20‚000 Leagues Under the Sea‚ is a novel by Jules Verne‚ a famous French author and poet. Jules Verne has been one of the most influential authors on the genre of science fiction‚ writing stories that depicted ideas that people from his time found abstract and unusual. In his novel‚ 20‚000 Leagues Under the Sea‚ Jules Verne tells the story of a Frenchman named M. Pierre Aronnax‚ a famous marine biologist that has written many world renown books about the creatures of the deep sea. The story takes
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Opposites are found everywhere in the world. Almost everything in the world is an opposite and this can be seen in people as well. In the novel 20‚000 leagues under the sea‚ by Julius Verne‚ Pierre Aronnax is a scientist and studies organisms. Then the news starts reporting about a monster and Arronnax wants to find out what it is. So‚ he boards a government ship called the Abraham Lincoln with Conciel‚ his assistant. While on the Abraham Lincoln‚ professional harpooner‚ Ned Land is also on the ship
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Several years before and after the turn the turn of the twentieth century‚ America experienced a large influx of European immigration. These new citizens had come in search of the American dream of success‚ bolstered by promise of good fortune. Instead they found themselves beaten into failure by American industry. Upton Sinclair wanted to expose the cruelty and heartlessness endured by these ordinary workers. He chose to represent the industrial world through the meatpacking industry‚ where the
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History People have used many different things to protect themselves. It started out as clothes and shields made from animal skins‚ and eventually‚ as we got smarter‚ we made shields out of wood‚ and then metal. From there‚ metal was also used to create armor protecting your body. After the 1500’s‚ when guns were introduced‚ metal armor became much less effective‚ so they had to recreate their protection. The first soft body armor was made in Japan‚ and produced from silk. This was too
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The book 20‚000 Leagues under the Sea written by Jules Verne was a science fiction novel of its time‚ originally published in 1870 in French‚ and later translated many different times. The copy of this book that I read was 418 pages long‚ published by The Floating Press and copyrighted by the same company in 2009. This book began with rumors of a large oceanic ‘beast’‚ hypothesised to be a ‘narwhal’ being seen by many different boats. Professor Pierre Aronnax‚ a French marine biologist‚ was given
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forget to shut off the AUTOSAVE feature if you’re worried about overwriting a previous clean save. Player Item Console Command Player.additem ITEM “###” Gives items depending on what Item Code is input. Type in the item name under “ITEM” and the amount of items you want under “###”. Player.addperk “###” The same as the command above‚ use this command to add perks in the code list below. Item Codes SEARCH WITH CTRL-F Perks 000153CE ConjurationDualCasting 000153CF DestructionDualCasting 000153D0
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It’s a Jungle Out There Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ gives a heart breaking portrayal of the hardships faced by the countless poverty stricken foreign laborers in the slaughter houses of Chicago. In the early 1900’s‚ strikes‚ riots‚ labor unions‚ and new political parties arose across the country. The government‚ with its laissez-faire attitude‚ allowed business to consolidate into trusts‚ and with lack of competition‚ into powerful monopolies. These multi-million dollar monopolies were
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Draft 1- Letter to the Editor paper U.S. History 4th hour Nov. 10 1665 65th Street Chicago‚ Illinois 49408 Chicago Tribune 1864 Rutherford Street Chicago‚ Illinois November 10‚ 1900 To Whom It May Concern I am a concerned resident of the great city of Chicago who would like to express a few ideas on the following subject. For many years‚ the meat packing industry of this town has provided many jobs and generated great amounts of commerce. However‚ the
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Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and
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Entry #1 Page Range: 1-8 Entry: We were on a mission today here’s how it went “enemy contact‚ hostiles on my position.” I knew there were hundreds of them out there. All of our motion sensors were like radiation scanners in a nuclear fallout. Blue one was running faster and swifter than all of us even with the Mjolnir armor on‚ it weighed over 300 pounds. We jumped up onto the ridge shooting armor piercing rounds into the grunts and elites tearing through their armor and Into their skin. The screeches
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