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    Amelia Earhart Theory

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    location. Later remains were recovered of what they believe to be a piece of metal from her plane. Gardner Island, also known as Nikumaroro, is a remote island located in the Western Pacific Ocean. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, also know as, TIGHAR; has been studying the mysterious disappearance for the past 25 years. TIGHAR has been researching on and near Gardner Island; they recovered a piece of metal believed to belong to Amelia’s plane. The piece is described and…

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    My professional goal is to become a NBA player. I choose this professional goal, because I was playing basketball since I was young till now. Also I love to play basketball with my family’s and friends. This professional goal is important to me because I love it, and also its pretty fun playing with other teams, plus you also get paid while you playing. Sport is one of the good things that I like to do in my life. This professional goal is good to those who are not healthy because if they grew…

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    The Contrasting Adversaries of the Island In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew is major character that has tension with another major character, Ralph, throughout the book, becoming arch enemies, or, rivals if you will. Jack and Ralph have a paramount power struggle over who exactly is the leader of the boys that crashed on the island along with them. The two boys gain and lose followers or tribesmen throughout the book as these two different figureheads clash in almost…

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    The Haida Gwaii Tribe

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    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. They Haida people have adapted and continue to survive and thrive over the years. About half of the people live on the Haida Gwaii island and the other half on the northern…

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    Japanese and German warships. There were around one hundred and seventy five ships and each would carry around two hundred goats, two hundred pigs, and five thousand mice and guinea pigs. These naval fleets were put in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. There were three nuclear tests done here called Able, Baker, and Charlie and would detonate in alphabetical order. Able exploded at nine hundred feet above the water, Baker would explode around one hundred and fifty feet under the naval…

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    Look at the plane's wing, now look back at me. Now look back at the plane's wing, and back at me again. Repeat ad nauseum. Then suddenly, the screen flips over, and your worst nightmares become true. You're trapped on an island, in the dark, with only other survivors of the great screen flipping cruddy sci-fi sound effects in the background crash. But that's not the worst part. Soon, you are split into a truly terrible dilemma, one of choosing two tribes, each with its own fatal foibles. Which…

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    no morales and being only 12 years old? Lord Of The Flies is a story about a plane full of british children that crashes over the pacific ocean where everyone survives besides for the pilot. The young school boys find themselves on an uninhabited island with no laws no parents and just there morales to hold on to. In lord Of The Flies by Stephen King , Piggy and Jack can be catagorized under the archetypal character roles of the Mentor and the dark side The character that most adequately fits…

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    Historic Preservation is often seen as an elite club whose membership is bought by the cities' median income. A cycle of investment and disinvestment is what generates cities today. The lower class is constantly being displaced by economic actors to serve the middle class. Some will leave this cycle having benefitted from it, able to buy the ideal single family home. Others, the renters, will have been pushed to another soon to be or already blighted area. Progress in city growth has come…

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    Easter Island

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    Vanderbes’ (2004) Easter Island novel tells a story of two women who visited the island 60 years apart. In 1912, Elsa Pendleton was arranged to marry her father’s colleague, Edward Beazley after her father’s death. In hopes of caring for Elsa and her mentally impaired sister Alice, Elsa accepts the marriage proposal. Archaeologist, Edward Beazley, accepted the offer to take an expedition to Easter Island to study the moai statues and the culture on the mysterious island. As a honeymoon trip for…

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    It does make sense because it was the beginning of World War II and Japan did not want to reveal any secrets. There are eyewitnesses that claimed they saw her on an island. They noticed that the person, Amelia Earhart, was a woman right away since her hair was too long for a man and too short for a woman according to their culture. They also stated that the person looked Caucasian. The witnesses may have lied or mistaken…

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