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    Georgia's climate is subtropical with most of the state of Georgia with mild winters and hot summers. Physical features of the regions of Georgia are the Piedmont plateau, Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Coastal Plain. Georgia's Natural resources are pulpwood, lumber, resins, turpentine, streams and rivers, game fishing, and hunting. Hernando de Soto, Jean Pierre Purry, Dr. Henry Woodward all of these men were the first explorers in Georgia. Hernando de Soto was

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    persons per household is 2.73. Georgia education is 85.4%. The disability and health is 8.8%. Our transportation level is 27.4%. Economy Georgia capital is one place everyone visit it has a World Of Coke, Georgia aquarium, Zoo Atlanta and stone mountain them are important tourist attractions in Georgia. While many textile jobs moved overseas, there is still a textile industry located around the cities of Columbus, Brunswick, Augusta, and Macon and along the I-75 corridor between Atlanta and Chattanooga

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    Tom Thomson the Jack Pine

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    the tree dominating over the mountainous landscape. There are warm, red colours near the front of the painting that help the viewer see that it is closer, while there are cooler, blue colours in the mountains that are farther away. In The Jack Pine, the source of light is the sunset that is setting behind the mountains. Dark shadows are starting to appear and everything is becoming dark for the night. The sky and the water in the lake get darker as they come toward the front of the painting.

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    Pipeline Memo

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    The pipeline is six hundred miles long, and has been in the works since 2014. The pipeline which is a natural gas transmission pipe line and the goal is to bring Marcellus-Utica shale gas to Virginia and North Carolina, is being built by Spring Ridge Constructors LLC. The pipeline´s objective is to bring natural gas to those who do not have energy or a supply. It has positive, and negative sides to the project. I know that it will bring eighty five thousands jobs according to the video on their

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    My summer is all about hanging out with friends and going swimming. Last summer, I hung out with a lot of friends, I went on the river, went camping, went to the pool, and just chilled in the hot sun. I like getting tan over the summer so I can come back to school being really tan. I got some good tans this summer because I did a lot of traveling. Like all the way across the country. I can admit the long drive was totally worth it. Last summer, I went to Chicago with all my distant family on my

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    Charley Quinn is twelve years old the summer after his older brother, Johnny, is killed at Gettysburg. Charley can't wait for the opportunity to avenge Johnny's death by killing off some Rebel soldiers. Meanwhile, he works as an errand boy for his older sister, Noreen. He picks up supplies and hats for her sewing business and delivers them when Noreen is finished with them. Charley is a member of the street gang known as the Bowery Boys. Their arch rivals are the Dead Rabbits. As Charley is returning

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    metropolis! Placed southeast of Florence, Sumter and surrounding cities like Camden, Orangeburg and Conway each are ideal places for raising a family. If you’re ready to experience life in a city with breathtaking beaches on one side and the Blue Ridge Mountains on the other, then Sumter is the place for you! With an extensive manufacturing base, creating a lot of work opportunities, Sumter also has a low-cost business environment, competitive workforce and multiple effective business practices that

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    moon, the astonishing thing about the Earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. Photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. If you could look long enough, you would see the swirling of the great drifts of white cloud, covering and uncovering the half-hidden masses of land. And if you had been

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    Franconia Notch Parkway, the mountain walls rise up around me and consume me. On one side, the guardrail separates me from the cars speeding past in the opposite direction. On the other side, nothing is separating me from the slopes. My eyes slowly follow the smooth curvature of the faces of the mountains. Wind, rain, snow, and ice have shaped the rock in such a way that the rock looks like silk sheets. As my eyes take in more, they come across the sharp jagged edges and ridges where rocks have recently

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    I have never heard of, or even thought of, blessing animals until I moved to the small Blue Ridge area of the North Georgia Mountains. Every year, there is a festival in downtown Blue Ridge, called Paws in the Park, put on by the local Humane Society and other local organizations. They have a variety of events including a 5K, a pet parade, rabies vaccinations or microchipping for your animals, a costume contest, and the blessing of the animals (“Paws in the Park”). I am a huge animal lover, especially

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