annual‚ family voyage to Cape Cod. I thought it was going to be the death of me having to share the back seat with my painfully annoying six year old sister for the six hour car ride. However having to listen to nonstop Raffi through the voice of a chipmunk couldn’t prepare me for the natural disaster I would soon face. We arrived at usual‚ quaint New England‚ home in North Truro‚ Cape Cod and we’re prepared for a pleasant two weeks of sun bathing and swimming at the beach. All went as planned for the
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the heavens‚ nor am I an unsightly abomination. My small‚ round eyes look like dark pits‚ but they glisten like amber gemstones in the sunlight. My black‚ thick-rimmed glasses cover up my unkempt‚ bushy eyebrows as well as a quarter of my face. My chipmunk cheeks as well as my broad jaw and square face makes my face appear as wide as a barn door. My hair appears as dark as the night sky; but‚ when the light shines on it‚ my long locks glow as russet as the sunset. My skin looks like the color of a
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XXX Professor XXX English 103 Spring 2013 An upstate New Yorker need not travel far to experience truly breathtaking views. Letchworth State Park is an unexpected sanctuary of beauty nestled along the Genesee River‚ just south of the city of Rochester‚ New York and only hours away from other major cities in the upstate area. Touted as the "Grand Canyon of the East‚" Letchworth State Park is the site of an expansive and winding gorge flanked by diverse layers of bedrock that date back hundreds
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Top 10 Animal Adaptations Living Together Of all the wonderful adaptations in the animal kingdom‚ perhaps the most important is the habit of living together in communal or family groups. Animals can derive a lot of benefit from spending time with other members of the same species. They can help each other find food‚ defend against predators and care for young. Countless species engage in group living‚ either in herds‚ colonies‚ harems‚ complex societies or loose associations. But perhaps the simplest
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giving the four main female characters‚ their male companions and the director‚ Michael Patrick King‚ a chance to wink‚ nod and drag out Liza Minnelli to perform “All the Single Ladies.” Her version is in no way superior to the one in “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel‚” and it is somehow both the high point of “Sex and the City 2” and a grim harbinger of what is to come. The number starts out campy‚ affectionate and self-aware‚ but at some point turns desperate‚ grating and a little sad. Come
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Lenni Lenape The Lenni Lenape always dressed for the season. Always dressed for the icy cold winters and the sticky hot summers. In the hot summers women wore a short wrap around skirt‚ and the men wore the men would wear light cloth such as breechclout and leggings tied to a belt. In the cold the men and women both wore a hide shirt‚ fur robes and perhaps mittens and fur caps. Everyone wore soft soled deerskin moccasins. Their clothes were made from deerskin and beaver skin. They kept themselves
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Ashley Baxter Professor Vallee English 1A December 6th 2012 True Happiness Happiness is a word that has been thrown around for centuries. The term means something different to everyone. To Henry David Thoreau it means not being locked down to the rules of society. To be free from social slaughter of word of mouth. Free from taxes that society is forced to pay and why? Because some big shot said so? Thoreau was a man in a natural world‚ he knew true happiness‚ he didn’t care
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Glasses are symbolic for a nerd in any story‚ look at Alvin and the Chipmunks‚ Simon wears glasses and is referred to as the nerd of the group. Piggy in this story is the nerd who wears the glasses and has the logic and knowledge throughout the story. Piggy is Ralph’s right hand man‚ and gives him advice like when he found
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Earth: A Living Planet To care for our planet we must understand how it opperates. Ecology is the study of interactions of organisms with one another and with their physical surroundings. Scientists who study ecology are called ecologists. Earts is a biosphere‚ or a living globe. The biosphere is that part of the Earth in which life exists. Biospheres include all the areas of land‚ air‚ and water on the planet. The biosphere goes about eight kilometers above the Earth’s surface to as far as eight
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Zoos are the places where animals are kept. Some people argue that animals shall not be kept in zoos as they deserve freedom. Zoos cannot provide them with enough space‚ therefore‚ they cannot run around so as to grow up freely. On the other hand‚ some people argue that animals should be kept in zoos. Nowadays‚ forests and mountains have been cut down by people. If we leave animals alone‚ they might have nowhere to find food and nowhere to live. It is for the sake of the animals themselves that
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