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    would’ve already had the stuff they needed to get in the school, without being noticed as a threat. So not only is this not stopping anything, but it is a waste of money. Having to renew IDs every single year, instead of permanent ideas, is wasting precious money that could be used on educational purposes. Also, having the students always keep an eye on their IDs, is just stressing them out more than they…

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    who is a paraplegic marine who is sent to a distant moon called Pandora. There Jake fills the position of his deceased brother, becoming an Avatar of the native peoples the Na’vi, and is working for the government as humans mine the planet for precious metals. Jake is at first operating under the orders of the military unit, but goes rouge after witnessing the greedy and inhumane things that are being planned against the Na’vi and the planet. This movie took James Cameron over 10 years to…

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    Adam Smith Adam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a political economist. Smith attended the University of Glasgow at just the age of 14. He later transferred to Balliol College in Oxford, England. He was a system builder and his theory of knowledge supported his entire work, and understanding his systematic approach can help current business succeed and grow. Adam Smith's basic philosophy was the philosophy of capitalism. Meaning, he felt that the government should not…

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    would serve as burial sites for both royal and non-royal people. Royal burial equipment from Tanis shows high ability in gold and silver craftsmanship. The king’s divinity becomes a new focus, and it is expressed in decorated vessels and other precious metals. With the Late Kingdom, pharaohs…

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    conflicts among themselves. The Conference took place in 1884, a crucial time when the interest in African raw materials and cheap labor took a peak. As a result, Europeans collected vast amounts of the land’s wealth: Rubber, cotton, coffee, precious metals that included gold and diamonds, oils, fish and animal skins. 3. How did Africans react to…

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    Her last visit she had been attacked with signs reading, “Every life is precious” and “Choose life.” She said those words didn’t bother her and she couldn’t wait! When asked, “why abortion?” Sarah replied promptly, “Of course it is the best choice, I had planned all my life to get lucky enough to get pregnant and be unable to support a child right out of college. Abortion was always the idea.” The idea of doctor’s inserting metal into her womb to pull off the “fetus” from her uterine wall was…

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    luck”. By geographic luck, Jared means that some areas contain more useful geographical features such as good weather (for farming), good soil, animals to hunt and feed off of, terrain for transportation, and natural resources such as precious minerals, lumber, stone, metals, and many others. Having these geographical advantages could be the difference between an area being as developed as The UK or as undeveloped as Haiti. Most people throughout early history were nomadic hunter gatherers who…

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    “Slash and Burn”, a popular and illegal method of deforestation used by farmers to cut out forest, burn the trees, and farm in the nutrients of the resulting ash. The problem with slash and burn is that the crops drain the soil of its nutrients within 3-4 years, and it takes nearly a century for the forest to grow back. Humans have practiced this kind of environmental burnout for most of history, and as our population grows the world only seems to get smaller. This method is practiced because it…

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    the Pope to slow the desertion of the church. Another widely used Torture method was much more brutal and savage, the victim would be tied to a wooden cross and the inquisitor would break the bones in the legs and their arms with a large hammer or metal bar. Even though this had a huge impact on the morale of the former Jewish population and Marranos, it did not satisfy the thirst for blood of the common folk who viewed this as their daily entertainment. Perhaps the slowest method of this so…

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    Keep Textbooks In Schools It is 2018 and technology has come a long way. Technology is found virtually everywhere and has made its way into businesses, museums, stores, libraries, offices, airports, and the list goes on. As technology has improved these environments, there are some places in which technology should not become the prime factor in living. Schools should not throw away textbooks and replace them with technology because we are not technologically ready to progress to having no…

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