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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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Mask And Flippers Heat Of The Sun Beach
832 wordsI took my mind awaking I dream of a beach; its my beach. My beach is deserted, no one knows about it; its a secret. My beach is completely calm and silent apart from the gentle whispering wind. My beach is a place where I can relax on my sun lounger without being disturbed or distracted. On my beach, the sun is always shining, always smiling. The sun makes the sea glisten and twinkle as if stars are caught in it, makes the white sands sparkle like diamonds, makes life seem happy. Behind where I ...
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Game Was Played Game Of Basketball
1,653 wordsBasketball today is a rim-rattling, slam-dunking, high flying show. Would you believe that the first basketball teams shot at peach baskets? Or that players were not allowed to dribble the ball? The sport of basketball has changed dramatically over the years. The origin of basketball dates back to one hundred and nine years ago (Tejada 14). The first game was played on December 21, 1891 (Tejada 14). Even back then basketball was a thrilling sport. Although it has changed very much since this dat...
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The Fall Of Roman Empire
1,670 wordsMany different historians, teachers, philosophers, archeologists and ordinary people have talked about, and brought up ideas and hypotheses about how this glorious Empire fell. This civilization and their way of life is, in some historians' opinions, the most prosperous and content time in human history. Many writers differ not only in their style, but also in how they view and interpret the events of history. One of the greatest historians of the eight-tenth century, Edward Gibbons, wrote that ...
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Feet Tall Six Feet
667 wordsIt is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven! But this is not the only sin upon us. We have committed a greater crime, and for this...
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Rapid Expansion Turnover Rate
922 wordsSince the time I entered the workforce in 1987, I have encountered various forms of management and management styles in the career paths I followed. Now that I am venturing into management myself, I have had time to reflect on those various management techniques in order to develop a management style of my own. My experiences have ranged from Fast Food to Information Technology and small private corporations to global public companies. One particular experience with a lumber company has had a ma...
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Dirk Nowitzki Biography Famous Immigrant
789 wordsFor my immigrant project, I interviewed Dirk Nowitzki. Dirk Nowitzki is the 25 year-old superstar forward / center of the Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association. In order to paint a picture of Dirk in your mind, imagine a man 12 inches taller than the average man with long blonde hair. Dirk stands at just over 7 ' 0 tall, and 240 pounds. Some say he is the next Michael Jordan, just a half-foot taller. Dirk Nowitzki was born in Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany, on June 19, 1978. Growin...
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Homo Erectus Homo Habits
613 wordsHomo erectus. Homo erectus (straight walking people) lived in the period from 2 million until 400 thousand years ago. There is a version, that they first appeared in Africa and than gradually spread through the rest of the Ancient World. Eugen Dubois found the first fossils of this specie in the end of XIX century on Java Island (1891 - 1893). In the lower-quarter layers, on the left bank of river Solo (or Bengavan), near Trinil were found a skull, one hip bone and three teeth (picture 1). Since...
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African American Poetry Negro Race
670 words[Course Title] African American Poetry In her poem, tellingly titled A Southern Road the relatively idyllic portrait of the southern folk is disrupted by Helene Johnson with the representation of lynch violence, a representation obviously lacking in the popular film of the late 1920 s and the 1930 s: A blue-fruited black gum Like a tall predella Bears a dangling figure (Wagner 197) The poem is an ironic pastoral variation on the "Black Christ" lynching poem that was a significant subgenre of Afr...
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Todays Society Perfect Body
994 wordsIn todays society, there are women being controlled by expectations of being slim and having that perfect body. Women have to face the publicity of magazines, talk shows concerning weight, weight-loss programs, and so on, all influencing them to lose weight and be thin, or society wont accept them. Katherine Haines says just this in her article, Whose Body Is This? . She argues against and blames society for the insecurities and the dissatisfaction of women and their bodies. The look that is pre...
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Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut
666 wordsHarrison Bergeron an Illustration of false equality The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal (208). This in a nutshell is the premise of Kurt Vonnegut? s short story Harrison Bergeron. Vonnegut? s title character Harrison Bergeron is a picture perfect human being: very tall, handsome and intelligent. Although our society would deem these desirable attributes, in this story? s 2081 AD setting they are highly objectionable. Kurt Vonnegut uses the character Harrison Bergeron to illustrate...
