North Pole Essays

  • Charles Webb's The Death Of Santa Claus

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    how his mom had to tell him Santa Claus was not real. Line one is started off by saying a guy has had chest pain for weeks. In line one it does not give us who the guy is. In line two and three it states “but doctors don’t make house calls in the North Pole,” by giving us this information we can infer that he may be Santa Claus because

  • Global Warming Debunked

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    A growing population in today's society is becoming more and more weary of this so-called global warming epidemic. Tactics such as propaganda, various styles of indoctrination, and surreptitiously instilling fear have been used to flood the minds of the gullible; not to mention utter deception. FOX 11 is home to an array controversial sitcoms. One show in particular, Family Guy, disputes vacillating whether or not global warming is factual or fraudulent. The deliberation of Family guy, along with

  • Technology Swells Ocean Exploration

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    Technology Swells Ocean Exploration Railroads and computers. So, not only what to these have in common, but also what are they doing in paper about computers? Well to start, the Professor did say to have fun with the paper! Secondly, the guns show how long technology takes to evolve and than how quick evolution can happen. It took centuries to go from smooth bore to rifled bore in the guns. Flintlock gun were still being used at the start of the American Civil War, 1861. By the time the

  • The Theme Of Knowledge In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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    creating a creature so powerful.The creature learns of a family that teaches him to speak and interact with others, but when the creature comes head to head with the Delacey family they reject him. Finally, Robert Walton when he tries to reach the North Pole, but gets stuck in the

  • Analysis: An Inconvenient Truth

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    Make a Change Americas freedom was accomplished by the 13 colonies working together, and fighting together. Slaves were freed by rallying and doing marches.Great acts and challenges have been overcome by people working together. If there is a will there is a way. People think that a challenge known as Global Warming is too big to overcome. A man named Al Gore “used to be the next President of America”(Al Gore) has made many claims and arguments in how people are the main reason of global warming

  • Analysis of Passage in Shelley's Frankenstein

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    letter three, paragraph three. I chose this paragraph because it sounded interesting and it plays a very important part of this novel. Mary Shelley wrote this novel during the Industrial Revolution. The characters in this passage approached the North Pole, challenging the Northern Sea in July. The Northern Sea is deadliest sea in the world. The navigation in the sea is only possible for three months of summer. The other nine months your life will be at risk and you may not even survive. Even the

  • Saving Santa Christmas Research Paper

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    about getting together with family and showing how much you love one another. These Netflix Christmas movies are for all ages to enjoy as a family. 2009’s Santa Buddies is always a great movie to start with, yes even if you are a cat person. At the North Pole, Father Christmas and his chief dog Santa Paws worry as the toys processing system is threatened by the weakening of its magical power source. When harshly rebuked Puppy Paws, wishing there was no Christmas and he a regular dog, runs away to Fernfield

  • The Meaning of Christmas: Personal Essay

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    Everybody knows that Christmas is about giving presents to the loved ones but who is really considering the real meaning of Christmas? We spend several days to make our houses clean, to look for presents for our family and friends, to find a proper outfit for the modern Christmas party. The most important thing about this holiday is totally forgotten. This is the day when our Savior Jesus Christ was born. I may not be the most religious person, but Christmas represents a special moment of the year

  • grendel vs. frankenstein

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    civilization detest those different from themselves. Eventually their ways of demoralizing Frankenstein’s feelings lead Frankenstein to escape from their antagonizing. Frankenstein ventures to the North Pole, one of the coldest and most deserted, barren, and empty places known to man-kind. He stays isolated at the North Pole until he realizes Dr. Frankenstein has been following him, hoping to push him off the edge of world, never to be seen or heard from again. Frankenstein, once again flees, trying to escape

  • Romantic Hero

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    A romantic hero is a person that seems to be the outcast, he may or may not be wealthy, he will have his own set of moral codes, his life is filled with strife, which he overcomes and wins. He is also in tune with nature and his feelings. The romantic hero is a rebel that ignores the set rules of society in pursuit of their own self fulfillment. Mary Shelly both supports and critiques the concept in her novel. Frankenstein demonstrates many traits of the romantic hero. He is in tune with nature

