Imagine you’re one of the people that decide to ignore the officials warnings of an eruption on Mount St. Helens. It’s May 18‚ 1980‚ 8:32 a.m. and you hear a rumble and feel the earth move. Behind you‚ you hear a thunderous noise. When you turn around‚ you see a humongous landslide headed your way. Mount St. Helens in Washington State has erupted‚ immediately a cloud of gas‚ rock‚ and hot ash shot up in the air and race down the mountainside at an unimaginable speed. The eruption created a mass of
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The movie and the book of Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry have their differences and their similarities. In the book Uncle Hammer’s car was a Packard‚ but in the movie he drove a Cadillac. In both the book and the movie Uncle Hammer sold his car to give his brother money to buy off his property. In both the movie and the book he gave Stacey a coat. Stacey gave his coat to TJ in the book and the movie. In the book Lilian Jeans‚ Jeremy‚ RW and Melvin are simms but in the movie they are Wallace’s. All
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Christian Gooden‚ cgooden@post-dispatch.com St. Louis Christmas Tree Lots: Oligopoly and Game Theory Since Christmas is drawing near‚ the annual Christmas tree lots are beginning to open. This brings memories of my father cursing in the car every Sunday before mass because half the church lot is taken up by trees. For a few weeks Ted Drew becomes the king of Christmas not the king of custard in St. Louis. Pretend the image I selected is not taken from the St. Louis Post Dispatch but is in fact my
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Davey Oetting 12/1/06 History of St. Louis St. Louis was acquired from France by the United States under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803‚ as part of the Louisiana Purchase. It was founded by the French in 1764 when Auguste Chouteau established a fur-trading post and Pierre Laclède Liguest‚ a New Orleans merchant‚ founded a town at the present site. They named it after King Louis XV of France and his patron saint‚ Louis IX. From 1770 to 1803‚ St. Louis was a Spanish possession‚ but it was ceded
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Leonardo da Vinci‚ Virgin and Child with St. Anne‚ 1510‚ oil on panel This piece‚ painted in about 1510‚ was rumoured to have been commissioned by Louis XII to celebrate his daughter’s birth in 1499 but by the time da Vinci had finished the piece and was satisfied with it‚ it was too late. Two women and a small infant child dominate the frame and are all seated in a very idealistic outdoor‚ natural setting. St Anne is seated centrally‚ her body covered by the Virgin Mary who sits on her
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St. Jerome in his study and the Arnofini wedding are two very famous masterpieces‚ both were created in the early renaissance‚ when art was flourishing in new life. Despite both art works being created around the same time frame they were fashioned very differently‚ Jan Van Eyck the Arnofini Wedding was an oil painting while St. Jerome in his study by Albrecht Drer was engraved into a slat of wood then stamped onto a canvas. Although crafted differently they both have microscopic details and both
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Evaluation of Sources The St. Louis was a German transatlantic liner. On May 13‚ 1939 the St. Louis and it’s captain‚ Gustav Schröder‚ departed Hamburg‚ Germany with 937 passengers that were all searching for a better life in North America. After being turned away by the government of Cuba the refugees hoped to be accepted by the United States‚ however‚ president Franklin D. Roosevelt also turned them away. So now the question is‚ was FDR responsible for the fate of the St. Louis‚ and how did his reaction
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adopted on March 1‚ 1967. The exact design has varied. The current flag is cerulean blue‚ with a gold isosceles triangle below a black arrowhead. The upper edges of the arrowhead have a white border. The flag was designed by Saint Lucian artist‚ Dunstan St Omer.The blue color stands for the blue sky and blue ocean that surround the island‚ and for fidelity. Gold stands for sunshine and prosperity. The black and white portions symbolize racial harmony‚ although the majority of black shows the dominant
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The type of economic impact that St. Jude has is huge (The Commercial Appeal‚ 2015). A recent study‚ conducted by the University of Memphis‚ showed that St. Jude’s operations created more than $2 billion in economic activity. This activity was powered by 14‚710 jobs and brought in more than 70‚000 visitors to the city of Memphis. St. Jude and ALSAC employ more than 4‚400 people‚ who contribute to the economy through their residence in Memphis (Park‚ 2013). In 2015‚ the hospital revealed a plan
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St.Kyle Lind St. Lucia 1. It is an MDC because It is a small island developing state with all the inherent challenges such as a narrow economic base and a high vulnerability to external shocks and natural disasters. Agriculture in St. Lucia is in a transitional state after tropical storm Debbie hit the island in 1994. The country’s economy is traditionally based on agriculture (bananas and other crops)‚ but has a growing services sector centred on tourism and a manufacturing. There are also
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