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    Film Review Stephen Edwin King has written many famous novels that have been turned into great films. The Green Mile is one of the films that have been produced into an award-winning movie. The story begins with a former prison guard named Paul Edgecomb who is currently living in a retirement home. A past memory suddenly strikes Paul in which brings back many old stories from when he was a prison guard at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He begins to tell the story of a man named John Coffey who

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    of the journey? The novel how many miles to Babylon by Jennifer Johnson highlights Alec Moore’s tragic journey. We see his journey true childhood to adulthood. Interestingly‚ the novel begins at the end of Alec’s journey as he waits execution “because I am no officer & a gentlemen they have given me my notebook‚ ink‚ pen‚ paper” and comes full circle. Immediately we wonder how Alec someone so high up in the war is being executed‚ then as we read on we begin to realise how his journey through

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    We can’t all be Washingtons‚ but we can all be patriots.” Writer Charles F. Browne says this‚ meaning that we can’t all be perfect but we can be patriotic in our own ways. We can’t help the nation as much as Washington did but we can still help the government as much as possible. To be an American is to pursue unique and individual ideas and freedoms to benefit the central government. This includes the rights that the Founding fathers created. These rights are shown with the rejection of tyrants

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    Laboratory Report: Flame Colors of Metals Abstract The experiment about flame color of metals demonstrates how electrons jump into their excitedstate from their ground state as it came in contact with heat. As it return to its lower energy state‚it emits the absorbed energy in the form of light. A platinum or nichrome wire was dipped into aconcentrated HCL and was heated to clean it. The wire was dipped into different salt solutionsand heated in order to determine the metallic ion’s color and wavelength

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    godliness". We can keep our city clean only if the people of our city think like us. Without public cooperation we cannot achieve anything. So first to keep our city clean there should be a huge awareness to the public via various mass media and news papers. Also the government should take major role in conducting awareness programs to public and also introduce new rules if necessary. Only our thinking does not make our city clean. KEEPING OUR CITY CLEAN IS EVERY CITIZEN’S DUTY. FIRST WE SHOULD LOVE

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    NIGHT OF SCORPION - THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION --------------------------------------- Night of the scorpion written by Nissim Ezkiel is an interesting poem and the poet brings about a very appealing contrast between good and evil in it; altogether giving the poem an essence of equality. The poet makes it a trouble-free task for the readers to visualize the scenes with the appropriate use of various imageries. He has also done a marvelous work of adding various different senses into the

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    while in the movie; he stays in the land of the Danes in Denmark to become king of Hrothgar’s kingdom which he took over for Hrothgar after he committed suicide. The other big difference is that in the epic poem‚ Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother right away when he gets the chance. In the movie‚ however‚ he does not and instead makes love to her and they have a human beast like creature or a dragon as a son. I was really quite surprised when I saw that in the movie. I defiantly didn’t expect that at all

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    measurements astronomers use are triangulation (also known in math) and standard candles. Triangulation by technical terms is the method of determining distance based on the principles of geometry. Any type of math and science are closely related the principles of geometry and triangulation in astronomy are then ideological sound. Triangulation as obvious as it sounds uses triangles. So‚ using a three sided shape how can we measure distances in outer space? It sounds complicated but really it isn’t

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    The Calming Power of Essential Oil Candles By Devin Thompson Nov 2‚ 2011 With the increasingly stressful demands everyday life makes of us‚ essential oil candles are becoming more and more popular. Some people have romantic notions of placing them around a warm‚ foamy bath and relaxing to the gentle fragrances they release‚ and some just like to have one balanced on their desk to relax them at work‚ but essential oil candles are always a calming‚ gentle presence that adds to a room’s atmosphere.

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    How Can We Close the Achievement Gap? Students affected by the troubling achievement gap that often lead to long term gaps that include dropout rates‚ college completion‚ and the kind of jobs students secure as adult. However‚ we have to know what’s an achievement gap and why is decreasing the gap so important? The achievement gap in education refers to the observed‚ persistent disparity of education measured between the performances of group of students. (Achievement Gap1). Some researchers have

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