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    pulling a sled for many miles. Buck was inexperienced at first, but as he learned vicariously through other dogs. He wanted to be the leader, and enjoyed killing other animals to prove he was top dog. He also started having dreams about his ancestors. He was exposed to the wild and over time started retrogressing even more. He began howling at the moon, and even attacked humans who were a threat to his master. and eventually ended up answering the call of the wild pack of wolves and was the leader of

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    London’s To Build a Fire is the story of a man and his dog going on a trip to the Yukon River. As he moves through the forest checking traps, the temperature becomes colder and colder. Since he was a newcomer to this land he did not know how 50 below zero would truly feel to the skin. The more he moves away from his camp the colder he becomes. He soon discovers that he will need to light a fire to keep warm through the night. He soon gathered sticks and branches and lit a roaring fire. Both him and the

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    Three stories of a ten-floor building a the corner of Greens Street and Washington Place were burned yesterday, and while the fire was going on 141 young men and women at least 125 of them mere girls were burned to death or killed by jumping to the pavement below. The building was fireproof. The fire except the furniture and 141 of the 600 men and girls that were employed in its upper three stories. The victims were suffocated or burned to death within the building, but some who found their way to

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    controlled fire to scare them off. The smoke alerted them and they went back to the school. Torkelson, a fire investigator, says that a RDEC pen was found near where the fire started. To make Torkelson stop suspecting RDEC started the fire, Bayliss lied that he dropped it out of the helicopter and frames someone another suspect. Bayliss framed a former arsonist by taking his bag and putting a butane torch inside it, with no fingerprints on it, and then planted it near the place where the fire was set

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    Bad science is when a person or group of people test something out, not knowing what could happen, and not doing any research beforehand. There is a bunch of bad science examples in the movie “ The Core.” Such as when they went into the mantle and tried to like jump start the flow of the mantle and tried to my the core spin again. I do not think you can just enter the earth's mantle and not expect to burn up with in milliseconds. In the movie the core would not just cease and refuse to rotate. http://geolor

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    other, but later in the book they developed a bond of friendship. At first, Magnus and the sword were total strangers to each other. Magnus and the sword first met when Magnus pulled it up from the bottom of the Charles river to fight the fire giant king Surt. In a few combat, Magnus died from the fight. After Magnus’ death, the sword entered the ocean with the river’s flow, then it was claimed by the sea goddess Ran. Later in the book, Magnus learned more about the importance

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    1871 on a sunday night their was the biggest fire that happened in chicago. The whole town was ready to burn down. Most of the things happened because of what the people did. By the way the whole town was made of wood and wood catches on fire very easy. Things got bad when the cow kicked over the lantern while Catherine O’leary was milking the cow . So the firefighters came and put that fire down than it all started. One of the reasons that the fire got so big was because people were ignoring the

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    Lily Roseni and Reed Defrahn were killed in a cabin fire last night during the storm. After an apparent struggle, a kerosene lantern upset, causing the fire to rage out of control. Police estimate the fire started approximately 9:00 P.M. The two succumbed to severe smoke inhalation and flames. A memorial service will be held at... More was listed but he read no further. His fists came down with a crash on the desk as he envisioned the death of his lady in such an agonizing, tragic way. “No

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    The Lungs: A Short Story

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    way to close the wound is, well, to stick it in the fire. It will be one of the most horrible things I have ever done to myself. I took a deep breath and I went for it. I stuck out my right arm and touched

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    Fire In Fahrenheit 451

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    Fire s a destructive force. If burnt things with firemen, and the sun burnt time, that means that everything is burned ! (Fahrenheit 451) To include, Fire is a destructive force because fire is the dose destructive energy of nature, yet it is also one of the most important forces for the good of mankind when under man’s control.” The inner fire is the most important thing To mankind poses.’’ (Edith Sodergran)i use this quote because it connects to the theme Fahrenheit 451, which is a basic human

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