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Gas Station License Plate
1,900 wordsMary and Peter Jackson were driving down highway 50 in the middle of Nevada when Collie Entragian, the Desperation police officer, pulled them over for having a missing rear license plate. He told Peter that he could take the front license plate off and put it on the back and they should be ok. Peter went to the trunk of the car to get a tool kit under the spare tire. When he lifted up the tire to get the tools, Entragian and Peter found a bag of marijuana. Entragian started to get violent and h...
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Native American Culture Front Door
995 words... et their supper. 'You take the front door and I will take the back door, 's aid Coyote. 'Reach in and see of you can get him, ' replied Raccoon. They both reached in their holes. Raccoon felt sorry for Squirrel and let him escape through the front door while Coyote was reaching farther and farther into the back door. 'No silly, that is my hand you grabbed!' 'It is Squirrel, 's naked angry Coyote. 'Stop pulling, ' begged Raccoon. 'You are hurting me!' But Coyote continued pulling at Raccoon's...
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Native American Vs African Trickster Tales
1,305 wordsBeep BeepVRRROOOOMMMMand the Roadrunner speeds away from the deceitful Coyote as Coyote falls over a Cliff with his Acme dynamite still in hand. The tale of the trickster is known and shared all around the world. It is an age old story that has many different versions and is culturally diverse. Almost every culture has some version of the trickster tale; from the early West African people and their tales of Est, to the modern day American versions like Wile E. Coyote that Warner Brothers has mad...
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Make A Good Sci Fi
1,089 wordsSo, you just wrote your first science fiction novel. Your friend read it and told you that you were the next Ray Bradbury or Gene Roddenberry. Your fertile mind fantasizes your name up there on a Borders wall poster right next to images of Isaac Azimov and Jules Verne. Before going off the deep end and equating yourself with Hemingway and Steinbeck, give your ego a stiff reality check. Few of us mortals are literary Mozart's that can plop down in front of a computer screen and author a perfect m...
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Humans And Animals Timothy Findley
1,466 wordsSigmund Freud once argued that "our species has a volcanic potential to erupt in aggression... [and] that we harbour not only positive survival instincts but also a self-destructive 'death instinct', which we usually displace towards others in aggression" (Myers 666). Timothy Findley, born in 1930 in Toronto, Canada, explores our human predilection towards violence in his third novel, The Wars. It is human brutality that initiates the horrors of World War I, the war that takes place in this narr...
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Generation To Generation Nez Perce
1,086 wordsI Shamans A. definition B. purpose 1. balance 2. success hunting 3. planting 4. cure sickness C. Usually males 1. post menopausal women 2. blood powers II passed down from generation to generation A. usually from memory 1. sand drawings 2. birch bark scrolls 3. paintings on rocks 4. animal hides B. children 1. eight-familiar stories 2. ten- know history III answer basic questions A. where do we come from B. where are we going C. how the world came into being D. how it was transformed E. guidelin...
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Present Day One Day
1,093 words... longer will do. ' Different special rites according to which tribe they come from precede the tales. The Maidu, who used to live by the eastern tributaries of the Sacramento River in present day California, used to make the audience lie down on their backs to better promote quiet and attentiveness. The Cheyenne, of present day Minnesota to the Great Plains, introduce the tales by smoothing the dirt on the ground and passing his hands all over his body in brushing motions. Other tribes requir...
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Morning Chicken Hawk Morning Chicken Hawk Said Grandfather Coyote
1,174 words... survive?' Old Man Coyote gave the people weapons, but Shape remained dissatisfied. 'There is only one language, ' he complained. 'You can't fight someone who speaks your language. There should be enmity. There should be war. 'What are wars good for?' asked Old Man Coyote. 'Oh my respected elder brother, 's hire replied. 'Sometimes you are not thinking. War is a good thing. Say you are a warrior. You paint yourself with vermilion. You wear a fine war shirt. You sing war songs. You have war ho...
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Gray Fox Coyote Pacific Slope Flycatcher Species
683 wordsThis work describes the plant community, wildlife habitats, and special-status species that occur within the Toro Canyon area, including the potential for loss of sensitive (endangered, threatened, rare, or otherwise protected) plant communities and wildlife habitats. The Toro Canyon is located between the San Inez Mountains and the Santa Barbara Channel, California, The USA. Toro Canyon begins at the San Inez Mountains and extends approximately 5, 750 acres to the to the Pacific Ocean. Native v...
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Birth And Death Meaning Of Life
2,702 wordsConflict and Contradiction Childhood has always been a time of a persons formation. They say that experience a child has had in this age plays an important role in his or her future, in his / her attitude towards the world around them and towards people. The period is considered to be turns point in whole their lives. Family and parents are those people who help a child to understand the world. They can influence his or her opinion and help to overcome difficulties. If there is a lack of contact...
