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    Study Question They said at the barricades because they believed in what they were fighting for. Valjean enters the barricades because he was trying to complete the mission of saving Marius. Gavroche leaves the barricades to empty cartridges but he was shot and he died. The brave act Valjean did was that he offered a uniform for the last man, his reward was to kill Javet. The irony in this sentence is that throughout the novel Javert had made it his mission to capture the convict Jean…

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    The man that O'Brien murdered did not resemble a soldier, with thin wrists and lower legs and a mid-section ailing in muscle. O'Brien portrays a man conceived in 1946, in the residential area of My Khe. His guardians were agriculturists. His ancestors had battled for opportunity, however he needs to be a math educator and supplicates that the US will leave so he doesn't need to go to war. He was not somebody slice out to battle, he was fragile and in weakness. He was teased as a youngster. He…

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    Essay On Gunpowder Weapons

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    The current field of research into the cause of the downfall of the knightly class generally agrees that it was primarily a result of the introduction of gunpowder weaponry, but some recent scholarship suggests otherwise. Up through the present, historians have believed that the gunpowder revolution in military technology predominantly caused the knightly class in Europe to disappear, because unlike previous ranged weapons developments, firearms took no skill to operate and had the power to…

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    Jellyfish Sting

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    cells once used? Many people are familiar with the Jellyfish sting. When a jellyfish brushes against someone and they feel pain, they are feeling the cells along the jellyfish's tentacles referred to as cnidocytes. These cells harbor tiny projectiles full of venom, called nematocysts. There are many questions about the sting of the jellyfish, the structures involved, and the venom delivered. Specifically, do Cnidarians possess any capabilities of being able to replicate the stinging…

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    Until 11,700 years ago our earth had been in the Pleistocene Epoch, incorporating an evolutionary surge that lead to Homo Habilis, who lived from about 2.1 to 1.5 million years ago(2). By the peak of this duration the global temperatures on earth dropped by about 5oC, plunging the entire planet into an ice age, creating vast glaciers miles deep that expanded across limitless amounts of land, locking hordes of water into impenetrable sheets of ice. However, this gave a few species on earth a…

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    Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech Massacre, University of Texas Massacre, Columbine High School Massacre, these are some of the most horrific school shootings in american history… gun control activists say it's the work of loose gun laws in America. What if the real reason wasn't loose gun control laws, it's the people who have access to these guns. People say that if 2011 gun ban in the uk brought gun crimes down to the lowest they have ever been why can that work here. The writing is on the walls,…

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    a wooden pole in the center, and hammered the wrought iron together. They put hot iron rings over the barrel, and that made the classic cannon. The new cannon design could be made as big or as small as desired. The new cannon could fire bigger projectiles, was more powerful, and the powder chamber was easier and faster to…

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    Men and women are different in many aspects, wether it comes to society, the workforce, or even scientific fact. Due to these reasons, the ways in which both sexes live are different, but this isn’t to be looked at as discrimination against one or the other, but instead to be celebrated. These differences have been around for many years, developed, integrated, and adapted in to ways that suit the modern day. Men and women will always be different from one another as long as time goes on, this is…

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    The conceptual focus of a composer principally arises from their contextual worlds, sourced from the interconnectivity of society and literature. As such, appreciations of the social, historical and cultural factors influencing a composer’s composition are critical in gaining an ultimate understanding of a text. Constructed shortly after the end of WWII, where the full extent of atrocities committed by Germany and Russia were revealed, George Orwell’s politically satiric “1984”…

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    Lockport Site Essay

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    Larter. In comparison to the other sites that MacNeish excavated, Lockport had the greatest level of preservation and the most apparent stratigraphy. The MacNeish excavation found many artifacts including, but not limited to, ceramics, scrapers, projectile points, an awl, bone tools, scapula hoes, grinding stones, a biface, a flake knife, as well as multiple hearths. Buchner worked on the Lockport site from 1984 to 1988 and his work is now one of the most highly regarded for this site. The…

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