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Coral Reef Native Hawaiian
5,058 words... and related marine resources and species of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in their natural character; (b) The Reserve shall be managed using available science and applying a precautionary approach with resource protection favored when there is a lack of information regarding any given activity, to the extent not contrary to law; (c) Culturally significant, noncommercial subsistence, cultural, and religious uses by Native Hawaiians should be allowed within the Reserve, consistent with app...
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Three Points One Line
1,555 wordsCollinear points are points all in one line. Coplanar points are points all in one plane. The intersection of two figures is the set of points that are in both figures. Statements that are accepted without proof are called postulates or axioms. 1. Any two desired points can have coordinates 0 and 1. 2. The distance between any tow points equals the absolute value of the difference of their coordinates. Congruent segments are segments that have equal lengths. The midpoint of a segment is the poin...
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12 Th Century Flying Buttresses
2,259 words... rd, thus collapsing them. A building's vertical supporting walls thus had to be made extremely thick and heavy in order to contain the barrels vaults outward thrust. Medieval masons solved this difficult problem about 1120 with a number of brilliant innovations First and foremost they developed a ribbed vault, in which arching and intersecting stone ribs support a vaulted ceiling surface that is composed of mere thin stone panels. This greatly reduced the weight (and thus the outward thrust)...
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Deep Throat First Person
5,031 wordsWHAT DOES MYSTICISM HAVE TO TEACH US ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS? Revised version of the paper delivered to "Towards a Science of Consciousness 1996 (Tucson II) April 1996 [Draft for Tucson II Conference Proceedings] Revised version appears in JCS, 5, No. 2 (1998), pp. 185 - 201 Robert K. C. Forman, Program in Religion, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. Email: In this article I would like to bring the findings of my somewhat unusual but increasingly accepted field mysticism...
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Supreme Soviet Soviet Union
2,487 words... r received a push forward when the successor to the Tajik KGB began to distribute large quantities of arms and ammunition to pro-governmental demonstrators on 3 May 1992. However, Nabiev was forced to form a coalition government on 6 May 1992 in which eight of twenty-four posts went to the Gorno-Badakhshani- and Gharmi-based opposition of democratic, nationalist, and Islamic parties and groups that had been demonstrating in Dushanbe since late March. However, this compromise did not satisfy ...
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The Dome Of Rock Jerusalem Israel
909 wordsThe Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel The Dome of the Rock (also known as Qubbat as-Sarah) is a sacred shrine built in the seventh century (688 to 691 AD) by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik. The exterior of The Dome of the Rock is octagonal. It has seven windows and one door on each side. The interior is circle-shaped. The mosque is made of marble and decorated with mosaics, painted stucco, tile, and gilded wood. It is believed that people, who built the Dome of the Rock, arrived from differen...
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Vast Majority Female Writers
2,889 wordsNadine Kim Professor Jessica Wyman VISC 3 B 03 Section 1 19 June 2007 Discourse Analysis AZURE Magazine (January to June 2007) Introduction The number of methods that allow accomplishing discourse and content analysis for an appreciable length of time significantly increased. Traditional analytical methods are often used interchangeably with the radically new technologies. The paper presents discourse analysis of the Canadian magazine AZURE that covers architecture, design, and art. The study co...
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Point Of View Social Status
746 wordsHow is justice manifested in society according to Confucius (with examples): Confucius point of view on justice is rather different from the one that is socially accepted and virtually taken for granted today. Back in the days of this philosopher justice was something more than simply giving someone what he or she deserved. Five hundred years before Christ was born people were thinking in different way, and justice meant for them something universally good. To the people of those times, and in p...
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N Pag Million Cubic
2,007 wordsThe earliest remains Hydrology Introduction The earliest remains of dams that archaeologists have unearthed date back to around 5000 A. D. They were constructed as part of a domestic water supply system for the ancient town of Jawa in Jordan. Over the next few millennia, the building of dams for water retention spread throughout the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Southern Asia, China, and Central America. Later, as technologies increased and industrialization took hold in Europe, dam mechanisms...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
8,487 wordsRobert Pinsky In Elizabeth Bishops bizarre, sly, deceptively plainspoken late poem " Crusoe in England, " the famous solitary looks back on his life near its end, recalling his isolation and rescue in ways deeper and more unsettling than Defoe could have dreamed. After painting the hallucinatory, vivid island, with hissing volcanoes and hissing giant turtles an unforgettable terrain Bishops Crusoe muses on the dried-out, wan relics of a life. From The New Republic (197 Joanne Feet Dieh...
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Grand Canyon Coal Burning
3,623 wordsCOLORADO RIVER PROJECT 1. The current problem is that a 1922 compact for dividing the Colorado River assumed it would flow nearly 17 million acre-feet per year to be divided between 7 states, 20 million people, and 2 million acres of farmland. Currently, the Colorado is flowing at only 9 million acre-feet per year. And 1. 5 million acre-feet are for Mexico every year. The upper basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah) believe that the lower basin states get too much of the water. T...
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