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    Toledo was forced to shut off its water due to a toxic virus found in the algae. The ongoing harmful waste seeking its way into Lake Erie, rooting its algae blooms, is primarily caused by escaping raw sewage and agricultural runoff. Implementing tunnels and nets to help eliminate sewage and building buffer strips on farms, will allow in the future for a safer and cleaner lake. It now seems that almost every summer, Lake Erie is faced with some kind of algae bloom, whether it’s one that becomes

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    time, the view that these interracial relationship wouldn’t work and were unnatural were projected on our screens to further reinforce the message to the audience. Miscegenation was first shown on screens in 1903, in the film What happened in the tunnel? . Unusually the interracial relationship is not represented in its typical form. There is no physical relationship presented to the audience, miscegenation is presented to the audience when a white man catches the eye of a white woman while embarking

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    impressing them. The foreign boys liked him because he was good at diving so they thought he would be fun to hang out since he was a good swimmer like them. But there was this tunnel which was one of the main conflicts. He did not know to swim the tunnel because he had to hold his breathe for about two minutes. He swam through some of it and thought if he should go back but he said I am too far into it to turn back, but he made it alive. Jerry learned that taking a risk like that was a bad idea especially

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    laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocation bids them so.” (1). In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand Prometheus begins his story by explaining the “sin” he’s committing by writing down the experiences he’s had in the time he found the tunnel, another crime. Prometheus states, “since the Council does not know of this hole, there is no law permitting to enter. And everything which is not permitted by law is forbidden.” (31). The Council has ultimately made their people think of each other

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    Border Wall Arguments

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    According to the Huffington Post, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras - where most of these immigrants come from - are all in the top five countries with the highest homicide rates, so if the United States is a country of diversity, liberty, and freedom, why build a wall to block out those who want a chance of decent life? During our current president Trump’s candidacy, he proposed the idea of building a border wall between the United States and Mexico. As a majority of the population has obviously

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    The Hoover Dam

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    step was to blast the canyon walls of the Black Canyon. The blasting of the canyon walls helped make four diversion tunnels to move the constant flow of the Colorado’s River water around where the workers were constructing the dam. There were two tunnels made on each side of the canyon. When it was summer the tunnels would be very very hot ( about 140, but in the winter the tunnels would be the exact opposite. When the canyon walls were blasted the extra rock was then used to make a different route

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    I Thought There Would Be Answers: The Mysterious Great Sphinx of Giza At the request of Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800’s Dominique Vivant Baron Denon French artist and diplomat was to record the exploits and accomplishments of Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign. In 1802, he published his travels. “The perfection given by the Egyptians to the representations of their animals proves that they were not without an idea of that bold style which expresses much character in a few lines, and their execution

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    The Man From The Tunnel I was so excited on the way to the train station. I had never been to new york city before but my mom had told me all kinds of stories about how great it was, and I was so ecstatic. After what felt like hours, we had finally reached the train station. I opened the car door and stepped my tennis shoe on the wet rainy ground. We entered the train station and while my dad walked off to talk to the ticket man i just admired the station, all the different people going to different

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    Scavenger Hunt Synopsis

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    Synopsis Twelve year old Callum Hunt has the potential to become a mage, but his father isn’t letting him. Alastair Hunt, a mage who graduated from the Magesterium has been telling his son from the beginning that magic is evil and to never attend the Magesterium. Callum is skinny and small, and has a broken leg that can’t heal, from a serious leg injury from when he was an infant. He hates this, and gets frustrated from time to time. His attempt to fail the entrance exams doesn’t work out as he shows

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    One aspect of Disneyland design that existed as a response to a changing America in 1955 is the emphasis on family unity, with a lack of alcohol and thrill rides. After the “white flight” or middle class move for new suburbs gave way to a new focus on the suburban nuclear family, Walt Disney made his park as an oasis for clean family fun. He felt that alcohol and thrill rides weren’t elements the whole family could get behind and thus didn’t include them. Another aspect in the design was to include

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