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I found these recipes for bitter gourd preparations

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I sort of forgot about this assignment until earlier this week so I went to the Media Center and checked out the Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Suprisingly, it was one of the best movies I have ever seen. Franco Zifferelli (I’m not sure if I spelled that right) is […]

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Many people have brought up the idea of paritioning Iraq as a way to solve it’s problems. Partitioning it would mean separating it into three separate countries consisting of three main groups of people: the Sunni, Shiites, and Kurds. According to www.washingtonpost.com,
Those who see the partitioning of Iraq as increasingly attractive argue that separating the […]

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Wow, what a great book. I am so glad that I read it, and it was definitely worth reading. Reading this book gave me a new perspective on the First Thanksgiving, new knowledge of what happened after it, and a new appreciation for the Pilgrims. As you have probably figured out by now, I’m a big fan […]

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In my favorite rendition of my favorite story (the Peanuts “First Thanksgiving” special*), Squanto is portrayed as this really nice, sincere, helpful guy. One of the most surprising (and dissapointing) things I learned from Mayflower so far is that he really wasn’t. According to Philbrick, Squanto was this jerk who was really DTD and tried to […]

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So far, so good. Mayflower has been very interesting so far. However, I was a little dissapointed about how insignifigant the first Thanksgiving was. The first Thanksgiving is like my favorite story of all time, with the whole Pilgrims and Indians thing going on. I’ve read all the picture books, seen all the TV specials, […]

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