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Tail Of A Meerkat Member Of The Mob Meerkats
1,080 wordsMeerkat, or their scientific name, Suricate, are small mammals that live in the desert where the food is scarce. In the desert, there are animals such as hawks, coyotes, snakes, and scorpions which all can either kill or harm a Meerkat really bad. With all the danger, the only defensive weapons that a Meerkat has are his own claws, which are only 2 centimeters long. Due to the extreme changes in temperature of the day and night of desert, there are few vegetation's or insects that can survive, a...
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Ibsen And Strindberg Hedda Gabler Miss Julie
1,100 wordsCompare and contrast the characters of Hedda Gabler and Miss Julie in the plays by Ibsen and Strindberg. Support your findings with comments on the writers attitudes to their characters. August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen were both great playwrights of the 19 th century, and both played a large role in the evolution of modern day naturalism/ realism. The plays I will be discussing are Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, (1890) and Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888). In Karens lecture on Strindberg, she told how t...
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Historic Achievements Of The City Athens
551 wordsA city such as Athens triumphed over any other of its time. This is mainly due to its great achievements performed. In fact, a city so powerful had an effect on western civilization today. Many societies in modern times have been positively helped by Athens. Athenian architecture is a crucial element that made the city so beautiful. No other city was nearly as divine as Athens was. The creating of columns immensely helped in the building of structures throughout Greece. Indisputably, Greece was ...
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Yellow Throated Toucan Tail Is Nearly Square Bill
936 wordsToucan is the Brazilian name for a bird of the family, Ramphastidae, with approximately 42 different species of the bird. These peculiar birds belong to the order Piciformes, whose members have feet with the first and fourth toes reversed and are all cavity nester's. The toucan is an unusual looking bird, characterized by an enormous but light-weight bill, that has many useful qualities. Most species, posts a brilliant solid or multi-colored bill. They live in the tropical and subtropical forest...
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Declaration Of Independence Fourth Of July
1,592 wordsIn the years leading to the U. S. Civil War, the controversy over slavery became not only a social issue, but also a political and legal one as well. Opponents and proponents of slavery each looked to the American constitution, as well as the prevailing culture of the time, for direction in dealing with this matter. One such person who based their landmark works on this was Frederick Douglas, an emancipated slave, who fought tirelessly for the abolishment of slavery. In 1852, Frederick Douglas w...
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Imagery Stanza Image
636 wordsIn poetry it is important for meanings and themes to be conveyed to us in a unique and interesting manner. Margaret Atwood uses many literary devices so the reader can really feel her poems and come to a greater understanding through her wonderful narrative voices. In the poem, This is a Photograph of Me, Atwood uses haunting, ambiguous imagery to bring the piece to life and support its mysterious theme. The first image we receive from the poem is in the title itself. The image is an actually im...
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Fire And Ice Compared To 4 Other Poems
1,642 wordsFive Great Pieces of Thought I think Robert Frost is a understandable, but yet an unconventional poet. Frost wrote in his own style, and as a result, he took quite a bit of heat from the critics of his period. Frost has an elegant style of writing descriptive and understandable poems. I am going to tell you about the five best pieces he has ever written. First off, & quot; A Considerable Speck& quot; is a unusual poem about Frost noticing a tiny speck on his paper. Upon further observati...
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Vincent Van Gogh 20 Th Century
1,488 wordsBy: Phil In present time, Vincent van Gogh is probably the most widely known and highly appreciated person of postimpressionism. During his brief lifetime, Vincent's work went almost unknown to this world. His work now hangs in countless museums throughout the world and is considered priceless. His work became an important bridge between the 19 th and 20 th centuries. The art-historical term, Postimpressionism was coined by Roger Fry a British art critic, who described the various styles of pain...
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Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson
1,193 wordsJackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier It's April 15, 1947 opening day at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. Many people have turned out to see one man, the first black person to ever play in major league baseball. He is setting new standards for all blacks now and those to come. His name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson. We all wish him well and hope he can surmount the racial differences. At this time it was unheard of to have a black person treated equally to a white person, more the less it was highly u...
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Three Thousand Miles King George
997 wordsThe most significant factor in that time period was unity. The wrath of intercolonial disunity slowly dissolved as time went on. Enormous distances between colonies, geographical barriers like rivers, conflicting religions, varied nationalities, different types of governments, boundary disputes, and resentment amongst themselves were the factors involving disunity. However, the colonists over time started to understand that they were all fellow Americans who shared common ideals. In 1754, the Pe...
