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    together, he stood up and growled. "They've been slashed. God damn it. I didn't hear anything last night, did you?" Grace shook her head. "I woke up several times but didn't hear anything out of the ordinary." "I've got to call this in to Dax. " Wade turned in a circle and inspected the area. "Why don't I take you out to breakfast at the cafe. I can call on the way." "I'm not sure I have an appetite, although I do kind of want to get out of here." "Go thow some clothes on and lets go." Grace stared

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    Since Ha has moved to America she has been turned inside out in multiple ways. Some ways Ha is being turned inside out is feeling unwanted, lonely, and worthless. One example of this is“...surrounds me, shouting, pushing.”(Lai, page 145)This is an example of Ha being turned inside out because she is being bullied by her peers which makes her feel unwelcome and lonely. Because of this action, she is starting to feel and think that she doesn't belong.Another example showing Ha is inside out is “Mostly

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    On November 14, 2015, Cheez-Its were banned for the rest of the year in the school cafeteria. A table of 8th graders weren’t paying attention to who was around them, which happened to be the principal. They were throwing a whole box of Cheez-Its across the cafeteria, attempting to start a food fight. It started as a small problem, but after 2 minutes, the whole middle school was throwing food around. It was getting out of control. The principal attempted to bring an end to the chaos, but he had no

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    tension in her forehead. Oh how the mighty had fallen. _____ That night dinner was a quiet affair. The girl (Autumn?) sat dejectedly across the table from him, picking at her food. The severe reprimand she had been dealt earlier must be still bothering her. She should be used to it by now. Quickly shoveling down his food, Eli excused himself from the table early. After he had traveled upstairs to prepare for bed, he heard the echoing shouts of his parents from downstairs. “Sign the company over

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    Inside the camouflaged tent, four men stood around a large table. The only illumination coming from an overhead lamp shining down on a map covered with red, green and grey blocks. Listening intently to the headsets they each wore they would occasionally reach out with thin poles they each held and move one or more of the green and red blocks, maneuvering them around the larger grey blocks that indicated one of the nearby city’s buildings. Striding into the tent a young officer glanced over the map

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    The huge mans sudden move, and the loud pounding on the table startled Titus and all those sitting at the table. Reeling back from the table, Titus knocked over his high wooden chair. When it hit the floor, it made a loud noise that echoed through the large stonewalled room. Standing up and stretching to look as tall as he could. Titus said, “Thank you, your Highness, I shall do my best.” The royal wizard, sitting next to Titus, jumped to his feet and called to the king, “But sire, he is but

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    rusting, etc. In a physical change the identity of the substance doesn’t change. But in a chemical change the identity of the substance does change. In this experiment we observed and created the five scenarios. In scenario one we mixed in five grams of table salt to 100mL of water. In scenario two we heated up a 2cm magnesium strip in a crucible. Then scenario

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    Adam left the stage and walked purposely towards the table where I was seated, asking if I would mind if he joined me during the break. I replied no, that I would be flattered if he did so. The waitress brought him a drink as soon as he was seated. We finally had the chance to properly introduce ourselves to each other. I told him I was captivated by the brilliant performance that he gave, asking how often he performed here. He told me that he did so only once per week, usually on Friday evenings

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    towards her plate in her nightgown with Thaddeus behind her giving a list of things she was supposed to do for the day. “Another long day, that’s exciting.” She said yawning. She sat down at the table and slowly uncovered her breakfast and slowly started to eat. She had her elbows on the table, not showing any signs of caring about proper etiquette. Isaac scratched his head while just standing there. He didn’t really have anything planned for the day, he wanted to spend more time with Tocino

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    qualitative data was collected, except that the original reaction mixture turned a purple color. Upon the addition of anise oil and heat, the reaction mixture turned a brown color. And with the addition of NaHSO3 the mixture turned a white color. The mass of the final product sample was measured to be 0.08g (see Calculation 1). The melting point range for this sample was 172.8-185.4ºC in Trial 1 and 171.6-185.2ºC in Trial 2 (see Table 1). The IR spectrum of anise oil can be found attached. Peaks appear

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