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Ill Always Remember Rest Of His Body Dimples
750 wordsI knew him as PaPanot Grandad, Pops, or Grandpa, but Papa. As a little boy, he was the giant at the top of Jacks beanstalk, Poppa Bear of the three bears, and the Genie in Aladdin's magic lamp. He was my hero, my friend, and teacher of life. Once when I was little, he saved me from drowning in the ocean. Ill never forget the feeling I had when he grabbed me by the back of the bathing suit, and pulled me out of the water like a dead cat. Now that hes gone, I wish I could think about him more than...
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Einhard Notes Charlemagne King
301 wordsWe know a good deal about Charles the Great because we have two biographies of him written by men who were close to him. The more important of these is by Einhard. Einhard describes Charles as being moderately tall (around six feet tall) and powerfully built with a thick neck and deep chest. He had the red hair and blue eyes of his tribe and was possessed of both strength and stamina. He was typical of the Franks in his love for hunting and for feasting, but Einhard notes that his king drank in ...
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Locker Room Brendan Game
416 wordsso now with the finches gone and pops meal mobile saved there was only one thing left to do... buy tickets for new yorks favorite hockey team, the strangers. they were taking on the mexico muskrats in what was sure to be the game of the century. it was game 7 of the bologna cup finals. the game was surrounded by controversy before it even started. muskrats captain julio dirty sanchez, had assaulted ranger captain mark messier in the locker room, messier was reported as saying, first he pushed me...
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Family Wants To Adopt Coming To Visit Jessica
476 wordsJessica I need to talk with you Nervously I got up from my desk. My counselor never took me out of class, so my mind was racing with whys, whats, and how come. When I entered her office I sat down biting my nails. Well, Jessica I brought you in here to tell you that a family wants to adopt you! My finger dropped down from being in my mouth for the last 2 minutes biting on my nail that I didnt really have. A family wants to adopt me? I said this with uncertainty, just to make sure that my ears we...
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Role Of Women Ted Hughes
1,260 wordsFrom the works that we have studied in class, one can not help but notice the role of women in these works. In Voltaire s Candide, the reader clearly sees that he is trying to evoke sympathy from the reader towards women. Voltaire depicts this image with two main characters, Cunegund and the old woman. Ford Madox Ford s The Good Soldier, represent women in a different light unlike that of Voltaire. Ford depicts women as taking advantage of men for their own benefit. This is clearly seen when Flo...
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Year Old Man Ian Malcolm
910 wordsJurassic Park The Lost World Comparison? Contrast The Lost World as a novel is very different from its film version. The most contrasts are found in the beginning of the story. For instance, the novel starts off with Ian Malcolm giving a detailed lecture on extinction theories at the Santa Fe Research Center. Where as, the film starts with a wealthy British family vacationing on Isla Sound, an island of Costa Rica. On this island the tiny dinosaurs called copy attack a young British girl. As you...
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Feet Tall First Premise
978 wordsQuestion # 1 - Evaluate the following argument for validity and soundness: 1. There are no sure signs by means of which my being awake can be distinguished from my dreaming. 2. If there are no such signs, then I don t know that I m not dreaming. 3. So, I don t know that I m not dreaming. To check the argument for validity it must be made sure that the first two premises reasonably lead to the conclusion that I don t know that I m not dreaming. We are not dealing with whether the three statements...
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Forty Five Wasn T
351 wordsThe characters were all completely different in age, size and attitude. This made it interesting from the beginning, as I wasn? t sure how they would gel together as a regiment to perform as a soldier to the best of their ability. We are introduced to Osborne first. He is around forty-five, tall with well trimmed grey hair, also deputy to the Commander, Stanhope. We hear a lot about Stanhope before we meet him from the conversation Osborne and Hardy (a commander that seemed to know Stanhope rath...
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Eiffel Tower Four Legs
841 wordsJust imagine you are standing 300 meters that is 984 ft above the ground, looking down at the beautiful city of Paris. The wind is blowing at your face and it is messing up your hair, but you do not care. You are on the top of the highest building in the center of culture, the magnificent Paris and that is all that matters. Yes, you are standing on top of Eiffel Tower. This is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about Paris, the tall, lean tower. But have you ever wonder what ...
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