made up of the oceans and continents. The crust has a fluctuating thickness‚ being thirty to seventy-five kilometres thick in the continents and ten to fifteen kilometres thick in the ocean basins. The crust is made up mainly of alumino-silicates (Fowler p472). The layer underneath the crust is the mantle‚ which is made up mainly of ferro-magnesium silicates. The mantle is approximately two thousand‚ nine hundred kilometres thick‚ and is separated in to the upper and lower mantle. It is in the mantle
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baseball clubs were formed in larger cities. In 1845‚ Alexander Cartwright wanted to formalize a list of rules by which all team could play. Much of that original code is still in place today. Although popular legend says that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday‚ baseball’s true father was Cartwright. The first recorded baseball contest took place a year later‚ in 1846. Cartwright’s Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club in a game at the Elysian Fields‚ in Hoboken‚ New Jersey. These
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Beauregard. It was a mortar that notified the other islands to start firing. Thousands of people came to see the forts go into the battle between each other of the islands. http://study.com/academy/lesson/battle-at-fort-sumter-summary-facts-map.html Abner Doubleday was the first man to shoot the first bullet of the start of the Civil War and that’s when other forts started firing on Fort Sumter. The other forts had heated up cannons that lit things on fire. Since quite a few things in Fort Sumter was
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The ability of Cutler’s Brigade to repel multiple attacks to the northwest of Gettysburg on the first day of battle was instrumental in the Union Army’s success at Gettysburg. Because Cutler’s Brigade was able to stop the enemy from flanking the Division line‚ the rest of the Army of the Potomac was able to move into position around Gettysburg. This emplacement of the rest of the Union Army around Gettysburg was vital to its success in the Gettysburg campaign; its success in the Gettysburg campaign
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Chicken Run Intro Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios‚ the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films. Set in Yorkshire‚ England in 1961‚ the film centres around a band of chickens‚ who seek a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from their certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pies. Plot The Tweedys are a grumpy middle-aged
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Rules of Survival There are many ways that make humans adapt to changes in their lives. An example of this is in Nancy Werlin’s novel‚ Rules of Survival‚ when Matt‚ Emmy‚ Callie all have to learn to adapt to how their mom‚ Nikki‚ is a physically and mentally abusive mother to all of her children. Matt is the one who gets most of the abuse since he is the oldest of the children. He learns to live by what Charles Darwin had once said‚ “It’s not the strongest of the species who survives‚ nor the
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The House of the Scorpion. In The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer‚ is a science fiction novel about a boy named Matt is followed throughout his life and how he grows up as a clone on the Opium fields‚ where the border between the U.S. and Mexico exists today. He is a clone of El Patrón‚ a man much like a scorpion‚ the drug lord and king of the Opium empire. The story follows Matt as he grows up on the Alacrán estate and learns the repercussions of being a clone. Throughout The House of the Scorpion
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the ramifications of a murder‚ and the guilt that lingers The main interest of the work is in a character‚ Matt‚ whose son has just been murdered‚ and his conflict with the concept of revenge. Throughout the story Matt makes frequent mentions to his family that he wants to and should kill his son’s murderer but is just as frequently disturbed and uncertain at this notion. Matt is never described to the reader as a violent or murderous person. The story even mentions that he was a caring
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emotionally stunted after a series of events leave her disappointed and grieving. When Kate is only seven‚ her parents are killed in a tragic car accident. Luckily for Kate‚ she could find condolence in her older brother Matt and the pond‚ a bond shared between the two. Kate idolizes Matt so it crushes her when he impregnates their neighbour and can no longer continue with his education. Kate sees this as a huge disappointment. She’s afraid of love and emotion due to her unresolved conflicts in the past
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Besides their numerous heated moments‚ Matt also endows Claire with the privilege of being the first woman he’s entirely truthful with. Though he’s close to Karen‚ and she’s arguably another love interest‚ he keeps his vigilante activity a secret to her. Evidence B. Even after Claire suffers
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