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    A daemon, which is similar to the individual’s spirit, the daemon is an element of fantasy. She additionally needs to keep individuals from crushing the Dust, a secretive substance that is said to unite the universe and children from Gobblers. In The Golden Compass, the temperament, the atmosphere or feeling in an abstract work, changes much of the time so that the pursuers will be on the edge if their…

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    World Trade Center Essay

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    The World Trade Center was a hub for economic growth and power until September 11th, 2001. The terror attack on September 11th was an event that no American will ever forget. For those involved the attack it is more than a memory. The attack on the World Trade Center caused respiratory illness and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in people that were involved in the attack as well those who assisted in rescue and clean up. The World Trade Center (WTC) was located on the lower side of…

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    Mars Research Paper

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    wondered if there was a planet very similar to Earth? Well guess what, there is! Mars is a very similar planet to Earth. Even recent studies have found that there could have been life on Mars many years back. Coming from the sun Mars is the fourth planet out right behind the Earth. Mars’s days are a bit longer than the Earth’s at 24 hours and 37 minutes per day. A year on Mars is 687 days, since the distance from Mars to the sun is 141 million miles. Mars has 4 seasons just like Earth since they…

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    The great depression happened during 1929-1931 some of the main causes were farm crisis, dust bowl, and overproduction. Many farmers were producing too much crops and consumers could not keep up with the production and prices dropped. After overproduction really hit the farmers many of them went out of business. The few farmers still making money had their farms ruined by the dust bowl. The great depression would have been not as bad if none of these three things happened. Overproduction one of…

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    and sets twice a day, running west to east. It’s isn’t the most accurate system, but it works.”(Weir 87) Another similarity with my book and the article is that the article says that dust storms are big enough to cover the planet or a large chunk of Mars and in my book on the way to Ares 4 Watney runs into a huge dust storm and he…

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    John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California and lived through the Great Depression which heavily influenced his writing. The Great Depression was a tragedy that resulted in many Americans being out of work .Though the Great Depression was tragic to many as it ruin many people life .That wasn’t the case for John Steinbeck the Great Depression offered him a lot of things to write about like rural labor, economic problems, and social problems. Living during the Great Depression were…

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    Throughout the novel, the characters suffer loss and grief. Billie Jo and her father lose Billie Jo’s new baby brother and Ma. Billie Jo loses her best friend, Livvie, when Livie’s family moves to California to get out of the dust. Also, Billie Jo’s father deals with cancer. Obviously, Billie Jo and the people around her throughout their lives. First, when Billie Jo and her father lost Ma and her newly born baby brother, Franklin, I’m sure this was a horrifying event. Billie Jo mostly…

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    into my saddle as the worn leather creaked slightly as I situated myself on Buttons my mare. The leather felt cool to the touch and the warm Colorado sun shone out of a clean slate of blue that brought out the comforting smell of horse and leather. I breathed in deeply and caught the piney scent of the sage brush which quickly turned to dust in my nose as the horses in the corral churned up the dry, dusty dirt of the mountains. I rode past the weathered wooden barn with the rows of stalls on…

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    was that they could be a result of air-borne allergens, such as dust mites, in unhygienic house. The theory that unhygienic environments caused allergies is based on a study of 120 infants. The study of the infants was designed such that one group of parents was set as a control and were not taught anything about hygiene. In contrast, the other set of parents were taught how to keep their home clean and thus free of allergens like dust mites. The results of the study indicated that the infants…

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    A book that I have enjoyed recently is The Martian by Andy Weir. The Martian starts with Mark Watney (Main Character) who is hit by a piece of a satellite antenna during a colossal sandstorm while trying to escape the Martian atmosphere. Watney’s captain tries to search for him but he is nowhere to be found and the crew presumes him dead. The next day he wakes up with part of the antenna lodged in his stomach. Over time NASA figures he is alive through satellite imaging. Mark eventually finds a…

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