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    Clark Gable “I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me” (Clark Gable)(IMD). Gable was a man who loved his job. That quote tells that he is not acting, he is just being himself. Clark Gable was also known as “The King” or “The King of Hollywood”. Gable was a very talented actor and achieved many things in life (Clark Gable). Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. Clark was born to William Henry Gable and Adeline (Hershelman) Gable. William Gable was an oil driller and a farmer. William was born in 1870 and died in 1948. Clark didn't know his mother because she died when Clark was just a baby. Clark dropped out of high school at age 16, so he didn’t finish high school, and his education only went up…

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    Hollywood when actress Carole Lombard met actor Clark Gable they just knew that it was true love. There were obstacles to hurdle over but for them it was al worthwhile. Their love for one another was so very strong and then tragedy struck. On January 16, 1942 actress Carole Lombard, who was popular for starring in screwball comedies such as “My Man Godfrey” and “To Be or Not to Be” was killed in the crash of a TWA DC-3 plane traveling from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. At the time she was only 33…

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    Holmes, a young, beautiful woman at the age of twenty-one was a kindergarten teacher at the River Town elementary school. A stunning man by the name of Haden Clark was twenty-three years old and was a post office worker in that town. Payton and Haden had attended the same church since they were little children. It was now that Haden was older that he realized the admiration and love he had for Payton. One day as Mrs. Holmes was teaching her Kindergarten class, Haden sent her some flowers and…

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    Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy.…

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    In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

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    A hero can be classified by many things. A hero can be superman, a police officer, and even your mom, but what makes a hero? Is it someone who can fly or shoot laser beams from their eyes or someone who saves a baby from a burning building? I’ll admit some of these characteristics are far-fetched since I don’t know anyone who can fly or randomly saves babies on a normal day. All heroes, including super ones, all have something in common, they're admired for their courage or an outstanding thing…

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    A hero can be classified by many things. A hero can be superman, a police officer, and even your mom, but what makes a hero. Is it someone who can fly or shoot laser beams from their eyes or someone who saves a baby from a burning building. I’ll admit some of these characteristics are far-fetched since I don’t know anyone who can fly or randomly saves babies on a normal day. All heroes, including super ones all, have something in common, they're admired for their courage or an outstanding thing…

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    named him Clark as well as decided to keep the manner in which he became their son a secret. As Clark began to grow older his abilities began to serifs and become uncontrollable. Any chances of normality for Clark faded once he began to experience random episodes in which he could not control his senses. This caused him to become an outcast amongst his peers leaving him with only his parents to cling to. During one of Clark’s episodes, that was particularly unordinary, only Martha could calm…

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    Not very often in history do two characters’ contrast, but match each other so well. Those characters are Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, but we know them better as Batman and Superman. Both are fictional characters from DC comics, and are two of the world most renown heroes of all time. Even known they are both heroes, they have a gap of differences, but just that, make each of them their very own unique character. First off let’s talk about the Man of Steel Aka Superman, or better yet Clark Kent.…

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    My experiment is about which type of paper will burn the longest. Fire is a compound that is used in a lot of ways all around the world for burning objects or heating them, it also causes chemical changes. I chose this experiment because I wanted to learn more about fire, more specifically, I wanted to learned how it functioned. I was interested to learn how fire functioned and how it maintained itself. “What did it depend on? What kept it going,” these were question that I’ve kept in mind…

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