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Jonah Cast Up Jonah Cast Up Jonah Whale
724 wordsA collection of marble sculptures called the "Jonah Group" is now on display at the Cleveland Art Museum. "Jonah Swallowed, Jonah Cast Up, Jonah Praying, Jonah Under the Gourd Vine, and The Good Shepherd, " are the separate titles for each of the different statues depicting events in the Bible story. They are part of the John L. Severance Fund; numbered 1965. 237, . 238, . 239, . 240, . 241 respectively. The "Jonah Group" was created in Asia minor, approximately 270 to 280 AD. These statues most...
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Steam Engine Industrial Revolution
1,063 wordsIn the never-ending search for energy sources, the invention of the steam engine changed the face of the earth. (Siegel, Preface) The steam engine was the principal power source during the British Industrial Revolution in the 18 th century. The steam engine opened a whole new world to everyone. The steam engine maximized production, efficiency, reliability, minimized time, the amount of labor, and the usage of animals. The steam engine in all revolutionized the Eastern Hemisphere, mainly Europea...
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Royal Family One Thing
1,015 wordsIve been many places in my life of 18 years. Ive done many things, seen many people. I participate in family functions, am involved with the State Tribes Tournament team (web), and have been involved with numerous other clubs and teams. Basketball, soccer, chess, tennis; you name it, Ive probably done it. I traveled frequently with my parents until age 12, when I was old enough to say I was tired of it. There was one place I hadnt been, however, one place I wanted to go to. It was Hawaii. Ever s...
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Things They Carried Water Buffalo
1,177 words... about the field that night. Something about the way Kiowa disappeared into the crud. You were there... You can tell it. " (The Things They Carried). Two years after O'Brien received that letter, Norman Bowker took his own life. He hung himself with a jump rope inside the locker room at the YMCA after playing an eight hour long game of basketball. He left no suicide note, but Tim O'Brien knew why he did it. In "Notes", O'Brien talks about why he decided to write about Bowker. "Now, a decade a...
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Peer Pressure Feel Comfortable
1,240 wordsHeredity traits that I think have shaped me into the person I today come mostly from my maternal side. I inherited my mothers easy-going and outgoing personalty. Both of my parents are very level headed and very realistic. I am inherited both of those traits also. My father always went out of his way to make people feel comfortable, I inherited some of that trait because I like to make people feel comfortable in awkward or new environments. Environmental factors that have influenced my developme...
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Passage Of Time Keeping Track
1,025 wordsNot until somewhat recently (that is, in terms of human history) did people find a need for knowing the time of day. As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa initiated clock making as opposed to calendar making. With their attendant bureaucracies and formal religions, these cultures found a need to organize their time more efficiently. After the Sumerian culture was lost without passing on its knowledge, the Egyptians were the next to formal...
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Light And Dark Tim Burton
1,205 wordsIt makes you realize how abstract the film industry, and life in general, really is how much of it is just based on things that Tim Burton is just a man like any other man, except any other man is not Tim Burton. Tim Burton is a filmmaker. As a filmmaker, Burton has creative power over what he produces, directs, or even writes. His auteur, a term in film criticism that is applied to a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or aut...
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First Emperor 000 Kilometers
838 wordsMany cultures have sent their dead to the afterlife with the necessities of daily endeavor and the trappings of honor. Dishes, food, thrones, and barges have been excavated over the years. Pets, wives, concubines, and servants have gone to serve their masters in the next life as they served in this one. To the Chinese Emperors death was seen as an afterlife and the things that he takes with him shows how much he accomplished during his short life on earth. An emperors tomb included various thing...
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In The Lake Of Woods A Mystery
720 wordsIN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS: A MYSTERY? Almost from this novels first page we know that Kathy Wade will vanish, and it is not long before we discover that her disappearance will remain unsolved. We then ask ourselves, how is this novel considered a mystery if we never even find out what happened to Kathy? In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim OBrien, still has undeniable suspense. There are other topics in the novel like the impact of the Vietnam War, morality, and human behavior that help us see beyond...
