"Mountain in the World." ... K2, located on the Pakistan-Chinese border, is the 2nd highest mountain in the world; Pakistan's highest mountain; and the world's 22nd most prominent mountain. ... 'Have you gone crazy,' 'you're not strong enough,' 'you're going to die, said,' said Dad. ... I had always wanted to go, especially because the mountain was in the region of my birth place. ... Our trip guards helped me a lot At this point, I was feeling so proud of myself I could wait to go home and tell everything to my parents and sibling but more ...

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He then went on to tell me that they were leaving in two weeks and to find out if I could go a.s.a.p. ... Reinforcing his previous statement he told me that if I did go to not bother coming back. ... Looking toward the north-west the sharp outlines of the Rocky Mountains seemed to burst out of the horizon. ... These trees hid the mountains and valleys from site making the mostly gentle incline seem nonexistent. ... Needed less to say we didn"t want to go. ...

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In this on-going revolution, change is one of the most affluent factors. ... It was once accepted that marketers would simply tell its consumers general "sales pitches" and not worry how it affected the individual consumer. ... Such energy providers such as Green Mountain Energy are offering alternative options to generating electricity. ... According to John Savage, CEO, Green Mountain had a better chance of gaining customers donating money to local interests. ... This marketing strategy allowed Green Mountain to gain a personal insight and relationship with its potential customers. ...

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Exodus tries to tell us who Yahweh is. ... Exodus 14 tells about when the Israelites are fearful of the approaching Egyptians. ... Moses has to tell the Israelites to go back and set up camp and place themselves between the sea and the Egyptians. ... The Ten Commandments were delivered to Moses up on a mountain top with thunder and lightning, and the mountain smoking. ... Then Moses goes down the mountain and finds chaos, he goes and asks for everyone who is on Lord's side? ...

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In this book, Marcus Luttrell, the co-author and main character of Lone Survivor, tells us of his horrific experience on his deployment to Afghanistan. ... The book describes Billy Shelton as an older gentleman who was of average height and going bald. ... "Operation Red Wing is a go! ... With the many rules of engagement laws and I'm sure their morals, they decided to let them go and just abort the mission by retreating up into the mountains and radioing for extraction. ... Sadly, three of those heroes died in combat serving their country, but one survived to tell the tale. ...

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And then the other part of the book took place in the Sanaria Mountains. The mountains is where they hid the body and did all their planning. ... After they tied him up and got him up to the mountains, they laid him on he ground and started kicking him and were trying to get him to beg for them to let him go, at least that was Mark's whole plan. ... David and Sue knew they had to go tell the others. ... Mark set up a big lie to tell the police to make it look like Mr. ...

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"I love these walks with you, Charlie, it's like the world goes into slow-motion and we get to see it go by" She intoned. ... she asked the ""man-mountain"" in a uniform. ... I could tell the report from a 32-calibre Colt from a Beretta or a Schank without error and I was an excellent shot as well. ... I was going to get off right now. ... "Stop", groaned the man-mountain beside me. ...

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The Dolly clan, a group of wayward, backcountry folk all related in one way or another, lives in a shoddy town nestled in the Ozark mountains. ... In the end, Teardrop tells Ree, "I know who now.... You go straight to hell'n fry in your own lard. ... Don't you make me come out here and tell you again!... During a bleak winter in the Ozark mountains, Ree receives nothing but tough love and detachment from those around her. ...

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The twins were on fire duty, and they found him on the mountain rocks. ... If the beast is not at castle rock, then we are going to check the mountain and re-light the fire. ... Jack started goofing off, and I had to break up this happiness and we started our journey to the mountain Chapter 7: As we headed up to the mountain, I realized how dirty and scraggly we all looked. ... The beast warned him not to tell anyone the truth, otherwise he will be killed. Chapter 9: Piggy and I decided to go to the pig roast to see what was going on. ...

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The story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is set in the West near the Sierra Mountains during the year 1850, a year after the 49ers reached California for gold. ... As this group travels to Sandy Bar, a nearby town across a steep mountain range, they make camp surrounded by the granite cliffs of the Sierra Mountains and proceed to get drunk, excluding John Oakhurst who does not drink due to his profession. ... After introductions and a failed attempt by John to persuade the two lovers to go to Poker Flat so that they could be married, they all decide to go make camp at a nearby patched-up log ca...

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Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about" (Genesis 22:2). ... When they got on the top of the mountain, God saw that Abraham truly had faith in him, thus he sent a ram instead so that Abraham did not have to sacrifice his son. ... God told Abraham, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. ... So now, go. ... Tell the Israelites to move on. ...

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Reynolds Price tells the story through Bridge Boatner, a painter who recently lost his father. ... He chose to go back to camp to look after the other boys. ... Later, on his trip to a sacred part of the mountain he does not allow Rafe to come with him because he thinks he will get more out of it if he goes alone. ... He even goes so far as to call Bridge a genius. ... Then at the end of the novel Rafe climbs the mountain to reach the sacred area. ...

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His lover Lucien Happersberger's family had a chalet in a village up in the mountains. ... His first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," found its final form here. ... I opened the windows to a dark view, but I knew that in the darkness loomed the Daubenhorn mountain. ... There are glances all over Europe and in India, and anywhere I go outside Africa. ...

