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    Lampuga has created the world’s most advance electric surfboard the world has to offer. This is a tech savvy surfboard that has a carbon fiber body that only weighs 86 pounds. The electric surfboard that Lampuga has made is also the fastest surfboard on the market with top speeds of 34 MPH it is also eco-friendly by using 52-volt lithium-ion battery that provides 20 to 35 minutes of runtime. There is also an anti-grip surface for ease of use, and an automatic kill switch so if someone falls off…

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    When I woke up, the other side of the bed was cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Lucy’s warmth, but finding only the absence of her presence.it was a typical day for me. Wake up, eat breakfast, feed Lucy and walk to school with two heavy books on my hands. I was considered the ‘nerdy and shy’ girl at school. I realized senior year in high school only meant learning to me while I was focused on graduating my peers thought about it as ‘the time of their lives’ where they had the chance to party…

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    Andrew Just last year, Dylan and I traveled to Haiti on a missions trip. As you may know, it's one of the poorest countries in the world. When we were beginning our descent on the airplane, I thought about how little roads and how poor the housing was. We drove through chaotic roads and rubble filled alleys, until we reached the orphanage. New Life Children’s Home is a safe haven for kids who lived in the mountains a couple miles north. These kids were neglected, sick, beat, starved, etc.…

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    Repair café started from Amsterdam, Netherlands where Martine Postman and her family started to think about ways to reduce waste going into landfills. Today is has more than 1,100 sites across 30 nations. The idea of repair café is steered by the people who are aware of the environmental issues just like Annie Leonard, the creator of the film ‘The Story of Stuff’. As mentioned both from the film and this article about repair café, products today are manufactured in a way that make their parts…

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    about Clarence Thomas ruling against legal abortion during the first few court hearings when Thomas was asked about abortion he didn't even have an opinion on it. 14.I observed that Anita Hill a professor a law professor from the University of Oklahoma accused Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her when they worked together. 15. I observed after many hearings of the Clarence Thomas, and Anita Hill case in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee the Senate voted Clarence Thomas to be serve…

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    member in society and to help out others around you. Thomas Edison In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the first phonograph. A phonograph is a sound reproducing that uses cylinders to record sound as well as reproduce sound. In 1879 Thomas Edison built the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb. Edison also introduced the world's first viable way of centrally generating and distributing electric light, heat and power. In 1887 Thomas Edison was recognized for setting up the world's…

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    I. RESEARCH Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in the city of Swansea, South Wales. Growing up, he tended to skip out of school to read on his own due to his neurosis. He was introduced to poetry by his father, David John Thomas, an English professor. At a young age, he read all of D.H. Lawrence 's work. Poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, and Edgar Allen Poe inspired him to use rhythmic ballads like theirs in his own work. At 16, Thomas dropped out of school to…

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    18th century was the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. This election soon became between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, but in the end the Federalists refrained from voting tipping the scale in favor of Thomas Jefferson. They did this in hopes that Thomas Jefferson was the moderate of the choices. This election was huge as it was a peaceful exchange of power of two major political parties in a major nation. On March 4th, 1801 Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as president in…

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    Thomas Jefferson-Leader or Hypocrite? Mihir Palan Thomas Jefferson’s advocacy for equality made him a hypocrite to many, as his alleged sexual affairs with his slave, Sally Hemings, created a strong distaste within individuals of present society. Now, is all this controversy valid, or is it all what Douglas L. Wilson calls presentism? In present day, gun laws have become a big issue, and whatever Obama does will looked upon in future years, however it's important to note that present morals…

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    Thomas Alva Edison is undoubtedly the most influential American from the 20th century. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847 (Hart 222-225). When he first began school, “Edison’s teacher thought he was addled” (Allaby and Gjertsen 13), and his mother soon pulled him out. As a homeschooled child, Edison became an avid entrepreneur at a young age (Allaby and Gjertsen 14-23). He sold newspapers on a train as well as candy and fruit to supplement his earnings. When Edison found an empty train car,…

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