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    An adventure into Astronomy Late at night I like to go into my backyard with a telescope and look at the stars that far away in the night sky. The view of thousands of stars feeds me with wonder and amazement about both the stars origins‚ and what treasures they may hold floating around them. All life needs a host star to form around‚ and all life comes from the ashes of these once glorious masses of gas. Astronomy offers us a great view of the universe around us‚ you can join me and others‚

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    Me Ishmael Essay – By Bob Ishmael Leseur is the main character in “Don’t Call Me Ishmael”‚ a book by Michael Gerard Bauer. He courageously steps up to Year Nine only to be bullied for his name‚ embarrassed in front of his first love‚ and to become a complete social outcast. This leads to him naming Year Nine as “the toughest‚ the weirdest‚ the most embarrassingly awful and the best year” of his life. One of the ways Ishmael refers to Year Nine is ‘the toughest year of his life’. Ishmael is

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    In Ishmael by Daniel Quinn‚ The Truman Show by Peter Weir‚ and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury‚ characters are depicted as ones attempting to escape this synthetic life inside of the cave. Through diction and action‚ the authors of these stories portray the good life as one dedicated to truly finding enlightenment in society. In Ishmael‚ David Quinn uses questioning and the denial of truth to find a good life of enlightenment

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    The Adventure of Odysseus

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    [pic] The adventure of Odysseus What is an Epic? A long narrative poem about a legendary hero. Homer • poet • thought to be blind‚ but describes events as a seeing person • lived around 1200 B.C.E Ismarus City • From Troy‚ the ships first made land at Ismarus. • Ismarus – City of Ciconians • Odysseus lost six men from each ship. • Odysseus continued their sailing. • They were overtaken by a storm which drove them for NINE DAYS along the sea till they reached

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    Spirit Bear

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    Throughout life we all face problems‚ and sometimes these problems cause us to go over the edge do to the fact that we really don’t know how to control our anger. In the book Touching Spirit Bear Cole encounters many problems with life. People were tired of having to pay for his anger in their community. Eventually he was banished to an island to learn how to take control of his life. But what important lessons does Cole learn about controlling anger and how does it change him? In my opinion

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    The film The Spirit of the Beehive touches on a few different aspects of life and the world. Not only does it question reality itself but also fantasy. Ana becomes lost in the two worlds of real and unreal during this movie. In the beginning of the film‚ the movie Frankenstein is played for the village to see and this spikes Ana’s curiosity. Ana questions her older sister about the movie and the Frankenstein monster and her sister tells her the monster isn’t dead in fact it’s a spirit. Ana spends

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    The Spirit of the Blitz

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    History Controlled Assessment- Part 3 Representations 1‚ 2 and 3 all focus on civilian’s reactions to the experience of the Blitz. In this essay I am going to identify which representation I think gives the most accurate impression on civilian reactions to the experience of the Blitz and the reasons for this. The reliability of a source is one way of suggesting whether or not it is accurate. Rep 1 is written by a history graduate and has been published in an academic journal. This makes it seem

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    Adventure Story

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    Long ago‚ there was a newly trained warrior from across the seas of Antonica‚ the race of the forgotten iksar being newly re-discovered had begun the life of one iksar. This neophyte warrior’s name was Lyzzard. Lyzzard trained outside of his hometown killing scorpions and scaled wolf pups until he gained the level of 5. At this time he was getting bored of the creatures that inhabited the outside area of the gates of Cabilis and noticed that the road lead down into a pit. When Lyzzard decided

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    Daniel Quinn’s novel Ishmael‚ presents a perspective on literature that is not generally brought upon by the average novel. A large number of novels repel the aspect of thought and make the readings extra appealing to a rudimentary sense. The words and ideas that are proposed and utilized help centralize the main ideas of the law of limited competition and how dismaying society is evolving to be. With the use of the two different cultures of the takers and leavers‚ it is a basis for the reality that

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    Animal Spirits How Human Psychology Drives the Economy‚ and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism By George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller | 230 pages | | Princeton University Press | Rs. 948 | ISBN 9780691150901 | Turnitin – 4% | Post the great depression of 1930’s‚ and its impact on all the nations worldwide‚ the economists with their models and studies had assured us that such a situation would never arise in the United States. They knew that if the economic activity drops‚ they Federal

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