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    How Is Jerry Alike

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    book by Doris Lessing, the main character Jerry, goes to a beach and he meets some boys that go through an underwater tunnel, and he wants to go too. In the book, it says that Jerry’s mom is a widow so he has no dad. This could make him want friends even more than other people because he doesn’t have a dad to play catch with or something. I think that’s why that Jerry wants to make friends with the big boys, who were the other kids on the beach. The first piece of evidence is “ To be with them, of them

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    eleven-year-old English boy named Jerry. For many years, Jerry and his mother visited this beach, getting to know many of the other families there. One year, however, Jerry had begun to lose interest in the beach; he wanted to explore the nearby rugged and wild bay, where the older boys played. He was no longer interested in the children his age on the beach; he wanted to be more mature like the older boys on the wild bay, where they played more reckless games. The older boys dived into the water

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    she liked a boy but he could not date her at the end, the lesson was about racism. In since feeling is first it was about life and death. In Mary Mallon’s trail of typhoid it was about the truth at the end. In oranges, it was about the boys first time him walking with a girl and how it turned out at the end. The first appendectomy was how risks can be taken because one little mess up on Mr. Polansky and he could have been dead. For the final short story it is how

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    she went to the beach to remind her of her mother . She went in a car with this guy ,but he knew how to speak Spanish and a little bit of English . Well so does she ,but only a little bit . Charlie said , “ Call me if you have trouble .” Lily says “ Don't worry I will.” So Charlie dropped Lily and finally arrived at the beach . It was mid day she would look at the beach and look at the pictures on her phone of her mother on this beach and she says, “Yes this is the one.” The beach was a very tropical

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    wanting to go to the wild bay, instead of staying with his mother at the safe beach for their vacation. Jerry’s transformation from boy to a young man is revealed in the settings of the safe beach, wild bay, and the journey through the tunnel. Since a young age, Jerry has always gone to the safe beach with his mother. As told in the story, he is starting to get more mature and is experiencing his coming of age. The safe beach represents him as not being as independent as when he travels to the wild

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    Terrigal-Coastal Management

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    Part 1 The geographical processes that are occurring at the Terrigal beach area are: * Erosion, which is effecting: * The Skillion, mainly the headland and rock platform, which is part of a preserved area of land known as “the Haven” which also contains the rugby oval. The man type of erosion that affects this is from the sea. * The sand dunes on the beaches. This area is affected by wind erosion as well as the tides if adequate vegetative cover is not present. The main type of erosion

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    TRADING AREA ANALYSIS The city of Huntington Beach, California, is a major tourist center of attraction, due to its location near Los Angeles, and its beautiful beaches. Geographically, my business' proposed location in the ideal situation would be on beachfront property in Huntington Beach, CA. If property of this type was unavailable, I would choose to locate my business in a downtown center of commerce. Demographically

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    McGregor and Big Sandy Lake, Minnesota My favorite place to be would be the city and are of McGregor Minnesota. About eight miles north of the small town is Big Sandy Lake, which is where my cabin is located. This is truly my favorite place to be, especially during the warm summer months. McGregor, a small town of only about four hundred people, is located in a wooded area with many lakes, streams and river. The biggest lake is Big Sandy and is approximately seven thousand acres of water

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    The Best Vacation Spots

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    There are many places to go for a vacation. Usually the most popular choices are the soft sandy beaches or the white snowy mountains. Both places offer a ton of exciting activities to do through-out the day and night. In a contrasting perspective the beach offers a variety of amenities that the mountains do not and vice versa. These get away spots are very different in many ways such as climate, actives to do and location. The climate is a very important part of planning a trip. It determines all sorts

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    and the local economy is access to these coastal and beach resources. At a state level, providing and improving access to coastal resources has been a priority objective as defined by the Coastal Zone Management Act. In attempts to valuate the benefits of access to these coastal resources, the majority of previous research has focused on the value of beach recreation in coastal regions. These studies have found that visitors’ decisions on what beach to go to are highly influenced by preferences, perceptions

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