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Hold a memorial service at a pet cemetery, in your backyard, or in a place that was special to your animal companion. Add an inscription to your pet’s gravestone. Find a special urn for your pet’s ashes. Create a living memorial by planting a tree, bush, or flower bed in your yard. Contact a pet cemetery or community park to see if you can sponsor a bench or tree affixed with an acknowledgment plaque memorializing your pet....

The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in the form of amendments. The chief purpose of the amendments was to protect the rights of individuals from the government’s interference. They guarantee rights such as religious freedom, freedom of the press, and trial by jury to all American citizens. First Amendment: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the press, the right to assemble, the right to petition government....

A landscape is an outdoor scene. A landscape artist uses paint to create not only land, water, and clouds but air, wind, and sunlight. A portrait is an image of a person or animal. Besides showing what someone looks like, a portrait often captures a mood or personality. A still life shows objects, such as flowers, food, or musical instruments. A still life reveals an artist’s skill in painting shapes, light, and shadow....

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Like animals, plants are living things, or organisms. These three features distinguish plants from animals: plants have chlorophyll, a green pigment necessary for photosynthesistheir cell walls are made sturdy by a material called cellulosethey are fixed in one place (they don’t move) Plants are broadly divided into two groups: flower- and fruit-producing plants and those that do not produce flowers or fruits. Flowering and fruit plants include all garden flowers, agricultural crops, grasses, shrubs and most leaf trees....

Campaign Finance Law (1974) The influence on wealthy individuals and corporations in politics and campaigns was not a new phenomenon in the early 1970s. In fact, President Theodore Roosevelt proposed reigning in campaign spending by corporations and called for transparency in campaign finances. However, it wasn’t until 1971 that reform efforts were put into law with passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The law, signed by Nixon shortly before the 1972 Watergate break-in, instituted disclosure requirements for federal candidates, political parties, and political action committees....

Often a pronoun takes the place of a particular noun. This noun is known as the antecedent. A pronoun “refers to,” or directs your thoughts toward, its antecedent. To find a pronoun’s antecedent, ask yourself what that pronoun refers to. What does her refer to in the sentence above—that is, who is the her? The her in the sentence is Luma; therefore, Luma is the antecedent. Subjective Pronouns A subjective pronoun acts as the subject of a sentence—it performs the action of the verb....

Yuck. This could have been the case if not for some imaginative people. People who for one reason or another wanted their game to move in a different direction. There have been thousands of rule changes in sports made during the 20th century, but these seven stand out has having the biggest effect on their respective games. Keep in mind most of the rules for our most popular sports like baseball, golf and soccer were written well before this century....

Why do some objects, such as doors and windows, get bigger and smaller? Have you noticed that closet doors don’t close as easily in the summer as they do in the winter? It’s because they expand in the heat of the summer and contract during the cold winter. Everything on Earth is made up of tiny particles called molecules, which are in constant motion. When the molecules heat up, they move faster, pulling apart from one another....

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