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Quot Quot Poem Quot
774 words
Edna St. Vincent Millay defied the times in which
a woman was to operate, in her life style, and in
her poems, " Renascence" , " My
candle burns at both ends" , and " I
forgot in Camelot, the man I loved in Rome. "
She was one of the best known poets of the 1900 s.
Her poems were said to be delicate but outspoken
(World book 1968). While in school in addition to
being an exceptional student her teachers also
considered her to be a particularly bad student,
because t...
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South Seas Art Gallery
480 words
Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, into a
liberal middle-class family. After an adventurous
early life, including a four-year stay in Peru
with his family and a stint in the French merchant
marine, he became a successful Parisian
stockbroker, settling into a comfortable bourgeois
existence with his wife and five children. In
1874, after meeting the artist Camille Pissarro
and viewing the first Impressionist exhibition, he
became a collector and amateur painter. He
exhibited with the Impr...
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Christopher Columbus Native Americans
1,058 words
We are Americans! We can customize our cars,
homes, and even our lives. How did we become such
individualists? During the late 1500? s, the
Chinese government had several chances of becoming
a vast world power and instilling their sense of
loyalty and unity as a country. Since China
believed that they were a self-sufficient entity,
they were content to leave things as they were and
saw no point in exploring the unknown. The
Europeans on the other hand were forced to explore
new worlds due to the...
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Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez
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The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill An Environmental
Disaster? Presentation by Dr. Ed Gilfilan Dr.
Gilfilan? s presentation was about the studies
that he did after the spill of the Exxon Valdez.
The Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef and
spilled 11, 000, 000 gallons oil into the Prince
William Sound in Alaska. As the oil mixed with the
water it turned into a thick mixture called?
mousse? . This mixture came ashore on many of the
islands, which was the major part why people saw
this event as an awful ...
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Bay Of Bengal Arabian Sea India
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Whats up in India Officially Republic Of India,
Hindi Bharat or Bharatavarsha country that takes
up most of South Asia. It is a constitutional
republic consisting of 25 states, each with a
substantial degree of control over its own
activities, and 7 less fully empowered union
territories. The capital is New Delhi. With more
than one-sixth of the worlds total population,
India is the second most populous country, after
China of course, we learned about that 2 units
ago. The land of India together...
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East Indies South America
427 words
Magellan Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan was born Fernao de Magalhaes to a noble
Portuguese family; later the Spanish knew him as
Fernando de Magallanes. He served as a court page
in his youth and 1505 he sailed with a fleet
carrying the first Portuguese viceroy to India. He
then served with the fleet in the exploration of
the East Indies. Twice wounded in battle, he took
part in expeditions that captured the kingdom of
Malacca in Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. He
explored the...
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Island Of Iwo Jima Island Of Iwo Marines
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The Battle for Iwo Jima The battle for control of
the island of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest
battles in both Marine and American history, began
February 19 th, 1945 as part of the island-hopping
campaign of the Pacific theater. Ultimately, 26,
000 Marines would be wounded or slain exceeding
Union losses at the battle of Gettysburg.
Beginning in the summer of 1944, long range
American B- 29 s had been pounding the Japanese
islands. However, because of the great distances
from U. S. bomber bases...
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Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Economic And Social
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Jamaica, a tropical island in the heart of the
Caribbean, has a diverse and unique geography.
Jamaica is a 146 mile long island with 4411 square
miles of lush island. More than half of Jamaica is
mountains above 1000 feet high, making it an
island with a very rough terrain. While the
mountains are mostly on the interior, the
coastlines are flat beaches that stretch for as
long as the eye can see. The northwest is pitted
landscape due to the many sinkholes that settled
on the limestone surface. T...
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United States Figured States Figured War
295 words
Japan had a goal of making an empire called the
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This
empire would serve the economic needs of Japan.
This huge empire would stretch from Manchuria in
the north to Australia in the south. It was
similar to Hitlers dream of Europe filled with the
Aryan race. To start this plan, Japan took over
Chinas northeastern province, Manchuria. The war
between China and Japan went on for three years.
Japans supply of oil, iron, rubber, and tin were
low. The only way th...
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Archaeology In The 21 St Archaeology In The 21 Atlantis
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Legends of the lost city The Future of the Past:
Archaeology in the 21 st Century Eberhard Zangger
285 pp, Weidenfeld Eberhard Zangger explores our
knowledge of the lands bordering the Mediterranean
before the golden age of ancient Greece (yes, the
title is a little misleading), and pushes the
general thesis that archaeological orthodoxy
currently has it all wrong. His first targets are
catastrophist theories of cultural change in the
region, ideas that have been widely disseminated
in popular b...