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Christ Church John Locke
602 wordsOut of the 5 individuals I felt that Montesquieu and John Locke affected the system of American government that we have today. Montesquieu's number one contribution to the American Government was in forming the ideas about the three branches of government: Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. This is the basis of out governmental system today. It is a system of checks and balances in which two branches are always watching the other one; making sure that no one branch gains too much power. So re...
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Santa Fe Doc Holliday
815 wordsFORD COUNTY by Brandon Noll Ford County was named in honor of Colonel James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado Calvary, Commander at Fort Dodge, once a Military Reservation of about 12, 000 acres. It was the most important military outpost on the Santa Fe Trail from about 1858 to 1882. Land was homesteaded by settlers and some land was purchased, coming from two sources, the Santa Fe Land Grant and the Osage Treaty Lands. Dodge City, was declared the county seat and was a famous frontier town and s...
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Repeated Three Times Road Not Taken Quot
1,616 wordsFive Great Pieces of Thought I think Robert Frost is a understandable, but yet an unconventional poet. Frost wrote in his own style, and as a result, he took quite a bit of heat from the critics of his period. Frost has an elegant style of writing descriptive and understandable poems. I am going to tell you about the five best pieces he has ever written. First off, " A Considerable Speck" is a unusual poem about Frost noticing a tiny speck on his paper. Upon further observation, Frost ...
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Santa Ana Zoo White Handed Gibbons Years
473 wordsScientific Name: Hylobates lar, Family: Hylobatidae, Order: Primates, Class: Mammalia, Geographic distribution: Tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia. White-handed gibbons lack a prehensile tail and they use a form of locomotion called brachiation to swing from tree to tree and branch to branch. Among the anthropoid apes they are fully BI-pedal, walking and running in an almost erect position like man. Sugary fruits are delicacies to the gibbon. They are most selective feeders and are primarily ...
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Executive Branch Social Security
275 wordsTHE RISE OF THE BUREAUCRATIC STATE The bureaucracy has been constantly growing since its beginning. At the end of the Federalist period, only 3, 000 civilian officials were appointed; then in 1925 about half a million were employees in the bureaucracy. However, the size of the bureaucracy is completely insignificant. What matters is the amount of power that can be exercised by the members of the bureaucratic agencies. The author, James Q. Wilson, provides an example that in 1971, the federal gov...
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Form Of Government House Of Representatives
512 wordsGovernment by the People, For the People The new constitution, thought to bring to power a centralized form of Government, actually establishes a Democratic Republic. In Federalist # 39, Madison's main objective is to explain to the skeptics of the constitution that it truly calls for a democratic form of government, and not for a strict National one. He does this by showing his readers two key points; Discussion of the setup and ratification process for this new constitution, as well as how the...
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Total Life Expectancy Geography Of Greenland Danish
754 wordsThe geography of Greenland Greenland The geography of Greenland is quite ironic considering its name. Greenland is Located in the northern part of North America. It is between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada. Greenland? s area is approximately 2, 715, 600 square kilometers. Its area is slightly more than 3 times the size of Texas. It is the largest island in the world. It is also primarily by the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay and from Iceland on the east, by the ...
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Period Of Time Nineteenth Century
1,535 wordsYou are completely relaxed there is a wonderful warm feeling spreading through your body. you have a great desire to sleep your eyelids are getting heavy heavier and heavier you hardly can keep them open any longer now they are closed with every word I am saying, you are getting sleepier. and sleepier. you are going to SLEEP deep, sound sleep deeper and deeper asleep SLEEP! You just read the exact words of a hypnotist, using the classical technique of verbal suggestion. His subject is sound asle...
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Henry Cabot Lodge John F Kennedy
1,617 wordsJohn F. Kennedy was destined to be president of the United States, he would rather mold history than let history mold itself. He was born in Brookline, MA in 1917. His mother was Irish and his father Joseph Kennedy was a graduate of Harvard University and had entered the worlds of business, and politics along with a good portion of his family. After their arrival as immigrants, his grandparents were the ones to begin the trend. In 1946, JFK started down the road mapped out for him by his father....
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000 Square Miles Rain Forest
1,266 wordsIn 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40, 000 square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1, 000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. It is too bad, because the rain forest is one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the most diverse, containing the most species of living things, much more than anywhere else, and most have yet to be identified. All rain forests are located on earths green belt, that is, the area r...
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