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Magic Catalogue
576 wordsCreaitve Story: Desert Island The bright sun pierced through my silted eyelids as I made a feeble attempt to block the burning beams of light with my shaking hand. Unsuccessful, I closed my eyes tightly, shutting out the ball of fire hanging overhead. As my senses returned in a painful blow, I raised myself up slowly, spitting out a mouthful of sand. With a quick glance, I uncovered an interesting fact. All my clothes were gone. Then it came flooding back. Back on the SS. TUNA, I had heard a low...
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North Side Of The Island
1,218 wordsUtopia Secluded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is a place called Lauropia, a wonderful society. It is always peaceful and nothing bad ever happens on the island. The island's air is always fresh and free of any toxins or pollution. Temperature on the South side of Lauropia is always warm with no humidity present. On the North side of Lauropia the weather is always perfect for winter activities, the temperature is just cold enough for the snow to fall. The North side of the island is full o...
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Six Aboriginal Prisoners To Rottnest
857 wordsIn the early 1800's a number of French explorers visited the south west coast of Australia. The British, who were at war with the French at that time, became concerned that a French presence in the south west of the continent could endanger trade with the eastern colonies. In 1819 Phillip Parker King and his crew patrolled the southwest, although it was not until his second voyage in 1822 that they made landfall on "Rottenest. Settlement of the Swan River Colony began in 1829, and interest was s...
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Pelagia And Corelli
916 words'Captain Corelli's Mandolin's U M M A R Y It is 1941, and a young Italian officer, Captain Antonio Corelli, arrives on the beautiful Greek island of Cephalonia as part of an occupying force. He is billeted in the house of the local doctor, I annis and his daughter Pelagia. He quickly wins the heart of Pelagia through his humour and his sensitivity, not to mention his stunning ability on the mandolin. But Pelagia is engaged to Mandras, a local fisherman who is away fighting with the Greek army. D...
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Ian Malcom And Richard Levine
1,419 wordsMichael Crichton's novel, The Lost World began with the exposition of a character who is infamous to Crichton's work, Ian Malcom. The entire introduction and prologue is about Malcom and his scientific views and theories. In a section of the book called 'Hypothesis'; , Malcom discusses a theory of 'lost worlds'; - areas in which extinct beings may live, with Richard Levine, a man who's ideas were totally different from Malcom. Levine and Malcom discuss a possible journey to an island that is sus...
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Amelia Earhart
571 wordsAmelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart had the courage and independence to do anything she wanted to do. This includes crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a plane and sharing her visions for aviation and women. She inspired many, formed the first women aviator's association, and she tried to fly around the world. That is why I think that Amelia Earhart has made a difference. And as I have said, Amelia Earhart has certainly affected many people. Amelia Earhart inspired many women to follow their ambitions...
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Team Left For The Island
1,052 wordsBook Report on 'The Lost World " Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm, a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration, Richard Levine, is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the animals....
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Ralph's Cleverness
488 wordsLord of the Flies Ralph Ralph was a leader and had a good heart throughout the novel. He took action as soon as he set foot on the island. He believed in democracy instead of dictatorship when he decided to take a vote to choose who would be leader instead of appointing himself to be the leader without the consent of the other castaways. His leadership, cleverness and quick thinking made him a remarkable leader. Firstly, Ralph's leadership was important because he organized everything right afte...
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Being A Coma Diary To Misty's Husband
465 wordsChuck Palahniuk is a famous author whose works have inspired those to even make a movie. Merely for entertainment purposes motion pictures do not need to be made to decipher his messages. Through the Socialist / Marxist critic viewpoint one finds the role class plays in the work and the author's analysis of class relations. In his novel "Diary" it clearly shows socialist / Marxist potential with how the characters overcome oppression and it proposes some form of utopian vision as a solution to t...
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Troy And Atlantis
752 wordsLegends of the lost city The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century Eberhard Zangger 285 pp, Weidenfeld Eberhard Zangger explores our knowledge of the lands bordering the Mediterranean before the golden age of ancient Greece (yes, the title is a little misleading), and pushes the general thesis that archaeological orthodoxy currently has it all wrong. His first targets are catastrophist theories of cultural change in the region, ideas that have been widely disseminated in popular bo...
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Galapagos Islands
1,035 wordsA voyage to the origin of species Edward Larson writes the first drafts of his books in pencil on yellow pads of paper, but he writes his articles straight onto a computer. For him, books are different things. And Evolution's Workshop, newly paper backed by Penguin this week, is a word-lover's book: it evokes the desolate, cinder-strewn and tortoise-trodden Galapagos Islands, as seen by writers and voyagers over 300 years. Of course, the visitor that everybody remembers was Charles Darwin: what ...
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Power Over The Evil Forces
406 wordsThe Story! Deep in the South Pacific lies an undiscovered island. This island housed a people raised on the foundation of song and the luxury of time. An island named after it's amphibious and bat- like people... AQUABANIA! Life could not be too good on the island, from churro baking contests to Calypso Camp, until an evil force descended upon the island and life would never be the same. Pushed to the brink of disaster, 8 (or sometimes 9) men escaped impending doom. In a hollowed out log, these ...
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Mikoto And The Deity Ame
948 wordsBefore the heavens and the earth came into existence, all was a chaos, unimaginably limitless and without definite shape or form. Eon followed eon: then, low and behold out of this boundless, shapeless mass something light and transparent rose up and formed the heaven. This was the Plain of High Heaven, in which materialized a deity called Ame-no-Min aka-N ushi-no-Mikoto (the Deity-of-the-August-Center-of-Heaven). Next the heavens gave birth to a deity named Tatami-Musubi-no-Mikoto (the High-Aug...
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Crew
943 wordsI, Bic de Velocity at age 26 will be making the most important missions of my life. I will have my crew along side to help me battle the things that come in my way. We will be traveling this journey because we " re out to prove the world is round, and whatever else we find. The things we find are soon to come and beware they are scarce and intriguing. Before I went on my journey to prove that the world is infact round I had picked out my crew. I knew I had to get a strong, courageous, and brave ...
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West Coast Of North America
1,180 wordsMorris 1 Rich Morris OCE 1001 Sept. 09, 2000 Ch. 2 A History of Marine Science The early history of marine science started about 11,000 years ago. Nomads began voyaging into east and central Europe, and across the plains of central Asia. They journeyed to the shores of northeastern Asia and crossed the Bering Sea into North America and South America. Most traveled on foot except for those who were talented in raft building or navigation. Any coastal culture with these talents had big economical ...
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Callahan In His Raft
580 wordsDo you ever wonder what it feels like to be suffering through hunger and being lonely? Steven Callahan, a man who drifted on an inflatable raft at sea for seventy-six days, can answer your question. On the night of January 29, 1982, Steven Callahan set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands heading for the Caribbean. Six days out, the sloop sank, and Callahan found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft, with only three pounds of food and eight pints of...
