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    The Beach Research Paper

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    as blue as the sky, the sun shining on it making the water sparkle.There's a warning sensation that can change your mood in a flash. It is very humid which makes you want to dive in, the water is shallow but grows deeper . The people around you create a feeling of joyfulness like no other.The sand is warm covered with mulicolor seashells some broken into pieces. You can hear the seagulls snapping at you and taking leftover food and quickly flying away.

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    ever fully grow a beard, the shadowing cast of 6 months at sea began to show on his face in the form of tired eyes and scruff. “Yes, send 3 boats to land at each side of the peninsula.” replied the dormant captain, propping himself up against the sun bleached sail post as if standing had now become an extravagant chore. The peninsula stuck out like a like a fractured rib from the rest of the smooth shore, it was rocky but every point had been filed down by the waves of the sea. The stiff stench

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    which surrounded him. Nevertheless, she didn't admit her answer to yield itself when he called, and to vie precision, let our ball bounce and strike whence this issue resonated. Where enormous flies shall await over the wall, the Sun spends the resting days in setting a celestial niche and hide its face from the curious and buzzing creeps. Although people decline the skittering offers of intermittent warmth which an alternating sky bestows on them, behind the white murals they will use their hideous

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    note that Dante considers darkness to be the lack of natural light, as Throughout the Inferno, Dante uses the setting of darkness to represent both sin and sin’s deceiving nature. In doing so, Dante argues that to successfully have faith in God, one must discern the truth from among the darkness which permeates both Hell and humanity. At the most fundamental level, Dante associates the setting of darkness with sin and sin’s deceiving nature through contrasting the darkness of Hell with the light of

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    Colors can be used to set the mood of something. Different colors have different meanings that represent different things. L. Frank Baum, used colors to set the mood in such things like the setting, in his novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. He used colors such as blue, grey, green, white, and etc. These colors have very deep meanings that can mean very different things. The color grey is used in the beginning of the novel. It can represent an abundance of things such as dark, steamy, old or etc

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    The book copper sun by Sharon Draper is a historical story about a African girl named Amari that grew up in Africa but her tribe got invaded and she was taken in as a slave. The story begins in Africa but then the setting moves to a plantation in South Carolina. Polly is a little white girl that lives on the plantation as an indentured servant and she is Amari’s friend. In the novel, the setting of Africa and the plantation have many similarities and differences. Africa and the plantation

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    Pluto's Planet Status

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    qualification that it must be able to clear its own orbit. Which Pluto does not do that at the moment, and that is why it should not be considered a planet. That is the reason it is called a dwarf planet, even though it orbits the sun. Furthermore, when Pluto is close to the sun it is still billions of miles away. (Dunbar). When you look at a lot of the figures that are considered planets they have a lot of the features that Pluto does not have. Mainly in sharing the Kuiper belt with

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    Copper Sun Compare and Contrast Essay The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is an exciting story about an African girl named Amari and her journey from Africa. Amari was happy in her African village until one day the slave traders came in and killed the weak. They took the healthy people on a voyage to America to be slaves. Amari was one of the africans that got captured and made to do hard labor work. In the novel, there are many similarities and differences between Amarias village and the ship

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    I walked along the shoreline, pleasantly stepping from rock to rock with my fishing rod in one hand and my tackle box in the other. Even though the sun was barely hovering over the horizon, there was still an hour of good daylight left. As I looked for a place where I wanted to fish. I admired the orange reflection on the ocean. I stepped down off the big rocks, and continued on my path, stepping over seashells, bunches of seaweed, and the occasional washed up buoy. Farther down the seashore, I finally

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    McCarthy’s descriptions of the setting in Chapter four of his fifth published book, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (McCarthy, 1985), published in 1985, and sets a visual imagery for the reader to experience the book as one of the characters. Chapter four begins with the charters heading into the desert with minimal food and supplies. Throughout the trip many men fall ill and pass away along with their horses. The characters encounter numerous obstacles with wolves and the desert

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