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    Duncan's bedroom attendants enough wine to ensure they black out from drunkenness. Then she and Macbeth will commit the murder and frame the attendants. Macbeth, impressed by her courage and her intelligence, instantly agrees. But now he puts on the mantle of that of a murderer. He ends by stating a strong line composed of monosyllables. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”(1.7.95-96) One can infer from Macbeth’s divulging to Lady Macbeth that he has gained a confidence and…

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    Introduction Mountain building is a process that takes place slowly on a geological timescale. It is, therefore necessary, in order to explore the role mountain building plays in global climate change to examine past epochs where the full impacts of these processes may be evaluated. One period in which evidence for possible connections between mountain building and global climate change is particularly rich is during the Oligocene-Miocene transition. As such, this essay focuses on the…

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    Dumbo Octopus Essay

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    Dumbo Octopus The small octopus in Finding Nemo is a dumbo octopus which obtained its name from the famous Disney elephant Dumbo. Despite the fact that this octopus doesn’t live on a coral reef, but on the bottom of the ocean it also isn’t pink. They do in fact live all over the world including Australia. The dumbo octopus is not very well known, but it has amazing physical traits, behavior, and reproductive abilities. This particular octopus is much smaller compared to other species of octopi.…

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    In four-hundred and sixty million years ago in the Ordovician era the plates are moving again and a new continent is formed called godiwalla. There should be plants and animals now because of the oxygen level, but there is only one reason why there isn’t any life on land yet, the sun. The sun is blasting the earth with deadly radiation, life on earth would not survive at all. With thirty miles from the earth 's surface the oxygen meets the sun 's radiation it forms another gas called the ozone.…

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    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” These words, spoken by French philosopher Voltaire, emphasize the importance of conscience. The conscience plays a considerable role in the life of the narrator, “William Wilson”. His actions throughout his life prove that he is an immoral character. The actions of the narrator prove that one can never escape their conscience. In “William Wilson”, the narrator appears to be immoral in his actions revealed to the reader. The narrator, when he…

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    Griet narrates with wonderfully reminiscent, vivid and modest similes and metaphors: “I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.” and “My mother’s voice- a cooking pot, a flagon.” Girl with a Pear Earring has a conventional aesthetics that is more popular with us-young adult audience. The narrative structure is one of a familiar style and is easy to read, as they contain familiar conventions of storytelling. This is evident when Griet says “At first I could not meet his…

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    Neptune Research Paper

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    Neptune the ninth planet for a few years. Of course, that was when Pluto was still considered a planet. Due to Neptune being so far away it is extremely cold. The planet gets 900 times less sunlight than we do here on Earth. It is so cold that the mantle consists of frozen water, methane, and ammonia. Even the core is made up of ice and rock! You could only be in the upper atmosphere and it still be a whopping -360 degrees Fahrenheit. A very noticeable feature of the gas giant was a large storm…

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    orbit is nearly circular and the moon is tidally locked to Jupiter with only one side continuously facing Jupiter with an orbit of 3.5 days (Space.com, 2015). While only 1,900 miles in diameter, this moon is thought to have an iron core with a rocky mantle. The most important part is the hypothetical surface ocean believed to consist of salty water. Unlike the Earth, Europa's ocean is large enough to cover its entire surface. Due to its distance from the Sun, the surface of this hypothetical…

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    Arizona Prison Case Study

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    aversive therapies, psychosurgery, [and] new and dangerous drugs”. Many prisoners despised this so called “rehabilitation” seeing it as “a more profound mode of punishment” by claiming that “it cloaks and mystifies its repressive practices under the mantle of dispassionate professionalism” (Platt 616). Instead of truly helping prisoners many failed rehabilitation programs resulted in a “process of mortification” in which “the inmate is made to display a giving up of his will” (Platt…

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    Alaska Earthquake 1964

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    The year is 1964 and what seemed to be like any other normal day in southern Alaska turned out to be anything but. March 24th marked a turning point that would affect many lives in Alaska as well as the lives of those along the coasts of Hawaii and Oregon. It impacted society physically and economically far beyond what anyone could have ever imagined. This day also shed light and created new practices as well as new methods of anticipating future earthquakes. The Earthquake of 1964…

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