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Motrin and a sock change. In the early seventeen hundreds, marijuana was not only legal but encouraged to be grown. They used the fibers to make cloth, sail, and rope. Today we can use the plant for many other uses as well, such as the making of hemp-crete, paper, making oils, and even replacing some wood in construction. It…

At dawn, on August 19th, 1942, nearly 250 Allied vessels, containing just over 6000 mostly Canadian troops sat in the English Channel. Their goal? Capture Dieppe, a small German occupied resort town in France, hold it for twelve hours and back down with German prisoners and information about their defenses. Little did they know that within twelve hours, over 3600 of them would be killed, captured as prisoners of war, or wounded. That tragic day was one of the Allies’ worst losses in World War…

Hitler would speak of the entire post-war continent as if it was a personal vacation resort, in one instance he stated “The beauties of the Crimea, which we shall make accessible by means of an autobahn—for us Germans, that will be our Riviera. Crete is scorching and dry. Cyprus would be lovely, but we can reach the Crimea by road. Along that road lies Kiev! And Croatia, too, a tourists ' paradise for us. I expect that after the war there will be a great upsurge of rejoicing.” German allies…

Famous Greek poets such as Homer once told from memory the adventures of Greek heroes, Ajax battling with Hector, Odysseus’ travels from Troy to Ithaca. These poets relied on their expression and voice to carry out the intensity and awesomeness of the stories. Later in history, writers depended on their use of words to portray the actions, triumphs, or failures in their tales. Modern film and games allows the storytellers to depict exactly how they saw the scene when they heard or read it. Many…

carving our own futures for the sake of destiny. This idea is as old as time itself. In Greek mythology, the tale of Icarus is depicted as one of overestimation and pride. As the story goes, Icarus and his father flee imprisonment from the island of Crete using wings built of feathers and wax. His father warns him not to fly too close to the sea nor sun and ignoring instruction, the sun melts Icarus’ wings and he plummets into the sea. In a fate similar to Icarus, Great Expectations’…

He excavated the city of Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of the city of Troy. The same one that occurred in Homers tales. Author Evans made a name for himself when unearthed the Palace of Krossos that is located on the Greek island of Crete and coined the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts from the site. Evans was also the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B. Both men knew of each other and often visited each other’s site. Michael Ventris…

Suzanne Collins was born in 1969 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of an air force pilot and therefore she spent her childhood moving around the United States. While she was young her father left for a year in order to fight in Vietnam, a fact that marked her life. When her father returned, he spent a lot of time talking about his military experience and he taught Collins and her siblings about war and its consequences. Collins herself visited battlefields and war monuments (Anon,…

Andrew Brenner Prof. Coomer English Comp 2 Long Research paper 11/4/14 More than Just Rope April 30th, 1789 was a great day in American history. It was the day that George Washington became president of The United States of America. Many people know that George Washington was our first president, but they do not know he also grew hemp. George Washington was a promoter of hemp and has been quoted from his personal diaries “Hemp, Grow it everywhere.”(Callery 2) Hemp is a type of cannabis plant…

children was fated to dethrone him, so he swallowed all of his children as soon as they were born in order to keep it from happening. However, Cronus 's wife Rhea saved Zeus by switching him with a stone that Cronus then ate, and hid Zeus in a cave on Crete. Once Zeus grew to manhood he led a revolt against the Titans and succeeded in dethroning his father, possibly with the help of his brothers. Then he drew lots with his brothers Poseidon (god of the sea), and Hades (god of the underworld) to…

a linga which represents his fertility, the linga is conjoined with a yoni, and this representation of him is found in every Shiva temple (Danielou, 1984). But when he is not represented as a linga, Shiva is portrayed as a powerful being of human manifestation. In comparison, even though Shiva is most known for his phallic image, other phallic representations are present at other temples around the world, including some that pay homage to Dionysus. In the Greek representation, the phallus is…