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    “Children are our greatest treasure. They are our future.” -Nelson Mandela. Children and young adults’ minds are like sponges. Anything they hear or see will be remembered in some way or another. But‚ just like a sponge‚ there is only so much room to consume information before it runs out of space. Many activities are thought to be important for students to do such as sports‚ school clubs‚ and part time jobs; all which take up valuable space in not only their minds‚ but their time of day as well

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    discovered but no matter how you look at it‚ you can’t make a mistake and not make a discovery. You can’t make a discovery without making a mistake. The “Goofs and Great Inventions” passage set proves this in each of the passages. In Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasure‚ Heinrich Schliemann was a trickster and a greedy man‚ but he still loved adventures and discovery. Frank Calvert did not have enough money to dig and discover in the part of Turkey that he owned and asked if Schliemann would help him. As it states

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    When I was eight‚ I learned just how cruel irony can be. From a young age‚ I had always been interested in space. In fact‚ one of my earliest memories is watching Disney’s animated adaptation of Treasure Planet. As a four-year-old‚ it was impossible not to fall in love with a movie about pirates in space‚ and the movie influenced what I wanted to do in life. After that‚ whenever I was asked what I wanted to do when I grew up‚ I would say I wanted to be an astronaut. However‚ the challenges life

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    Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. It is not necessarily the presents‚ the decorations‚ the holiday songs‚ or the lights that make this holiday the most glorious holiday ever. Rather‚ it is my family’s traditions that make me love this day more than the rest. While many families center their lifestyle around traditions and enriching values of their culture‚ the notion of incorporating tradition into our daily lives has always been of a lesser importance. For my family‚ Christmas is the

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    Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in his book‚ Treasure Island‚ “Standing on the dock‚ I started talking to another man passing the time. He told me he was a former sailor‚ but now kept an inn in Bristol. Now that his health was not as good on land‚ he was looking for a job as a cook on a ship.” At this point in the book‚ Treasure Island‚ by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ Squire Trelawney is writing to Dr. Livesey about the person he hired to be the cook on the Hispaniola‚ the ship that Squire Trelawney‚ Dr

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    Treasure Island Treasure Island is an adventure tale that deals with greed and a central theme of good versus evil (bad guys versus good guys). “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other‚ or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” (Matthew 6:24) Once the main character Jim Hawkins leaves his boring life at the Inn‚ the book becomes very fast paced and more exciting which is due to the main characters sense of

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    SRIMAD BHAGAVAD-GITA The Hidden Treasure of the Sweet Absolute Editor: The dearmost disciple and associate of The King of Spitirual Teachers Of Vaishnava Ontology Vaishnava-siddhantacharya-samrat Jagad-guru Prabhupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharaja Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Sarva-sastra-siddhanta-vit Astottara-sata-sri Srimad Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Goswami Maharaja Rendered into English by Tridandi Bhiksu Sripad Sagar Maharaj Assisted

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    accurately‚ they are all important. Three areas in which significant advancements have occured are treasure hunting in the sea‚ hurricane hunting for meteorology purposes‚ and methods for finding ruins of ancient civilizations faster than ever before. Out of these‚ it is no question that the finding of ruins left behind by ancient civilizations are the most advanced technologies. Treasure hunting has been around for a very long time. There are an estimated three million sunken ships in the

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    Speech – KTsekenes -Turkey- To the international court‚ we request that the famed “treasure of Priam” currently held in the Pushkin Museum of Moscow‚ Russia be returned to its rightful owners‚ Turkey. The treasure was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann on the 31st of May 1883 at Hissarlik in North West Turkey. This site is also known as the site of ancient Troy. Schliemann did not originally have a permit at the time to excavate and subsequent agreements that followed between Schliemann and

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    Does one not really sit down and question oneself? What is it that I hold precious? It is a difficult question to answer because one takes so many things for granted and yet even if one of them was removed we would miss it terribly. Many people cannot do without money or the comforts which money can buy; but I think in the long run these are the things one may manage without. There are other things which are indispensableand which are precious in life. Health is the foremost amongst them. One cannot

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