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    It was Halloween night in the town of Ashville, there was a brisk cold wind in the air and there were jack o'lanterns lit up with spooky faces. Nathan was ecstatic for trick or treating with his friends tonight. This was the first year his mom was letting him go without parental supervision and he was strictly told what he could and could not do. He had to stay on the west side of town and could not cross the bridge over into the McFadden territory. Nathan had heard stories about the McFadden’s

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    Four Ways To Get Rid Of Lead Paint Have lead paint in your home? If so, you may be concerned about the safety risk it can pose to the children in your home. Here are four ways that you can get protect yourself from lead paint once and for all. Manual Stripping The most obvious way to get rid of lead paint will be to strip it off of the surfaces. It involves a lot of care to ensure that the dust from the lead paint does not travel through your home, which is why you will want this job done by a

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    January 1st, 2017, a gang held an alleyway waiting for people to come through so they and take their money. The alley was very dark. People came through the alley at nights and trashed the alley, cracking windows, leaving cigarettes on the dirty spray-painted ground littered with sharp shards of glass from a broken window. Their leader, Kole Blazer, was there in the rooftops, waiting for someone to come through, when he saw someone betray his gang: Mike Blazer, his brother. Kole was taller than him by

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    The Baron Armand de Valfort was dead! No one, among those who were present when his body was discovered, could understand why? Although, all those frightened people showed a great deal of self-control, - including Amandine Valloix, - it was obvious, looking at their twisted lips, and protruded eyes, that they did not comprehend the horror of what had happened. It was a very terribly shocking experience! The Baroness was, evidently, most affected by the death of her husband. But, as her heart sank

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    Home is the warm embrace offered to me by my mother as soon as I open the door. Home is the smell of freshly cooked food, the kind you can smell before you even open the door, and when you do open the door it just wafts out at you. Home is where the dogs jump up and down at the back door and bark vigorously until you open the door and then they attack you with kisses. Home is where your family all lives within twenty minutes of each other. Home is where we are most comfortable. Comfort can have

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    Paper Towns By John Green

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    Quentin Jacobsen 's miracle was this: out of all the houses in all subdivisions in all of Florida, he ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. He is a defeatist person who always 's ready to accept failure. He is Margo 's best friend and is very much unknown in his school. He has a best friend name Ben Starling who always 's is like his side buddy. Quentin has black

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    Leonardo Da Vinci “The Last Supper” created in the year of 1495 was a painting from the Renaissance era. This art depicted Jesus and his disciples at the last meal, before the betrayal of Judas and hanging of Jesus on the cross. The objective of this paper is to analyze and critique through artist influence and formal expression. Leonardo Da Vinci the four fathers of art, philosophy and tenacity. Leonardo was the eldest of seventeen siblings a natural artist, who discovered at “fourteen that he wanted

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    Zion Reformed Church

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    Zion Reformed Church This church was one of the first churches built in Chambersburg Pa. The word Zion means the hill in Jerusalem where city of David was built. There is a Zion Gate on the south-west side of the old city that leads into Jewish quarters. The word Reform means improving with oneself and not to act in an unexcitable manner. The Zion Reformed Church was started when German Immigrants came to America. Before the church was built they held there congregation at a school house that was

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    Best Mom Around

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    My Mother did not just help me through challenges; but taught me to be a better person. Rachel, my older sister, and I decided to take my Mom to a restaurant called Bj’s for her birthday. The restaurant was located out in Los Angeles off the usual busy street. However this birthday will be one of the worst family birthdays I have ever been to. Disappearing to the restroom, emerging into a fight between her and my sister, and ended in rage towards her. The time getting to our destination went well

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    A Lasting Memory The date was May 9, 1974. It was a day that would forever be burned in my memory. I was eight years old at the time, and was spending the day with my favorite person, my Grandpa. Grandpa had been a cook in the army throughout his younger years. But, in 1974 he was working at the local restaurant as a fry cook. His full name was Richard Thomason Grant, but everyone in town knew him as Thomas. I was lucky enough to know him as Grandpa. While he may not have led a glamourous life, he

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