Huck is forced to live with his father in a shack in the woods. ... While Huck is hiding in the woods during the day, he finds a camp out and thinks it's a bunch of robbers. ... The duke and dauphin plan to steel Peter Wilk's gold and all his money and just take off with it, when Huck over hears their plans. ... Through Tom's crazy tactics the night they planned to escape with Jim a bunch of town's men came with their guns. ... Jim is put back in captivity while Tom's aunt goes crazy over Tom's gunshot wound. ...

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Because of this the British took over settlements owned by these nations. ... By 1947 wells are full and every time it rains the creosote is washed over into Naylor's Run. ... In 1991 National Wood goes out of business. ... In 1997 DER puts blacktop cap over entire area. ... As can be seen from the latter, the stream has gone through a lot. ...

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The scientific researches, conducted over centuries, show that the pollution of the atmosphere reached its top. ... Some pesticides better known as neurotoxins were one group of artificially made chemicals used over a long period of time in agriculture. ... Farmers were prospering through those crops treated with cheaply made chemicals such as DDT. ...

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Huck has an innate ability to mold his own perception of reality, and the perceptions of the people around him through lies and deceit. ... They must obediently follow the flow of the river of reality, as they have no control over the stimuli around them. Jim, Huck's black companion on the Mississippi River, is of this category. ... He states in his Why I Went to the Woods that he went into the woods to avoid the over complicated manner of life in society, "to front only the essential facts of life.... While others allow themselves to be washed over with stimuli, Thoreau actively esc...

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The road curved this way and that way through deep, narrow ravines and high mountain ledges. ... I found a spot down next to a tributary of the Nass River on the west side of the road. ... My tent was pitched, and off to the river I went with my "Popeil Pocket Fisherman." ... Fear mixes with apprehension and sets in to take over any rational thoughts, and I"m not sure why this is happening. ... The woods start to awaken with the normal sounds of the night as I ponder the sound I just heard. ...

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Coming near a clearing in the woods, he sees three huge trolls sitting around a fire and eating mutton. ... The sun peeks over the horizon and the trolls all freeze--for sunlight turns trolls to stone. ... It is Gandalf who leads the dwarves through the passages and deeper into the mountain. ... Through pure luck, Bilbo happens to slip on the ring and Gollum runs right past him. ... Bilbo leaps over him, runs past the goblins unnoticed (than...

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It was to be made of wood and supported on stone towers called piers which were to stand in the river. ... The finished road stood over sixty feet above the river. For major or busy bridges sometimes stone went in place of wood. ... Sometimes a route of an aqueduct required that a short tunnel be dug through a hill. ... The Romans achieved this feat through the use of the keystone block. ...

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Over a hundred thousand helpless citizens died instantly from the dropping of the bomb. ... Miss Sasaki had laid under books, wood, and plaster for three hours until she came to. ... With a flash of light he flew into the river with the hospital building. ... He also began to transport people on a boat across the river to safety. ... He gave many patients medical treatment over the months to come. ...

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Over a hundred thousand helpless citizens died instantly from the dropping of the bomb. ... Miss Sasaki had laid under books, wood, and plaster for three hours until she came to. ... With a flash of light he flew into the river with the hospital building. ... He also began to transport people on a boat across the river to safety. ... He gave many patients medical treatment over the months to come. ...

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His father, David, works mostly with wood creating furniture and miniature pueblo villages. ... He developed his artistic imagination within art classes through middle and high school. Woodworking over the years has become his passion. ... It is solid wood and takes at least two people to move it because it is so heavy. ... He added a fire pit by laying some lava rock under the sand and surrounding it with river rock. ...

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After two days the tracks went in an other direction away from the river. ... For deflection of the coldness they made a bow out of the wood in their cabin. At the fifth day the storm was over. ... He walked some minutes through the woods when he suddenly heard a cry from Awasin. ... Over six months they were alone in the cold ice dessert of Canada....

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They decided to settle in Boston near the Charles River. ... There were sure to be foxes in the woods or turtles in the water, and she was not going to raise a family where there might be foxes or turtles" (McCloskey). ... By the end you are so tongue-tied that you wonder if you can make it through the next sentence. ... Mallard to cross over" (McCloskey). ... The sixth picture is where the duckling are making their way through the city to the Public Garden. ...

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Someone to trust, someone to learn from and teach their customs to, most importantly someone to be there-- through the enjoyable and the unpleasant. ... Through the book the reader can conclude what a responsible leader George is to Lennie. Lennie and George were walking though the woods as "... ... Clearly he is always looking out for him, even over the diminutive things. ... "Hide in the bush by the river, if you get in trouble... ...

