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Go, Is, Run, Jump

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The haberdashery was Lou’s favorite place. He loved shopping for nice suits. The people who worked there were so kind and helpful.”

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in South Wales to Norwegian parents. Imaginative, restless, and have a voracious appetite for adventure, he was not a great student. His mother offered to pay for him to attend Oxford or Cambridge University when he graduated. But Dahl declined. “No thank you,” he told her. “I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China.”

Voracious likely means?

You do your most dreaming during the rapid eye movement (R.E.M.) state of sleep. During this deepest sleep, your eyes move rapidly, your heart rate and breathing become inconsistent, and you experience muscle paralysis; all of these things are the body’s way of making sure we are stationary and that we don’t get up and act out whatever we are dreaming about.

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Robert Dahl's first dark and gruesome story for children was called The Gremlins, and he wrote it for Walt Disney in 1942. As it was unsuccessful, Dahl resumed writing his macabre stories for adult readers. His book of short stories Someone Like You was a best‐seller in 1953, and was followed by Kiss, Kiss in 1959.   

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When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We hold these truths to be self‐evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

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Because of the local investors and agents present to buy into her up and coming business, Jill felt it would be advantageous for her to attend the seminar.  

What does advantageous mean?

After I overheard my best friend talking about me, my feelings were hurt. In P.E. class, he asked to be my partner, but I gave him the cold shoulder. I walked away without saying a word.

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 "Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in apple of his eye. When his love he doth espy, Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. When thou wak’st, if she be by, Beg of her for remedy." -Shakespeare

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a US government agency whose budget is frequently many times contested.

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Many people think of NASA’s programs as trivial. In truth, the agency has a widespread positive effect on society by serving as a catalyst for innovation

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In truth, the agency has a widespread positive 2 effect on society by serving as a catalyst for innovation and scientific understanding, to create jobs, and showing humanity its place within the universe.

In 1958, the program’s first year, very few people believed that it was even possible for a manned spacecraft to leave the atmosphere and orbit Earth. But by initiating and collaborating on projects such as the Apollo Moon missions, the space shuttle program, the Hubble Space Telescope, and unmanned planetary exploration, NASA has continually challenged its scientists and engineers to do things that were previously thought impossible.

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A short list of inventions elaborated by NASA includes communications satellites, invisible braces, and cordless tools. All these inventions spawns new industries, and with those industries, jobs.

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A report by the Space Foundation estimated that NASA contributed $180 billion to the economy in 2005. More than 60 percent of the contribution coming from commercial goods and services created by companies using space-related technology. This translates as excellent returns from an agency that received approximately 17.7 billion in tax dollars in 2014.

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A short list of inventions elaborated by NASA includes communications satellites, invisible braces, and cordless tools.

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To perform their jobs successfully in this dynamic environment, workers in many fields—from social services to manufacturing, must continually acquire relevant knowledge and update key skills.