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Earthquake Studies For Southern California
615 wordsEarthquake Studies For Southern California Earthquake Country. info claims that earthquakes are as Southern Californian as waves at the beach and traffic on the freeways. Lets dwell on earthquakes in Southern California as well as the faults associated with our area. The San Andreas fault is one of the most significant faults affecting our area. We know that the San Andreas fault produces large earthquakes and that many other faults are also hazardous (Earthquake Country. info n. p. ). So, lets ...
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Comic Relief Greek Mythology
1,366 wordsThe Trickster Karl Jung's explanation for the archetypes that surface in cultural and religious literature is that they are the product of what he calls the collective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all human beings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked eye, one must look for the signs of it by researching cultures who are long gone and comparing them to each other and our own. Studying it reminds us that all humans are bound together by a...
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Road Runners Capture Wyle E Coyote Funny
912 wordsFunny No More Its 6: Road on a Saturday morning; do you know where your children are? Well, if they are anything like we used to be, they are probably sitting down to watch the weekend cartoons. Yeah, you remember, the one time during the whole week when you got up before the sun came out and ate a big bowl of sugar coated garbage just so you could watch Wyle E. Coyote practically kill himself trying to catch the ever illusive Road Runner. Weve all seen him try and inevitably fail at this task, ...
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Sun And Moon World Quot
771 wordsHundreds of years ago the Zuni people created and told stories of human and world creations, tales of love and lust, and just about anything " that gave people an explanation for something they could not understand" (Garden 25). They made up all these legends or myths before there was anything called science. The stories came from the heart and soul of these native people. Legends are not just silly stories that were told for amusement they are like magic lenses, they allow us to have ...
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Rock And Roll Helter Skelter
3,302 wordsAllegory of American Pie by Don McLean A Piece of the Pie Ask anyone what was the defining moment in the rock history of the 1960 s was and all you will get is a one word answer: Woodstock. The three day rock festival that defined an era was only one of many music festivals of the 60 s. But Woodstock has come to symbolize, an era of peaceful, free- loving, drug- taking hippie youth, carefree before harsher realities hit (Layman 40). The Woodstock festival ended a century filled with many metamor...
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Greek Myths Fully Understand
1,503 wordsFebruary Greek Myths Greek Myths February 18, 1997 Dear Rebecca, I am writing to you today to tell you about a few wonderful myths that I have read. I feel that they would interest you as much as they did me. I will give you a brief summary on each so that they will be a little more familiar to you if you decide to read them at some time in the future. The first story I read was the tale of Hermes. Born on Mount College to his mother Maia, Hermes was an astonishing child. His growth was equally ...
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Illegal Immigrants Physical Examination
675 wordsI feel really bad for the people who turn to immigration to save their lives. Americans unwillingly use their tax dollars to pay for the salary of illegal immigrants. It is a big problem for people in the US. I feel that immigration is okay, but the problem is illegal immigration. Even though the people may be living in harsh conditions, it is not impossible to earn 320 dollars and meet the requirements to get a visa. The requirements to get a visa legally are to have 320 dollars for the paperwo...
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Native American Culture Boys And Girls
2,043 wordsThey Dance in the Sky is a collection of Native American sky myths. It is a basic introduction into the skyline of the first Americans, retelling American Indian folklore and tales of mythology. They are allegories or parables written in the English language, collected by scholars in the late 19 th, early 20 th centuries. The stories tell tales of many different things such as: how to act or obey the customs of a tribe, why things are the way they are, or how we came to be. Generally they are st...
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Women Of Color Sexually Transmitted
839 wordsTwo Prostitution 2 Solicited Sex Two consenting adults can have sex, so why is it illegal for two consenting adults to have sex but to have one pay the other. Prostitution should be legal because it would save money and make the live of partakers more safe. The legalization of prostitution would save tax payers money. The average cost, according to San Francisco police department, of an arrest, trial, and incarceration of a prostitute is 2, 000 dollars. If prostitution was legal would eliminate ...
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Day To Day Bugs Bunny
1,686 words80 SOCIETIES SCAPEGOAT Youth crimes are on a continual rise. It seems that everyday violent offenders keep getting younger and more aggressive. We turn on the news only to hear that a ten year old mugged, shot, stabbed, beat or blew up one of his peers. With crimes on the rise involving children, people begin to look for a cause. Society, when looking for a scapegoat, becomes worse than a blood thirsty lynch mob at a witch trial. Usually the most obvious source of violence within a home is the t...
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