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    birth to Anubis, who is a jackal-headed god of the Egyptians. Isis figured this out while she was trying to find the body of Osiris and used Anubis to guard her. The great Nile River had carried the box all the way to the coast of Byblos in the present day nation of Lebanon. The box became trapped and enclosed in a tree. The tree was large and of great beauty and grabbed the attention of the local king. The king of Byblos decided he could use the tree as a pillar for his great palace. Isis soon…

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    During the battle Ernst Junger witness the horror that he saw on his guide's face. The first that he saw were ruined villages, dead bodies, artillery machines and smoke from the fire. The air sticked as a dead bodies, dead children were laying in their own blood. Bombardment killed and injured many civilians. The explosions were non stop. Soldiers were counting between explosions hiding they head with heads. They had to close…

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    Hsun Tzu Rites Summary

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    In A Discussion of Rites, Hsun Tzu discusses human desires and the way in which they are satiated through ritual. When a person is in constant struggles to fulfill their desires, that person loses control of their life. Since ancient times, rulers have noticed this, so they “established ritual principles… to train men’s desires and to provide for their satisfaction” (89). These kings also recognized that desires and material goods matter greatly to man, so “ both desires and goods were looked…

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    I am writing to you because the days here are no longer bright. The Sun does not shines the way it once did. It doesn’t look like we have much of a chance against the Germans anymore. I want you to know, in the case that anything should happen to me, that having you as a friend my whole life has been more than I could ever ask for. There’s no need to worry about me as I knew when I enlisted the risks that came with wearing my uniform. It’s funny. I boasted with pride and proudly paraded out of…

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    Jesus of Nazareth Messiah is a great leader the ancient Jews predicted would come to restore the greatness of Israel. Jesus’s life and teaching are what formed Christianity. Everything we know about Jesus life we learned from the Bible which is the holy book of Christianity. The Christian Bible is made up of 2 parts the first part is the Old Testament which is the Hebrew Bible. The 2nd part the New Testament is the life and teaching of Jesus Birth of Jesus The bible says Jesus was born in…

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    Steelheart's Failure

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    where they want him dead. But that’s the key, the only people who can kill him are people who don’t want him dead. Your dad thought Steelheart was a hero, so he didn’t want him dead.” “Calamity,” I whispered again. “Never mind me now, Knees, we have make sure Prof is ok.” “Oh yeah!” I exclaimed. Prof was motionless when we reached him. I fell next to his crumpled body and checked for a pulse. There was none. Prof was dead. I spoke to the team through my mobile. “Prof is dead,” Tia was crying…

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    bought a silver toilet set and an outfit for men assuming that Emily Grierson and Homer Baron were getting married. There was no progress of events and have not seen Homer since as the years past and new generations came. The town people found Emily dead in one of the room downstairs “filled with dust and shadow” (Faulkner 36). The skeletal body of Homer Baron lay as if he were sleeping, dressed in his nightshirt, and covered in dust on the second floor bedroom. The room furnished where the…

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    Oceanic Dead Zones

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    What are oceanic dead zones? Dead zones are hypoxic areas in the worlds oceans and large lakes. Hypoxic areas are places that fail to meet the required percentage of oxygen needed for human life. Activities such as littering in the small lakes and ponds can cause dangerous pollution. When oil is released into the water, that can cause an overgrowth in algae which will dissolve to the bottom. They are caused by excessive nutrient pollution from human activities. These activities cause less oxygen…

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    The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings are two short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that are both very similar, yet very different. Marquez was a popular author of short stories from the 1950s to 1970s, he had a very noticeable aesthetic where he created very unusual, and unrealistic situations, but somehow shows human faults. This makes it to where if readers truly read the book, and realize what Marquez is trying to do, they can look at their own…

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    Three rock-cut tombs each more than 2,000 years old were recently discovered 125 miles south of Cairo, Egypt in the Nile Valley province of Minya. They are located in an area call El-Kamin El-Sahrawi which is near the city of Samalut. This discovery was announced by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. The three tombs contain several coffins or sarcophagi which are in different sizes. They found clay fragments as well. From analysis of the clay fragments it has been concluded that the…

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