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    It has been the coldest weather since 1885. Jem had seen snow before in books but never in real life, unlike Scout, who saw the snow and thought the sky was falling. I honestly think Scout was horrified, just imagine at her age, who hasn't seen snow at all, walking outside to the cold weather and bits of “sky” falling all around you. Jem however, must have loved it, seeing snow in books and now getting to actually experience it. They decide to make a snowman, but since it's Maycomb it didn't snow

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    A book from the Sky (Tianshu) is an installation work by Xu Bing, first exhibited in 1988. It consists of three hanging scrolls vertically draping across the ceiling, hovering over columns and rows of books systematically arranged on the floor, surrounded by walls covered with similar scrolls. The books, which are all equally spilt open and spaced out, mimic a wave like motion, and the hanging scrolls in the ceiling appear to be delicately falling from the sky. At the front of the installation, a

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    My Birthday Speech

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    “Happy 16th birthday my beautiful girl!” My mom said leaning over me with a cupcake with a candle in it. She seemed down. “It’s already my birthday? Awe mom don’t seem so sad, I’m only 16 not filing for retirement,” I said hugging her, “Thank you!” “No problem honey, it just seems like yesterday I was holding you in my arms in the hospital. Now…” She paused and sighed, “Now you're a young women. Now before get too sad, go get dressed and we are going to the mall and other other place you want to

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    au/Science/Curriculum/F-10 Topic: Sky and Space (3 weeks duration) Year Level: Science Understanding (only select relevant statements) Science as a Human Endeavour (only select relevant statements) Science Inquiry Skills (only select relevant statements) Earth and Space Sciences Content description: Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape (ACSSU019) Elaborations: Recording short and longer-term patterns of events that occur on Earth and in the sky, such as the appearance of the moon

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    Snow Day Research Paper

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    It's a cold, wintry day when the first flake falls. Everyone gets excited, but a lot of people don’t know much information about the fragile flakes that fall from the wintry sky. That information includes: how the snowflakes form, their appearance, and the conditions of it snowing. Before all else, most people may not know how the frozen flakes are formed. According to, Snow Day! By Tabitha Walker, the process flakes of how the icy flakes are formed all starts when water evaporates from

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    another : ( page 128) It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky. Ally Condie is giving the words on the sky the ability to dance but those looking at the words try to capture the written words. In the book, both Cassia and Ky make allusions to the poem by Dylan Thomas “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Which in their case means

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    Ziggy heard screams, looked up, and saw a woman falling towards him from the bright, blue sky. The tall woman was screaming as she realized these were her last few seconds of life; Ziggy was witnessing them. The woman was wearing a green helmet, black goggles, a green suit, and had a tan lumpy pack on her back. Ziggy assumed the woman was falling from the sky because of a skydive that went wrong. As the hot, dark pavement was becoming closer and closer to her, 5 police cars, 2 ambulances, and 1 firetruck

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    The Sky Is Falling Hollywood has created a so called standard for many aspects in life including love, body image, and success. From movies, television shows, and books society has created an unrealistic outlook on everything, positive or negative. Because of these expectations people often end up being disappointed by the reality of everyday affairs. From a young age it is advertised that life will be a fairytale, and everybody will live happily ever after without any tragedies, but more often

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    Gleeson Hedge saves them, sacrificing himself to be taken to the skies. Soon, a squad of people just like them, called demigods picked them up. They took them to a camp, just for demigods, one of their parent is a god, and their other parent is a mortal. Soon later, they realise that Leo is the son of

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    constellation located in the northern sky. It is made up of five stars which, when in upper culmination, appears in a 'M' shape, whereas in lower culmination, it appears as a 'W'. It is the varying appearance of the constellation which appeals to me. It is bordered by Andromeda to the South, Perseus to the South East and to the north is Cepheus, opposite Cassiopeia is the Big Dipper. Due to its location lying in rich Milky Way star fields, it contains many deep sky subjects such as open clusters and

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