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    Misfit Analysis

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    He said that when he was sent there, he forgot what he had done the grandmother said maybe it was a mistake that they sent him to the prison, he replied to her saying it was no mistake because they “had the papers on me” (26). When both men came back to the woods Bobby Lee was carrying Baileys shirt he tossed it the misfit and he put it on. The mother began to panic and breath hard the misfit seeing this asked the mother if her and her daughter would like to “step off yonder with Bobby Lee and…

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    “C’mon let’s go,” My mom says, “We’re going to be late to school.” My brother and grab our backpacks, say bye to our dog Alexis, then we hop in the car and we are off to school. While we’re in the car my brother says “Hey, I wonder what Alexis does while we’re not home.” “That’s a good question, I wonder what she does,” says Max. “I wonder what’s she’s doing right now,” mom says. Max says “Maybe she is in the backyard sipping champagne and getting a tan!” “Yeah right,” Rex says, “I bet she…

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    Glass. In modern times this substance is used as a basic necessity for windows, car windshields, bottles, jars, glasses, dishes, etc. Glass was discovered by Egyptians in the sixteenth century B.C. when experimenting with their pottery. During the fifthteenth century, the Egyptians started venturing into glass vessel making. Later, the Phoenicians and Mesopotamians followed suit by developing a fairly adequate method of glass blowing. To describe glass blowing in brief, glass must first be…

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    I walk in, surrounded by millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours worth of glass. Roughly sixty-thousand pieces, each hand crafted by a crew of students and professionals working together, tell a story. Sixty panels of vibrant colors, sloshes of visual food that appeal to our creative stomachs, lurching the eyes of any passing viewer, including myself, forward into a land of distant time and space and beauty. The Roots of Knowledge, located inside the Utah Valley University library has…

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    The documentary “Tapped” sheds some light on the dangers of bottled water. One of my favorite points the documentary talks about is how the thousands and thousands of plastic water bottles are affecting us and our world. Yes, while bottled water may be convenient for us humans who are always going and going, it's not very convenient for the rest of the world. Our environment was not grown with plastic. Plastic is not nature based, therefore it is not organic, meaning it can’t decompose, or give…

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    about glass railings, you might think about them being used in fancy houses and commercial buildings. However, they can actually work well outside as well. These are a few reasons why you may want to consider choosing glass railings for your outdoor deck. 1. It's Easy to Take Care Of With more traditional wooden rails, you have to worry about sanding and painting every few years. You might also have to worry about rot at some point. With glass railings, however, this is not an issue. Glass…

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    Freakonomics

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    The Hidden Cost of Your Good Night’s Sleep In June the Freakonomics Podcast explored the recent phenomenon of mattress stores popping up all over the country. Surely you’ve seen a Mattress-Firm, Sleepy’s, or Sleep Number store pop up in your town, sometimes right across the street from another. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics, articulated in the podcast the reality that the mattress market has become high profit because manufacturing costs, ease in marketing, low franchise fees for store…

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    Fragments of broken glass from sources like windowpanes, and plate glass doors, have slightly different densities. (Bureau of Forensic Services, 2011) If a burglary has occurred, and glass has fallen onto the floor, and the suspect burglar was near the glass when it shattered, perhaps small fragments of glass can be found ensconced in the suspect clothing, particularly in the lower trouser leg areas or the soles of his shoes. (Bureau of Forensic Services, 2011) When a suspect is apprehended and…

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    “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a short story that takes about a family that is going on a road trip to Florida. This family goes through many trials trying to get to their destination. This story surrounds a man by the name of the misfit and a very lady like women who is the grandmother. We see that throughout this story both these characters go through many trials and tribulations of what both these characters go through. I feel that the moral of the story that O’Connor is trying to outline is…

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    Essay On Perler Beads

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    Perler beads are not very well known. They are colorful beads that are melted together to create many different objects from bowls, jewelry and portraits to keychains and phone cases. As a kid, I was given a set of perler beads with pegboards shaped like dogs, cats and fish. I never knew the range of possibilities that perler beads could be used for and how much could be made with them. For my senior portfolio art show, I needed invitations and rediscovered perler beads and now I constantly make…

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