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My body became increasingly fluent in the language of cycles: splitting wood on cold mornings, cleaning a grouse in the evening - the solace, and ceremony, of plucking the feathers. ... When these carnivores die, their decaying carcasses seep back into the earth, the bacteria breaking down to start the process all over again. ... As mentioned in the opening excerpt, he began to understand that balance and power that Nature possessed and held over all living things. ... I waded in the rivers, slept beneath the stars and played poker with my dad and brothers. ... If we know but do nothing, we ar...

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The mountains give a high rainfall (widely over a meter a year in Mount Lebanon), and the porous fractured limestone makes an excellent aquifer which are refilled over spring and early summer by the slow melting of the snow. This results in abundant springs and rivers, which once gave Lebanon its thick wooded forests. The rivers of Lebanon can be divided into two groups. The first group is made up of the east-west Rivers, mostly cut into steep gorges, which drain Mount Lebanon. The second group is that of the two large rivers of the Bekaa (Coele-Syria valley); the Litani, which flows south an...

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With these battles came new shape to the land; rivers came and mountains formed. ... He would either drown them, making rivers or streams or eat them and spit out their bones which would make hills and valleys. ... Then everyday Baiame fed the flame with wood and thats how the sun was created. ... Primal religions must be very interconnected with eachother and to their creators to go through their deep ceremonies and rituals. ... In the creation story it says that Dreamtime is not over. ...

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While traveling through the dark wood, Dante has lost his path and wanders onward through the forest. ... Virgil begins Dante's quest through the gates of Hell. ... The Fourth Circle, is a place for the Avaricious and Prodigal, here the tormented must sprint toward each other with giant boulders, over and over again. ... The Fifth Circle contained the river Styx. This river was for the wrathful, a swamp like nasty cesspool where they have to climb all over each other and struggle to stay on top everyday forever. ...

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This huge aqueduct carried water from the Greater Zab River to the king's fields and garden in Nineveh, which was over fifty miles away. ... The water flowed through clay pipes that were laid inside the tunnel (Grolier, 1993). ... The water was carried through free flowing conduits. ... At that time, underground pipes were being made of stone, clay, wood, and even lead (Grolier, 1993). ... "Water is drawn from the Parker Dam on the Colorado River, and carried 242 miles over the San Bernardino Mountains to the terminal at lake Mathews" (Funk & Wagnalls, 1983). ...

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It's just a combination of sounds that come from a man made instrument consisting of wood and wire. It has no style of clothing, it doesn't tell the listener to do certain things and it doesn't show the control of one thing over another. ... Their sound takes people through the fog to the heights of Scottish highlands and mountains, even though they haven't even seen them: the melody of Russian balalaika, which takes people through the Siberian cold valleys and forests, or the sound of duduk (Armenian musical instrument made of apricot wood with cylindrical shape) that tak...

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His adventure continued, revealing the truth of everyone he knows, that they themselves, including his sweet wife Faith were in the woods as well. ... He didn't socialize with anyone, not even his own children, he would scowl when his wife would pray over their children. ... Marlow offers this insight as he heads up the river. ... "(35) Marlow states his understanding as they head up the Congo River. ... The tranquility of the river is the complete opposite. ...

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Wild Mushrooms grow all over New York State throughout the woods, fields, mountains, and wetlands. ... Morels grow on the ground in an assortment of habitats, including moist woodlands and in river bottoms. ... These mushrooms grow from late summer to fall; you can find them in lawns, woods, fields, and barren areas, either on soil or decaying wood. ... Sprinkle cheese over the filling. ... I like to eat mushrooms and I like to hike so why not pick some mushrooms while hiking through the woods. ...

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While the families were unpacking and setting up, Dominic and Jeff decided to ditch the work and head into the woods with their paintball guns. Everyone was very unaware of where the boys might have been until a loud scream was heard coming from woods. ... We ate our lunch and continued on our journey through the waters of the Trinity River. ... Both guys falling off was enough to push the raft into the rocky section of the river. When the raft hit the rocks Carlos fell off and slipped underneath the raft as it bumped over the rocks in the shallow water. ...

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He is known all over the shire for his amazing fireworks. ... He knows his way around the woods. ... They went east through the mines of Moria. ... They continued through the forest of Lothlorien and from there they sailed south by the great river. ...

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The novel begins on board the Nellie, a small European ship on the Thames River. ... The story is relayed to the reader through the narrator. ... He begins to wander what the jungle contains that has this power over intelligent, civilized men. ... On their journey they come upon a hut and Marlow finds wood that had been left for them and a journal with codes written in it. ... Through Conrad's presentation of different characters the reader is left confused as to who truly is civilized. ...

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Beyond the Nile River Valley, on both sides of the river the land was an endless stretch of desert. ... The civilization of Ancient Egypt lasted for over three thousand years. ... They imported ivory, species, copper, and wood, they exported glassware, linen, and clay vases. ... The Nile river is also known almost universally by historians as the cradle of medicine because it passes through the great region of Egypt. ... The literature discovered by archaeologists dates back to over 7000 years ago. ...

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