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    Erik In Tangerine

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    Throughout history there has been many bad people in the world, such as this 11-year-old boy who shot his 8 year old neighbor with a single shot 12 gauge shotgun because she let him see her puppies. White Pine, Tennessee October 6, 2015 . He shot the girl out of anger this relates to Erik because out of anger he also killed an innocent person. Eriks abusive, aggressive, and manipulative behavior makes him as one of the biggest criminals in Tangerine. As there are many characteristics in a…

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    Iscience Project

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    them to various locations around the target. The same thing happens underground as groundwater moves through the soil and rocks there which is called Permeability and Porosity! Groundwater movement has great impacts on the landscape similar to a sinkhole! Permeability and porosity affect soil by how fast water goes through the soil. Porosity is the quality of being porous or being full of tiny holes. Liquid goes right through thing that have porosity. Permeability is how slow or quick water…

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    environmental pollution. W.T. Block states, “Fifty percent of all gusher oil was discarded as waste. In 1929, after many years of continuous drilling, with nothing to replace the oil taken from the ground, a large sinkhole 200 feet deep fell into the earth. In 1980 a reporter wrote, “the sinkhole was caused when large amounts of oil, water and sand were pumped from beneath the caprock. The crater filled with rain water creating a 12-acre lake.” The people of Sour Lake were likely unhappy…

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    Mr Harvey

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    all of the parts leak from the bad and stain his garage floor. While he is in the shower, he thinks about how nice and good it felt to kill her. Later that week Mr. Harvey puts the bag with Susie's body parts in a safe and dumped the safe into a sinkhole around eight miles from the Pennsylvania neighborhood. After Jack is done crying with Buckley (Susie’s Little Brother) he manages to find his way to Mr. Harvey’s house and sees him building a big tent made out of cloth. When Jack arrives back to…

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    In Tangerine, a book of lies, the main character Paul Fisher tries to find the truth but who can he trust? When his family moves to Florida, he must move to a new school and make new friends. Paul has always know his brother as a bully but his parents think Erik is the golden child. With his parents against him, Paul turns to his new friends on the soccer team. As weird things start happening, Paul has a hard time believing that he got his ‘coke bottle’ glasses by staring at an eclipse. Paul…

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    Essay On Ted Cruz

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    The Best Choice for President America’s voting age category of 18-25 has one of the lowest percentages in the presidential election. As the election begins to creep closer, it is important for this age group to become more informed on the current status of our government and political standings. Instead of scrolling through the news feed on Facebook, these people should spend time researching facts about the potential future leaders of America. This country will need a dedicated person who is…

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    Paul's Dilemma

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    Paul’s choice to help people out of the sinkhole boosted his self esteem and what he thought of himself. When the ground starts depressing, the portables with it on September 11, Paul makes the split decision to help the stuck kids out of the portables. After they help everyone out he realizes “I wasn’t a coward, and that counts for something” (86). Even though he admits he may still be afraid of Erik, he begins to look at himself differently. In addition, when Paul says,”I faced danger today,…

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    The year is 1940 and I just got a job at the Runnells coal company. I have to be at the mine at 5AM and I go in at 6AM and I do not get done until 3PM. I have to buy my pick ax, shovel, hammer, a lamp, and all my other tools from the company. I have to walk one mile to get to work which I will be in the mines for eleven hours. The first day at the job and there are only three of us in the mine. The other to men and Iwould get more done in one day then five guys would in one mine. The first…

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    as water from a lake moves into the irrigation built mostly for farming it would cause the water level to lower and sediments would dam the river, and cause flooding everywhere on the other side. Sinkholes can occur naturally by the loosening of a cavern by the water eating away the limestone. Sinkholes can also be caused be cave ins from mining, or a increase in water from irrigation or other sources can cause, or speed up the problem. Another less common occurrence is the building or mining of…

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    Community Assessment

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    Conducting a community assessment can be beneficial to any area that is being assessed. What is a community assessment? A community assessment is a field within public health concerned with the study and improvement of the health of biological communities. (Dictionary, 2016) What are the kinds of things people would look for in a health community? People would look for a clean and safe environment with a healthy, functioning ecosystem, a large degree of the public participating in beneficial…

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