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    nature I’ve always been fascinated with is space. While this may not be what most of us think of the “environment”, it has deeply impacted the way I see the world. What initially got me interested in the subject was when Pluto lost its status as a planet. I was only eight at the time, but I had an incredible teacher, Mr. Reefman, who spent a whole day on a lesson about Pluto and why the changes were made. This may have sparked a latent interest I’ve always had, and ever since I’ve been focused on

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    Essay On Yellow Chicken

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    That day had no differences with other days for Yellow Chicken. As soon as Mr. Mountain knocked on Yellow Chicken and Red Dragon’s door, they flew out of the small house immediately. Then, Yellow Chicken swiftly and decisively moved into the body of Mr. Mountain, and directly started to work. Surprisingly, although Yellow Chicken always considered efficiency as the most crucial business, he used to

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    It is the annual parade for the planet Yergu. Yergu was the home planet for the creatures known as the Yengears. These creatures looked a lot like humans. And since their planet was much colder than Earth, all the Yengears were extremely fair. The annual parade is a very important event for the Yengears as it honors the soldiers that protect the planet for their services throughout the year. The parade is held on the anniversary of the Great Armistice, the truce which ended the millennium war.

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    Essay On Chimps

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    only the other chimps knew about. Drake, his owner, would ask the chimps to make a sacrifice, one chimp would become his servant for the rest of their life. Cornelius was special in the way that he had powers. He came from the planet Kryptonia. He was sent before his planet was devoured by the big, Pink Fluffy Unicorns. His parents were not able to escape they were sadly swallowed in one fatal gulp by the Unicorns. He arrived to Earth when he was only seven years old, his sister arrived when she was

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    Margot Monologue

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    Isolated in a new world, Margot is alone. While I haven't moved to another planet, I know the feeling of loneliness even when surrounded by people, how it feels as if the world is moving and you just stand still, left behind. You are the only person you have to talk to and to others while it might seem that you are silent, but just like Margot when she tries to express herself in the poem about the sun, criticism always bring you down so you become

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    Of course previous groups and movements had existed such as the work of the Sierra Club but Carson’s book Silent Spring shun a light on the damages that the use of what were believed to be harmless pesticides can have on the environment. The book is written in an incredibly accessible manner and does not limit the readership to statesmen, scientists and the

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    gender norms, the show creates humor by relying on viewers’ assumptions of gender stereotypes and compulsory heterosexuality in order to create humor. In the episode, in order to figure out what is going

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    device, made their way, with IQ and Screwdriver as guides, in a transport vessel towards the planet Kalos to inspect the battle fleet. None was ready for the incredible sight as they approached the planets orbital plane. The rate of the fleets construction was unbelievable. In four days, six finished battle groups, each containing three thousand battle cruisers, already orbited the western side of the planet, with at least thirty finished fighter squadrons, each containing five hundred fighters,

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    character’s documents or letters to tell a story. Ursula K. Le Guin wrote the book The Left Hand of Darkness using the epistolary writing style, in return he captures his readers by making them feel the experience one would have if they lived on the planet Winter and understand the planet’s history. The story is told by Genly Ai, a person from earth who is sent to Winter to study their forbidding, ice-bound world. Le Guin uses the epistolary writing style in this novel to impact the way his readers

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    stationed on the ship as a medical officer. Unlike Silent Hill, Dead Space is that of a Cosmic Horror story that focuses on something that man cannot completely understand nor control, alien artifacts known as the Markers. The Markers that we typically see within the game are copies that were reversed-engineered from an original Black Marker that fell to earth at around the same period as the dinosaurs and was dug up by humanity when we were running out of resources. These Markers not only held the key

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