  • An Alien's Experience in New York City in December

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    In the month of December, New York City is such a crazy place! I walked down the street and was awestruck when I saw the most realized natural vision in the middle of New York City. It was a large hardwood plantation covered in these reflective beacons that hovered over an elliptical gathering spot. Here people were taking pictures and gliding across a frozen bond while wearing covers for their feet with small blades attached at the bottom for a more controllable slide. There seemed to be humans

  • Why Santa Should Abominate Physics

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    organs, not expecting to be pounded with that amount of force, would explode Santa inside to out. As harrowing as it might seem, if Santa Claus ever distributed presents on Christmas Eve, the aftermath consists of a his jolly-old tombstone in the North Pole. Even though Santa and his team would be vaporized from the mass of the sleigh and the sleigh’s speeds, it’s a child’s decision whether they believe in this myth or not. The work of adults becomes more amenable as physics is finally applied to Santa

  • Elfland Research Paper

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    Kris Kringle and his wife, Martha, agreed to move to Elfland and live and work in the village with the Elves making the toys. In addition, they agreed that his official name would be Santa Claus. While some of the elves were busy helping Mrs. Kringle or Claus's pack and get ready for the move to their village. Staying at Elfland Santa will use the time to get use to, and working with the reindeer. After taking a few test rides in the sleigh, Santa found that his coat of many colors is not made

  • The Human Need for Love in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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    The creation then spends a year wandering searching for companionship, but everywhere he goes he is shunned and feared. Hating life the creature turns its misery on its creator, killing off Victors family. Frankenstein chases the monster to the North Pole, in an attempt to kill it. Weakened by the cold and long chase, a dying Victor is taken aboard a ship, where he relates his tale to the captain and dies soon after. The next night the monster visits the ship and looks upon Victor's body, ashamed

  • Designing, Making and Testing a Sundial

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    the seasons). A modern sundial consists of a plane (dial face) and the gnomon (style). The dial face is divided into hours and the gnomon is the flat piece of metal, or stick in the dials centre, it points towards the North Pole (in the northern hemisphere) or South Pole (in the southern hemisphere). The gnomon must tilt at the angle of the latitude at the location. Although a sundial seems like a simple device for measuring time, it is not. One cannot simply look at the shadow and find

  • charles Kuralt

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    10-Ninety Degrees North- In this Chapter Kuralt is asked by one of his bosses to follow along with a man by the name of Ralph Plaisted and many of his friends. Kuralt was asked to make a documentary on the polar expedition that these men were taking part in. Kuralt’s job as the reported was to stay in a little weather shack and take a plane back forth between the shack and the explorers. As they closer and closer to the North Pole the men we getting tired but something in Plaisted made every man

  • Ruining Christmas

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    Once upon a time, down in the South Pole, on the Eve of Christmas Eve, evil penguins were hard at work. This was not the work that meant getting presents together for Christmas, no this was the type of work that would ruin Christmas. These penguins are trying to ambush the North Pole! Pecky, Chubbers, and Tumtum are the head penguins in charge. They are adding magic itching powder to the hay that Santa’s reindeer will sleep in tonight. The hay is sent to penguins that will bale it and tie it. A huge

  • Robert Walton’s Thirst for Knowledge in Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein

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    ability to read and understand, or even knowing what is at the North Pole. Robert Walton is one of the characters that falls victim to this thirst for knowledge. Robert Walton’s search for knowledge in Frankenstein leads him to not only discover the perils that come from his hunt for knowledge, but also learns a lesson about his own limits. Robert Walton begins the book by writing to his sister and telling her about his voyage to the North Pole, she was afraid for him to leave because she didn’t want him

  • Dangerous and Destructive obsession with acquiring Knowledge

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    importance of the characters role in the novel. Walton (although he is not the ‘main’ character in the novel) did the tango with obsessing over knowledge. He wanted to exceed expectations and reach the North Pole, however his obsession was not fulfilled and Walton had to draw back on his endeavor to the North Pole, escaping with minimal damage and certainly no destruction. The second character that took his chances with knowledge was the creature. The creature strived to learn how to be loved, find his creator

  • Playing God

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    Many scientific pursuits have advanced throughout time lacking any catastrophic events. However, defying natural laws of life/death and violating the sanctity of human life crosses a line in the great chain of being, as a human utilizes godly powers. Violating this hierarchy causes dire consequences for the violator. Just as Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gifted it to man, Victor Frankenstein also transgressed the boundaries between the mortal and divine worlds and pursued the dangerous