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    My visual loosely represents the storyline of The Star Thrower. I chose to begin my art with a representation of the picture the Eiseley finds in part three of this piece. It is encompassed by flames to represent his mother’s death. This picture is connected to the starfish with the eye in the center of it. The starfish is the central symbol of The Star Thrower. It represents hope and the answers to life’s biggest questions. The eye is in the center of this symbol to show how the narrator is constantly

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    During the late 30s and early 40s Duck Island was the place to go to hang out and forget about it all. A place full of nature and fun but it had a very unexpected twist hidden in the bushes. November 8‚ 1938‚ Vincenzo Tonzillo‚ 20‚ and Mary Myatovich 15‚ became the first victims of the phantom. Another couple down the walk heard the screams and found Tonzillo dead in a pool of blood‚ by their car. Myatovich however‚ was still inside the car as if she was planted there‚ bloody but somehow still alive

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    Abstract Dreamworld‚ located in the Gold Coast‚ Australia‚ draws in hundreds of visitors everyday due to its extreme thrill rides and various attractions. Multiple thrill rides at the park have been researched and experimented upon‚ to evaluate the physics of the ride. The Tower of Terror II is one of the rides that has been looked upon and tested on. The Tower of Terror II is an L-shaped ride‚ the ride consists of a 6000kg cart (7000kg with the maximum 14 passengers) that travels horizontally across

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    May 4‚ 2010 Anita Rookard “Half the Sky” With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are great authors who give us true stories of girls and woman from Africa and Asia and their extraordinary struggles. We view the Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience‚ Kristof and WuDunn view our world with anger‚ sadness‚ clarity‚ and‚ ultimately‚ hope

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    experiment? 4 RAYLEIGH SCATTERING Why is the sky blue? The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere‚ most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red‚ orange and yellow light is affected by the air. However‚ much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look‚ some of this scattered

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    Close your eyes for a second and imagine that you can hear hundreds of people’s steps getting closer and closer. You can also feel the sea breeze and something is wrapped around so you can’t move now you open your eyes and turn your head to see what is next to you and you are faced with hundreds of people that are as tiny as your finger. That’s what happened with the character Gulliver in this book. He is the main character in this book‚ a son of a middle-class family in Nottinghamshire‚ England

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    She was young‚ but old. Young in the eyes of someone old‚ old in the eyes of someone young. Her golden hair was like the setting sun‚ full of bright colors. And her eyes held so much spirit that you thought you were looking into the bright blue ocean. Her pointed ears poked out inbetween her hair and when she smiled the sun was brought out from behind the cloud it was hidden from. She walked through the green‚ lush‚ forest. Her footsteps soft and silent. She would often go here when the sun set

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    Composition #2: Describing Howard “Sundanze” Dunston is one of those suave smooth talking blues musicians‚ like in the movies from the 1920’s where people would go to juke joints and speakeasies for a good time. When he speaks‚ words flow from his lips like a melody‚ in a low husky tone‚ drawing his listeners in for more. Danze is a tall lean black man in his early 60’s with a smooth milk chocolate complexion‚ a shinny bald head that he always has a blue bandana wrapped around‚ and a full silver

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    Looking over the side all I seen were clouds and ocean. The water looked so beautiful from up that high. I could see birds flying in and out of the clouds from underneath of us. After a while I saw the island‚ palm trees covered it and the beaches were by far the best scenery. After our plan landed and we got off‚ the first thing I felt was the hot‚ humid air hit my face. Unluckily I was wearing jeans and a sweater because it was fall in Ohio. We were greeted with friendly faces welcoming us to Dominican

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    Robert Walton the explorer and captain of a ship that is head to the North Pole In a sequence of letters‚ communicate with his sister Margaret Saville back in England about the progress of his treacherous mission that he is taken. Robert tells his sister about the desire in him to discover something so great. Also how he felt as if he was isolated from the other shipmate who makes him feel lonely because he has no one to confident in also no one to share his ambitious with. The mission of Robert

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