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    they purchase will reflect that personal choice and style. If you're looking for a gift for someone who is a badass biker, it should be a bold piece of jewelry that will make others take notice. Tentacle Earring The Silver Phantom Jewelry Women's Octopus Tentacle Ear Cuff Wrap Earring features a detailed tentacle. It wraps around the top of the ear and curls around to the ear lobe. This earring is meant for pierced ears. It doesn't require a large piercing hole, but it looks like it does.…

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    In 925 A.D, all Maori people like my ancestor, Kupe, came from Hawaiki. As a talented fisherman, Kupe found out that the great octopus had been stealing all his fish and bait whenever he was fishing. Annoyed, Kupe tried to kill it, but all the chasing had come to a named island, by his wife, called Aotearoa (the long white cloud). After destroying the octopus, Kupe and his whanau explored Aotearoa, came back to his homeland to tell all his mates, and then returned to Aotearoa to emigrate there…

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    LeeAnne Lopez English IV-I October 20, 2017 Original Title: Descriptive Phrase The introductory paragraph consists of five complete sentences. The first sentence is the thesis statement, and it must be a compound-complex sentence. The next four sentences will cover the four Roman numerals. There should be one sentence per Roman numeral. This should be followed by the body paragraph, one paragraph per letter in the outline, for a total of eight body paragraphs. Jellyfish are spineless sea…

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    Star Fish

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    find food more easily than those species that have evolved without them. Green also relates how some octopi have evolved with copper and the protein hemocyanin in their blood which combine to make oxygen transport more efficient. This enables the octopus to acclimate more readily to nearly any oceanic environment. Green’s final example of evolution is how humans, over many generations, have evolved immunity to various diseases. This video…

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    Call It Courage

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    Key Idea and Details: Summary The story opens with a fact: the Polynesians worshipped courage and isolated anyone who didn’t have any. Then, we are taken to a flashback of where Mafatu’s mother dies being taken out to sea. This moment is the driving factor of the main character’s fear of the ocean. We are then taken out of the flashback and see that Mafatu is now persecuted for his fear. His only “friends” are Uri - his dog, Kivi - his albatross, and Kana - his only human companion. However,…

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    Inspired by Arcimboldo’s Renaissance style of art, I have utilized the style element to recreate a self-portrait with my own style. The artwork comprised of several medias from colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and even pencil drawings. Applying the techniques like shadings and color values learn from the class, I attempted to create a semi three-dimensional artwork that speaks about me as a person, my personality and what I value. Each element resembles me as a person. The clock gears…

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    Palace Flophouse, Doc’s laboratory, and many colorful tide pools. Tide pools are inhabited by a variety of sea creatures, such as “crabs… starfish… mussels and limpets… orange and speckled and fluted nudibranches… snapping shrimps… hermit crabs… [and] octopus” (Steinbeck 30-31). These…

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    demonstrate his courage to his father. Throughout this feat, he meets four millennial ethnic groups that protect four Sacred Gems from which the natural balance of the planet depends: The arazis, plant-men; the nefes, flying girls; the suus, men-octopus; and the kömür, flaming birds. Theo hides his discovery from the people of his village; from then on he spends his days in the arazi town, exploring with VROL, a serious boy who becomes his best friend; and listening to the teachings of ALBERIC,…

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    A philosophical zombie is functionally identical organism to a human being, yet they lack a conscious experience or qualia. The knowledge argument: Mary is a brilliant scientist who has extensive knowledge about physical theory and is a ‘perfect reasoner’. When Mary leaves the black and white room, and sees the ripe red tomato; she acquires new knowledge of experience. Mary experiences what it is like to see red. Despite knowing everything about color perception, Mary is not able to deduce the…

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    Do You Like America

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    What I am about to talk about is a place that you should come and live. If not than a place that you can come visit and you should think that it can become your permanent home. I hope that you like it. In America you get to choose a lot of different things. Such as the way you want to live you life. What I want to talk about first is how us Americans have different freedoms. I am very happy about how we have such freedoms of speech, freedom of religion, and we also have some right to own…

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