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    The book I read is called At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks. It is a continuation of True Believer which was also written by Nicholas Sparks. I think the author wrote this continuation of this book because so many people wanted to know what happened to Jeremy and Lexie. They wanted to know how things turned out and what their future held. I obviously wanted to know what happened to them too. That’s why I decided to read At First Sight to see what happened to Jeremy and Lexie. The book is to…

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    The Unfinished World: And Other Stories by Amber Sparks Inventive and strange While trying to describe this collection of short stories, words like inventive, arresting, weird and wonderful immediately come to mind. Featuring stories about space janitors, jazz babies and fever librarians, Sparks creates extraordinary vignettes complete with emotionally complex characters and beautiful language. Roxanne Gay raves, “With each story, Sparks defies the known world in absolutely thrilling ways.”…

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    The book Go Ask Alice, originally written by an anonymous person but then later discovered to be Beatrice Sparks is a commonly challenged book that educates young adults on the effects of drug abuse. Because Go Ask Alice does involve drugs, alcohol, and sexual content, it should be banned for specific age groups. It is also based off the diary of one of Beatrice Sparks’ troubled teenage patients. Go Ask Alice follows the life of a common teenage girl and her struggle with addiction and mental…

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    American Revolution: Sparks Fly July 4th is a holiday widely celebrated by the American people through cookouts, fireworks and camping. Although this date in 1776 was a clear turning point of our forefathers, the American Revolution started well before this Declaration of Independence. The colonists felt oppressed by the British empire and fought against many of the acts implemented to control the people leading up to the year 1776. The people went through war, oppression and hardships leading…

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    The novel The Last Song written by Nicholas Sparks takes place in North Carolina, where Ronnie and her brother Jonah are staying with their dad Steve, who left their family three years ago. Nicholas Sparks demonstrates the theme of forgiveness throughout the novel, making it a reoccurring theme. Forgiveness is shown through four main characters Ronnie, Jonah, Steve and Will. Ronnie Miller is a teenager girl who has not spoken to her father since he left three years ago. When Ronnie gets sent to…

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    The main point of this article is that in western Virginia a salt lick in the nineteenth century was one of the most significant premodern manufacture operation. The Great Kanawha was located along the Ohio River. There was a large scale of economic development of salt manufactures in rural and urban areas in the Ohio River basin. Therefore, the pork packaging industry in Cincinnati, Louisville, and the river towns would not have prosper without the salt extracted from Kanawha Saline’s.…

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    they had felt in ages, but I did not notice. Every time she was around I felt a constant fire burning inside of me I couldn’t put out. Until that night, the night the fire died, and I have never felt it again. It seemed as if it was like a Nicholas Sparks movie, but this ending is all too far from being happy. This ending is not the beginning of a new life, and it is not a miracle. This ending, is just that. An ending. It was a cold December night, and the love of my life, Issi, was in the…

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    “To what extent did fear of communism spark the Cold War?” To a large extent the fear of communism led to the spark of the cold war as it was perceived in the west that the soviets aimed to communise eastern Europe after world war 2. The cold war began in 1947 as tensions brewed between the USSR and the USA during and after the second world war. USSR were communist and the USA were capitalist because of these two ideological differences it divided Europe into east (USSR) and west (USA) with…

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    Equality in Education Education policy is judgmental for differentiating between levels of education. In “Making Sparks Fly,” Mike Rose argues education policy supports more academic education for skills; however, vocational education creates just as skilled and efficient workers as academic education. Rose builds up his creditability by providing three vivid examples —Elias, Cynthia, and Bobby— and relatable emotional appeals to make his audience empathize with the students, additionally, to…

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    that ride so I am a little upset that the opportunity is gone. So far I think splash mountain is one of my favorite rides. What is your favorite ride at Disneyland? On the other hand, I wanted to speak over the "5 Rules to Follow as you find your Spark" by Simon Sinek. I found the styrofoam cups story to be my favorite story since it was the hardest to digest. It makes sense that a position carries certain luxuries along…

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