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When I think of The Wombats, I think of odd-but-fun lyrics and upbeat, borderline psychedelic music, and the band's latest album, "Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life," provides just that. The first song on the album, "Cheetah Tongue," was pre-released as a single. The song itself is pretty simple, but the lyrics are very visual. I really like the line, "My hands shake like jellyfish when you're near." It also mentions black flamingos, which is a song title later in the album. The ridiculous…

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of man’s inhumanity to man. In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. The boys elect a leader, hoping for an ounce of leadership and maturity. At first the boys enjoy their freedom, roaming around the island, swimming, and having a good time. Everything works out until the fun gets out of hand. The boys get swept into the world of hunting and…

They say it is one of the most unforgiving places on the planet. Five-thousand-nineteen square miles of desert wasteland, Death Valley is located in California about one-hundred miles west of Las Vegas. On July tenth, nineteen thirteen, it broke the official record for the hottest air temperature ever recorded in the world: one-hundred-thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just the official recording. On July fifteenth nineteen seventy-two, the temperature is said to have reached two hundred…

Climate Change And Its Side Effects In The Mojave Desert When someone thinks about the Mojave Desert, one can imagine sand and Joshua Trees, but no one thinks about the problems that face this land. To make matters worse, this problem faces all of earth. Climate change is a huge problem that not too many people want to face, or admit. There are also others who strongly oppose of this proposal. But whether or not we believe it, it is in fact true, and our earth is slowly dying from it. This…

Essay Question: Describe an important setting. Explain why the setting is important. In the text, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys become stranded on a remote island where there are no adults. The novel takes place on a tropical island in the Pacific, in the midst of a nuclear war.The island is self sustaining but is surrounded by impassable waters so the children have little hope of rescue. The boat shape of the island is a reference to the ship of fools, a famous…

IV. The characteristic of the casino gaming and other entertainments There is no doubt that, Macau's most successful hotel or casino is the massive Las Vegas Sands flagship Venetian Macao resort. The Venetian Macao is considered as one of the most luxurious and largest casinos hotels in Macau. In the Venetian Macao, there are 120,000 square feet of gaming area and provide 850 gaming tables. The Venetian offer variety type of games to gambler. For example, the blackjack, roulette, craps, Spanish…

“Through the Tunnel” In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the author teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else…

In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the Lessing teaches the reader about setting and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims…

Lord of the Flies The book “Lord of the flies” by William Golding is about a group of boys who are stranded on an island after their plane was, tragically, shot down. While they are on the island, the string that connects them to the outside world, and who they really are inside, is stretched to its limits and, eventually, severed. Without an adult figure present, they decide that they need someone to take charge. The kids end up taking a vote which gave this position to Ralph. With the weight…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is set on an island located in the midst of the Pacific or Indian ocean. A group of children crashes here and is required to work together to survive with no adults in sight. They thus decide upon a leader and an order, yet this begins to collapse as reason fades from the group and a newly found savagery remains. The havoc that envelops the island slowly develops across the story as the children lose focus on their priorities, and suddenly they all turn to…