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    follows both the shout of the men the hissing of the cables; suddenly the clouds snatch away both the sky and the (light of the) day out of the eyes of the Trojans; night broods over the dark sea; heavens roared and the sky flashes with frequent lightning and everything threaten present(imminent) death to the men. Immediately, the limbs of Aeneas are loosened with chill; he groans, and extending his two palms to the stars said such things with his voice: “O both three and four times blessed,…

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    fall. At the bottom beheld jagged rocks and the thunderous sound of waves crashing against the side of the cliff. The water was black and rapid with movement. The weather was dangerous with treacherous explosions of thunder and the loud cracks of lightning. The castle was known as The Castle of Series. It lay waiting for a new coming owner. The woods resembled a maze with its winding paths and large marshes…

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    friend whom he have just met on this beautiful rainy day. It started to rain harder and lightning as ChrisChan's jaw dropped, and also his DS on the hard concrete. The screen detached from the frame and the camera exploded into flames, just like ChrisChan's hert at that exact same moment of the day. John Cena's bus arrived so he stepped on and it looked really dramatic and cool in the rain as a thunder and lightning cracked through the air. What a great shot (this will be a phrase you hear a lot…

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    with a severe drought. The setting to create the perfect fire consisted of a wet spring where dry winds reached up to sixty miles per hour, a humidity level reaching as low as six percent, and deadwood lying all across the forest floor struck by lightning. Not forgetting to mention the factor of human carelessness contributed to the destruction (Elfring). This event burned 3.7 million acres of land, and approximately 1.4 million of the Greater Yellowstone Area alone. In the end eleven…

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    This play is set in Windsor, England during the late sixteenth century (_Shmoop_). According to CliffNotes, Merry Wives of Windsor is dependent “on lightning-quick timing between the actor and the carefully choreographed actions.” The play consists of two major plotlines involving multiple characters. Firstly, there is the conflict between Mistress Ford, Mistress Page, and Sir John Falstaff. It is this plotline that eerily resembles a modern sitcom as Sir John Falstaff plans to woo two Merry…

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    The play Bacchae is written by Euripides. This is in fact based on the themes, revenge and idolization. One of the main characters, Dionysus shares with us that he is in fact in mortal disguise as the mortal of the stranger – Son of Zeus and Semele, a mortal woman and the most powerful Greek God. One of the turning points of the play seems to be when Dionysus travels to Thebes to share his religion but in Asia his rituals become known by all as being very controversial. Another turning point of…

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    Greek And Roman Gods

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    the fact that so many gods were made for so many reasons fascinating. The main reason for the Greek and Roman gods being explain things that the Greeks and Romans didn’t know or for things they felt needed something to represent. Zeus was for lightning and thunder, Nike for sport. Those are just two of so many more. We can thank Ovid for preserving many of the mythological stories we have today, but he appeared later in time, it was Homer, the earliest, who we have many stories from. In a…

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    A topic that has been highly politicized around a lightning rod of a name is what to do about Obamacare. To illustrate this point, if we call it the Affordable Care Act, approval rates increase and if we use the name KyNect in Kentucky it increases even more. In a Kaiser Health monthly poll (see Note to Reader comment below) from November, 74% of Americans and half of Republicans want the ACA to continue. But, if you dig deeper, the Republican voters heavily favor almost all features of the ACA…

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    They are also different in other ways. The similarities are small and big. Along with similarities the differences are small and big. We will look at the similarities and differences. The Flash a teenage boy named Barry Allen who got struck by lightning in his lab one night when a partical exelarator exploded. After he recovered he had supper speed. He started using his speed to help the people in the city. Only a few people new his identity. He had lost his mom when he was 11 and his father…

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    Circadian Clock Essay

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    light is not the same. Some animals, for example, are using the light to hunt their prey. Other animals like snakes are hunting during the darkness so they can stay away from other predators. Unfortunately, some cities with a very bright artificial lightning never allow darkness to really fall. This could disturb the ecological system of the nature. From the use of the moon and stars Nocturnal birds are navigating their way through the darkness, but when they fly in a bright artificial lighted…

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