The Day the Earth Stopped

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    about all cultures. This assumption being that they have at least one flood myth. Flood myths are a very common category of myths. They often include a divine being deciding to flood the Earth because of man's misdeeds. However, the gods often allow one "worthy" man and his family to survive and repopulate the Earth. Today in our meeting we decided to share flood myths from different cultures and analyze the common themes of the myths. All of the club members shared a myth. The first to share…

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    galaxy. Therefore, it is not encouraging when taxpayer’s money goes into a program that has little intrinsic value when the money and resources could be going to governmental departments that give back to the people. Therefore, if the space industry stopped receiving funding for frivolous matters such as counting planets that we will never reach in a humans’ lifespan the people could be better for it. In some states teachers have to buy their own teaching material, and across the United States…

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    In Works and Days, Hesiod tells the myth of the Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroes, and Iron. The first stage is the Golden Age. This is the only age that falls within the reign of Kronos, which is the father of Zeus. The Golden Age was the best age where the people literally lived like gods. They were young looking, with old age being nonexistent. The world was carefree ad they didn't worry about food, because food was abundant. Eventually, men had peaceful deaths and died looking…

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    could finally go back to Earth and maybe see his parents again. He took one of the sheets and walked the rest of the way home at a much faster pace than before. As he reached his house, he decided to keep the paper to himself. He set the eggs on the counter and went up to his room. Russell kept it to himself for the same reason that him and his uncle didn’t get along. About 4 years before this, there had been a way to contact members of your family or even friends back on Earth. The government…

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    Nomanians: A Short Story

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    The people would either die because of dehydration or lack of food. That land was called No-Man 's World, but there was another human sustaining land above No-Man 's World. The people knew nothing about this land. That mysterious land was called Earth. The people in No-Man 's World, also called NoManians, were so unhealthy they would die and couldn’t even reproduce because there wasn’t enough supplies for the people. The NoManians would always look for animals, but not to kill them. If there…

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    seem unmanageable, grief does pass. Through this hardship I grew in ways I did not expect possible. In early September 2012, I learned that grief is like the ocean, it is deep, dark, and bigger than all of us. Cognitive memories flood my mind of the day before the event. I recall looking back through the red pews of my church to see my grandmother singing the hymns played by the organ. Carrying on through the service, I sang and listened to the message as I normally would. At this time, I…

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    Sylas Changed My Life

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    a hard time focusing on his work. So at the end of his school day I would sit with him to help him stay on task, I would help him brainstorm for his essays, and read his books with him. When it got to the end of the year he told me that his birthday is coming up he was so excited he was handing out invitations to everyone in the class. The next monday I decided to buy cupcakes, so we could celebrate his birthday together. It was the day of the talent…

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    the police force today such as law breaking, fraud, taking things that are not theirs and unnecessary violence. The one that makes the most impact on society would be the officers who think they’re above the law and I for one think they should be stopped at once. There is only one way to stop this devilish trait infecting the police force. There is only one way to stop the killing sprees and waste of human’s lives. We must take all the weapons away from everyone except the military. No guns,…

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    Research Paper On ISIS

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    KABLAM you are in Syria. Your friends and family are in the capital city and have just witnessed a bombing. This group is a threat to national security ,but we need to fight them on our own terms. “When you allow enemies to live and grow within your territory, you have positioned yourself to be killed when you never thought such can be your portion.” We the American people must band together and fight this terrorist group ISIS. ISiS has done things that label it as a terrorist…

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    of people having heros well if so this is my hero. I am doing my mother as my hero. She has done more than most people have. This is my modern day hero. Next i am doing my Ancient Greek hero perseus. I am doing him because he remembers me of my mother. Here are some similarities for these two heros. My mother is not scared of a lot of things. Perseus stopped bad people from hurting other innocent people. My mother still does many things for me even though she hurts really bad. Perseus and my…

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