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Many people would never think that having a wonderful Thanksgiving feast with loved ones could be an opposition, but it is. In my family, it is a time to bond and stuff as much as you can into your face. This can be quite the dilemma because our stomaches can only hold so much. There is a wide variety of delicious foods spread all over the table. There is, of course, a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean hotdish, steamed broccoli, bread, fruit and cranberries, and not to mention pumpkin pie with a dollup of whip cream on top. How is one to decide? I want a heap of each one.
After many years of deliberation, I had to face the facts and realise that I cannot physically eat all of this, and I will not give up any of these wonderful foods on my plate. I have come up with a few solutions:

1. Eat in proportions;get a small pile of each, a little sampling!
2. Eat in a longer span of time. Spread it out.
3. Wear bigger pants! Sweat pants, comfy and roomy.
4. Unbutton your pants. Create room where there wasn't before and still look good in your slacks.
5. Fast the Wednesday before. Make yourself so hungry, you can't hold back.

All of these are acceptable solutions, but maybe not practical for everybody. We'll see how this November 23rd goes...

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Volcanoes are one of the world's most astonishing, yet devastating phenomena. The Earth is made of many different layers, including the core, mantle, and crust. Volcanoes can be formed when two or more of the earth’s tectonic plates converge. They can also be formed from mantle plumes or “hotspots�, which is an abnormally hot rock in the Earth’s mantle that has had volcanic activity there for a long time.

Volcanoes are a beautiful example of clockwork. They can be classified by how often they erupt, if they erupt at all. Volcanoes that erupt regularly are called “active� while volcanoes that have erupted in the past, but no longer erupt are called “dormant�. There are also volcanoes that have not erupted and are called “extinct�.

Volcanoes have an amazing infrastructure. When the tectonic plates are pushed beneath another, the Earth's crust melts and it becomes magma. When there is enough magma, a Volcano is formed. It is made up of the Magma chamber, at the very bottom and center of the volcano, the strata, or the layers in the volcano, the central vent, and the crater. This is shown in the diagram below.

Volcanoes can have a huge impact on humans also. They force people to leave their homes to seek safety, they cause people to find a new source of water, and they also restrict travel to the popular tourist sites.
A volcano is an extraordinary example of a phenomena because it exhibits all the characteristics of one.

“Volcano� Wikipedia. 2006. Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. 5 Oct. 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano

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