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    The Golden Orb Spider

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    The spider I’m doing my report on is called the Golden Orb spider‚ better known as the banana spider. 0The golden orb spiders are found in dry open places in forests‚ woodlands‚ coastal sand dunes‚ shrubland‚ and mangrove habitats. Some of the golden orb spiders live nearby bushes and flowers. All orb weaving spiders make suspended‚ sticky‚ wheel-shaped orb webs. The webs are placed in the openings between trees and shrubs where insects mostly fly. There are species of banana spider in Africa (including

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    Catching Fire

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    6th  Grade  Descriptive  Compare/Contrast  Hybrid  Essay:  Growing-­‐up  Across  the  World   The  Mission   You  will  write  a  2-­‐page  paper  descriptively  comparing  and  contrasting  what  it  is  like  to  grow  up  in  another  culture  versus  your  own   upbringing.    Your  job  will  be  to  deeply  explore  another  way  to  live  in

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    Create a Creature ~Your biological discovery~ 40 pts Living creatures are the product of countless adaptations over long periods of time. These adaptations tend to be features that increase the organisms’ likelihood of survival. Your assignment is to “Create a Creature”. Create a story and drawing about your newly discovered creature. Your creature can be from any of the following groups: Fungi‚ Plant or Animals. Use Ch 11‚ 12 and 14 to help as well as samples and Mrs. Norris’ books

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    Catching Fire Katniss

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    Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games series is a literary phenomenon. A three book long story became mainstream and extremely popular in a very quick time and took the literature world by storm. Ask anyone and chances are that they have read the books. In the Catching Fire book‚ Katniss returns home after winning the hunger game with Peeta. This act of defiance has started the sparks of a rebellion and President Snow forces Katniss to fix it by playing out the love tale between her and Peeta more. Meanwhile she

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    Edwards

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    Professor Higgins English Literature I December 10‚ 2011 Jonathan Edwards at a Crossroad of Puritanism and Enlightenment Jonathan Edwards is a fascinating individual in eighteenth century literature and one of the most important figures of his time. He is the son and grandson of Puritan preachers and a product of a Puritan background. He is known as an Enlightenment philosopher‚ theologian‚ orator‚ and scientist. Edwards is a leading figure in the early years of the “Great Awakening”‚ a period

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    a noiseless patient spider

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    A Noiseless Patient Spider A noiseless patient spider‚ I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated‚ Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding‚ It launch’d forth filament‚ filament‚ filament‚ out of itself‚ Ever unreeling them‚ ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand‚ Surrounded‚ detached‚ in measureless oceans of space‚ Ceaselessly musing‚ venturing‚ throwing‚ seeking the spheres to connect them‚ Till the bridge you will need be form’d‚ till

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    Duality Of Spider Man

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    In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3‚ the character of Peter Parker indulges his Freudian Id‚ enabling his darkest character flaws to manifest. Peter is in denial of his Id taking control and he struggles to grasp that even a superhero who would make “[his] Uncle Ben proud” (Raimi) is influenced by the corruptive power of his own Id. The evolution of “Black-Spider-Man”‚ represents that subconsciously the Ego is letting go and the Id is overpowering Peter’s thoughts and causing him to behave erratically. The

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    “Arachnophobia – Fear of Spiders” Michelle Swearingen MOD A June 23‚ 2011 Everest Institute San Antonio‚ TX Arachnophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of spiders. From the Greek word “arachne” meaning "spider" and “phobos” meaning "fear". There are historical and cultural reasons for arachnophobia. In the Dark Ages spiders were commonly considered to be a source of contamination of food and water. They were believed to be the cause of the Bubonic Plague (though in

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    This stanza is from the poem "Upon the burning of Our House" by Puritan woman and poet‚ Anne Bradstreet. In this poem‚ Bradstreet uses plain style and inversions to convey her relationship with God.Bradstreet finds the burning of her house justified and even says "Yea so it was‚ and so ’twas just‚" meaning the fire in her house was fine since‚ according to Puritan beliefs‚ God decides everything that happens Earth so it must have happened for a fair reason. Bradstreet believes that God owns everything

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    Black Widow Spiders

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    Adult black widow spiders have a shiny‚ black‚ rounded‚ circular abdomen and are about 1/3 inch long (about 1-1/2 inches when their legs are spread). Adult spiders have two reddish or yellowish triangles on their bottom which looks like an hourglass marking‚ and their body color is dark colored usually black or sometimes dark brown. They are usually recognized because of their red or red-orange hourglass design on the bottom of their abdomen. This pattern is changeable and may look

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