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    E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL In a California forest, a group of alien botanists collect flora samples but when government agents appear on the scene, they flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind. A 10-year-old boy named Elliott is trying to spend time with his 16-year-old brother, Michael, and his friends. As he returns from picking up a pizza, he discovers that something is hiding in their tool shed. The creature promptly flees upon being discovered. Despite his family's disbelief

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    considerable climate change during the late Quaternary (Weigelt et al., 2016). The Sea of Cortes The area of study An example of an island study conducted is given in the lines that follow. The Sea of Cortes is the body of water that separates the California peninsula from the mainland of Mexico (Case, Cody & Ezcurra, 2002). The mainland is considered to a larger area that constitutes a greater part of a country or territory. The islands that surround the mainland are

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    Californian Bungalow

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    few houses were built in other styles through the 1920’s. Most residences were made from brick with corrugated iron roofs. Compatibility with the Australian climate was no doubt a reason for it’s continued popularity. Having a similar climate to California, the Bungalow caters for warm Summers and mild Winters. Affordability of the Bungalow was another big drawing card for Wagga Wagga residence, costing approximately 3,500 pounds post

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    The gold rush helped California industrialize. It is well known that industrialization in America started in the east. However, the gold rush was the reason why California industrialized much faster than the east. With the technological improvements, that the gold rush demands it helped California industrialize much faster. James Marshall first discovered gold on January 24 1848 on the south fork of the American river. A not so well know part of California history is that James Marshall was not

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    The gold rush helped California to industrialize. It is well known that the industrialization in America start in the east. However, the gold rush was the reason why it industrialized much faster than the east. With the technological improvements that the gold rush demand it helped California industrialize much faster. Gold was first discovered in January 24 1848 by James Marshall on the south fork of the American river. A not so mentioned part of California history is that James Marshall wasn’t

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    was a little boy it was hard for him to imagine what joy was. Walt’s life was really hard, his father and mother Elias and Flora Disney didn’t have a lot of money so they were always moving from town to town. And with little money he had work to help provide for the family. Walt Disney wasn’t a single child in fact, he had four brothers and sister name; Roy O. Disney, Ruth Flora Disney, Herbert Arthur

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    How Drinking Causes Gut Microbe Imbalance Linked to Liver Disease is an article that builds on the common knowledge that alcohol consumption damages the liver. The liver is the organ in the body that filters out everything in your bloodstream that may harm you, for example alcohol. It also produces a substance called bile that breaks down lipids. For these reasons, the liver is a very important organ in the digestive system in the body and this article shows how alcohol damages it. It has long been

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    Book: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan Book Category: A Natural History of Four Meals Student name – Jamese D. Patrick Spring 2015 for Prema Monteiro, EdS, MS, BS Chapter-by-Chapter Summary Part 3: Personal the Forest Chapter 15 Chapter Title: The Forager 1. In this section of the book the author discusses with the audience that the hunter-gather food chain is no longer to support us humans. After coming to an epiphany that he doesn’t know to hunt and that he only knows a little about

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    became president after William McKinley was assassinated. The U.S Steel was founded by John Pierpont Morgan, and the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty was formed. However, in Chicago, Illinois, a very famous Walter Elias Disney was born to parents Flora and Elias Disney. Flora Call was of German-American descendent and father Elias Disney was Irish-Canadian. Walt was born into a family of four brothers, in which he was the youngest, but oldest to the only girl in the family named Ruth. The family lived with

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    Mexico and central US. Within the species of R. raviventris there are the northern subspecies, R. r. halicoetes, and southern subspecies, R. r. raviventris both of which reside in Northern California around the Bay area. The northern subspecies can be found in the San Pablo and Suisun marshes of California, whereas the southern variant reside in the marshes of Corte Madera, Richmond and South San Francisco Bay. Salt marsh harvest mice heavily depend on dense coverage of the pickleweed (Salicornia

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