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    The Real Relic Project obtained new financial backing after the successful interview I had with the three founding Jesuits. Other Real Relic Project operators began venturing back in time after my guinea pig run in 1560’s Rome. Much of the tweaks and mishaps have been fixed by the engineering team. One instance was the accidental blending of past and present when a cannon ball blasted a hole through the machine room’s wall during an experimental operation we were doing. The new commercial and…

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    In the book “October Sky”, by Homer Hickam, Sonny and his father Homer Sr. have a problematic relationship. Throughout the entire story, the reader sees constant arguing, a lack of communication, and a sense of neglect between the two. Homer Sr. chooses not to pay attention to Sonny and his rockets, and for most children this ignorance of an interest would be discouraging and bring them down. In Sonny’s case however, this strained relationship between him and Homer Sr. was actually beneficial to…

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    get my stuff from my locker with the other 150 kids that also needed their stuff. I fight through all those people and managed to get to my locker. I grabbed my backpack with my lunch and the book I’ve been reading “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”. Now that everyone has their stuff, we started walking. I went to find my friend Caleb. He was with one of my other friends, Alex. We started to talk about the election, but after a few minutes, I was done talking about politics.…

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    Stephanie Lane General Botany Dr. Sthultz Essential Oils and Aromatherapy Plants have been used in medicine for thousands of years. Well before the time of modern treatment, we, humans, began to experiment with the vegetation that was around us. Instinctively, it seemed, we knew that plants were good for something other than just food or drink. We learned from watching animals consume certain types of flora, from our own exploration, and as we discovered the benefits of each new herb or…

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    dealer would know. The marijuana could have another illegal drug in it, a more dangerous drug, such as heroin or cocaine. Fake marijuana could have other herbs in it. Like dried and shredded or ground up cooking herbs: cilantro, oregano, parsley, sage, basil, mint. It could even have dried grass mixed in with…

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    Oscar Wilde Research Paper

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    The story is about a young man named Dorian Gray. Dorian his a young handsome man. One that every man would like to be like. Dorian Gray had Basil Hallward create a full-length oil portrait. Dorian grey meets Lord Henry Wotton through Hallward. Lord Henry Wotton loves the portrait so much he trys to buy it from him. Knowing that he wont stay beautiful Dorian expresses his wish to sell his soul…

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    PB World Themes IA Did Napoleon betray the French revolution or further its ideals? Andrey Mertvyy PB World Themes 10 Mrs. Flak 3.16.16 1,542 Identification and Evaluation: This investigation will answer the question; did Napoleon Bonaparte betray the French Revolution or further its ideals? The French Revolution was an important part of European history, where many different people used the chaos of the revolutionary phase to try and gain control for themselves and many…

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    The basal ganglia plays a vital role in the way movement happens and when dopamine does not follow the path that it is suppose to, it hinders body movement. Parkinson’s disease is often known as PD and it is a progressive neurological condition, which means the sickness and symptoms get more severe as time goes on (Noble, 2007). Out of all the neurodegenerative disorders, PD is the second most common one (Noble, 2007). It happens amongst 1% of the population older than sixty years. (Samii, 2004)…

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    I thought then what did she want to get from this long journey at this age? But she had stamina and even greater and she proved it. She traveled again and much later to USA and because she was traveling I believed she was well and she also had guts. I admired her courage. In this trip she visited her great grandchildren. Grandmother Alexandra in America, with her great granddaughter, Olga History repeats itself. Just like Alexandra 's mother, the great grandmother to me, had managed to keep…

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    “The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim” (Wilde 1). However, on occasion art begins beautiful and then alters negatively. This is the case in both Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Percival Everett’s Erasure. Although the stories within each are very different in nature, they are interconnected in the way that the work of art within each alters and changes. Plato stated in Phaedrus, “writing has one grave fault in common with…

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