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    to facilitate rituals and reflect a persons experience and closeness with the divine as they partake in the sacred rituals of their religion. Methods of research (primary/secondary sources): On the 27th March 2014, St Augustine’s visited St Stephens Cathedral and the Brisbane City Synagogue. Primary evidence was collected from both these sacred sites through the tour guides that gave the students knowledge and understanding about

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    Have you ever had a dream? Dr. May Jemison as a young African-American girl dreamed of becoming a scientist. Growing up during the uproar of the civil rights movement being a black scientist was unusual. May Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama went October 17, 1956 but moved to Chicago at three years old and was raised her young years. Mae Jemison from this day forward calls Chicago her hometown. Mae Jemison and her family moved to Chicago in order to better their lives and education. Mae Jemison

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    the lands. They have a population of over five million people and land approximately seventy thousand square miles across. The Show Me State is also known for their Gateway Arch that draws several tourists and residents all year long. The Arch in St. Louis is the country’s tallest manmade monument. It was built at an incredible 630 feet when completed in 1965. The Gateway Arch is to commemorate the importance of settling in the West following the Louisiana Purchase. A watershed event in American

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    Later the EPA admitted that people who work at the West Lake Landfill have to be cautious and careful to protect their health. According to Veronica LaCapra’s report, "Landfill Fire Threatens Nuclear Waste Site Outside St. Louis." if the Westlake Landfill’s soil is disarranged, “radioactive dust particles could be released into the atmosphere.” Unfortunately, it may lead to the inhalation of airborne radioactive dust particles. If these particles are inhaled by workers it could seriously harm their

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    On the afternoon of April 14, 1886, the city of Sauk Rapids in Minnesota was nearly wiped out after a tornado had struck the city. The whole city was left in complete devastation. Natural disasters have always interested me, specifically tornadoes. Something about tornadoes, whether it’d be how they form or how they acquire their power to cause great destruction, interests me to learn more about tornadoes. This led me to research about tornadoes in Minnesota. As I began surfing the internet about

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    In the novel, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, the main character Kimball (Kim) O’Hara changes tremendously despite the fact that he began as a deceitful orphan, he gains wisdom and compassion, and helps his state by becoming an agent for the government. During Kim’s life, his skin darkened from the hot Indian sun, especially when he had a light colored skin. Repeatedly, Kim, known as an orphan, because his mother died, and his father's ultimate demise, began as an accidental overdose of opium. While Kim

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    (L141) Charles and Elizabeth now have two more members in their family. Their first grandchild, Charlie Koehler, is born in East St. Louis back in 1903 and their second and third grandchildren, Grace and Irene Hall, are born in 1906 and 1907. Now, in 1908, they add two more grandchildren with the births of Orval Koehler and Charlie Hall. Unfortunately, they all live in East St. Louis and therefore Charles and Elizabeth are unable to see them on a regular basis. They are helped by the recent addition

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    A bit hard to overcome, many people have dental anxiety also known as fear of the dentist. Logical individuals are stopped from seeing a dentist and preserving the health of their teeth. Preventing difficulties prior to their start is vital for retaining healthy teeth. Problems occur because people who experience a fear of the dentist will evade going to a dentist. To avoid these problems such as decay and cavities it takes scheduled appointments with your dentist for cleaning. What happens when

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    Peter the Great, she was his neice, and his mentally-ill brothers’ daughter. One of the very first major things that Peter did towards Anna was make her along with her mother and sisters move to St. Petersburg – a very dreary, cold place that paled in comparison to Moscow where she originally lived. Living in St. Petersburg she was very unhappy and being that Anna was very ugly and her personality not being the greatest, finding someone to marry her off to was difficult and she was therefore much more

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    Different animals have different grouping names and to most people it seems like just a random selection of how the group name was formed. When ravens group together it is called an unkindness, when lion get together it is called a pride and when tigers get together it is called an ambush. Lions and Tigers seem very similar but have different group names. One is “pride” which means “high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority” and ambush means “an act or instance

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