course in really good time‚ I thought that if I could just run the fastest I could through out the whole course I could beat both there times and win. I started running so fast it felt like I was just flying through the obstacle course‚ I was just about to round the corner of my parent’s bed when all of a sudden I hear my mom yell my name. I lost my concentration for a spilt second when I turn my head to see if she was in the hall when she yells my name‚ I felt this sharp pain I had never felt anything
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Millions of people entered the US in the late 1800’s‚ but how? Ellis Island was the one and only provider for immigration in the late 1800’s. At first‚ the Battery in lower Manhattan was the immigration station. Eventually‚ the Battery could not handle the flow of immigrants. This caused the federal government to buy Ellis Island from Samuel Ellis‚ a merchant of New York City‚ and that’s how the Islands name was given. Ellis Island was opened on January 1‚ 1892 and closed in November 1954. It was the
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Martin Scorsese uses a variety of film techniques in his ever changing film Shutter Island‚ to reveal the truth about the protagonist Teddy Daniels. Dialog‚ symbolism‚ characterisation‚ music and setting help express the truth about Teddy’s investigation on the Island which is an intricate role playing experiment designed by Dr. Cawley and Dr. Sheehan. This helps reveal the truth and trauma regarding Teddy’s murder of his wife and children. The scenes that best help reveal the truth are the first
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Summary In the article‚ “Who Killed Easter Island” by Jared Diamond he states that people can affect and destroy our environment and natural resources. Easter Island can be used as a warning that cultural and environmental dangers exist due to overexploitation. Although‚ civilizations have vanished from the island it still has a remaining mystery and history to its untouched landscape. Easter Island was formed out of an ancient volcanic eruption; the island is only sixty-four square miles with habitable
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lives. We would never expect after moving into a new house that we would eventually become bankrupt. It was hard to know after all these great things happening that we would eventually leave it all. But because of this situation I have learned a lot about life and learned very important lesson. So it all starts off with a normal day I wake up and put on some fresh clothes. I’m all groggy and sleepy so I look like a zombie walking around the house. I go downstairs and I grab a bowl a spoon and I grabbed
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the Diaoyu Islands. The islands have been under the jurisdiction of China’s navy as islands affiliated with Taiwan since the Ming Dynasty. The Ming and Qing dynasties of China exercised sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islands‚ and officially included them in maps. Japan has its own claims. It believes that Japan and China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895 and as a result‚ China ceded Japan the island of Taiwan together with all its affiliated islands. Japan put
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One of the first colonies to be established‚ Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States and one of the most densely populated. This state is half the size of the second smallest state‚ Delaware. Rhode Island lacks valuable mineral deposits and fertile farmland. It was the first state to become industrialized‚ especially in the textile and jewelry trade. Rhode Island lies on the beautiful Narragansett Bay‚ and is a popular vacation area to which boaters‚ fishermen‚ and other water-sports
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Discuss the techniques that Scorsese uses in order to create and maintain suspense and mystery throughout. During the film ‘Shutter Island’ there is a vast array of different techniques used by Martin Scorsese to give the movie a deeper meaning. Many have been introduced to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Lighting techniques and sound were used during the movie to give it an atmosphere that would create confusion. The storyline is extremely manipulative of the audience and succeeds
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and join new club’s even if I was painfully shy. I eagerly took all the community service they offered me and started moving out of my comfort zone to talk to club’s in which I knew no one. My AVID teacher even helped me when I was feeling insecure about running for president of a club and I decided to go for it because of her. I ended up winning. It was in my AVID class that I practiced speeches to my class and began to build up my confidence for speaking in front of crowds. It’s through AVID I became
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The summer was coming to an end‚ and I was dreading what was coming next‚ my freshman year! Questions were circling through my brain as as I had a tiny freak out‚ What do I need? Or What outfit should I wear? While my mother tried to comfort me‚ I dismissed all help. Throughout the summer I knew this day was coming where I would have to start fresh in a new school not knowing many people at all. I had attended a parochial school for the beginning ten years of my education; when it came to high school
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