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    In the book Flush by Carl Hiaasen it describes a boy who is living in Florida. This boy is named Noah and is living with his mom and sister. Noah’s father is in prison for sinking a gambling boat. In the story‚ Noah tries to prove his dad right by exposing the ship for flushing human waste to the ocean. The author‚ Carl Hiaasen is famous for writing books that are all about environmental problems in Florida. Specifically‚ this book is about water contamination. Water contamination is a big problem

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    -Obession to improve‚ knowledge Romantic Nature: -Sublime nature‚ the affects it has on the person‚ emotions and feelings‚ expressive • Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (1798) -Both return to places that bring back a rush of emotions and feelings In Tintern Abbey: “…I have owed to [these beauteous forms]/In hours of weariness‚ sensations sweet‚/ Felt in the blood‚ and felt along the heart;/ And passing even into my purer mind‚/ With tranquil

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    Olomouc   In 1843 Mendel began his training as a priest. Upon recommendation of his physics teacher Friedrich Franz  he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St Thomas in 1843. Johann Mendel took the name Gregor upon entering religious life. In 1851 he was sent to the University of Vienna to study under the sponsorship of Abbot  Napp. Mendel returned to his abbey in 1853 as a teacher of physics‚ and by 1867‚ he had replaced Napp as abbot of the monastery.

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    the abbey; Prince Prospero turns this place of worship into a huge place of pleasure‚ with beauty‚ music and drinking. Not only is the abbey used for pleasure‚ but it is used as confinement away from everyone else‚ and no one can get in or out. More use of verbal irony is in the word Prince. We would think that the Prince would help his people‚ but in fact he was selfish and wanted to save himself while everyone else died. Further verbal irony consists of the wall that went around the abbey. The

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    demonstrated in William Wordsworth’s poetry? Romantic Ideas of nature‚ solitary and disgust for developed cities are demonstrated in William Wordsworth’s poems Tintern Abbey‚ The Prelude and The Solitary Reaper. All these poems use a wide range of literary techniques to explore Romantic Ideology. Firstly‚ in the poem Tintern Abbey‚ the alliterative repetition of “These hedgerows‚ hardly hedgerows” emphasises the poets love for nature. This quote is used to demonstrate the romantic idea of nature

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    Auschwitz Sofia Smirnov had her brown hair cut short. She was suffering through the pain in her stomach she called hunger. She waited in line for her soup. She waited near the back of the line so she could get the sausage at the bottom. She made a silent prayer to just be able to make it through the day. Sofia tried not to look desperate as she saw the watery liquid being poured into bowls‚ if she seemed desperate the nazis would skip her or even kill her. It had been two days since they killed

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    divorce. In order to gain his divorce‚ Henry had to establish the Church of England and end Catholicism. King Edward VI (reigned 1547-1553) Age 10-16. Son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. Unmarried. Died from consumption. Buried in Westminster Abbey. Edward was the only son of Henry VIII. Edward VI became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father‚ Henry Vlll. He was known as ’The Boy King’. His mother was Jane Seymour‚ Henry Vlll’s third wife. Lady Jane Grey Jane Grey granddaughter

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    and Agriculture was headed by Johann Karl Nestler‚ who conducted extensive research of hereditary traits of plants and animals‚ especially sheep. Upon recommendation of his physics teacher Friedrich Franz‚ Mendel entered the Augustrian ST Thomas’s abbey and began his training as a priest.

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    printing technology for their material. They had started a radio station and Fr. Kolbe even had plans for a movie studio. Fr. Kolbe has a statue at Westminster Abbey. St. Maximilian Kolbe is among twenty modern martyrs from across the world who have a statue on the Façade of Westminster Abbey. His statue can be seen above the west door of the Abbey‚ along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and seventeen others. You can acquire relics of St. Maximilian. Though St. Maximilian’s body was

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    knows Westminster Abbey. The original building was founded in 960 AD‚ however‚ very little of it remains today. The present building dates from the reign of King Henry III. In 1245 he had the eastern part of the 11th century Abbey destroyed‚ which had been founded by King Edward the Confessor and dedicated in 1065. Earlier in Henry ’s reign‚ on 16 May 1220‚ he had personally laid the foundation stone for a new Lady Chapel at the east end of the Confessor ’s church‚ but as the Abbey ’s own financial

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