah almost certainly passed through Turkish land, and both Abraham and Paul were born in present-day Turkey. Number Ten: You Can Run Into Plenty of Sea Turtles There. Much of Turkey is landlocked, but some of it is on the beautiful…

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    describe the surroundings in greater detail, as opposed to movie. Also, considering it can be challenging to get the exact, in depth details that are in movies, which helps your imagination run wild. The main conflict in the book is that there is a pig named Wilbur who was born the runt of the litter and he was also born very weak. He was about to be slaughtered when the daughter of the farmer, her name is Fern, saves him from being slaughtered. Moreover, the pig winds up being sold to another…

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    Jack Kerouac's Life

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    Born by the name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac on the 12th of March, 1922, Jack Kerouac always had a story. Whether it was about travelling, religion, or just of times with his friends, Kerouac was never shy to share his tales with the public. Born from a French-Canadian background, Kerouac had an odd childhood. From a young age, Jack Kerouac lived in multiple different French-Canadian neighborhoods in Lowell, Massachusetts, living on the language of joual, a common dialect of many…

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    forrest gump a great movie and if you haven't watched it then you are missing out on one of the most iconic films ever. The start of the movie forrest gump is a real powerful start it shows how he is handicapped and shows the disabilities he was born with. It then shows him making a friend with a girl named jenny and showed how she had a few problems of her own mostly with home issues. it eventually gets to the part where forrest is getting bullied by some school kids and they start…

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    The formal education is based on giving premium value to expertise, specialization, and hierarchy. As technology has been improved, the method of education also improved. The iPod experiment that was run at Duke University changed one-directional model of attention to multi-directional teaching method. For example, students could download anything they heard from worldwide, and not prerecorded programs made by professionals but content created and uploaded…

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    is the article 2 section 1; " you must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years, and must be at least 35 years old." I believe that this is a little bit unfair because there could have someone born outside the country, but was a full citizen and completely fit and maybe better than the people who are running for President, but unable to run the presidency it because he was not born in the United…

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    Oddity In Macbeth

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    choose how we arrive. In Macbeth, the witches play a central role in directing Macbeth to commit regicide. The prophecy they deliver to Macbeth plant the seeds of the plot to murder the king, Duncan. This is vital for the actions of the play to run their course, without which there would likely be no cause for Macbeth to assassinate him. Macbeth…

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    Waknuk In The Chrysalids

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    who retained the pre-Tribulation phenotype. The only other known civilizations are vague and coloured by religious dogma. The Theocracy run government follows the Bible and the Repentances as a means of guidelines. Run off of the fear of God Himself, the people survive by keeping their race in the True Image. They do this by having inspectors which approve newly born children and give them a Normalcy Certificate. Any child that does not…

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