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The Wright Brothers’ Aeroplane Company is a great resource for learning not just about the Wright Brothers themselves, but also about the history of flight, and understanding how flight is accomplished.

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The Wright Brothers had a strong work ethic and strong character that is highlighted in the Wright Brothers’ Aeroplane Company Museum. If the museum can persuade visitors to buy into the ideology highlighted by the brothers, it could work to create a more productive society.

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Henry Slesar’s dystopian short story, ”Examination Day,” uses a repeating craft move of foreshadowing to reveal to the reader that choosing ignorance can be one of the most dangerous things a citizen can do.

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Henry Slesar’s dystopian short story, ”Examination Day,” is set in a futuristic world where the government requires twelve-year-old children to take an exam to test their intelligence.

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Ray Bradbury’s Short Story, ”All Summer in a Day,” takes place on the planet Venus. Because Venus take seven years to rotate around the sun, it has been seven years of rain, rain, and more rain for the people living on the planet.

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Ray Bradbury’s Short Story, ”All Summer in a Day,” uses descriptive language to reveal a lesson to the reader that when people can’t get over their own pain, they can end up hurting others.

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In the novel, Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, it’s clear from the dialogue and tone of the text that Mattie’s world is one that is filled with hard work, illness, and neverending struggle. The author does this to show the realities of the time period that Mattie lived in.

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The novel Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is set in Philadelphia in the year 1793. The novel explains the daily lives of the citizens and leaders leading up to the time when the city is hit by a Yellow Fever endemic.

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In the novel, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the author uses a no-nonsense author’s craft to show the reader that survival of the fittest can bring out the best and the worst in humans and animals.

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The novel, The Call of the Wild by Jack London is set in the late 1800’s when men from all over the United States make their way to the hard conditions of bitter cold of The Klondike, because gold had been found.

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