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    Helen Adams Keller was an American author and lecturer. She was born in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama on June 27‚ 1880 and died on June 1‚ 1968. When Helen was nineteen months old‚ she was stricken with a damaging brain fever that left her blind and deaf. There was no way she could be educated until she was seven years old‚ when a teacher named Annie Mansfield Sullivan came to teach her to read the Braille system and to write with a specially constructed typewriter. Annie was almost blind herself from a fever

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    flows travel down slope from a volcano. The Mount St. Helens pyroclastic flow spread as far as five miles north of the crater. The hot lava flows and suffocating ash falls destroying plant and animal life. The eruptions are over‚ but consequences go on. What happens to the surrounding environment after such an eruption? The Earth repairs itself from the destructive effects of the lava‚ gases and ash spewed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. It is the short-term hazards posed by volcanoes that are

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    Helen‚ thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently‚ o’er a perfumed sea‚ The weary‚ way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam‚ Thy hyacinth hair‚ thy classic face‚ Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece‚ And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo‚ in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand‚ The agate lamp within thy hand‚ Ah! Psyche‚ from the regions which Are Holy Land!” By Edgar

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    Mt.Saint Helens By:Kailey Olson 7W Have you ever been through a natural disaster? My mom‚dad and grandma have all experienced one.They all had to find new ways to live their daily lives but with more percussions.The Mt. Saint Helens eruption was hard on my mom because she couldn’t play outside for a while. My mom was eleven‚ when Mt. Saint Helens erupted.It was May 18‚1980 at 8:30 in the morning and my mom was play outside in the parking lot with her friend. She was about to go to Sunday school

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    The Beginning Years of Helen Keller’s Life Helen Keller’s‚ “The Story of My Life” is a look of her early life and how she remembers it. She describes how she became blind and deaf‚ her early life‚ her family‚ and how she communicated despite her disabilities. Although she was timid about writing her life story‚ she becomes very creative and more open as she grows older and writes more of her story. Even though she can remember very little of things she saw and heard‚ she describes everything in

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    Helen Lawson had been the supervisor of the Metro City Health Department’s suburban Health Centre for a period of two months wherein things were going smoothly. However‚ she had one pressing issue that was threatening to weigh down all the gains‚ because she had managed to squeeze out of her short stint at her new position. Mr. Morgan was the staff doctor for the state funded health project and wanted Helen to remove Mrs. Wilson‚ a nurse‚ from the office. This happens because Mrs. Wilson is reported

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    several active Mountains all over the world and they all have stories behind them. One of these active mountains of interest is the Mount Saint Helens. This Mountain got its name from a British diplomat known as Lord Saint Helens and is located in the Skamania Country in Washington State formed in the northern region of the United States of America. Mount Saint Helens is known to be one of the top 10 most famous volcanoes in the world due to the deadly pyroclastic flows and ash explosions well known to

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    Helen Keller “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart”. American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians. Together with the help of her beloved teacher Anne Sullivan‚ who was also partially blind‚ Helen was able to achieve many goals in life.     Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27‚ 1880 in Tuscumbia‚ Alabama. Keller was born with her

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    rose in popularity‚ becoming a multi million dollar industry. There are many a variety of games‚ from adventure games‚ to role playing games‚ and shooter games. Let’s take a look at two of the hottest shooter games of 2016. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and Titanfall 2. Rainbow Six and Titanfall 2 are both shooter games set from a first person perspective. With a variety of weapons and gadgets‚ both have a deeper layer of customization. The player can equip different camos on their weapons and characters

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    Helen Betty Osborne was attacked by “white” men because she was seen as an easy target because of her identity was an aboriginal women. She was abducted by these four men while she was walking‚ presumably home‚ when she was raped then killed with a screwdriver. The case a significantly not only because this attack was because of her race but her race also played a role on the investigation from the RCMP. Because there was no lead on the investigations for a while the police dropped the case. Sixteen

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