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The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their…

Charles Stratton P. T. Barnum discovered Charles Stratton in 1842 at the age of four. Soon after, Barnum transformed Stratton into General Tom Thumb, one of the most significant freak show performers of all time. At an early age Stratton was trained to sing, dance, and imitate famous celebrities worldwide. As discussed in the lecture, under the guidance of Barnum, Tom Thumb performed around the world as well as at the American Museum, becoming the most famous dwarf of all time. P. T. Barnum was…

birthday, Eddie received a new baseball. “He squeezes it in each hand, feeling a surge of power that runs up his arm.” Eddie and Joe, his brother, went out to play with it. Eddie threw the ball off of the boardwalk. Eddie and Joe searched around the sideshow tents. Freaks from the freak show caught them. Eddie and Joe were scared and they grabbed the ball and run away. The blue man was the first Eddie met heaven. The blue man was there the same day of Eddie birthday. The blue man was driving and…

Parents shouldn't have a say in whether their kids can and can not date certain people due to the rebellion of teens. Teens, they see parents, or peers dating who they want they want to do the same. Also adding if parents or peers mange regulations to strictly kids out break or rebel and do what is right in their mind or imagination. During Romeo & Juliet, when Juliet's parents told Juliet she had to marry Paris she was basically on the edge, she said “I’d rather marry the person i hate rather…

staying in the psychiatric hospital. McMurphy is depicted as a caricature of life. The narrator says, “The way he talks, his wink, his loud talk, his swagger all remind me of a car salesman or a stock auctioneer - or one of those pitchmen you see on a sideshow stage” (Kesey 13). The exaggeration of his actions conveys a lively…

From its roots on the sidelines as a cartwheeling sideshow, cheerleading has grown into a combination of athletic skills, leadership, and teamwork (Lauchaire 1). It has evolved so much over the years that it is almost unrecognizable to its former state. Competitive cheerleading is not the traditional pom poms and bows that many people think it is. Competitive cheerleaders perform a two minute and thirty second routine that consists of stunts, jumps, tumbling, and dance. They do not do sideline…

1) The standard sexist way of men are more believed than women. 2) The “they must really be Trans because they can’t go back and be a woman now” effect 3) The “sideshow” effect (straight people wanting to look at them because they are amazed by how amazing they look) The three sources on masculinity lacks thorough and sustained in recent examinations of how diverse boys employ their bodies to construct masculine…

We all know of Jeffrey Dahmer, the monster that was exposed in 1991 for his twisted murders. However, how he came to be, remains relatively hidden. Based on Derf Backderf’s acclaimed graphic novel titled “My Friend Dahmer,” director Marc Meyers spins a sadistic and deceptive adaptation that chronicles Jeffrey Dahmer’s teenage years amid familial struggles and the inability to fit in at school. As this sadist biopic unfolds, audiences will experience Dahmer’s gradual descent into twisted evil,…

Proper repatriation necessitates the collaboration of governments and agencies. While the 2012 repatriation ceremony was a success for Mexico, politics change, as do relationships between countries. The current mission statement, as of 2018, of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is: To promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. ICE executes its mission through the…

constitution is a stellar example of secular lawmaking, not least for its fourteenth amendment safeguards of minority rights, racism is endemic, institutionalized and easily confirmed by a simple google search. Islamophobia in the US, then, is merely a sideshow to the wider racial fault-lines grinding against each other. Before American Muslims as the national bogey, there was the “Red Scare” in the Cold War era, Japanese Americans in World War II and Jewish Americans during the Civil War. Most…