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    Getting Over My Fear

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    scared of spiders. As great as my parents were about letting their kids explore the world and letting us develop our own opinions about the organisms we encountered‚ I think my fear of spiders was largely my dad’s fault.  He still tells me stories about how our house would have been “overrun with black widows – overrun!!” if he hadn’t hauled a can of Raid out into the backyard and sprayed the heck out of every black widow he found once a week.   He talked about the sun spider (not a true

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    How do you do

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    Samuel Burke English 111 2/5/2014 Profile of Oahu Imagine a place where the water’s clear‚ the sand is warm‚ and the wildlife is everywhere. That place is Hawaii. It’s one of the most beautiful and exotic places. But more specifically than Hawaii‚ we’re talking about Oahu. It is the third largest of all the islands but it is the most populated of them all. It also has the state capital‚ Honolulu. There is an abundance of beautiful plants and animals but there are also dangerous ones living

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    Beetlejuice Screenwrite

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    some sort of material‚ but it was used as a way to introduce one of the main characters. A spider crawls up on top of the model house and in comes Adam. The first thing he does is carelessly pick up this massive spider as if it where one of his pets and carries it to a window where he releases it. Right off the bat you could tell that this man is kind to nature and very gentle with the way he handled the spider. In comes his wife‚ Barbara‚ who is filled with joy and love. Their mutual understanding

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    Strange encounters

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    It was a dark and thunderous night when returning home from my girlfriend’s house in Westville. Most of the way had clearly lit streets‚ until I got to the junction of Buttercup Lane and Meadow Street. I had a choice of taking a short cut through my local park‚ or walking around it‚ which would add a further mile to my journey. It was getting late‚ so I decided to take the short cut. The park was always dark with little or no illumination‚ except for the light given from the moon and the stars.

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    The deserted house

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    (E) The deserted house Wandering unaccompanied along the lane with sadness and emotion. There was just silence and  huge giant trees.  Not realising how long it had been‚ I found myself stood in front of a big old house.  I unconvincingly stared at it and thought to myself‚ what brought me here. It was quite a big house which was situated on it’s own in the middle of nowhere.  Around the house‚ there was a towering strong brick wall which was positioned there like a prime guard  to protect the

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    hidden treasure

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    lesson in cities is very clear – nature is an enemy‚ it’s dirty‚ dangerous or a nuisance. So youngsters learn to distance themselves from nature and to try to control it. I am astonished at the number of adults who loathe or are terrified by snakes‚ spiders‚ butterflies‚ worms‚ birds – the list seems endless. If you reflect on the history of humankind‚ you realize that for 99 per cent of our species’ existence on the planet‚ we were deeply embedded in and dependent on nature. When plants and animals

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    Adventure in the Jungle

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    slowly. The most uncomfortable thing about being in the jungle were the leeches. These little bloodsuckers never gave up. Despite thick boots and clothes‚ they still managed to bite me.For the first time in my life I saw strange birds‚ insects‚ huge spiders‚ snakes‚ trees‚ flowers‚ vines as thick as a man’s hand and various animals. The experience was unforgettable. I was awestruck by the might of nature.When we emerged from the jungle I felt as though a great weight had been lifted from me. The clear

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    Spiders vs Insects

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    Swoosh! Swoosh! "Ahh‚" the fly yelled. "Ha‚ ha‚" the spider yelled evilly. "It ’s dinner time‚" the spider yelled at the fly. "Wait! Remember we are cousins‚" the fly said scared half-to-death as the spider wrap silk around the fly. The fly was right spiders and insects were cousins because they both apart of the arthropod group in the animal kingdom. They have many differences and similarities.

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    a small Island and covered in tropical rainforest. Daytime is very hot and looks like a sauna. At night the temperature is a little cooler. You must be carefully‚ because there are a lot of poisonous animals and different types of insect. Example‚ spider and snake etc. There are many streams and rivers and there are many different types of fish. Fourth slide-Items After the crash‚ all things have remained in the sea. You don’t have any time‚ because in the water swimming crocodiles and you must

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    Synthetic Fibers

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    chemical elements. Some fibers come from ground plants that synthesize connected units of cellulose like cotton. Others are protein chains found on animals - wool‚ or the hair on your head. Other fibers are spewed from insects and worms‚ like spider webs and silk. Many of these polymers are capable of dissolving or melting‚ allowing them to be extruded into the long‚ thin filaments needed to make most textile products. Synthetic polymer fibers can be made with regular structures that allow the chains

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