Dear Chris Colfer‚ In the past week‚ I read Struck By Lightning‚ your most recent novel. I must say‚ the novel actually hit home for me. Carson’s level of... Bluntness‚ shall we say‚ combined with his biting sarcasm reminded me of myself‚ a fact that I greatly enjoyed. For example‚ when he says "I remember my first grade teacher was giving a lesson on subtraction. ’When one thing takes another away‚ what do we call that?’ she asked my class. ’Homicide!’ I called out‚ so proud of myself‚" I was reminded
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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17‚ 1706 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. In Boston is where he attended Boston Latin School. Boston Latin School is located It was at the age of 10 that he dropped out of school to work full-time in his father’s candle and soap shop. His father was a very rich man. Ben didn’t like working at his father in his shop because it didn’t seem to interest him and he wanted a hobby to spark his imagination. He also worked at his brother print shop where he was sometimes beat
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I’m found people can have more red things‚ I’m the red rubber duck‚ but not just any red rubber duck I help people find red things and I make sure people are ok. My life time story was that I was on a Chinese ship and the lightning hit so I washed up on shore‚ and the lightning is what turned me red. But people think I’m special because of the way I talk and I’m a rubber duck and everyone knows rubber ducks can’t talk that’s why I’m special. Its cargo of toys spilled into the churning seas‚ forced
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are H. 214 x W. 50.8 x 61cm. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it was purchased in 1966 by Harris Brisbane Dick fund. The sculpture portraits the Maya deity Chahk‚ here as an axe-wielding personification of rain‚ storms and lightning. The large axe symbols lightning. Chahk is known as the Storm God‚ it has an open mouth to show that he is shouting or threatening. There are two holes in the axe; these were often filled with blades of stone. His left hand is missing‚ but if it was there it would
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War. By that time‚ the development of the “Lightning Bug” spy planes had been sufficiently developed for use in Vietnam and southern China. The Lightning Bug drones had numerous advantages‚ such as various countermeasure systems‚ a low cost‚ and little risk for the controlling crew[2]. The United States used the Lightning Bug drones on over a thousand missions during the Vietnam War‚ though some led to an emphasis on developing new UAV programs. The Lightning Bug employed a very basic control program
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creates‚ and the most important function of weather imagery is to link Macbeth with evil and chaos. The connection between foul weather and evil is emphasized from the opening of the play. The stage directions for scene I reads‚ “Thunder and lightning.” As the witches enter and begin speaking‚ the connection between evil and weather is established: “When
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CHEM002-ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SUBMITTED TO: ENGR. EFREN CHAVEZ LIGHTNING ROD American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin was particularly interested in electricity and set up a small laboratory in his house to investigate its properties. His interest soon switched from electricity to lightning after he noticed the similarities between the two. One stormy night‚ he conducted a life-threatening experiment to demonstrate that lightning is the result of an electric build up. He constructed a kite
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Final Fantasy XIII’s Parallels to Mythology Final Fantasy is a roleplaying videogame series‚ which includes many elements‚ and morals that can be found in Greek mythology. The plot of this video game is highly complicated‚ due to it taking place in a futuristic or alternate universe. Although there are fourteen different editions of Final Fantasy‚ the themes of the games all remain similar. They all take place in separate galaxies‚ which are much different from ours. Most characters are based off
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political commentaries to date. Lim published her first short story collection called Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore (1978)‚ which showed the wit with which Lim is able to portray Singaporean society. A succeeding collection‚ Or Else‚ the Lightning God and other Stories‚ was published in 1980. Another story collection that followed in this tradition was O Singapore: Stories in Celebration from 1988. Her first novel was published in 1982 and it was entitled The Serpent ’s Tooth. Other popular
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times in their life when it seems as if nobody cares. Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas and qualities; symbolism is used many ways within Frankenstein. One example takes place when Victor is at his home late one night‚ and lightning strikes
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