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Nature 3
<view this essay>.... Tidal waves are just one example of what the ocean can do. These massive waves can crash down on entire cities destroying anything in its path. Creatures of the sea such as whales and sharks can be deadly. Even though the odds are slim of being killed by one, things can still happen. Such creatures like whales as depicted in Moby Dick can be a nice sight but also deadly. In the book the captain of the ship lost his leg in a prior encounter with a whale. When the crew went after Moby Dick he snapped and swelled huge waves towards the boat and attacked. He wrecked the ship. The panicked crew was scattered around the boat. IN the end nature prevailed because m .....
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Mozambique
<view this essay>.... and the south. The Zambesi River cuts in half and is the heart of the land. The numerous other rivers are important to the economy and it’s livelihood as well. It is because of the rivers and the fertility of the soil, that 80% of the population are in agriculture. The countryside is also densely forested and has been exploited for local building material. This country has everything from high mountains, to low rivers, to beautiful beaches. It is truly underdeveloped and has yet to reveal it’s most mysterious secrets.
The earliest settlers in were Muslim traders dating all the way back to the eighth century. Hence, the linguistic diversity is as .....
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The Ultimate Pet: A Pet Rock
<view this essay>.... went "shopping" for my rock, I didn't want one too small, for it would
get lost like a gerbil. I didn't want one too big like a Labrador, for I would
trip over it every time I walked into the room. I needed a pet the size of a
fat barn cat, like the ones back home in northeast Iowa.
On my walk to the river before I left for college, I found many rocks
within my size range. I couldn't decide which one I should pick, but then on
the side of the muddy bank, partly submerged in the water, lay a shinny, sandy,
orange stone. It called out for me to pick it to take home instead of the
others, like a puppy does from a pet store window. When I held the rock in my .....
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Chemical Warfare And Its Uses
<view this essay>.... agents" owing
to the similarity of the wounds caused by these substances resembling burns
and blisters. However, since mustard agents also cause severe damage to the
eyes, respiratory system and internal organs, they should preferably be
described as "blistering and tissue-injuring agents". Normal mustard agent,
bis-(2-chloroethyl)sulphide, reacts with a large number of biological
molecules. The effect of mustard agent is delayed and the first symptoms do
not occur until between 2-24 hours after exposure.Mustard agent is simple
to manufacture and can therefore be a "first choice" when a country decides
to build up a capacity for chemical warfare.
Mus .....
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The Human Mating Game
<view this essay>.... do you interpret these signals and how do you respond to them?”
Researchers and educators are beginning to observe that the age that children start to take notice of the opposite sex. As early as the pre-teen years children start “going out.” Many parents fear that their kids are being pushed into adulthood too quickly. Yet, they recognize that pre-teen relationships often resemble child’s play more than teenage romance. Pre-teens pair up to impress their friends. Within a group of pre-teens, they might constantly trade boyfriends and girlfriends because it doesn’t really matter as long as each other has someone. These couples tra .....
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Privacy On The Internet
<view this essay>.... crackers stealing and decrypting private information. They have also helped with trying to stop the “IPv6”, an every day occurring problem from eventually taking over the already used widely IP addressing system. Intel also has had a feud with the government about privacy issues. When their new chip came out, the Pentium III it had skeptic problems with its serial number feature. That is why I strongly agree with EPIC and what they are representing, .
Say you were on the Internet surfing around, would you want every site that you have visited to know who you are and almost every thing about you? No. That is why Intel had to disable their se .....
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Hawaiian Chant
<view this essay>.... verses but it's not. The third and fourth lines seem to be more of what she will miss in a spiritual level. It as if she knew that she would never see the world she once knew. If I was to just read the first four lines I would think that she was not only talking to herself but to a God or Gods. But when you continue it can go either way, it's really hard to tell whom she's talking to, almost like there could be two versions of the same chant. Because you could easily separate certain lines and make two different chants with the same meaning but meant for two different audiences. The fifth and sixth lines sound the same also but just like the first four l .....
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Monasticism And Intellectual L
<view this essay>.... seven times each day for prayer. These were all male institutions, however, Benedict’s sister, Scholastica founded monasteries for women. Many of the texts we have today are with us because of monks. Beginning in the ninth century, the monks used scriptoria, or writing rooms, to copy different manuscripts. Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the monasteries experienced what one might call a moral decline. The purity and poverty which was the ideal for monks was being abandoned. Simony, the buying of clerical positions, was common, as was the practice of priests being married. In 910, Duke William of Aquataine wanted to do something to correct this pr .....
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