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    example of how people only want to fight for their own survival and not patriotism is when Paul says‚ "Our thoughts are clay‚ they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire‚ they are dead. Fields of craters within and without" (Remarque 271). This statement tells the reader that even though the soldiers might think something in the beginning of the war their ideas and beliefs can change over time. This also goes in accordance with my

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    xxx Advertisements (not necessarily endorsed by The Antlion Pit): What are Antlions? • Classification • Why are they called antlions? • Size • Interrelationships with other animals Classification Antlions are a family of insects given the zoological classification Myrmeleontidae. The name is rooted in the Greek words myrmex (ant) and leon (lion). The family Myrmeleontidae is part of the order Neuroptera‚ translated variously as "nerve wings‚" "net wings‚" or "sinew wings." All

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    volcano must have a VEI of 8. A volcano with this much power doesn’t usually look like an average volcano. Instead of a cone shape‚ the lava in a super volcano resides underneath the earth and the volcano resembles a large crater with a slight bulge in the center. This large crater around the center of the volcano is a caldera. A caldera is a large basin-shaped volcanic depression resulting from the explosion of a center of a volcano. When a super volcano erupts‚ a few things happen. First‚ a magma

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    To what extent does the impact of volcanic eruptions on human activities depend on the scale of the eruption (40). The scale of volcanic eruptions is one factor‚ which can influence their human impact. Massive eruptions such as Pinatubo may cause changes to the global climate‚ i.e global cooling and its implications for food production. Such changes may be short term or long terms‚ in the past massive eruptions have permanently altered global climate and large parts of the Earth’s topography. However

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    obligated to reach out to. Deep within EverFree‚ a blackened plume of smoke rose past the treetops. Glowing heat and cinder danced freely‚ lighting dimly the crater and the foliage that jutted from the scorched earth in an orange light. Entire scores of trees and flora cleared by the skidding impact leaving a barren trail to the darkened crater where the ominous lights leaked. Not just the light from the sweltering heat and charred trees‚ but another light. An unnatural‚ artificial white light. From

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    eruption was verified by a news team from the Vancouver Columbian. As they circled the summit in an airplane‚ they spotted a dense column of ash rising through the clouds to a height of about 2000 m. As the weather cleared later in the day‚ a new crater was visible‚ with a diameter of about 70 m‚ and snow on the summit area was covered by a thin layer of dark ash. The summit eruption on March 27 was typical of several small eruptions that would occur through April and early May. None of these eruptions

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    The Vantage Point Robert Frost’s poem The Vantage Point tells of a man who is lost in the world of people so seeks refuge in nature. A vantage point is a viewpoint from which someone is able to see a wide range of things. The vantage point in the poem is where the man goes to watch the human world while remaining separate from it. Robert Frost could relate to the man in the poem as he spent most of his life as an outcast living apart from everyone else. Since Robert Frost failed as a poet and

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    the summit crater to form arcs through he sky and collecting on the sides of the cone lava clots combined to stream down the slopes in fiery rivulets. the “Visuvian” type of eruption  that explodes great amounts of ash laden gas violently  and discharges to form a cauliflower-shaped cloud high in the air above the volcano. the  “Pelean” or “Nuee Ardente” eruption. This is a glowing cloud made up largely of gas‚ dust ‚ and iridescent lava. Fragments are blown out of a central crater‚ then they fall

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    Mt. Saint Helens started to show signs of life after March 16‚ 1980. It began with small earthquakes. On March 27‚ after hundreds of small earthquakes the volcano produced it first eruption in over 100 years. Steam explosions made a 60-70 m wide crater through the volcano’s summit ice cap.

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    Cited: "Crater of Ancient Super-Volcano Discovered at Kamchatka." _The Vladivostok _TImes [Vladivostok‚ Russia] 4 Apr. 2007. Print. "Fauna." Web "Flora and Fauna." Travel Kamchatka. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. "Four Erupting Kamchatka Volcanoes." Earth Observatory

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