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The boy, the surfer and the turtle

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  CRASH! The gargantuan waves came crashing down on the shore of Shark fin beach. The tips of them glistened like gold in the sunset light and shone bright like diamonds straight into Flint’s eyes. “It’s the perfect time to go surfing”, he thought to himself. He was swimming out to sea with his trusty surfboard in his hand but as he swam through the water gracefully, he spotted a peculiar sight in the corner of his eye. The waves seemed to look lumpy. “How odd”’ he thought. Yet he still swam on, oblivious to the giant pile of danger he’d gotten himself into at that moment. As he kept on going on, he began to feel a sense of uneasiness. “How odd”, he thought to himself. At one point he felt he had found a good spot, so he tried to get on to his board but as he was doing it, he suddenly felt a jolt. “AUGHH!” he yelled in discomfort. Something was pulling him out to sea, and it was doing it quick. The shoreline quickly became nothing but a thin strip of yellow as he was grabbed in a cho
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All about cars

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Lots of people like cars, especially race cars. Some people would know what the fastest race car is but have you heard of the Thrust SSC or how car engines work. If you want to find out more about this and much, much more, stay tuned. How does a car engine work? A  car engine is made of a fixed cylinder and a moving piston . Gases are created in the cylinder and the gases push the piston, which rotates the crankshaft . After the piston compresses the fuel-air mixture, a spark ignites it, causing combustion . The expansion of the combustion gases pushes the piston during the power stroke. This process happens again. If you don’t understand this, here's a diagram. How do car batteries work? In most car batteries you have six cells, and therefore a 12-volt battery. There are a few plates plates. These plates are covered in sulphuric acid and this triggers a reaction between the two plates. ... The result is a chemical reaction that produces electrons . The electrons race around the
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Plastic pollution

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Plastic pollution has been a topic that many of us have heard before. You might have seen it on the news in a headline or you might have heard about it from a friend but have you ever really thought about it hard because this is a major problem that was created because of our relentless ambition for new things and our decisions. So if you want to know what it is, how to fix it and much more then you’ve come to the right place. What is plastic pollution and what causes it? Plastic pollution is  when plastic has collected up in an area and has started to negatively impact the environment and create problems for plants, wildlife, and even the human population .  The plastics causing the pollution vary greatly in sizes from big to microscopic. There are many kinds of plastics. The main factors to the problem of plastic pollution are fishing nets, plain old trash, disposing of plastic and garbage, and over-using of plastics. Who invented plastic and when did they? The man who invented plas
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