All our neighbors were gone. Soon, we might even have to sell our house and move away to one of them northern houses up in California, but those chances are slim with the money we was makin'. ... As we all dashed towards the basement the black wind swallowed everything in its sight just a few feet behind us. ... I don't know what scared me more the fact that all our things were gone or how we were going to live from now on. ... A place with everlastin' dust storms and drought is no place for people. ...

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As the world becomes more urbanized, cities start to grow and the soil that was to be used for farming is now becoming habited with houses, factories, and businesses. ... " (Burnette p. 2) With those numbers it is hard to argue that the precipitation, at least in Kansas, played a huge roll in why farming was extremely difficult during the Dust Bowl. ... And that once the sod that was placed on top of the soil was gone the soil would soon be gone as well due to the high winds. ... All of his research matches with what all of the other authors talk about. ...

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Faith wears pink ribbons in her bonnet, when she wishes Goodman good night; these ribbons bounce playfully in the wind such as a child's would. The imagery associated with pink ribbons is that of an innocent child. ... When Goodman Brown finds a pink ribbon in the woods, he exclaims, "My Faith is gone!... " (Hawthorne 642) as the traveler touches her with his staff. ... Brown thinks that he is the only person that doubts, but the devil says "I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans" (Hawthorne 641). ...

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Blidge teamed up recently with Reebok to promote her new single, Love at First Sight. ... He is responsible for the pairing of Earth, Wind, and Fire with Motorola. ... Jovan with the Rolling Stones in 1981. ... However, as with any alternative business measure, there is a downside. ... European artist, Dirty Vegas, used the Mitsubishi car commercial to catapult their song "Days Gone By" to go platinum in United States. ...

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In 1996, McDonalds signed a ten year global marketing agreement with the Walt Disney Company to promote and help each other. ... It was once suggested by a journalist, who called it "the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention", that no two countries with branches of McDonalds had gone to war. ... There is sweet, salty, fatty food you eat with your fingers. ... The wind of change is blowing through the empire of fast food. ... The reasons for these corporate changes may not be just to do with fast food. ...

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An exception to this case was Georgia O'Keeffe, who captured the attention of the world with her paintings. ... But when she turned the drawing upside down, she noticed that the man looked fine with his legs up in the air. ... After long discussions with her husband, O'Keeffe finally decided she would move to New Mexico, with or without him. The southwest, she said, "That was my country-- terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness." ... She once said, "When I think of death I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore, unless the Indians are right and...

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The birds are chirping and the wind whistling, the sound is relaxing, but its too quiet. ... However, with each year the number seems to be decreasing. ... Imaginations ran wild with new games and different rules. ... While outside children interact in a hands-on way with their environment something playing with technology does not offer. ... Perhaps it is gone for good....

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Speaking directly to "the Southern States," he reaffirmed, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. ... From the anti-slavery perspective, the issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism ...

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Lestat is the hypothetical author of The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil.25 His fans, including Rice herself, are deeply fascinated by this "tall, fair-skinned man with a mass of blond hair."26 They dream of this intriguing vampire stealing into their room with a "graceful, almost feline quality to his movements,"27 moving closer, "his gray eyes [burning] with an incandescence,"28 and whispering to them some unknown truth that would explain the workings of the universe. Another famous author with a large cult following is Ste...

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree {Davidoff, 199}. ... The definition of Historical Critical Theory is a work of literature has done something valuable if it sheds light upon an historic era, for example: Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur. ... He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. ... The boy and his mother went to live with his grandfather in Lawrence, Mass. ... With its cloud of skirmisher...

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