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    If I Won The Powerball Lottery

    dollars. This is enough money to change the lives for the winner's great great great grandchildren and many more generations to come if handled carefully. Another alternative would be to use the money to create a better world. If I won the lottery, I would want to make a positive difference. You see, I believe everything happens for a reason, and if I won that gigantic sum of money. I feel it is my duty as a human being, to help pass on my good fortune to others. One of my first orders of business would

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    family’s expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother’s house to turn himself into a writer. Hawthorne wrote his mother, "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be an author." (" American Writers II, pg. 227) For the next twelve years Hawthorne lived in his mother’s house. He Seldemly

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    A Royal Salute to the Commonwealth

    commonwealth, and expresses his enthusiasm, by telling how successful the Commonwealth is. The commonwealth have a huge potential according to Osborne. He explains that one third of the entire world population lives in a commonwealth nation, although more than half of the population lives in India, and thus it is bigger than the European Union and NATO. Peter Oborne starts out with a story of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Kate and William as known by the popular media). They are visiting Canada

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    A Book of Fantasy

    C DESIGN ERS R E D I STACY LONGSTREET T S SE N IOR A RT DI REC TOR R P G R& D A RT DI REC TOR S GWENDOLYN F.M. KESTREL , JENNIFER CLARKE WILKES, KOLJA RAVEN LIQUETTE DEVELOPMENT TEAM KARIN JAQUES, STACY LONGSTREET C OV E R A RT I S T BRUCE R. CORDELL , ANDY COLLINS, ROB WATKINS EDITORS STEVE PRESCOTT I N T E R IOR A RT IST S MICHELLE LYONS, CHRIS SIMS EDITI NG MANAGER KIM MOHAN DESIGN MANAGER STEVEN BELLEDIN, ED COX, DAARKEN, WAYNE ENGLAND, EMILY

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    Club It, Part 1

    club is about in their mission statement for the club: We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT." The atmosphere at the club caters to the young and middle aged adults that are looking for good music performed by live bands on Fridays and Saturdays as well as a live DJ spinning the hottest music Tuesday through Thursday. Because Lisa and Ruben are creating

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    Changing Demographics in Health Care

    assessment report for the Baby Boom Market, 2002); those in the leading edge currently range in the late sixties and those at the trailing edge are currently in their late forties. With all reaching the current retirement in just under a decade and a half the nation is hard pressed to recruit, teach, and train the appropriate amount of health care workers to compensate for the current need and the increased future need. In the year, 2035, one and five Americans are projected to be in retirement. This

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    Loss of Farmland

    Well I know that one thing almost everyone does every day is eat. Eating is necessary to live, and about 99% of your food is probably coming from a farmer. According to Nelson at the American Farmland Trust farmland is necessary in society providing essential goods as well as open space, environmental protection that land markets fail to account for. C. We have been using farmland for things other than farming and it needs to stop, urban development is taking over the land which is so vital

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    Radioactive Decay

    Unit 5 WA1 Kim Phillips Radioactive decay rates are normally stated in terms of their half-lives, and the half-life of a given nuclear species is related to its radiation risk. The different types of radioactivity lead to different decay paths which transmute the nuclei into other chemical elements. Examining the amounts of the decay products makes possible radioactive dating. Though the most massive and most energetic of radioactive emissions, the alpha particle is the shortest in range because

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    Canada

    The two main river systems in Canada are the Mackenzie and the St. Lawrence. The worlds most northerly sand dunes are in Athabasca Provincial park in northwest Saskatchewan. (Wylie) (McAdam) Canada has more lakes than any other country combined. 2.4 million caribou live in Canada. Thirty one percent of Canada is taken up by forests. The longest coastline in the world is located in Canada. Twenty percent of the worlds freshwater is in Canada. The biggest tides in the world can't be found in

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    Cold Blooded Animal Research Paper

    Mammals Did you know that there are about five thousand and four hundred and sixteen different species of mammals? Well, let me tell you something about these mammals and what I’ve learned so far about them. They are animals that are characterized as living organisms that can move from place to place obtaining to food. According, to Genesis 1:24-25 “And God said, Let the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” “And

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