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    Baelyn Lindfors Mrs. Corliss 1st Hour CW 13 February 2017 Symbolism in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is unquestionably crowded with symbolism. He uses rudimentary, common materials to represent morals and objectives that can be applied to the patterned schedules of his readers. Such themes and motifs found in The Great Gatsby, for example, include flowers and the color yellow epitomizing wealth, also seen as a conflict throughout the story and a cause of much hysteria.…

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    include shallow-draft civilian boats from 30 to 100 feet (9 to 30 m) in length, as of May 27. A large number of craft, including fishing boats, fire ships, paddle steamers, private yachts, and Belgian barges, plus Merchant Marine and Royal Navy boats, departed from Sheerness, Chatham and Dover, over the following days. Some of the boats came from as far away as the Isle of Man and the West Country. Winston Churchill, who had recently been appointed Prime Minister, spoke of the gravity of the…

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    did the night the family departed the county. Accusing his son of telling the truth earlier that day, Abner takes a shot and smacks his boy right on the side of his…

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    What is a leader? How does one achieve true leadership status? Good leaders are made not born. If a person has the desire and will, he can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a continuous process of training, and experience. Leaders are continually working to improve their leadership skills; they are persistent and never resting. Over a hundred years ago the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his teammates became the first men to reach Antartica; five weeks later Captain…

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    As I floated to the top of the hill on the ski lift, my stomach dropped and I grew hot despite the freezing temperatures outside. I was attempting to prepare myself for the sizable slope that I thought to be my impending doom. When I departed from the lift I turned my skis to position myself at the brink of slope. Then I tipped my skis over the edge of the hill with much initial regret. Throughout my years of skiing I had sprained joints, bruised limbs, and nearly broken bones. Despite my…

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    the looks, production, and manufacturing of the Simplot potato plant. Schlosser then tells about Simplots life. Simplot started working in a potato warehouse where he and his partner purchased an “electric potato sorter”. Later after the partners departed Simplot found a method for drying potatoes. This is when his empire began; he started to sell the creation of pre-cut frozen fries. Simplot thought that frozen food would be the future and pitched his product to a variety of companies,…

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    the afterlife so they invented mummification in which ones body was preserved for the afterlife. They thought that the body should be in its original state and recognizable for one afterlife as they body should be possessed again by the soul of the departed. A proper procedure was introduce for preserving the bodies consisting of two steps embalming and wrapping. In “Embalming” the body was washed with the water of the Nile and a good smelling wine in a specified tent called “ibu”. Afterwards…

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    There are many Australian Antarctic explorers, for example: Captain John King Davis, Clarence Petersen de la Motte, Professor Edgeworth David, Sir Douglas Mawson. Many of whom have had amazing survival stories across the Antarctic. I will be studying Sir Douglas Mawson, He is an Australian Pioneer and is most famous for his long expeditions across the Antarctic. One of his expeditions was the "Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), 1911–1914". After his incredible journey, geologists…

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    One of the earliest memory I have as a child was seeing Beauty and the Beast for the first time. That, for whatever reason, enchanted me. It was then I decided that I wanted to be an artist in some way, shape or form. I originally wanted to be a Disney animator because my affinity for drawing. I remember that I would recreate Glen Keane's animation in "The Little Mermaid" and I would, as hard as possible, to imitate his and many of the Disney artists' drawing styles. As I became a teenager, my…

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    boy slowly tore the configuration of their society. Ralph’s rationality did little to calm the distressed children. When Sam and Eric restated their terrifying experience, the boys organized an expedition to discover the home of the beast. The boys departed with wooden spears, leaving only Piggy to watch over the littluns. Conflict Categories Man Versus Supernatural Man Versus Society Man Versus Nature Quotes While Ralph arranged…

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