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Bierce did not like the standard endings that most readers have come to expect and enjoy. He wanted his work to standout in the readers something they would always remember. The short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, was broken up into three parts, each part describes various parts of the hanging. Bierce’s use of extremely detailed imagery and the accurate description of the goings on in the period, gives the reader an in-depth feeling of being with Peyton Farquhar, at the time of his…

Ocean Pollution: North Pacific Gyre filled with Plastic In 1997 a well-known chemist, scientific researcher and sea captain named Charles Moore, set sail from Hawaii back to his homeland, California after competing in a yacht race. Along the way, Captain Charles Moore had extra fuel to spare and decided to take a short cut through the low pressured winds of the north pacific gyre. As he and his crew reached the calm within the gyre, they were completely caught off guard as they noticed bits and…

Mass incarceration is an epidemic that disproportionately affects the African American community. Since the 1970s the rates of incarcerated citizens has continued to rise, growing by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005. About 2.3 million individuals are incarcerated in the United States, and an additional 4.9 million individuals are on probation or parole, meaning that about 3 percent of adults currently experience some form of correctional supervision (Vallas et. Al., 2015). Within communities of…

execution, but they are used to keep you from tipping over in the first place. Even in the largest of waves and holes a strong brace is enough to keep you upright. River reading is a term that refers to your ability to anticipate obstacles, hazards, eddies, currents, and the force and shape of rapids that you are paddling. Skill at river reading comes only from experience. As one wise old kayaker was known to say "Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad…

What Do We Want? America’s Cultural Revolution! When Do We Want It? The 1960s! The United States of America (and in fact, the whole world) has a long history of protest. From Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, to the trans-Atlantic Shakespearean rivalry that sparked the Astor Place Riot, to every workers’ strike from 1877 onwards; history can at times simply look like a long line of people taking action to right what they see as wrong. And yet there is one prevailing period of which the definitive…

1. Public health system has evolved throughout the years. From the history of public health in Chicago to the implementation of new policies to address health concerns, health professionals strive to improve overall health for its population. One of the major achievements was the creation of vaccines to help fight infectious diseases. Prior to the 1900 smallpox was a major concern, but through the public health efforts of Edward Jenner and his creation of a vaccine, small pox is eradicated.…

World views play a role in most religious intolerance. This section of the paper will discuss some mind sets or attitudes that can cause or lead to religious intolerance as well as different ways religious intolerance can be seen. Mind sets, or attitudes that can cause or lead to religious intolerance could be fear of others and lack of doubt. The fear of what other individuals will think of one by practicing or believing in a religion could be an example of why an individual does not form his…

man-made structures. Avalanche impacts in India, includes fatilities, is summarize for public and residential area like ski areas, roads, and resource industries. Avalanche hazard methods, in which zoning, explosive control, forecasting. Problems of current avalanche hazard is solving these problem is identified with resources industries, backcountry recreation and residential areas. Snow avalanches are a significant natural hazard that impact roads,…

The Missouri State Penitentiary was the second largest prison in the nation. It was very harsh and the other inmates were criminals. They were there for murder, theft, and lots of other horrible things. The inmates were cruel to each other and hated the guards. There were lots of different people there for many different reasons. There were even famous criminals there. In 1954 there was a riot that broke out and was chaos. There were people that escaped from here. There is a lot of history that…

The region is tectonically characterized by the ~6 kilometer thick oceanic Nazca plate subducting underneath the continental South American plate at a convergence azimuth of ~ 78 ͦ and at a rate of 6.6 centimeters per year making the area one of the most active convergent margins on earth, typically experiencing a Mw > 8 earthquake every 10 – 20 years (Moscoso, et.al., 2011). Notable quakes in recent history include the 1960 Mw = 9.5 Valdivia earthquake which was the largest ever recorded,…