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    Would you like to rent your dream luxury/exotic car in the Hamptons? It doesn't matter whether you've always dreamed of driving a Rolls Royce, Lamborghini Huracan, Porsche 911, Bentley Bentayga, Bentley Flying Spur, Ferrari 488, Aston Martin DB, or whether you want a coupe, convertible, SUV, or something else, you can find it from us. There's plenty to do when you cruise the various sections of the Hamptons, including Montauf, Surf Lodge, East Hampton, South Hampton, and West Hampton, and you'll

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    Makena Tongg-Woodall Saculla, 1:30 Traditional Hawaiian Quilting Hawaiian Quilting is a very important part of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian quilts are a combination of Polynesian heritage and American quilting. The Missionaries used quilts for warmth during the winter. But Hawaiians used them as an art form, as decoration and to express important things in their lives. Traditional quilts are very delicate and some contain around 200,000 hand stitches. Humidity, heat, salt air and insects can easily

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    Kiara Ke’oluokalani Wilsey, Giving Back to Hawai’i I plan to give back to Hawai’i by teaching the younger generations hula and tahitian. These will help our community become more entwined with their culture whether they are hawaiian or not. Being entwined with their Hawaiian culture can change them and make them realize things that they never knew before. At this time I currently assists my kumu Lani Isaacs with teaching the younger children their culture, where it comes from and what their

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    Alcatraz Research Paper

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    history, Alcatraz was just a big island. Alcatraz means “pelican” or a “strange bird.” It was originally suppose to be the “most heavily fortified military site on the west coast” (BOP: Alcatraz). With the gold rush booming, and San Francisco growing in population, the military wanted to use the fortress to protect the San Francisco Bay (BOP:Alcatraz). The island was in the middle of the bay, so it was easy to protect the entrance. They begun by “surrounding the island with 100 cannons”, if anyone

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    The story of the lost colony of Roanoke is one of the great mysteries of American history. This story begins in the year 1590, William Wythers, a 16 sixteen-year-old runaway apprentice, joins the emigrants bound for Virginia. William Wythers is a hard working, skilled teen who cares so much about other people including his younger sister. He is very skilled in carpentry, he will use these skills as he the new world, Virginia. William hopes to acquire land and fortune so that eventually he can send

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    In Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jim Hawkins develops a growing sense of integrity and eventual ability to do what is morally right, no matter what the personal cost. Jim goes from behaving like a kid ready for an adventure out at sea to an independent person understanding the ups and downs of the journey and understanding struggle. In the beginning of the novel, Jim becomes very excited, not thinking about the many troubles he may run into. All he wants rise to have the freedom to take

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    Alcatraz Prison

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    to learn more about Alcatraz. Someday I want to go there. This essay will explain why an Army prison was turned into a federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, who were some famous inmates that once occupied a cell there and, it will detail some of the attempted escapes from Alcatraz. In 1933, the U.S. Army “relinquished” control of the island of Alcatraz “ to the U.S. Justice Department” (History.com). At that time the federal government “wanted a federal prison that could house a criminal population

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    People say that Alcatraz was the most feared prison in America. Alcatraz was a prison island that way very secure and was surrounded by dangerous waters. Frank Morris and the Algin brothers died escaping Alcatraz. One reason of how they died was how dangerous the waters or the San Francisco Bay are. Page 6 paragraph 9 states “The shark infested water”. This quote shows how the three prisoners cold have died from a shark attack. Page 9 paragraph 2 states “The current would have pulled them to

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    Millions of years ago in Hawaii, a massive volcano erupted but no one knows how or why. One day in Hawaii, a 13 year old girl named Orabelle who loved the island, that was strong, went on a walk down by the beach being very angry with her parents, she goes on walks to cool herself down from being heated up. When she would go down to the beach, which was on occasions, she would pick up seashells and throw them into the ocean. Everytime she gets angry she makes the volcano erupt a little bit at a

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    Lost Colony Roanoke

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    area was scanned by a colonizing expedition ordered by Sir Walter Raleigh so he sent Sir Richard Greenville and Sir Ralph Lane and they built the Citie of Raleigh in 1585 before heading back to England the next year. Its current location today is an island in Dare County in present day North Carolina, surrounded by the Atlantic coast. The next year in 1587, an English colony was settled by a group of 117 men, women,

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