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    so the plan was to move them to a place called Camp O’Donnell. This Camp was said to be 80 miles away from what would be the next home which is prison for the American and Filipinos troops. This turned to be an extremely long dreadful long distant so the prisoners were made to walk half of the way and ride the train for the remainder part of the distant. The seized army was so big that the Japanese didn’t know what to do with the large number of solider. What was thought to be an army of 25,000…

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    Expository THE EFFECTS OF OUR MEAT. The disguised murder. Introduction When you walk thru the store and grab meat you don't connect it to a dead carcass it's food nothing more. We grow up learning that even in children's books we separate cute farm animals from are food. Society makes industry animals life's no longer a life but simple a product. “we eat pork not pigs, veal not baby calfs, animals are not killed in a slaughterhouse but processed in a packaging plant” -Dana Jones. Effect on…

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    As a junior in high school my AAU basketball team went to a big tournament that is held at the ESPN’s World Wide of Sports complex in Orlando Florida. This the biggest tournament of the year and finishes the AAU season. Teams from all over the United States come to compete to be named the best team in the Nation. Unfortunately, my team did not when the entire tournament but we ended up finishing in the top twenty, which is pretty good considering that teams all across the United States come to…

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    wind nips at my exposed skin as I walk to the edge of the scene and feel the cool metal railing under my hands. Viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time, there is one word that comes to mind, clouds. That is all that could be seen, long, wispy, almost mocking clouds. As if they knew that they were in the way of a glorious sunrise. Hiding it away for another day. Disappointment was the mutual feeling of everyone who had braved the cold. The soft sound of rushing water was the only sound that…

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    Ponyboy, Two-Bit, and Johnny walk to Two-Bit’s house with Cherry and Marcia so that they can give the girls a ride home. As they walk, Ponyboy and Cherry talk about Ponyboy’s brothers. He notices how easy it is to talk to Cherry. When Cherry asks Ponyboy to describe Darry, he says Darry does not like him and probably wishes he could put Ponyboy in a home somewhere. Johnny and Two-Bit are startled to hear that Ponyboy feels this way, and Johnny says he always thought the three brothers got along…

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    peeked at the door. Dad entered the hospital room. “Finally someone to save me from this terrible thirst!” I thought to myself. I motioned towards the water bottle with a nimble finger and managed to make a grumble. Dad quickly grabbed up the bottle for me, unscrewed the cap, and carefully placed it to my dry lips. I quickly sipped the refreshing water down. It felt as if an icy Alaskan river flowed down my throat. “You must’ve been thirsty!” proclaimed Dad, as I finished off the rest of the…

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    On your left, there were long thick grasses, on your right there was a huge pond. The ducks were floating in groups occasionally diving under water. A big heron stood tall in the middle of the island in the middle of the pond. We walked around the pond, and then we ended up on another trail through the woods. The ground was covered with…

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    This place is Olmstead Street in Vanier. A street that has three churches and some houses on both sides. The number of cars parking on both sides of the street on a weekend show that the people of that area have a personal connection with that space. That Street also has a church that offers bilingual services, in Portuguese and English. Consequently, that street for the Portuguese-speaking community is very meaningful. Places are important to me because those are locations that people shared…

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    of clothes and she brought a unicorn shirt, princess socks, and rainbow sweatpants. Conner got pissed that he had to wear this, so he went through the rest of the day getting laughed at. On his walk home he was on the bridge he decided to go for a swim. So he walked to the river bank he jumped in the water it was a little spooky. Conner swam out in the middle of the river, but the current got big he couldn’t get back to shore he…

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    We have also learned about the first human beings, Adam and Eve, who didn’t abide by God’s rules and let him down. We also learned how God gave his only son Jesus to come and walk with us as a human. We learned how he died on the cross for us and arose again to forgive us of all of our sins and so that we can one day walk with him and God again and have eternal life. In this paper I will talk about what God, humanity, Jesus, the Restoration how it all ties in with the Christian Worldview.…

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