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    As individuals are often not used to being in circumstances which are not familiar to them, such circumstances can often have drastic effects on that individual. Director Peter Weir’s film, The Mosquito Coast, based on the novel by Paul Theroux, examines the results which take effect on Allie Fox after he leaves his home in Massachusetts and decides to build his utopia in the jungles of the Central America. Initially, as soon as Allie arrives to the jungles of Honduras, the behavior that he…

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    are surrounded by. The anthology of the poems, Journey the North Coast, The Meatworks and North Coast Town all provoke an idea of discovery through a form of transformation of a persona. Journey the North Coast illustrates the journey of a man who sets on-board a train along NSW’s North Coast to relive…

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    West coast Woman by Jan Hopaklyissumqwa Gould and Incidents at the Shrine by Ben Okri, they display different kinds of spiritual practices. In comparison to the two stories, they have different significant spiritual places that take place in the stories, characters received powers in different ways, and characters had different spiritual outcomes in the same kind of setting. The short stories display different spiritual places that take place in the stories such as the sacred pool (A West coast…

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    Gold Coast. We arrived for our five day holiday with high hopes and both my sister and I could not wait for the days of roller coaster rides, seeing our favourite cartoon characters and, most of all, going to Movie World. Two days into our dream holiday and my family jumped into a taxi. My family drove through the hills, went past many trees and tried to imagine Bugs Bunny from the white clouds in the sky. After we passed through the waves of trees, we saw the beautiful beaches of Gold Coast.…

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    Prohibition put coastal towns like Beaufort on the frontline of liquor smuggling. It was illegal to trade alcohol inside the three-mile boundary that ran along the Eastern coast. Since local watermen were making easy money running booze from offshore ships into the isolated coves and islands, they would be reticent to talk to the Coast Guard. Jake figured people would be even less likely to talk to Glenn’s family. When he left Murphy, he had decided to hide his kinship to his brother by using…

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    The East Coast trip Over, the summer I went on many exciting adventures/trips but today I am going to tell you about the East Coast trip. I very was excited for this trip as I would be gone from home for two weeks and would visit 3 states that I had never been to and florida. The first city/state I visited was Atlanta, Georgia this was my first time coming to Georgia. I stayed in Atlanta, Georgia for 3 days. The day after we arrived in Georgia we went to the Atlanta, Georgia zoo and saw…

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    A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of all people who purchased or acquired Pacific Coast Oil Trust (PCOT) securities that became effective on May 2, 2012 and September 19, 2013. It is alleged that PCOT violated federal securities laws in its disclosures. The disclosures issued are believed to misrepresent its business, operations, and prospects. More specifically, it is claimed that the statements are misleading regarding PCOT’s capital expenditures and hedge contracts (Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP).…

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    As Nell and Asa walked up the steps to the Inlet Inn, Asa pulled out a small prescription bag from his breast pocket and said, “I need to make a delivery to one of my customers upstairs. I’ll come down to the ballroom when y’all start to play.” They stood on the veranda facing each other uncertainly as the scent of hush puppies and clam chowder wafted out of the large inn. Nell was still outraged by her fiancé’s harsh words regarding her Jake and Miss Bessie / and she now questioned his…

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    Composers are successful in the manipulation of responders to place them in a position that helps convey their story and its messages that the persona is trying to tell. In ‘North coast town’ and’ Flames and dangling wires’, Gray uses a combination of imagery and similes to relate to the responder therefore easing his task of positioning the reader to experience what he is seeing when he writes. In the poem, Grey is trying warn the responder that society are causing pollution and not noticing it…

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    The Haida Gwaii Tribe

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    The Haida people are an aboriginal tribe that inhabit the northwest coast of British Columbia and Has of Alaska. They are an isolated people that rarely come in contact with civilization. They also live throughout the islands of Haida Gwaii, which means “islands of the people”. The geography of the Haida’s mainland affects their culture because, it affects the animals that can be hunted for food, it makes them need to be able to travel over water, and the climate affects the shelter they need.…

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