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    Australia has been under the threat of rabbits for over a hundred years‚ but now its causing major stress to citizens as the population is peaking. Rabbits are a threat that is only a nuisance to everyday life producing erosion and disease. The Easter bunny must be terminated. Jimboomba is 40km west of the Gold Coast ( 27.8299° S‚ 153.0174° E ) the average temperature in summer is 37*c. Jimboomba covers 4.4km2 and is home to over 10 different species of native flora and fauna. These conditions are

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    ‘’John and Alice‚ for your exemplary performance in your year-end examinations‚ we are going for a little family holiday.’’ said James Brown‚ father of John and Alice Brown. ‘’Where? Where?’’ asked the children excitedly. ‘’We’re going to a place that offers unlimited peace and quiet. That place is Bermuda. And while you’re there……’’ James spoke at length about proper etiquette and how it would affect them. Although it was quite boring‚ it would have benefitted them if they had paid attention instead

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    Bambara’s‚ “The Lesson”‚ illustrates the story of children growing up in poverty and how one person can make a huge difference in their lives. How one person creates an environment to help children not only discover‚ but succeed in learning some very important issues about the world around them. Education for children in poverty stricken neighborhoods‚ such as the main character‚ Sylvia’s‚ proves itself difficult to acquire‚ however is essentially the best way to move beyond poverty; shown by the

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    Review of Article The sacraments are a large part of the Christian faith. Without them‚ we would have a very different religion than we have today. In John O’Brien’s article Easter‚ Baptism‚ and the Fifty Days‚ He dives into the ideas Easter and the fifty days that accompany Easter and the sacrament of baptism. O’Brien Uses the sacraments as evidence of gods love for us. At the beginning of the article‚ O’Brien talks about a woman named Frances Caryll Houselander who wrote the book The Way of the

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    “The Lesson” Edward Lucie-Smith About the Poet Edward Lucie-Smith‚ a British poet and art critic‚ was born in Jamaica in 1933 and graduated from Oxford University in 1954. He has lived in London since 1951‚ where he worked as an advertising copywriter (1956-66) and as an editor of books on art. Among his works of poetry are A Tropical Childhood (1961) and Confessions and Histories (1964). His important criticism includes Art in Britain 1969-1970 (1970)‚ Symbolist Art (1973)‚ American Art Now (1985)

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    The Lesson In “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara‚ the author writes about Sylvia’s childhood experience as a student. She is a young-immature‚ uneducated‚ and naive kid who doesn’t know much about life‚ but her teacher tries to help her by giving her a lesson of reality as well to the rest of her students. She describes her teacher as a lady‚ Miss Moore‚ with “nappy hair‚” “proper speech‚” and “no makeup.” Sylvia explains how she feels when she goes to toy store in Fifth Avenue. For example‚

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    INTRODUCTION Penang Island was founded in 1786 by a multilingual maverick‚ Captain Francis Light of the British colonial firm‚ the East India Company. The Sir Francis Drake of his day‚ Captain Light envisaged his new town as a harbor for China-bound ships in pursuit of tea and opium. Under Captain Light‚ Penang was given duty-free status and new arrivals were allowed to claim as much land as they could clear. According to one story‚ he ended up bombarding it with silver dollars from cannons

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    Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal‚ between the Indian peninsula to the west and Burma to the north and east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India‚ while a small number in the north of the archipelago belong to Burma. 12 00 N92 45 E is the longitude and longitude of these islands. Paragraph on the topography of the land: Flat? Mountainous? Plateau like? The climate

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    the artist uses their unconscious to move paint in an emotionally expressive way. Willem de Kooning’s Easter Monday is a cross between figurative art and abstract expressionism‚ thus‚ creating a real sense of ambiguity when viewing the painting. Easter Monday is an abstract urban landscape that uses

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    A group of archaeologists discovered a lost island. The island was once the ancient city of Kane. It was discovered in the eastern Aegean Sea. Xenophon was a Greek historian that mentioned the island. The island is memorable because of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C. The Arginusae islands are now referred to as Garip islands. Venerable sources refer to three Arginusae islands. However‚ the precise location of the third island is vague. Researches used geological evidence to confirm that Kane

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