On Sunday‚ November 13‚ 1988‚ I made my first parachute landing from an airplane flying 12‚000 feet above ground. That weekend was very different for my friend Rondon and me. The previous day we left Sao Paulo very early‚ the city where we were studying our Masters Degree and traveled to Americana‚ a small town in the countryside located in the State of Sao Paulo‚ Brazil. When we arrived at Americana‚ about 9:00 A.M.‚ we went directly to the Marte camp‚ an area in the North side where there
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We are surrounded by living and non-living things. All animals and plants are living things and biology is the study of these living things. A cat playing with a ball is obviously living. A pigeon flying from tree to tree is also a living thing. Sometimes it is not so easy to decide. Plants are living things but they do not play with balls or fly. If something is living it will carry out all of the seven activities shown opposite. Some non-living things show one or two of the seven characteristics
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Incident in the Schoolyard. Teachers point of view: Teacher: Mr. Clean Your Ears. On Tuesday 6th of March‚ A teenage girl had been stabbed during school‚ after a fight broke out in the schoolyard. The Police detectives are investigating the incident‚ in which a group of five boys understood that the victim’s parents will press charges to the bullies‚ stabbing the victim with a pocket knife. The principal said that it was and an appalling incident and that next time if the girl is getting bullied
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Slave to Connection That nagging urge we have to constantly check our computer‚ phone‚ i-Pad‚ whatever technological device we have in our possession is due to our need to connect. Sherry Turkle‚ in her article “The Flight From Conversation”‚ makes the following observation on this issue: “We expect more from technology and less from one another”. The increased emphasis on connection rather than conversation has caused a sense of dependency on the technology that connects us. In the words of Turkle
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Muhamad Firdaus Bin Husaini 4 Epsilon The Most Unforgettable Incident For approximately 15 years I have been lived in this hurdle-filled world‚ there is one incident that I can never forget‚ and that is the time when I fortuitously entered a ladies’ public toilet. To instigate‚ I was watching Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 with my family at Alamanda‚ Putrajaya. My brother and I was very eager to watch the movie. Although at that time‚ my bladder is already at its peak‚ the
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A Message to All Earthlings from Your Friend Tudor the Just People of Earth‚ warmest and friendliest greetings! I am Tudor the Just and I come from Neptune‚ as you know if you have been watching the news. By the way‚ I want to congratulate all of your TV networks on their coverage of my landing. They did a galaxy-class job. It made me think about how much your reporters deserve the chance to cover real news—like the explosion in Cluster H356pi or the rebellion on Altair 7. The truth is‚ all
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did‚ but they did target slavery as a major problem in general. Both were similar with their purpose of each book‚ to explain why slavery is terrible to the united states. According to stowe‚ it played to the emotional side of the issue‚ showing how slave is morally terrible which is why it should go. Hinton went along with the fact how slavery is economically hurting southerners so it should go. In both books the purpose was to explain all in all why slavery was a completely bad thing. But with similarities
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by and they would look strangely at us as if we were animals. But soon enough they were the animals‚ and I learned to hate them. The day I was captured was the scariest day of my life. I was 13 years old and we were all carrying on in our normal lives‚ when we heard a distant scream. It was unusual in a small area like ours. The out of nowhere four men came running into our camp. They scattered going for anyone they could. One got my mother‚ I looked round to get my father but he was gone. She was
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FREEDOM‚ A CAUSE for CHANGE Throughout history‚ the restless struggle for freedom has never ceased to be. This is a particularly sensitive issue‚ and we can’t deny that certain nations are ignoring it at a high level. It strikes us‚ nowadays‚ how we can still spot news headlines of public figures getting arrested because they are conceived as a threat to their country. The actual so-called threat is that those people were brave enough to express certain political opinions. Nevertheless‚ today
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I had to hurry up and feed my slave‚ I took a rabbit I found hunting the other day and fed it to the psychotic man beast. He was 7 feet tall and walked on all fours a very disfigured face and ripped muscles. He completely devoured the rabbit when I threw it to him. I knew I needed to be at work in 5 minutes so I got in my car and took the allies to the school building. I pulled into the parking lot and went on into the building and down to my
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