Fear of a Black Planet

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    I think Stapleya had an orgasm the first time she fired the Magnum BFR. Despite the unwieldy heft and the mule-like kick from the recoil, I think she was in love. But then I knew she liked em big! If her people had such tools they would not live in fear of…

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    to buy food in order to live. But why do we choose to live? What is the meaning of our lives? Evidently. over thousands of years, humans have defined this meaning under the general idea that we live for the sake of happiness. We try to enjoy life in fear of suffering and death. So, is there any point to life if we don’t enjoy it? Religion aside, wouldn’t death be a quick solution to any suffering we experience in life? We do not know with a hundred percent certainty what comes in death. Whether…

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    Polanyi's Paradox Essay

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    Modern technology has advanced at an exponential rate since the turn of the millennium, and similar to how the epoch of the steam engine brought upon the Industrial Age, the epoch of the personal computer has brought upon the dawn of the Information Age. At the continuously compounding rate of innovation and invention, modern technology was prognosticated to hit a wall where advancements become rare. This prediction has been dubbed as Polanyi’s Paradox. As all theoretical barriers in the modern…

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    Pneumonic Plague Dbq

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    The 1300’s were a bad time for the citizens of the known world, which included Europe, most of Asia, and also parts of Africa. It was a time of horror, mainly because of the disease commonly known by many names, including, the Black Death, the bubonic plague, and pneumonic plague. This plague was the killer of over a third of the population of Europe, and was unstoppable in nature. It didn’t matter how you tried to safeguard yourself from it, it found you. In the face of such a seemingly…

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    From what I have noticed from reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of gender equality affects the way females are portrayed and even treated. After retrieving the tire from Boo Radley’s front yard, Jem, Scout’s older brother says, “I swear Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (page 50). Jem implies that being a girl is portrayed as being an annoyance or even dead weight to him as well as not wanting to hang out with them at all. This correlates with how…

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    Imperialism In Zambia

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    area directly and called it Northern Rhodesia. The British government took direct control of the protectorate in 1924, which was just in time for the discovery of extensive copper resources in the north a few years later” (“Zambia”). So, due to the fear of other invaders and enemies, no organized kingdom, and natural catastrophes, the British were able to overtake the country and put in under their…

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    them just want to be at the center of attention and people just want to see other people hurt. For example, a popular misconception people believed was that The Earth revolves around the Sun, but in reality Earth, the sun, and all of the other the planets are orbiting around the centre of mass of the solar system, and it may or may not be specifically the sun. More examples of misconceptions would be that; Fortune cookies are a Chinese tradition, Vitamin C is an effective treatment for a cold,…

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    They are mysterious by nature. They are also dark, moody, jealous, and intriguing. They are naturally inquisite and one of the best detectives on planet earth when it comes to figuring out humans. Scorpio's are deep thinkers, which give them the upper hand when it comes to critical and creative thinking. They are governed by the universe in a unique way that only they can understand. Scorpio children…

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    A Cacophony of Puppets by Sarah-Noémie Laurin "A dark planet of awesome size perched in its sunless void, an invisible titan all thick black forests and jagged mountains and deep, turbulent oceans. A monster. Spinning. Soundless. Forgotten. It’s so close now." It was once us. It will be us. I don 't think that will ever leave humankind 's subconscious. Chapter One - Destroying ‘Euphemism’ in Life ~Nicolas~ It is chaos. This word is too small to explain the situation. This is a genocide.…

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    Earth does not judge or attack you, yet she speaks and listens to you. I encourage everyone to spend time in the wild where you can recognize and become intimate with your internal self, come to terms with your gender identity and sexual self, without fear or judgment. What has given me a strong since of gender identity is accepting my bold, spirited, adventurous self for what it is, for who I…

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