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Ice sculpting has been called a "spart"-part sport, part art. Like
athletes, ice sculptors vie for medals at international
competitions. Ice carving has been a Cultural Olympiad event at
the Olympic and Paralympic Arts Festival since the 1988 Calgary
Winter Games. The tools and the ice are heavy, so sculptors need
endurance and strength. "It's physically demanding working
non-stop under a time constraint," says Dan Rebholtz, who has
been carving for 22 years. He is a veteran of 100 competitions, a
three-time world champion and a certified judge with the National
Ice Carving Association. Most North American ice carvers have
art training. Their tools include chainsaws, carving chisels,
electrical sanders and torches, but most important, an imagination.
"Our favourite word is 'wow," says Rebholtz. It's the word most
people say when they see sculptures such as Surfacing Kingfisher
by the team of Junichi Nakamura (Japan) and Suguru Kanbayashi 15
(Canada). Although ice sculptures are beautiful and their creation
time-consuming, carvers must accept the potential for tragedy and
the certainty of impermanence for their masterpieces. Melting
can be a threat, but so too is crashing. Nakamura's team, which
included Rebholtz, worked almost 20 hours a day for six days on
The Birth of the Bluebird, a gigantic sculpture of a reclining
woman, her arm reaching up to a bird. Just before the judging, it
toppled, when its last supporting pillar was cut-a spectacle viewed
over 10 000 times on You Tube Sport Art With its challenge
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Read the two conclusions to cinderella. conclusion a: “this is not the true bride,” said he to the father; “have you no other daughters? ” then cinderella took her shoe off, and put on the golden slipper, and it fitted as if it had been made for her. and when he drew near the prince knew her, and said, “this is the right bride.” then he took cinderella on his horse and rode away. conclusion b: he obliged cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. the astonishment of her two sisters was great, but it was still greater when cinderella pulled out of her pocket the other slipper and put it on her foot. thereupon, in came her godmother, who, having touched cinderella's clothes with her wand, made them more magnificent than those she had worn before. and now her two sisters found her to be that beautiful lady they had seen at the ball. they threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all their ill treatment of her. cinderella took them up, and, as she embraced them, said that she forgave them with all her heart, and begged them to love her always. she was conducted to the young prince, dressed as she was. he thought her more charming than ever, and, a few days after, married her. cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, gave her two sisters a home in the palace, and that very same day married them to two great lords of the court. which conclusion to cinderella is stronger? why? conclusion a is stronger because it uses dialogue that readers understand the prince's feelings toward cinderella. conclusion b is stronger because it describes a surprising and positive resolution to the conflict between the characters. conclusion a is stronger because it contains an emotional moment in which cinderella learns something. conclusion b is stronger because it shows that all of the characters changed and got what they deserved.

In the story “seventh grade,” victor’s and michael’s hopes and expectations about girls often cause them to .

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