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earthquakes in both 1855 and 1923. In February 1975 in the Chinese city of Haicheng, snakes were seen surfacing, and strange enough occurrence in the middle of winter, and then disappearing, causing a city wide evacuation. The region was hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake with would have killed hundreds…

When Alice saw Mary’s boyfriend Tom cheating on Mary with another girl; I personally believe that it would be imperative to tell Mary about the incident. This decision is the best one to make based upon Alice’s values of the people she cares about, the extensive length of her and Mary’s friendship, and the possible repercussions of withholding the truth. If Alice considers these three reasons in telling the truth; it will make her decision a lot easier to make. To begin, since Mary is an…

interest. This event was, rightfully so, terrible for the family. However, it did not necessarily have any measurable, long term affect on the community at large. By and large, it did not have the typical news values like proximity, conflict, or impact/magnitude. The media held the instance under the blanket of human interest, and presented it as a learning lesson for society. However, as stated in Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, “Perhaps in the name of reporting news, the…

assimilate, and I immediately sympathized with the statement. Often times, Americans regard immigrants very negatively believing they are “lazy” and “freeloader”. They fail to understand many of the struggles immigrants face in a new nation. This was very apparent when reading the comments under the “In-state college tuition for illegal immigrants passes House 74-66” article. Many people in the comments were against the bill and even went so far as to slander illegal students’ immigrants. Being…

The global warming of the past 50 years is primarily due to anthropogenic activities. The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat-trapping gases emitted globally and how sensitive the earth’s climate is to those emissions (Sango, 2013). According to the United Nations Framework Convention…

When faced with extreme poverty and hunger, people adapt and develop new traits to survive. Whether it be drinking to escape reality or stealing food, destitute living conditions force kids to mature and develop unorthodox solutions to the struggles they face. In Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, young Frank does not understand the concept of death. It is not until his sister dies that he is exposed to it, and from then on death is an overlaying presence in his life. Despite this, it is not until…

Love poems are better when they are filled with ornate and elevated language. Of course, I am more than a little biased, as I prefer the works of authors such as Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, and Lord Byron, all of whom used more archaic forms of language. I think that more complicated forms of language show great eloquence, and a capable of containing more emotion than their more direct counterparts. Take, for example, this line from Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife”: “The…

argument was the strongest, since she tied many lobbyists, political decisions, and quotas back to market avoidance and how certain policies and political groups fought to protect the textile industry in the US. After reading these chapters, it was apparent that American politics had a central role in managing the textile industry. This allowed the United States to excel in comparison to other countries at the…

Yin and Yang: the ancient Chinese symbol representing the balance between opposites. It can be light in comparison to darkness, or a single rose growing alongside the cracks in concrete. The two opposing forces create a beautiful harmony when interlocked. The concept of Yin and Yang applies to all concepts of life, and the changing of one aspect of balance causes the opposite change to the opposite force. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, two antithetical forces, Gilgamesh, the king of a great…

The Cold War ended with no bullets fired, no missiles launched, and no military casualties. However the Cold War ended with a primary question unanswered, who is the top country in the world. This question still exists today as China, the US, and Russia all elbow each other for room in the growing world, and nations like Iran and North Korea also vie for power. These countries countries will do anything to obtain this power. The UN has tried multiple times to negotiate with North Korea to no…