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    dust off and letters appeared. “When it shines its light is hazy, makes the ocean swell like crazy, it makes moods seem more romantic but it makes the ladies a bit more frantic.” I read aloud. “What does that mean?” Paul asked. “I don’t know” I shrugged. Hunter was pacing and whispering to himself “It’s the moon!” hunter yelled! We all stood there dumbfounded. “Think about it makes the ocean swell and makes the mood more romantic!” “He is right,” I said. “Wait is this

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    schoolboys aged 6 to 12 crashes on a small deserted island in the South Pacific Ocean. The main characters, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach and Piggy suggests using it as a horn to gather other boys. As the whole group gathers together, Ralph is elected as the leader through democracy and his conch shell symbolizes his authority. Later, he selects the novel’s antagonist, Jack, as the leader of the hunters responsible for hunting and food gathering for the entire group. After the boys

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something is dangerous, that it could cause one harm. For example, when some general from Russia hunts a human on an island in the middle of the ocean, would cause one to experience fear. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, we see how Rainsford feels about hunting, what causes him fear, and how he deals with these fears. First, Rainsford learns more about fear. He didn’t think that prey felt fear. In the beginning

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    parent their offspring in different ways, mostly varying on what climate they live in. Animals that are raised in the ocean are going to be raised differently from animals that live in the desert. For some the struggles could be avoiding the top predators and for others it could be learning to hunt as the top predators. Ranging temperatures also play a factor. Animals that live in the ocean won’t have to worry about when to hibernate or when to really stock up on food while other animals will. Animals

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    like. The music turns more ominous as missiles are shown, introducing the coming war. Planes flying into smoky skies and one falling to earth after a flash of lightning indicate how the boys all came to be stranded on a remote island in the Pacific ocean, a fact that Golding's novel conveys by stating that they were being evacuated from an unspecified war. The story begins with Ralph, in his school uniform, wandering alone through the forest. He is met by a boy with glasses who does not give his name

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    Granted, after 3 days the accuracy of these forecasts declines but they do serve as very accurate maps within those first 3 days. Hurricane Wilma On the evening of October 15, 2005 tropical depression number 24 appeared in Atlantic Ocean, its winds at a mere 35 kilo-meters per hour, pressure of about 1004 mb and heading West at a pace of 5 kilo-meters per hour. In the next few hours, the winds of depression number 24 gradually increased to 45 km/h and on the morning of October 16,

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    Two oceanographers and I were mapping out the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in our vessel, The Mississippi Coast. We had been at the voyage for over two years and were slowly making progress as the grant money allowed us to proceed. The process requires we take a submarine to the bottom of the ocean and trace it on a map. Little did we know we were on the verge of the greatest discovery since the Titanic was raised from its grave. One night we were finishing a trench in the middle Atlantic. We

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    landscape? ________________________ How did the first people reach North America? What did these people do after arriving in North America? Answers First, everything was a giant land mass, then it started separating into the continents and oceans formed in between. We know this because the same species of fish live in waters that are very far apart from one another. By 10 million years ago the basic shape had been created. All the moving of the earth’s crust caused it to push up mountains

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    Sometime in the early 1900’s, a hunter named General Zaroff bought an island in the middle of an ocean where he would take humans’ whose boats had been shipwrecked and would hunt them for sport. In the short story,”The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard connell sends Rainsford, an experienced hunter like Zaroff, to this island where they would fight through many conflicts to win the game. The author uses these conflicts to build suspense and to change the reader's mood throughout this progressively intensified

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