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    it will ruin the fun. Contrary to the motel rooms‚ the deep wood accommodation entails sleeping in tents or cabins. The latter resemble ordinary houses‚ but lack installed electricity heating systems; wood or portable fuel is used‚ proper water and sewerage installations‚ enhanced security‚ beds: you sleep on sleeping bags and cabin bunks‚ and they are mostly made of wood or canvas. Sleeping in tents and cabins generates some excitement for the unexpected or anxiety. You will have fun collecting wood

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    In the 1800’s following the war of 1812‚ the term commonly applied to that era in the United States was known as the “era of good feelings”. While the United States was growing in several different aspects‚ such as politically‚ socially and economically‚ and changing as a country‚ there are several key factors that denote this term‚ and nullify its meaning. While the changes were significant‚ and the United States evolved at an exponential rate after the war of 1812‚ the accuracy of the term “era

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    enough barracks to house new inmates. Anne‚ Margot‚ and the group from Auschwitz were put in tents. One night‚ in a violent thunderstorm‚ the tent where they were sleeping collapsed and several people were seriously injured. Anne and Margot spent a number of nights sleeping under the fallen tent‚ and were then crowded into the wooded and stone barracks shared by the other inmates” (Sawyer 94). Food was very scarce‚ sanitation was awful‚ and disease ran rampant (“Anne Frank Biography”). “With roads

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    education and financial stability reflected the way women behaved. Wollstonecraft asserts that because of their dependence on their husbands women were "cunning‚ mean‚ and selfish"(pg. 748). Love‚ as Wollstonecraft declares‚ "is not to be bought…; its silken wings are instantly shriveled up when anything beside a return in kind is sought" (pg. 748). Women grew to be so suppressed and obedient‚ that they weren’t able to possess good judgment in governing a

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    Dance‚ Dance‚ Dance by Haruki Marukami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Marukami Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Life of Pi by Yann Martel On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Facts about the Moon by Dorianne Laux Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann What is the What by Dave Eggers The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Milke White Oleander by Janet Fitch Leaves of

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    Letting out a tiny sigh‚ I laid a finger on the leather-bound tome and whispered a short incantation in the tongue of my forebears. From nothingness‚ a stream of sparkling violet light issued forth‚ weaving around my fingers like the prettiest of silken ribbons. Just like the ribbons Mother

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    is a haven of bliss. Well there are eyes and no eyes. I was at the camp today‚ and just in one little corner this is the sort of thing I found. A girl of 21 lay dying on a stretcher-the father‚ a big gentle Boer‚ keeling beside her; while‚ next tent‚ his wife was watching a child of six‚ also dying‚ and one of about five drooping. Already this couple had lost three children in the hospital‚ and so would not let

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    Elizabeth Miller ES 2400 Sec 01: Intro American Indian Studies Final Research Paper The Ojibwa Tribe and their Dances and Ceremonies “When Ah-ki’ (the Earth) was young‚ it was said that the Earth had a family. Nee-ba-gee’-sis (the Moon) is called Grandmother‚ and Gee’-sis (the Sun) is called Grandfather. The Creator of this family is called Gi’-tchie Man-i-to’(Great Mystery or Creator). The Earth is said to be a woman. In this way it is understood that woman preceded man on the Earth. She is

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    in southern Tanzania she found there was just a small pop-up tent to sleep in. It had been placed on the trail hippos used to reach water‚ so she moved it away from the river to avoid being trampled‚ and assumed she would be safe. "But on my first night a male lion came sniffing around my tent‚" she says. She grabbed a deodorant and pocket knife in case she had to defend herself‚ but at that point the lion just lay down on the tent‚ trapping her arm. "I was terrified. I thought it was going to

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    In American history‚ women have had a profound role. Whether it was the lack of freedom or the excessiveness of their decisions‚ women have shaped what America has become and what it will continue to grow into. Daphne Spain explains in her article entitled “Women’s Rights and Gendered Spaces in 1970s Boston‚” how “During the 1970s feminists in Boston declared their rights to their own bodies by establishing women’s health clinics and domestic violence shelters. In doing so‚ they wrote a modern chapter

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