Earth Day Earth Day is an annual holiday‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In 2013 the day is 43 years old. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network‚[1] and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.[2] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco‚ the date proposed was March 21‚ 1970‚ the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in
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IF I HAD THREE DAYS TO DO WHATEVER I WANTED… I would take the chance to do things that are valued the most to me. In these three days‚ it is said that money‚ time‚ and rules are not taken in consideration. Therefore‚ I would have complete freedom in doing whatever I wanted and make the impossible‚ possible in these days. On the first day‚ I would want to explore the other side of the universe. Ever since I was a little child‚ I had an adventurous side to me. I wanted to explore
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Sierra G History 11/8/12 Election Day was November 6th‚ 2012! I wasn’t ready but I was ready. I was sitting in the living room with my mom and little brothers. We were flipping from Fox 13 to CNN. I was getting nervous and so were my brothers. I was on the edge of the couch‚ I kept closing my eyes and slickly opening them back up and biting my nails. It was a close race though. Thank the lord Obama won!!! Barack Obama: 50% with 303 electoral votes Mitt Romney: 48% with 206 electoral votes
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Thanksgiving two-thousand and fifteen started out normal‚ my sister and I arrived around one to start to help my grandparents prepare for the mighty feast we were going to have. My grandmother works her ass off every day for a week straight in order to make sure this day is spectacular. After a while of being at her house around four thirty my brother and father showed up making the house filled with laughter and joy. The laughter bounced from room to room‚ off wall to wall and created the sweetest
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BOXING DAY 1. When is Boxing Day? - In Britain‚ Boxing Day is usually celebrated on the following day after Christmas Day‚ which is 26 December. - Like Christmas Day‚ Boxing Day is a public holiday. This means everybody doesn’t have to go to school or work on that day. If Boxing Day falls on Saturday or Sunday‚ the following Monday is the Boxing Day. 2. History of Boxing Day. Why is it called Boxing Day? a) To protect ships: - During the Age of Exploration‚ when the ships started to discover
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What Valentine’s Day is all about Valentine’s Day is one of the sweetest holidays‚ which always happens on February 14th. The story on how this holiday came about was‚ Valentine was a priest who had worked in Rome during the rule of Emperor Claudius the 2nd. The emperor made a rule up that states‚ soldiers could not get married‚ and as he thought this made them weaker. Valentine did not like it so he performed secret weddings for couples. Later on‚ they had caught him and sentenced him to death
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this activity where he gets a bunch of blank index cards and writes different races and ethnicities on each one. These include; Asian‚ Bblack‚ Italian‚ Jamaican‚ Jewish‚ and of course for himself‚ Martin Luther King‚ juniorJr. Although this exercise was to “better” everyone getting along and to teach them about diversity‚ it turns out to make it much worse as tempers begin to burst. As you watch this episode‚ you can see the point in which Michael Scott is trying to get across‚ racism. By doing
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Mount St Helens the day before the 18 May 1980 eruption Post‚ north of Mount St. Helens‚ on the clear Sunday morning of May 18‚ 1980. Seconds later‚ Mount Pinatubo is part of a chain of composite volcanoes along the Luzon arc on the west coast of the island (area map). The arc of volcanoes is due to the subduction of the Manila The volcano experienced major eruptions approximately 500‚ 3000‚ and 5500 years ago. The events of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption began in July
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Coping With the Unimaginable What would happen if everything was lost? What if‚ one day‚ everything something had and everyone they loved was gone in an instant along with millions of others? Between January 1933 and May 1945‚ this happened to six million Jews along with five million others‚ including Poles‚ Gypsies‚ Russian prisoners of war‚ and homosexuals who were killed in Hitler’s attempt to wipe them out known as the Holocaust (Lehnardt‚ 2016). This is horrific event is one under the title
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stop. “Why does it have to rain now?” he thought as he looked up at the gloomy sky. Rainwater lashed down as lightning flashed and thunder roared. It had been bright and sunny the whole day‚ the sudden downpour half an hour ago caught Benjamin off guard because he had left his umbrella at home. How was he going to get home in the rain? Benjamin stood waiting at the bus stop for ten minutes. The rain did not look like it was stopping. Instead‚ it seemed to be getting even heavier! To make matter worse
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