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Potiki Is Toko Maui
1,151 words... is hook and let it down into the deep sea. Down it went into the very bottom and caught the under world Out of the great seas the black, ragged head of a large island was rising like a fish-it seemed to be chasing them, through the boiling surf. In a little while the water became shallow around them, and their canoe finally rested on the black beach (Westervelt 12). This excerpt above comes from the legend of Maui. Theres a lot of correlation with the story of Toko. Maui went fishing with hi...
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Back In Time Speed Of Light
829 wordsOften when I look at the stars when I'm in bed at night I shudder to think of my insignificance in the immensity of the Universe. The distances in the Universe are inconceivably huge, so we measure them in light-minutes or light years. A light minute is the distance light travels in one minute, and that's a long way, because light travels through space at 300, 000 km a second. So in a minute it would travel 18, 000, 000 km. The distance of the Sun from the earth is about eight light-minutes whic...
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Race For The Super Bomb
523 wordsRace For The Super Bomb In 1945, America terrified the world by using the Atom Bomb in Hiroshima and later in Nagasaki. This fear of the most powerful weapon ever created started a cold war between America and Russia. These two great nations had started the race for the super bomb, which would have each country trying to out do the other for decades to come. The super bomb in which America and Russia were trying to build was in fact the Hydrogen Bomb. This bomb had an unlimited blast potential a...
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Church In 1963 Freedom Marches Place
440 wordsDudley Randall's Ballad of Birmingham gives a poetic account of the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963. The poem was written in ballad form to convey the mood of the mother to her daughter. The author also gives a graphic account of what the 1960 's were like. Irony played a part also in the ballad showing the church as the warzone and the freedom march as the safer place to be. Writing the poem in ballad form gave a sense of mood to each paragraph. The poem starts out with an eager little g...
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Distribution Of Wealth Population Growth
1,690 wordsFurthermore, both authors are failing to include rather important viewpoints into their arguments that ultimately results in the weakening of their chosen position. Dolan argues that population growth when coupled with the technological progress will eventually level off and the problem will more or less disappear. He is claiming a tech fix is inevitable, but ignores the problems with applying this tech fix to the lesser developed nations that are being most violently effected by the population ...
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Afro Cuban Catholic Saints Yoruba
801 wordsThe Yoruba, one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most populous groups, sixteen million strong, live in the Republic of Nigeria. They are heirs to an ancient culture exceptional for its urban density, refinement and complexity. When forced migration took Yoruba peoples to the plantations of Cuba, Brazil and Haiti, they recombined their deities into a new pantheon and incorporated Catholic saints whose powers and histories seemed parallel. For example, some representations of the Virgin Mary were equated w...
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Atlantic Slave Trade Hip Hop
1,038 wordsHip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned style which encompasses a range of related activ...
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Analysis Of The Atomic Cafe Documentary 1982
1,226 wordsAnalysis of The Atomic Cafe Documentary (1982) Atomic Cafe can be thought of as the example of a new genre in the field of documentaries. Some critics refer to it as observational grotesque. It is clear that producers strived to expose the sheer futility of duck and cover tactics, when it comes to protecting people from the effects of nuclear explosion. However, Atomic Cafe would never be able to become critically acclaimed, if it was only providing viewers with the historical insight on how did...
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1 Change In The Nature Of Crime America
798 wordsEssay # 1 Change in the Nature of Crime in America The rapid growth of the crime control industry is a frightening aspect of contemporary U. S. society. Incarceration represents the ultimate form of surveillance: 24 hours a day, within four walls, monitored by humans, by machines, restricted in their movements. In 1993, American criminologist, professor of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland Gary La Free published his seminal study, The Changing Natur...
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Soviet Leaders Soviet Government
766 wordsEarly the morning of April 26, 1986, the nuclear reactor at the fourth unit of the U. I. Lenin power station at Chernobyl exploded. This blast made history. The nuclear accident in Chernobyl was the worst in the world. Knowing how the accident happened, why people were not aware of it, and the results of the accident, can help to prove the thesis. The chain of events leading to disaster began on the morning of April 25, 1986. Unit Number 4 was scheduled to be taken out of service for routine mai...
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Facial Expressions Object Permanence
1,428 wordsarticles The Child Development The articles The Amazing Power of Baby Love and A Year to Cheer (written by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Emily Abedon, respectively) advocate intense coexistence between the child and the caregiver. These articles (taken from parenting magazine) are, in essence, guidelines to be used by the parents or caregiver to ensure proper development of their child up to the second year. The article also educates the reader that every child develops at their own pace, and there ...
