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    It was the last days of summer. The atmosphere began to change, leaves falling, and the sky the perfect crisp blue like a never ending ocean. Gatsby decided it was the perfect day to take a dip in the pool, since he hadn’t used it all summer. But, that dream was unfortunately brought to a fatal end. Do you know what it’s like to be shot? Do you know what it’s like to drown in your own pool of blood? Your body sinking to the bottom as the water engulfs you. Your lungs now only filled with blood, and

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    Imagine having a strong bond with a person who you are completely different in ways you view the world and as to ways you live your own life. Young children such as Tom and Huck grow to proceed a strong bond but battle different opticales throughout their lives because they share no connection in their households. A life filled with an enlightened home and supportive family was the life Tom was growing up to live in. However, a life filled with emptiness and no place to call home was the route his

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    Tom Sawyer has had quite a few mental experiences and I can relate to that. I feel like if I knew Tom I would be pretty close to him because of our similar personalities. We both like to explore and get our freedom and we both just want to be a good person. Tom just wants to live life the best he can and have fun he has many friends to help him conquer that. As for me I also enjoy life and think of life like there is many years to live for and just to have fun. I chose to do D.A.R.E

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    life, figured in Frost's poetry as "immortal force" operating in nature within man's range of action, which can be channeled to accomplish human purposes or can overwhelm by its exuberance. It was the conviction of his loneliness in an unfriendly universe that furnished the substance of Frost's nature poetry. There was always something else in his poetry. All of them had a very few

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    Why Does Deiism Exist

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    Deism is defined as a belief in the existence of a supreme being, a belief that God exists, but does not intervene in the universe. A transition from theism, "Deism developed, some say, as an attempt to bring unity out of a chaos of theological and philosophical discussion" (Sire 2009 pg:47). Deism began to emerge in the seventeenth century as philosophers, authors, and others began to focus on reason, and their knowledge, "Deism is the historical result of the decay of robust Christian theism

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    Western Archetypal Hero

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    1. The hero that I selected earlier was Wonder Woman from the Western Archetypal Hero list. 2. Some similarities that I noticed between your hero “Yu the Great” and my hero “Wonder Woman” is that they both are dedicated to protecting the people. Another similarity I noticed is that they both have “natural powers.” Wonder Woman has her superhuman strength and Lasso of Truth, while Yu the Great has the powers given to him by God. 3. Some main differences between Yu the Great and Wonder Woman was that

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    however, is not the case. Current on going research using several different models have proved this part of the REH wrong. Photosynthesis and liquid water are two major habitable zone conditions that were once thought to be rare within galaxies and the universe; yet, new research shows that planets, even the extreme and harsh planets, can be found to contain either liquid water or an atmosphere that could produce organisms which perform photosynthesis, a process that nearly all life depends on (von Bloh)

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    Does Antimatter Exist

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    matter, of which the majority of our universe is made. Until just recently, the presence of antimatter in our universe was considered to be only theoretical. In 1928, British physicist Paul A.M. Dirac revised Einstein's famous equation E=mc². Dirac said that Einstein didn't consider that the "m" in the equation -- mass -- could have negative properties as well as positive. Dirac's equation (E = + or - mc2) allowed for the existence of anti-particles in our universe. Scientists have since proven that

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    Human Race Myth

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    1. What do the myths show us about the human race of long ago? Throughout the introduction there consisted a considerable amount of heavily opinionated material and generalization of topics. This is why I will not rely on Hamilton’s description throughout either of my responses. To begin the human race has made many advancements in the past few thousand years, that in the big scheme of things have taken little or no time at all to occur. Myths themselves reveal the initial abilities of humans

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    Cosmology and Southern Gothic

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    question, “How did we get here,” deals with cosmology, the study of the universe. No one knows for sure how the universe works or how we got here, but many Southern Gothic authors, such as Flannery O’Connor and Edgar Allan Poe, use their literature as a way of expressing their beliefs about the clockwork of the universe. These authors use their dark and grotesque fictional stories to make sense of where we, as humans, stand in the universe. In The Violent Bear it Away, O’Connor uses Francis Tarwater,

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