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    In the land of Chocolo‚ a lone wolf was raised with no home‚ family‚ or friends. The wolf was brave. He was ready to take on the world. When a winter blizzard hit Chocolo‚ The Lone Wolf fled to the mountains. He scavenged for c-boo berries and dried nuts. He was also looking for something else besides food; he was looking for the Diamond of Ambers. It had to be lying in the Den of Dragons‚ of course; but The Lone Wolf was‚ as you know‚ very brave. He followed the smell of brimstone‚ the distinct

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    James Howlett

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    Wolverine‚ otherwise known as James Howlett‚ is a prime member of X-men and the Avengers. James was born to John and Elizabeth Howlett‚ affluent landowners in Alberta‚ Canada. He made friends with the groundskeeper’s son‚ referred to as “Dog”. Thomas Logan‚ Dog’s father‚ entered the Howlett household in an intoxicated state to take his former lover Elizabeth away. When John seeked to stop Thomas‚ he is shot. James entered the room and began his first mutation leading to the death of Thomas Logan

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    Author Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is a short story portraying a prime example of naturalistic writing and Darwin’s scientific belief regarding “survival of the fittest‚” discovered during the naturalism era. “To Build a Fire” exemplifies naturalism by using nature as an antagonist and showing how characters‚ such as the man in the story‚ live a trapped life and are constantly dominated by the environment. In the story‚ the freezing cold weather acts as a trap toward the man who was trying to

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    “To Build A Fire” Essay Imagine traveling 60 miles in the cold and not being well prepared. Jack London’s story “To Build a Fire” explains exactly how it feels. The story is about the man who set out on a journey with his dog in the tough conditions of weather. There are many cliffhanging event cause by the the setting of the story. The setting in “ To Build a Fire” has an impact on the story. One of the first ways the setting has an impact involves the characters. For example‚ early in his trip

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    franchise‚ Pirates of the Caribbean‚ and the Anansi Myths both have trickster figures. These tricksters‚ Jack Sparrow and Anansi‚ parallel each other in their abilities to use deception and wit to outsmart others for their own ambitions. However‚ whereas Jack Sparrow avoids violent confrontation‚ Anansi is willing to kill. In Pirate’s of the Caribbean‚ the treacherous pirate of the seven seas‚ Captain Jack Sparrow‚ is a disdainful trickster with questionable ethics and who focuses solely on his own self-interest

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    The London Stock Exchange

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    The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London in the United Kingdom. As of December 2011[update]‚ the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.266 trillion (short scale)‚ making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement (and the largest in Europe).[2] The Exchange was founded in 1801 and its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Paul ’s Cathedral in the City of London. The Exchange is part of the London Stock

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    The Fire of London 1666

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    THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON The Great Fire of London was a disaster that spread throughout the City of London in September 1666. Preceded by bubonic plague which struck England in 1665‚ the fire was another disastrous event that threatened Londoners in the seventeenth century. Medieval in its street plan‚ the City of London with timber buildings and very narrow streets had been threatened by several minor fires before. Yet the risk of the fire of 1666 was increased by a long period of severe drought

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    London Heathrow Airport

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    London Heathrow Airport. London’s Heathrow is one of the world’s busiest airports. It is used by over 90 airlines flying to 170 destinations worldwide. The airport has five passenger terminals and a cargo terminal. In the 1950s‚ Heathrow had six runways‚ now it has just two parallel runways running east-west. Heathrow has witnessed strong growth over recent decades‚ currently handling 68 million passengers and 477‚000 flights a year compared to around 48 million passengers and 427‚000 flights

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    than what would the fifty degrees below zero Yukon in Canada be considered? To travel in a foreign land without any people within a mile is quite a dangerous and ignorant idea‚ yet doing this in weather that is fifty degrees below zero is absurd. Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” depicts a man with nothing but a husky and a couple of biscuits traveling in the Yukon‚ and he dies while trying to survive this journey‚ for he faces adversity by traveling in brutal weather‚ by having to make crucial decisions

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    My Boy Jack

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    My boy jack is a very powerful movie that really moved me in a way that no other movie has in a long time. When I found out that this is about Rudyard Kipling’s son was based on a real event‚ my reaction to the film were even more sharp. When the movie was finished and the credits started rolling‚ I sat quietly‚ pondering the fear of war and all the sacrifices that come with it. It is indeed breath taking. The cast of the film is very genuine. David Haig‚ whose face looked very familiar to me

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