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    Mammoth Cave is a national park located in west-central Kentucky. It became an official national park in 1926. There is no official founder of the cave, it is instead the product of many people’s whose individual explorations and discoveries came together to form one of the most historical and unique national parks this country has. This park celebrates Black History Month to recognize the majority of these important historical figures who were in fact African American Slaves. These slaves were an

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    people are competitive and can barely take no for answer. I say that they barely take no for an answer because they don't know what the outcome will be without trying. Risk taking are sacrifices made for bettering him/herself and his/her family. Floyd Collins is a risk taker who risked his life searching and finding new caves but

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    “The Ghost of Floyd Collins” In 1925 the instant famous story of Floyd Collins hit the nation and gained quite a bit of notice. Nearly 100 years later the story of Floyd Collins is still spoke of and even sung about from the band Black Stone Cherry with their song “The Ghost of Floyd Collins”. With every famous death, ghost stories arise. In two articles, “The Ghost of Floyd Collins” and “Mammoth Cave The Worlds Largest Haunted Place”, the articles are connected by the ghostly experiences that are

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    MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series of recent work in photography, New Photography, returned for its 30th anniversary. The New Photography exhibition is called Ocean of Images and is showing 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries. The exhibition was organized by Chief Curator of Photography Quentine Bajac, Lucy Gallun, assistant curator; and Roxana Marcoco,senior curator; with the assistance of Kristen Gaylord, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography

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    Uncertainty Information While measuring variables, uncertainty arose to accompany the values recorded, each of which depended on the measuring tool or documented uncertainty. A summary of the uncertainty information concerning the measured variables for the diffusivity testing of acetone and ethanol is included in Table 1. Table 1: Uncertainty Summary of Measured Variables Measured Variable Uncertainty Odds Reference Temperature ±1.0 °C 2.15-1 Online Instrument Documentation Pressure ±0.4 inHg

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    Name: Clevens Section ____ TITLE OF RESEARCH PAPER (should include Name of your Research Subject) INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph, ending in Thesis Statement) He was the great, the fastest, the most hard hitting, most loudmouth boxer...Muhammad Ali. Thesis: BACKGROUND (1 or 2 paragraphs) Muhammad was from Louisville, Kentucky. When he was a kid he left his bike outside of a place unlocked when he came back it was gone. When he saw that it was gone he wanted to beat up the person who took his bike

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    They received a special education, piglets were discouraged from laying with the other animals, pigs had the right of passage, pigs could wear green ribbons on their tail on sundays. Boxer was getting old and eventually "retired" they put him in a horse stall and a couple of days later a horse slaughter/ glue maker came and got him. Napoleon said it was really a vet that got a new truck and hasn't been able to repaint it. really the pigs sold Napoleon to the horse slaughter/ glue maker to get money

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    My childhood place There is a place that is a constant reminder of my childhood. This place is my room. Though it has changed since I was born it still reminds me of the time I spent there as a kid. My room is a medium sized room with two closets a small closet with a door and slanted ceiling and a large closet nearly four times the size but without doors only the rails where the sliding doors used to be. The actual room is a nice open room with a white ceiling and black carpet. The walls have

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    displayed in the era of rock and roll in the Pink Floyd’s album. The song was released on 4th February 1974. It is an English Rock and Roll band in London formed by Students Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and Syd Barrett formed the Pink Floyd band. The lyrics of the song is demonstrating how time flies away and we can’t keep up with it. Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon was a super hit and fitted into the era of rock and roll. The lyrics has the strength to change your thoughts

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    People keep an emotional distance between one another to prevent others from getting too close to them. Robert Frost in the poem “Mending Wall” shows the reader an example of two different kinds of people. One kind of person is open to the idea of friendship and is willing to make an effort to try to dissolve any conflict, and try to get along with someone else anyway possible. Then there is the other side which is against the idea of change, someone who is closed to the idea of something new

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