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The idea of this paper is to collect information from people that tell a little about their experiences with outdoor recreational activities over the past year. ... Bird Watching Skiing Camping Fishing 1 person 5% 2 people 10% 3 people 15% 1 person 5% Visiting Parks Golfing Kayaking 2 people 10% 3 people 15% 2 people 10% Walking Dirt biking Mountain biking 5 people 25% 1 person 5% 1 person 5% Running Boating Hunting 2 people 10% 4 people 20% 1 person 5% Next I looked at the number of times per year each person participated in each activity. ... Single p...

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Don't go into the basement alone!. ... These stories tell different tribes where they came from. ... The adults always go golfing on the morning of the 4th and get back in just enough time to watch the 4th of July Parade go throughout the town. ... Whether it be creation stories like those in "On the Way to Rainy Mountain-, or trickster stories like a few in the Erodes/Ortiz packet. ... This book tells the creation and evolution of the Kiowa's. ...

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Nathanael West's "The Day of The Locust," tells the story of a man named Tod Hackett who moves to Hollywood to be a set designer. ... He notices a woman dressed in a yachting cap, only to be going shopping, not boating. He notices a man in mountain climber gear while leaving his job at an insurance office, not returning from a mountain. ... You watch a movie set in Paris, but you never go see the real Eiffel tower with your own eyes. ... She tells Tod she only likes handsome men, which in her mind was embodied by another masquerade, Earle Shoop. ...

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Ku also ruled the forest, lands, mountains, farming and fishing, but he was better known as the god of war. ... James Michener tells us of another god in his book, Hawaii. ... Mauna Kea is an inactive volcano and was known as the "white mountain" due to its snow capped peaks in the winter. From its summit under the water to its peak, it is 32,000 ft., making it the highest mountain in the world (gohawaii.com). ... The Hawaiians had a good thing going for them with the social organization and religion, but it would not last much longer. ...

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King Laius then orders his servant to take the baby into the mountains and leave him to die. ... The servant takes Oedipus to the mountains, but he is not able to leave him alone to die. ... At a feast, a drunken man tells Oedipus that Polybus is not his real father. Oedipus tells Jocasta, "This: at a feast a man who"d drunk too much denied, at the wine, I was my father's son" (OR 783-784). ... (qtd. in Dodds 41) Choices made along the road are yours and yours alone, but the gods have already decided where you are going. ...

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When the reader is first introduced to Jim Casy, he tells Tom that "the sperit ain't in the people much no more; and worse"n that, the sperit ain't in me no more, " but Casy goes off to "give her a damn good thinkin" about" (Steinbeck 31). ... In the book, Ma Joad exemplifies this belief when she says "We"re the people we go on" (Steinbbeck ). ... Throughout the novel, biblical allusions are made, but almost all are so indirect that they often go unnoticed by the reader. ... Tom is at first oblivious to what Casy has been trying to tell him, but soon after the death of Casy, Tom co...

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His head formed the mountains in the east while his feet formed the mountains in the west. His right arm became the mountains of the north while his left the mountains of the south. His torso became the mountains of the center. ... Han Hsiang Tzu takes his flute, his primary symbol, wherever he goes. ... Shi-Tien Yen-Wang, the ten rulers of the underworld, dress alike in royal robes so that nobody can tell them apart. ...

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Bill and Jake go on a fishing trip together while Cohn goes to meet Brett and Mike in a different town. ... Brett is also annoyed with Cohn and tells him that it was a one-time fling and that she does not dwell on the past. ... Bill goes back to Paris, Mike goes to a small beach town while Brett had ran off with Romero. Jake goes San Sebastian to relax for a week before going home. ... When Jake meets up with Brett she tells him that Romero wanted to her to marry him but she would not. ...

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For this reason God is going to wipe them out and he chose a worldwide flood to take out mankind. ... There are good arguments for both and I think one who is going to be a biblical scholar should know both sides of the argument and try to come to a conclusion for themselves. ... There is evidence that some sort of water covered all the earth and mountains at one time. There also have been fossils found at the tops of mountains and things found in different climates that logically never would have been there. ... In Luke He refers to a child as being able to enter the kingdom of heaven "...

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My house lies on top of a mountain that has an incredible view of the Mediterranean Sea. When I look down from my house, I see the mountain's feet touching the water softly. ... That's my father, always a morning person: he would wake up really early to go to work and come home late; he didn't have much time for us. ... One night, my brother and I were swimming and when we swim together, we always go crazy. ... We used to sleep in the living room around my grandma while she used to tell us stories about my grandpa's adventures. ...

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As this thesis is going to show, the novels differ in one important aspect: in each of them, the threat of the female is of a different nature. ... "King Solomon's Mines" tells the story of a hunter named Quatermain who helps Captain Good and Sir Henry in search of Henry's lost brother. ... The land they have to cross to is feminized as the mountains resemble breasts and the desert reminds the men of a female stomach. ... After a difficult journey over the desert and mountains, they reach a lost kingdom called Kukuanaland. ... The analysis is going to demonstrate the fact that the ma...

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The principal range, in the eastern section of the island, is the Blue Mountains, of which Blue Mountain Peak (2,256 m/ 7,402 ft) is the highest point on the island. A series of lesser mountains extends west to the extremity of the island, over an extensive plateau. ... If you become ill with a fever or flu-like illness either while traveling in a malaria-risk area or after you return home (for up to 1 year), you should seek immediate medical attention and should tell the physician. ... However in a few days Lethargy, an unusual amount of tiredness, was the first sign that something was goin...

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