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Missing Link Isn T
448 wordsCreation vs evolution, was man created be an almighty god, or is he simply a product of modern science. This question has puzzled scholarly minds for many years and yet will for many to come. The one that makes the most sense to me and has the most supporting evidence, is evolution. Not the normal, goop to fish to creature to monkey to man, obviously I skipped some, but one not so greatly known. It is called punctual equilibrium. Punctual equilibrium is a type of evolution stating that the evolu...
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Life On Earth Book Of Genesis
744 wordsTitle: Creation Vs. Evolution Outline Title: Creation vs. Evolution or Scientific Creation Thesis: Creation vs. Evolution has been a hot topic with society for centuries. Just recently, in the mid- 1980? s an new kid came on the block, Scientific Creation. Purpose: The following will show the main ideas of Creation, Evolution, and Scientific Creation. I will also show why I believe in Creation and what aspects of Evolution and Scientific Creation help me to confirm this belief. Creation vs. Evol...
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Important Day Of My Life Day Of My Life Pipe
557 wordsCreative Writing: The Most Important Day of My Life The most important day of my life had just happened recently. It all started out when some friends and I were bored. We wanted to do something that was fun and cool which also happened to be very bad. We decided we were going to make a big firecracker. The first thing we did was to go to a hardware store. We went there and looked around for a long time, till we decided what we wanted to use in the firecracker. I watched a TV show the night befo...
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Environmental Protection Agency Agent Orange
1,129 wordsDioxin is one of the most toxic chemicals known. A report released for public comment in September 1994 by the US Environmental Protection Agency clearly describes dioxin as a serious public health threat. The public health impact of dioxin may rival the impact that DDT had on public health in the 1960 s. According to the EPA report, not only does there appear to be no " safe" level of exposure to dioxin, but levels of dioxin and dioxin-like chemicals have been found in the general US ...
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Infinite Regress God Exists
1,002 wordsAquinas second proof that God exists, the proof from efficient cause, is summarized in the following: there exists things that are caused, nothing can be the cause of itself, there cannot be an infinite regress of causes, there fore, God exists. The proof of Aquinas s is a cosmological kind, basing the fact the if anything exist; an absolute necessary being must also exist. I agree with Aquinas that God is the uncaused first cause, but from a situation that was discussed in class a few weeks ago...
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Hit The Ground 1936 The Hindenburg Ship
834 wordsThe Hindenburg, originally Hindenburg HINDENBURG The Hindenburg, originally designated the L. Z. 129, was a rigid AIRSHIP built by the firm of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Completed and tested in 1936, it was the worlds first transatlantic commercial airliner. The airship was 245 m (804 ft) long, had a maximum diameter of 41 m (135 ft), and was kept aloft by 200, 000 cu m (7, 000, 000 cu ft) of hydrogen in 16 cells. Four 1, 050 -hp Daimler-Benz diesel engines provided a to...
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Life Children
1,449 words? Hindu goddesses are traditionally conceived to be strong figures, even indomitable ones. By comparing his female characters to these goddesses, Rushdie attributes them with a force of character. He perceives India as a matriarchy, where maternal power, energy, and love is the means to social cohesion. ? (Jennifer Takhar) Durga, the washerwoman who had nursed Saleem? s son in his sickness, is an important figure in Saleem? s life. As we understand from the description of her (pg: 445), she is a...
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Nuclear Weapons Human Beings
494 wordsThe stories and events that unfold in John Herseys, Hiroshima, have certainly been eye-openers for me. As a child in middle school and high school I, we have all heard of the atomic bomb and of course of Hiroshima, but never in as much detail or on such a personal level as these stories. Not even in chemistry or physics class, where I learned some of the specifics as to how the bomb works, had I known of the destructive force of the bomb or its gruesome effects on human beings. As I mentioned be...
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Hubble Space Telescope Soviet Union
1,112 wordsPerhaps there should have been a cold war. Without it, many of the things that we use everyday would not be in existence. There would be no global communications, but most importantly there would have been no space-race. The war between the Soviet Union and the United States was one with virtually no casualties. There were many technological advances in a feud between two countries. However, there were some failures as well. Some Americans gave their lives for the sake of social movement, not to...
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