He saw a six year old boy wearing cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat, and led him into the woods. Once in the woods, Ridgway stabbed him in the ribs with a knife. ... The boy was found in the woods, alive, and rushed to the hospital. ... From August 12th through August 14th, the bodies of four more young women were found in the Green River. ... Over the next few years they only discovered a couple bodies. ...

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Laws of the River There are many people who influence our lives and what we believe. ... Huck struggles with the concept of right and wrong through out the story because of his friendship with Jim and what he learns on the river. ... Huck is slowly casting away of the laws of society for those of the river. ... Darkness sets in and he "never went near the house, but stuck through the woods and made for the swamp" (138). ... The pivotal point in Huck and Jim's relationship unfolds as Huck struggles over whether or not to write a letter to Ms. ...

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We are still woven together in a complex tapestry, like a river and it's tributaries. ... It shows 8 faces representing generations of the Salish, and how they are all still bound together over centuries. ... The rivers hold a sacred lifeline for the people of that region. ... The mouths are open in a round shape to convey communication, through the singing or telling of stories. ... The smoothness of the wood, and the harsh incised lines of the trigons, contrasted with each other and caught my eye. ...

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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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Metaphorically, the speaker could be walking through the unknown. ... It is interesting that Stafford gives the road a name, the Wilson River road. ... The poem appears to be harsh and abrupt, yet Stafford choses a doe over a buck. ... The use of "belly" over "stomach" or "abdomen" makes the speaker more sentimental. ... " He is taking in all of his surroundings: the woods, the mountains, the crickets chirping, and the other animals watching. ...

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Farnsworth and Mies had ventured out to a narrow seven-acre site beside the Fox River. ... In addition to this, the internal walls that make up the core are made from rare primavera wood. ... (Vandenberg, 2005:22) Mies had chosen a monochromatic colour pallet with white columns and ceiling, off-white floors and curtains, along with the pale brown wood interior. ... Farnsworth waiting for an inheritance to come through. ... As a result, Mies had taken Edith to court over the outstanding amount of $28,173. ...

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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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This was a trust fund of over $1.6 billion dollars to be used for the next five years to promote clean up. ... By 1996 the cost had risen to over $30 million. ... The groundwater runs into the Stockton River, which flows into the South Rivanna River. ... In 1977 through 1981 many fish were found dead in the Piney River and the Tye River. ... The Piney River has not been able to support fish for 40 years. ...

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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 a keystone block. ...

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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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The writer could have had Andy put his gun anywhere, in the woods near the lover's house or in his car, but the river symbolized a change. ... Over nineteen years later, Andy still struggles with prison life. ... In perhaps one of the most remembered water scenes of the movie, Andy escapes through a sewer and lands in a river. ... In nature, water is an agent of life: rain feeds forests, rivers maintain fresh water fish populations. When water is reflected through art, be it poetry, painting, or film, a rejuvenation of life usually occurs. ...

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They lived peacefully through the Ubaid period. ... India had a lot of wood and some metals, so Sumerians traded with them frequently. ... They diverted rivers into canals. ... They also made things out of metal, stone, and wood. ... Each king had absolute control over hi...

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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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Thousands of pioneers struggled over a rough barrier: the thickly wooded Appalachian Mountains that extended down the continent. On the other side was the tantalizing west, stretching clear to the Mississippi River and beyond. ... When farmers and fur trappers got to the lonely frontier, they found that it cost too much and took too long to ship apples, flour, wood, and pelts to the eastern markets. ... By building a canal between these two points, it would be possible to ship goods by boat from New York City, up the Hudson River to the entrance of the canal at Albany, through the canal to...

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