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    into orbit did they have oxygen? Answer: False‚ not until Mr. Wonka press on the button marked oxygen. (p.9) 8. Why Charlie said it’s a queerest feeling? Answer: Because he is swimming in the air‚ he feel like a bubble. (p.9) 9. Why Charlie and Grandpa Joe were hooting with laughter? Answer: Because the tree old ones were trying frantically to get back into the bed‚ but without success. Every time they got above the bed and tried to lie down‚ they simply floated up out of it. (p.10) 10. Who saw them

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    Joe Louis

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    Joe Louis 10 facts 1. Joe Louis was born on May 13‚ 1914‚ in Lafayette‚ Alabama 2. Joe Louis went on to become the heavyweight champion of the world‚ holding the title for nearly 12 years and through 25 challenges‚ the longest reign in professional boxing. 3. In 1942‚ Joe served in a segregated unit with Jackie Robinson in the U.S. Army‚ who later became the first African American to play major league baseball. 4. Joe won the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union 175-pound championship in

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    Shoeless Joe

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    Shoeless Joe WP Kinsella wrote Shoeless Joe in 1982. The novel was the source for the popular movie‚ Field of Dreams‚ in 1988. Shoeless Joe is the story of Ray Kinsella‚ an avid baseball fan‚ and the journey he takes and the lengths he goes to fulfill a dream. The Journey takes Ray too many different places around the Northeast; and even places he thought his mind would never go. Ray Kinsella is your typical mid-west farmer. He and his wife Annie have a daughter and a small corn farm in the middle

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    Joe Dimaggio

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    paragraph Main-Lit Ms. Newbrough Joe DiMaggio Joe DiMaggio‚ a renowned baseball player in U.S.‚ had a different‚ unique family background that led him to countless success and become a paragon of American dream. He was an Italian immigrant‚ and his family made a living by catching fish at San Francisco. His father required Joe to be a fisherman to support his poor family‚ but he refused‚ because he did not like the odor of fish and the environment. As a result‚ Joe was called a “lazy” boy‚ and dissension

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    Joe Louis

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    Topic:Joe Louis I. Introduction A.Background - Joe Louis Barrow‚ the seventh child of Monroe and Lily Barrow‚ was born May 13‚ 1914 in a cabin in the cotton fields of Lexington‚ Alabama. While Joe was still a young boy‚ his father suffered a mental breakdown and later died.His mother later married Pat Brooks‚ a widower with many children of his own‚ and the combined family moved to Detroit when Joe was ten. B.Thesis Statement- Joe Louis was a professional boxer during the great depression

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    Shoeless Joe

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    Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella Section A: The novel‚ Shoeless Joe‚ by W.P. Kinsella is set on Ray Kinsella’s farm‚ in Iowa City‚ during the 1970’s. During the 1970’s‚ the ownership of farms was quickly decreasing because larger companies started to buy them off the small owners. The Kinsella farm had acquired great value and even though Ray’s brother-in-law Mark pushed him to sell it‚ he would always turn down the offer or suggestion. Ray had heard a voice say to him “If you build I‚ he will come

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    Trader Joe

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    Trader Joe’s is named after its founder‚ Joe Coulombe. The chain began in 1958 as a Greater Los Angeles area chain of "Pronto Market" convenience stores. The original Pronto Markets were similar to 7-Eleven stores‚ so similar Coulombe felt the competition with 7-Eleven would be ruinous.[6]He is said to have developed the idea of the Trader Joe South Seas motif while on vacation in the Caribbean.[7] He had noticed that Americans were traveling more and returning home with tastes for food and wine

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    Gi Joe Essay

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    The GI Joe Case History and Current Situation Released in 1964‚ G.I. Joe was marketed to children as the “Real American Hero”. G.I. Joe marked the birth of the action figure‚ a doll for boys. The toy was the creation of Stan Weston and the of the Hasbro team. Today Hasbro is the second-largest toymaker in the United States. It has become a $3 billion sales year player over the last 20 years‚ with 16% of the market share. Most of this growth has come from acquisitions‚ creating a toy market

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    Is Joe Biden the Man?

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    Jesse Sallee English 103-55 Nicole Pena 8/31/12 Is Joe Biden the man? So far this year‚ the news stations have been reporting hardly anything but politics. The reason politics are the talk of the nation is because of the upcoming presidential race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. News stations are not the only places that political opinions can be found—newspapers‚ magazines‚ tabloids‚ etc. provide a source of information as well. In this particular political cartoon (pictured

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    Joe Louis "The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. Although throughout his life he lived in many places including Las Vegas and Chicago‚ he still always considered Detroit home. Officially Joe Louis Barrow‚ Joe was born in the foothills of Alabama to his mother Lillie and father Muroe Barrow on May 13‚ 1914. Munroe was a sharecropper‚ but was committed to an asylum when Joe was only two‚ and died when he was four. Following this his mother got a job doing washing to

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