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    Growing up in Northern Michigan and having family members from all over the state meant that my family traveled around quite a bit to see all of the natural wonders that Michigan has to offer.  From the time I was born until now I have lived in the same neighborhood (Lake Arrowhead). When I was in fifth grade my parents divorced but because both of them loved the neighborhood so much my mom kept our house and my dad built a new home about three miles away but still in the same neighborhood. I use

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    sees a boy about the age of 17 drinking from a spring. He tells her that his name is Jesse Tuck and tells her not to drink the water. Soon after, his brother, Miles, and mother, Mae, take her away with them and explain what is happening and why they did what they did. All the while, they are being pursued by a man in a yellow suit who had approached the Fosters asking questions about their land the day before. The Tucks explain to Winnie that the spring is magical and grants eternal life to anyone

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    sheep, a man looking into the water, all on a hot, sunny day. Meanwhile, while these people are merry and living their lives, Icarus is drowning in the water right near them. The poem states, “It was spring, the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling...” This shows a calm mood, in how it was spring, the pageantry was awake and tingling, people were happy and joyful. All of this was happening while Icarus was drowning, and it was a, “splash quite unnoticed.” Both the painting and the poem showed

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    Our short term goals are to get our organization more known and heard of, within the next few years we want to be well known throughout Canada and have sponsorships from companies supporting the group. Our long term goals are to lower the water selling rates in Canada as it is the main essence in life that is becoming very scarce. Step 3: Research The Water saving economists group was started February, 2017. Our group's goal is to lower the water selling rates in Canada. Water is the most important

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    Across from Pleasant Hill Elementary School, there is a playground. About 50 meters from the park lies the Birchwood Recreation Center, and right in front of that center lies a small body of water that connects two ponds together; that small flow of water became a symbol of my elementary school years, we called it the creek. In the“we”, I am including myself, my friends, and all the hopes and dreams of our younger selves--dreams forgotten before they could be fulfilled. I live smack-dab in the middle

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    Transcendentalism: Journals: 1) Spring for me means rebirth and warmth, but it also means being cold all the time and rain. Spring and I have a love-hate relationship. I do love the fact that Spring means that it is finally going to warm up, but I also hate Spring because it makes me feel like I should put my winter stuff away, but then the weather switches again so I am freezing under a blanket. I still wear some of my “winter clothes” longer than most people, but that is only because I become

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    At the age of 25, Josh Sundquist realized he had never dated someone after talking to his girlfriend and realizing that he in fact, was not her boyfriend. In the book We Should Hang Out Sometime, Sundquist attempts to figure out why that is using analysis and personal interviews with each of the females that entered his life but never quite stayed. The target audience of this memoir ranges from those in their late teens to young adults, and the specific word choice and logical appeal effectively

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    Importance of Securing Items The definition of sensitive items is anything that considered classified or a mission essential item. They range anywhere from protective wear, maps, patrol routes, nods (night vision goggles) or simply your weapon. The meaning of securing your sensitive items mainly is maintaining accountability for opsec (operation security), mission success and a soldiers overall readiness. If an item is lost and the enemy gets his/her hands on that item it could compromise the mission

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    Introduction During lab on Monday, April 9, 2002 our class conducted a lab on water chemistry and pollution. The two bodies of water that were choose as samples where, the Wall pond and the HGTC pond. Each group had to test the water for Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate, Phosphate, pH, and Turbidity. Only two people where chosen to test the waters for Coliform bacteria. “Coliform bacteria are not pathogenic (disease causing) organisms, and are only mildly infectious. For this reason these

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    Spring Lake Creek is located off of County road E in Sawyer County. The Spring Lake creek has a culvert that goes under County road E to Spring Lake. The culvert has the water flowing from Spring Lake into Spring Lake creek. With the road right by Spring Lake creek, one would think how much of the runoff from the road affect the water quality and invertebrate life. That is exactly the hypothesis a group from the Fresh Water Ecology class had come up with and wanted to experiment by testing two pools

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