The Day the Earth Stopped

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    Shabbat Prayer

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    It was 1934, a period of sorrow and hardship. The earth was frozen over. The Germans would throw a grenade to soften the earth, and then force us, young women and girls, to dig the ditches, two and three meters deep into the ground. Every Shabbat (Judaism’s day of rest) morning, two girls would stand vigil to warn us when the S.S. guards (protective squad) would approach. We didn’t want to work on the holy Shabbat. We sang Shabbat songs and prayers, we told each other stories of ancient and…

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    Lottery, a short story written by Shirley Jackson, they have a drawing every year, which they call, hence the name of the story, the lottery. The drawing only takes about two hours in their small town, but in the ones around them it can take up to two days. Everyone gathers for this, to watch the men walk up, take a slip of paper from the old wooden black box that sits on the stage, then silently wait. When their leader, of sorts, tells them to, they open up their slips. All of them but one will…

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    Earth, third planet from the Sun, Milky Way Galaxy, home. The word home, of having a place that is meant for only a few people, implies there are other homes out there, that we are not alone. Which we aren’t: we’ve proven to ourselves using words and numbers and formulas like the Drake Equation that space is too large and weird and wonderful for just us to exist in it. The real question in the sentence that everyone ignores in favor of alone, is we. Even though we use aliens as a metaphor for…

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    Lack Of Human Caring

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    Animals are being affected by us not caring about what happens to them our selfish acts are the cause of their deaths. Wildlife extinction has gotten worse because of pollution, but the lack of humans caring has been the biggest cause. Humans have stopped caring about mass extinction. Many people believe this issue is only for the rich who have money in order to contribute to organizations or groups who are currently fighting mass extinction. The main reason that every person is being held…

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    During the beautiful Fall mornings, Squirrel often finds himself playing with all the other animals. This was not a rare occurrence for Squirrel, he often found himself playing. One Day, Squirrel went to the pond to play with Turtle and Frog. While the three friends were playing, Squirrel jumped in the pond, without knowing how to swim. Turtle and Frog did not realize what had happened because they were too busy playing. While in the pond, Squirrel thought he would drown, but that was not the…

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    Year 11 Short Stories

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    Enemy from outer space YEAR 2075 After 3 straight days of attacks, the buildings stopped crumbling, smoke began to lift, silence overcame the city. As Katherine sat in fear, exhaustion overwhelmed her and she began to sleep. YEAR 2065 Katherine waited for her father, Dr. Terrance Harris, to arrive home from work. She was excited for him to get home since it was her 14th birthday and she was promised a very special gift from her father. The doorbell rang and not seeing her father out the window…

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    The Johnstown Disaster

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    east-southeast of Pittsburgh, in the Allegheny Mountains, in the southeastern Pennsylvania. There was the “South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club” whose members included Andrew Carnegie, Henry Frick and Andrew Mellon. The club had bought the abandoned earth fill dam and the reservoir known as Lake Conemaugh. The purpose of it was a pleasure lake used for sailing and ice boating. Therefore, the maintenance of the dam was done so little due to the operation under the “South Fork Fishing and Hunting…

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    The Negative Consequences of Burning Fossil Fuels by Samantha Talladira, Earth Science - 4th Period We burn fossil fuels to run your cars or to help with keeping the power and or heat in your house on. We even use them for things like building houses or roads or even skyscrapers. Without the advance of using fossil fuels, the world would look totally different than that of what you see today. The entire world runs off of something as simple as fossil fuels to keep it functioning. There are three…

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    A Vietnam: A Short Story

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    rising in the distance or a single rifle shot would remind me of where I was. It was the first day of May, only one more month before I go home, leaving this dreadful country known as Vietnam behind. At daybreak, we began a treacherous trip through the infested jungles of Vietnam. The sun was relentless, shining on our worn backs.The sweat dripping off my stained face only attracted more bugs. The earth under…

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    It was 2103rd year, when the humanity has achieved the top of technological and industrial development. Population on Earth has reached it’s to 100 billion people and genetic modified products could not save the whole world from hunger. Oil, metal, wood and water sources has been wasted and scared. But everything changed when the scientists identified the organic material in the earth’s core. It was unbelievable because this material could change own chemical structure and shape by synthesis…

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