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Political Institutions Political Order
800 wordsInstitutions The main idea in this essay, I believe, is how institutions can be so complex with their chain of laws, traditions, custom ideas that provide structure and order of political life. Civilization evolves and changes, and crafted by people who would mold institutions by their own ideology or philosophical view of politics. Political theorists, who writes in a period of chaos and anarchy, and believes politics is a power game, and life is reduced to avoid a pain and seek pleasure. Insti...
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Brother Sam Is Dead Sam Is Dead Principles
1,387 wordsMy Brother Sam is Dead was written by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier in 1974. The action takes place in Redding, Connecticut in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In this novel, the main characters are the Meeker family: Life, Susannah, Tim, and Sam. Once a whole family, war ripped them apart. The important principles guiding these people profoundly affected how they acted in the story and helped determine the decisions they made throughout the novel. It is evident that certain pr...
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Political And Social One Of The Greatest
1,165 wordsPhilosophers have forever been concerned with political and social matters. Not only have they asked how politics work but mainly, how they should work. These philosophers have been concerned with the nature and justification of political obligation and authority and the goals of political action. Although their doctrines have differentiated, and numerous have been utopian in concept, they have all shared the same ideas and convictions that it is the political philosopher's duty to distinguish b...
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Los Angeles County Roman Empire
1,387 wordsIn the Los Angeles County Art Museum A man dies. He winds his way down into the underworld to reach the banks of the river Acheron where he meets the ferryman Charon. He takes a coin from his mouth to pay the toll across. On the opposite bank he is greeted by a Maenad or perhaps Bacchus himself who offers him a kylix of wine. Drinking deep, the man is transformed and resurrected from death to a higher plane. Instead of living a miserable dream in the underworld he receives redemption from his go...
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Brilliantly Illuminated Louis Xiv History
1,594 wordsVoltaire: A history that never moved By Boy Kampmark Why should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie About) (1694 - 1778) wrote in his works History of Charles XII, History of Louis XIV and his Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations against its usefulness. This is largely because Voltaire, through his desire to write a history freed from a chronology,...
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Subsistence Level Farming Separate From Outer Asia Asian
888 wordsThe concept of Eurasia is easily identified: it is the combine bodies of both the European and Asian landmasses. However, a concept of Inner or Outer Eurasia is no so easily defined. Whether sub-regions are delineated by culture, geography, politics, or religion is yet to be decided. Denis Sinor and David Christian are two authors that attempted to clarify the discrepancy of an Inner Asian border. Borders can be formed a number of ways. Rivers, mountain chains, and other geographic infrastructur...
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Islamic Faith P 3
969 wordsSetting up political and economic policies is the most important task for newly developed civilizations. The creation of an entire religion, and ultimately a whole new society, as in the case of Islam, requires thorough planning and management of new guidelines to shape that society. Muslim policy was shaped not by democratic decision-making or dictatorship, but by interpretations of Holy Scripture, such as the Quran and the Hadiths. In the Fiscal Rescript of Umar II, it is clear that most econo...
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Liquid Fueled Rockets Liquid Fueled Rocket Fuel
901 wordsA rocket is a device that does not need atmospheric oxygen to burn its fuel, since it carries its own, either separately or in chemical combination with fuel. Rockets are propelled forward by gas or liquid being expelled backwards. Rockets work on a fundamental law of motion by Sir Isaac Newton that states, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This helps explain how rockets fly on earth and in space. For example, the rocket fuel is exploded in a controlled way so that the ex...
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Ancient Greeks Considered Important As His Strength Races
585 wordsAncient boxing had fewer rules than the modern sport. Boxers fought without rounds until one man was knocked out, or admitted he had been beaten. Unlike the modern sport, there was no rule against hitting an opponent when he was down. There were no weight classes within the mens' and boys' divisions opponents for a match were chosen randomly. There were both 2 -horse chariot and 4 -horse chariot races, with separate races for chariots drawn by foals. Another race was between carts drawn by a tea...
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Points Of View Dewey Dell
1,045 wordster> Through the use of many characters monologues the narrative point of view presents an objective view of what really happened. This statement is not adequate in connection with William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying. Though many points of view are expressed through the use of interior monologue, even when compiled, they cannot serve as an objective view of what really happened. There are many monologues by many different people, often with opposing ideas and beliefs. Together the...
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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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