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    that hole is plugged what then? The balloon would just go back to normal, but the volcano would unplug itself with an explosion. And finally, the dangers of krakatoa. When Krakatoa died it left behind a deadly gift. It left behind the Devil's Cauldron, an underwater caldara. Out of this caldara spouted Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa). Every two years Anak Krakatau erupts, and with every eruption it grows. The potential for this infant volcano is…

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    According to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum News states, “It was later enlarged for the 1932 Summer Olympic Games from its original 1923 capacity of 75,144 seats to 105,574 seats. The Olympic cauldron torch was added ….as well as the Olympic rings symbols.” Since the Olympics was a big event around the world the coliseum was redesigned, modeled, expanded, and temporally received a new name Los Angeles Olympics Stadium. This change has created…

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    The Ants, a short story written in 1986, shows similarities to another document: The First History of Brazil from 1587. Additionally, the story also shows similarities to Jungian psychology with regard to the dwarf. The ants in the short story are rebuilding the dwarf skeleton, which can be read as the girls’ fear of exploring their own unconsciousness and inner beings. At the beginning of the story, The Ants, there are two young girls who find a dwarf skeleton that had been hidden by an old…

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    Reputation Matters Reputation is a thing that many people cherish especially people that are well known or in a high authority position. John Proctor and Reverend Parris are just two of many people that cherish their reputation and are concerned by how people view them in the Salem village. John Proctor is most concerned about having his name ruined and cares about how his friends and family think of him. Proctor was put into a situation that affected his name when he had an affair on his wife…

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    The Anglo-Saxons were people who colonized in Great Britain during AD410 through 1066. The Anglo-Saxons consisted of a mix of three tribes from Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. These tribes settled in different parts of Britain and were sometimes at war with one another. The main tribes were the Angles, Saxons, and the Jutes. These tribes were mainly composed of farmers, who lived in wooden huts. The area in which they settled was called ‘Angle Land’, or England. The daily life for the…

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    Halloween may be a sugar-filled bonanza for youngsters – according to the National Retail Federation, Americans spend an eye-popping $2.2 billion on Halloween candy each year – but an inventive brother-and-sister-in-law duo have created a new way to encourage kids to give up some of their candy stash in favor of treats less likely to lead to a painful visit to the dentist’s chair. The Switch Witch, created by Massachusetts ice cream shop owner Rob Bouley and his sister-in-law Lara[?], is an…

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    From 1849, the beginning of California’s gold rush, to 1940, the Chinese in Chinatown faced harsh lives. The Chinese were never treated fairly-the town was treated like a “different planet altogether,” according to San Francisco's Chronicle. Still, the Chinese persevered and endured through their harsh lives in San Francisco. After struggle after struggle, the organized Chinese reestablished their town, gained strong bonds, and soon became a great landmark of San Francisco. San Francisco's…

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    The Great Rite

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    The Great Rite Unlike other rituals it is the modern attitude about sex; with in the pagan beliefs it is part of nature. The Great Rite was not always just physical, it also was a symbolic act. Linking sexual act and divine forces were easy for early humans. The Prehistoric tribes divined their rituals with cave paintings, in early paintings and carvings showed that the reverence of fertility and her ability to give new life. If very fertile a woman was favored by the God/Goddess and was granted…

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    Throughout his text On The Use of Breathing Galen identifies the purposes of respiration by examining his predecessors’ various theories on the matter and proving which of these theories must hold true. He spends a lot of time disproving Erasistratus’s theories of respiration as a means to replenish arteries and appears to believe that Hippocrates’ ideas on respiration respiration for the purposes of both cooling and nourishment. Though not mentioned by name, Galen’s views on respiration appear…

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    Women are nothing but sexual objects to hurt and mess around with when a man feels the need.Therefore, they are not important at least that is how they are viewed in Homer’s novel The Odyssey. Women within this novel are judged mainly on outer appearance consequently the only way a woman could be seen as beautiful was if an individual of a higher power had powerful inner feelings for her. What is seen within the sexist upbringing of this is that the audience only reads about affairs, powerful…

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