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    The waves form and break in front of me, the sound of them crashing lingers in my ears . Sitting here at the beach, I feel as if the world was still and I was the only one who existed. My toes dig into the warm, golden sand and the pleasure sweeps over me. The slight breeze is twisting my hair into knots but I don’t care. Without a breeze, the beach wouldn’t be the beach. All I hear is the roaring waves crashing in front of me and the smell of salt and sand in the air. My feet hit the icy water and

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    insignificance within its domain, and more important business for itself. My tiny body amid this vast strange universe, staring at the gunmetal clouds, overcome with motion sickness that I had never experienced before. Otherworldly, the impossible spinning waves tunneled through my cells, and with it this time – the smell of death. It hit like a copper truck slamming into me creating a hole to dump its load of rotten eggs, human waste, cheap perfume, and rotting meat forcing my cells to explode from the inside

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    is the type of thing that just makes one feel invincible once accomplished. When I was nine years old, I was given the opportunity to surf for the first time in Maui, Hawaii where I overcame my fear of trying new things. I woke up to the sound of waves crashing onto the beach and a seagull’s “Caw! Caw!” For some reason, being on vacation makes me famished in the morning, so I got up and walked into the kitchen where my dad had already made me some scrumptious scrambled eggs. I devoured them and then

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    It was a sunny day meaning only the main street lights had to be on during the day. Sarah Gamble was outside drawing messages in the mud when her mom called her inside. “Wipe your feet and help me clean up for our guests. They’ll be here in about fifteen minutes.” Sarah had heard about her cousin Travis, but had only imagined the details of his personality. She dreamed of a strawberry blonde with cute freckles and a goofy smile. A boy with an imaginative brain and an adventurous spirit just like

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    Advantages: • Harmonic reduction is possible. • Undesirable harmonics are absent. • Reactive power compensation is possible. Disadvantages: • Resonance with line impedance occurs. • Tuning frequency is less accurate and requires a lot of calculations. • It cannot be used when harmonic components vary randomly. • Heavy and bulky. 3.1.2 Active Filters: It inject equal and opposite harmonics onto the power system to cancel those generated by other equipment. Remarkable advances in the field of power

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    Harmonics Mitigation Line harmonics can have costly and disruptive effects on electrical distribution system. At present there are several reduction or mitigation methods in use to reduce the distortion of the voltage and current from non-linear distribution loads such as variable frequency drives (VFDs). Description of each method with relative advantages and disadvantages are as follows. No method used The adjustable frequency drive requirements for IEEE 519 1992 guidelines may not be met without

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    Hypothesis: In the study it was hypothesized that as the nicotine dependence progresses it would lead to low positivity in the mood, high negativity in the mood, and higher mood variability. The study also observed whether nicotine dependence in a person changes after increasing the frequency of the person smoking during the course of the study. Methods: a. Participants In the study, the participants who were recruited were from the SECASP project. The study was a longitudinal study based on examining

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    The Same The birds awoke me again this morning. Scraping and tapping at my window; almost begging me to get out there and play with them. They are the most beautiful creatures in the world, you know? The way they have the ability to soar anywhere they desire. To explore the far edges of the horizon, flying over trees and escaping from the world on the ground. The day began to unravel, as any other before it. The weather fine, the children giggling and playing with one another in the yards. I

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    splashing in the water riding the waves, riding our boogie boards. Oh yes today was going to be fun! As I put on my swim suit I smelt the lingering smell of the oceans salty water from the previous time we had gone to the beach. It reminded me of how much fun I had, had and made me even more exited. The whole time we were in the car driving to the beach I couldn’t help but remember how much I loved the ocean, I loved the salty water, the enormous waves, I loved riding the waves with my board or just body

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    She stood in a laced primrose red dress with her arms resting over the luxurious balcony decorated with snow white leather seats accessorized with robin blue designer pillows. It was a wet and foggy April’s day and it was drizzling ever so slightly. The small rain drops dripped down her neck like bugs. The heavens peeked through the storm clouds and showed exultant colors of coral and lavender. It was as if the sky above was whispering to her the most tragic secrets of life. Nobody knew this alluring

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