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    radio that Amelia could have used was the one within her aircraft. If Earhart had the plane when she landed on Nikumaroro Island, then she would have been able to call for help until she died from the elements. A major discovery is the finding of a skeleton on the island of Nikumaroro, Kiribati, in 1940 that may have belonged to Earhart. They say, “But in 1998, the TIGHAR team recovered the original files -- with the 1940 skeleton's measurements -- and sent them to forensic anthropologists Karen…

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    The poem opens introducing a long and dark street. The speaker walks through the street clumsily, stumbling around due to the darkness. He hears his feet on the stones and the leaves, but also hears someone else behind him. The person behind him is doing everything the speaker is doing, but when the speaker turns around, there is no one there. The speaker can’t see or make out anything, only his footsteps. He follows the endless street around its endless corners, and says that no one…

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    features, how they dress, or even their skin tone, people are judgmental. They think just because someone looks different it means its okay to treat that person different. If you strip away the clothes, and everything under them, what do you have? A skeleton. Everyone has one. That’s all we are, and that’s all it boils down…

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    interesting one. Their physical structure, like all other animals, has an endoskeleton. Endoskeleton is what is inside the body like what humans. Like ours, their skeleton contains hard, strong bones, and held together by ligaments. Their internal organs are, just like ours, protected in the strong shape. “The structure of the skeleton of a tiger is similar to that of other big cats in the wild, particularly the lion. The details of the bones, ligaments and how they have been put together reveal…

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    bleaching, it’s the rising acidity levels in the ocean. the rise of acidity in the oceans has been connected to the increased levels of carbon dioxide. When the seawater becomes more acidic, the coral has a hard time rebuilding their calcium carbonate skeletons. If the water is too acidic, it will cause destruction among already preexisting…

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    Mary Anning was considered to be the first female paleontologist and the greatest fossil finder. She overcame a lack of formal education to emerge as one of the foremost authorities on fossils. When she was twelve year old, she found the skeleton of one of the first Ichthyosaurus, a giant marine reptile that lived in the early time of Jurassic period in Asia and Europe. She discovered more Ichthyosaurus fossils and also many other important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the…

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    unrecognized rise of racism set the stage lasting well into the 20th century, long after the abolition of chattel slavery (336). Raising the lowered status of poor whites, and reducing the rights of people of color shows another layer of flesh on the skeleton; whose rise toward supported slavery settled itself concretely in parallel with the growth of slavery supporting the rise of…

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    The anatomy between a human foot, horse’s foot or a bear’s foot are completely different. Despite the difference, there are four limbed-vertebrates which have the same basic pattern of bones. Vertebrates are animals of a large group characterized by the possession of a backbone or spinal column. Vertebrates with four limbs are called tetrapods. Generally, all limbs do the same work to achieve one purpose: support the body and move it from place to place. Some animals have limbs that enhance…

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    At this time, A. sediba had the best representation in a single site than the previous hominid discoveries. A. sediba’s skeleton contained characteristics resembling modern humans and different hominin species. . In addition, the diverse physical features that a single species possesses effects the classification process. Depending upon the amount of viable skeletal structures…

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    We also see the presences of full cattle skeleton found in the lower site of Çatalhöyük, which indicates cattle already onsite rather than taken from the wild. Later we see more of an increase in kill off of juvenile males at both sites , which is also indicative of a prey pathway in which herd…

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