nose while I walk through my great-grandfather’s farm. The chickens and roosters that surrounded me separated as I continued through them, like a river would on a rock. There is a barbed wire fence that stretches and loops back around to the gravel road. At the front of the farm, nearer to the house, there is the bright red slaughterhouse. There, my great-grandfather, or Bud as he likes us to call him, butchers the animals for the family to eat and sell like he has been doing for years. Bud was born
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Rain attacked mercilessly down my matted hair. My chest faced toward the cold ground, I felt my warmth being seeped into the forest floor and with that my energy. I face towards the left and I can barely see the dark figure walking towards me. In the moonlight, I am able to spot a knife in his hands. My heart beats a hundred miles an hour and absolute terror washes over me. In the forest where I once felt safe, I may very well die. The hooded figure looms above me, but the darkness conceals his
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Have you ever thought of what it would be like to walk on water or even run well that is exactly what this lizard does? The green basilisk lizard its ability to run on water gives this animal its most recognizable name of the Jesus Christ lizard. Living in the tropical rainforests in Central America The basilisks spends most of its time in the trees and they are always near a water. When threatened, they can drop from a tree into the water and sprint, upright, about 5 feet per second 0r (300 feet
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Thank you Ptlm Oliver! I’m excited to hear if you receive the grant. Please let me know if there is anything that the Woonsocket Health Equity Zone (HEZ) collaborative can do to support any pedestrian safety initiative or funding opportunity that the WPD is doing. Come either in Sept/Oct the collaborative will be launching the Healthy Environments workgroup in Woonsocket, which has a primary focus on pedestrian safety and walkability. I would love to schedule a time with you, Patrick and if possible
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According to a recent article, roadkill accidents are up in Eastern Tennessee because it is fall. With bears out and about, looking for food, some roadkill accidents even involved bears. While you definitely want to avoid hitting smaller animals such as dog, cats, and turkeys, hitting larger animals such as bears can cause even greater damage to your vehicle. So far this year, there have been over 40 bears killed by vehicles in Eastern Tennessee. There are several things you can do to reduce your
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I was driving down the road the other day; I sat there listening to the radio on low volume, not really paying any attention to the song that was playing because my mind was elsewhere. I was contemplating where I could go to get my homework done. The Wi-Fi at my house rarely works given the rural location, so I often times have to pack up my stuff and go somewhere to use the internet and get all of my online homework done. As I drove along the desolate highway near my house I let my mind drift to
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#2 Churchville Road Bridge The Churchville Road Bridge is a Warren Pony truss bridge that is located in Brampton, Ontario. This bridge is a Warren truss bridge because it has equilateral triangles which spreads out the loads on the bridge. It was first constructed in 1911 then again in 1999 to stay stable for cars. It is used for transporting people across the Credit River which flows near Orangeville into Lake Ontario. The bridge cost about 2,400 dollars and its materials are prestressed concrete
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than others. In the poem, The Road Not Taken, the theme of the poem shows that there are paths in life that we can decide to take and it can define our lives forever and Robert Frost portrays this using symbolism, metaphors, and allusion. Symbolism is used in this poem to portray the difficulty of which paths to take. This can be shown when he says, Two roads diverged in a wood (Frost, line 18). Altogether it is symbolized as if he was in the woods and there were roads that could be taken to lead
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Key facts: In case 36, Bruce Carson is designing a road between two large cities in an unspecified state. He determines that the shortest route to construct the road would be through the land and farmhouse of the Jones family. The farm has been in the Jones' family for 150 years. The building the road using the route though the farmhouse would reduce the commute time between cities to one hour forty minutes from a two hour drive. The owner, Robert Jones, is 63 years old and was raised on the farm
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or bad road conditions. Also it can identify other vehicle but can not say it is an ambulance or police car. 3) Better Maps In order to run driverless cars successfully throughout the world, it will require very detailed maps of the earth. It should comprise each and every street, corner, house, roads, highways, any landmarks everything. Also it should be regularly and frequently updated. With the kind of GPS maps available nowadays, it would be difficult to run driverless cars on the road especially
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