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Hawaiian Islands Four Million
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Causing $ 1 - 2 billion in damages and more than
25 deaths per year, landslides are a major
geologic hazard, caused by earthquakes and floods.
Although, landslides are generally not as exciting
or costly as earthquakes, major floods, tropical
storms, and other natural disasters, they occur in
more expanded places and may cause more property
damage than any other geologic hazards. A wide
variety of ground movements, such as rock falls,
slope failure, and shallow debris flows can
classify landslid...
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Theory Of Evolution Theory Of Natural Selection
675 words
On the Theory of Evolution Whether it is Lamarck+s
theory that evolution is driven by an innate
tendency towards greater complexity, Darwin+s
theory of natural selection, or the belief that
the evolution of plant and animal life is
controlled by a higher being, the process of
evolution cannot be denied. Archaeological
investigations have proven that species evolve
over time, but the unanswered questions are |How?
X and |Why? X The answer lies in Charles Darwin+s
theory of evolution. Charles Darw...
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Reading This Book Gulliver
704 words
The premise of this book is a man who loves to
travel. Something always goes wrong, and he ends
up on an island. On the first island he ends up
finding a civilization of people 1 / 12 the size
of normal humans. After he leaves that island, he
ends up on three more masses of land that have a
peculiarity about the people. On Gulliver? s next
adventures, he meets extremly large people,
primitive people, and people on a flying island.
The character I most identified with was Gulliver.
Gulliver is a ...
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Elected President Social Injustice
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The videos trace the development of the United
States colonial policy in the Philippines. It all
started with helping a disaster-stricken young
republic in creating a democratic society. In
order to do that, the Philippines welcomed U. S.
intervention. The U. S. was their hope to be freed
from the Japanese and to rid their label of being
the sick man of Asia. Of course, U. S. aid came
with extensive stipulations requiring amendment of
the Philippine Constitution. Americans suddenly
now had almos...
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Beats Per Minute Polar Bears
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Polar Bears can be found in all of the northern
regions of the world. This includes Russia,
Norway, Greenland, the United States and Canada.
They inhabit Arctic Sea ice, water, islands, and
continental coastlines. Polar bears prefer sea ice
habitat with leads, next to continental coastlines
or islands. Air temperatures in the Arctic average
- 34 C in winter and 0 C in summer. The coldest
area in winter is northeastern Siberia, where the
temperature has been recorded as low as - 69 C.
The ocean t...
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Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans
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PUERTO RICOAmong all the Caribbean territories
Puerto Rico has the closest association with the
United States. In 1952 a new constitution made
Puerto Rico an autonomous part of the United
States called the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. This
subtropical island has developed into the only
Caribbean island where industry and commerce
exceed primary agricultural production. The island
and its approximately 3. 3 million citizens are
self-governed as a free asso...
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Dead Or Dying Based On Domination Fish
908 words
Our categorizations of nature are based on
domination. The world is divided ecologically into
predator and prey, or bigger more advanced animals
versus smaller simpler creatures. One category is
superior which dominates the second category which
is inferior. But this dualism based on dominance
represented by the demand of a preferred human
order upon nature is in fact contradictory. As an
obvious example, carnivorous plants like the Venus
flytrap consumes insects, and the bigger and more
taxonom...
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Spanish American War Puerto Rico
701 words
A number of factors contributed to the U. S.
decision to go to war against Spain. Since the
early years of the 19 th century, many Americans
had watched with sympathy the series of
revolutions that ended Spanish authority
throughout South America, Central America, and
Mexico. Many people in the United States were
irritated that the Spanish flag continued to fly
in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The brutality with which
Spain put down Cuban demands for a degree of local
autonomy and personal liberty arous...
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Mustapha Mond Social Outcast
608 words
Social Outcast, Lonely, and Scholarly In the novel
Brave New World, the three main characters each
had their own unique qualities. Bernard was a
social outcast, John was a lonely savage, and
Mustapha Mond was a scholarly world controller.
These three interesting qualities made the
characters more fascinating and exciting.
Throughout the book, Bernard Marx is displayed as
an outcast of society. Bernard doesnt think and
feel the same way a majority of the society does.
In one scene, Fanny question...
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Men And Women Women And Men
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Social stratification is a system which exists in
most societies, and distinguishes between
individuals and / or groups according to their
socially-defined attributes, and gives them
different statuses according to these attributes.
This system is so widespread because humans
invariably show variation, with some being better
skilled at certain things than others, and these
differences lead to people becoming more or less
" useful" to society. What this essay
will look at is the ways in...
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