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radiate in all directions from the stem, giving it a full appearance. Balsam fir needles are dark green, ¾ to 1.5 inches long and last a long time. The scent of the crushed needles is very pleasant, lasting throughout the holiday season. Colorado blue spruce is a great choice for a living Christmas tree. In addition to the unique blue-green or gray-green foliage, it features a good shape and dense branches when young. Scotch pine is the most heavily planted fresh Christmas tree variety. It’s…

trailer. White water rafting in Ohiopyle was my favorite experience because I get to say that I swam with a poisonous snake. I tackled the ropes courses at the Outdoor Education Center, climbed the most difficult rock face, and stood at the top of Spruce Knob. I really enjoyed the hikes and scenery of the state. There is nothing like it where I am from in northern Ohio. The program was effective helping me transition to West Virginia University.…

My first time attending a professional soccer game was an exhilarating, passionate, and emotional experience; it was life-changing. The blissful euphoria I felt after attending my first match confirmed just that. When daydreaming, it is usually this nostalgic, vivid event that replays through my mind. Having the luxury of being already infatuated with the sport of soccer made it easier to immerse myself into the experience I was about to absorb. The sight of the glorious Rio Tinto stadium, the…

had planned to stay over night and pack out on Sunday. We had a full group with us, besides ourselves, there was Ralph and his brother, Kevin, Jim Spencer and his son Tim, and Mark Cook. This is an excellent trail shaded by a forest canopy of oak,spruce, and alders.The trail switch backs down to and crosses several creeks which become the head waters of the West Fork of the San Gabriel River. Actually the trail crosses over the creeks no less than eight times. See our leader Mario Bonura’s…

TRACIE DRAYTON 525 Spruce St. Hellertown, Pa. 18055 (484) 353-9275 was interviewed by appointment by phone. DRAYTON received a promotion and started working at JUDGE TIDD’s office in January 2015. Prior to her promotion she worked for Domestic Relations in North Hampton County, Child Support Office 127 Union St., Easton, Pa. 18042 (610) 253-3566. She worked there since December 2012 as Support Tech II. Previous to that DRAYTON worked in the private sectors as an Office Manager for a couple…

Name: Kathlene Flebbe Period:7 Title of your two books: The Hunger Games/Catching Fire Suzanne Collins is the writer of The Hunger Games series which is an international best seller. Suzanne Collins worked writing children's TV shows and has been nominated for a WGA award in animation. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire are about the terrible future society that takes place on a piece of land once known as North America.The Capitol tries to keep its people from rebelling by sending them into…

carelessness. When the man found himself in the springs, he knew the importance to quickly build a fire. But his carelessness showed when he did not build the fire in the proper place in the open. Because of his inadequacy he instead builds this fire under a spruce tree; and as he pulls twigs to grow the fire he disrupts the layers of snow on the tree. The snow then falls putting out his fire, and again exposing the man to these tremendously harsh elements. The man then shows us his…

raging hollow tooth” (p.1220, Lines 9-10). He also creates a connection between this filthy shower caused by the drunkard cloud and the entire London population with various imagery- inexplicably including the aristocracy reading his work: “The Templer spruce/ Stays till ‘tis fair, yet seems to call a coach/ The tucked-up seamstress [walking] with hasty strides/ Here various kinds by various fortunes led” (p.1220, Lines 35-39). The final structural notion is the mess that washes through the…

In each literary and folk epic there are characters called epic heroes, epic heroes can be seen as superhuman because of their outstanding achievements but what makes the plot is that they are on a larger than life quest. Along the way there is major conflict, like fear, battles and bloodshed. Achilles from The Iliad written by Homer, Beowulf from Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel and Gilgamesh from Gilgamesh retold by Herbert Manson all are epic heroes and in some ways very similar like…

of gum called “mastic gum”. They called it that because they made it from mastic trees. The Italians used frankincense, and the Arabs used beeswax. The colonists adopted chewing gum from the Native Americans, and they used one popular ingredient,spruce sap. Of all these colonists, John Curtis and his son,John Bacon Curtis were the very first to market chewing gum. In 1869, William .F. Semple’s chewing gum formula was the earliest attempt to create latex-based gum. Thomas Adams created the…