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    the world {reference}. According to {reference} we seldom realize that we are hard-pressed to find in nature today the ancestors of nearly all the plants and animals we use for food or service. Our current varieties of corn, wheat, flowers, cattle, dogs, horses, etc., bear little resemblance to the original stock in nature. That is because we have selected and manipulated them over the millennia for our own purposes. We have already created animals and plants that never existed before. Genetic…

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    meant to be 2 hour nap that ended being a 6 hour nap. Which in my case most of the time meant “No time to do homework, but let’s see what’s happening on Twitter” or “What’s new on Netflix”. At first I walked into Freshmen year saying “We are the top dogs” and “I can’t wait to be a senior”, which in a blink of an eye became a scary yet exciting reality. A loud…

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    war. Another somewhat custom that deals with food is in Nepalese households, the wife typically serves her husband before the children and herself. The wives usually serve the husband because it shows respect to the husband and shows he is the “Top Dog” in the household. Another example of how Tibet is different from America is Most people eat with their hands, although spoons and forks are more common in cities. To clean the hands before eating, one might roll a ball of rice in one’s hands or…

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    name given to the Egyptian God, Ienpw. He was mainly known as the Lord of the Dead until Osiris came and took his place. He is often known as having a jackal or wild dog head however the actual creature he is represented by is unknown. There are even legends that suggest he is represented by a sort of hybrid between jackals and wild dogs. The color and type of animal represents his involvement in funerary activities. Anubis is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts. Anubis was also known for embalming…

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    A well known and quite disturbing case is Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. On November 18, 1978, Reverend Jim Jones and more than 900 members of his People’s Temple committed mass suicide in the jungle of Guyana. Jim Jones lured his followers to a jungle in Guyana and cut off all of their connections to the outside world, and then made them all sign a contract which…

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    his temples and forehead. He smiled. “Got it good, didn’t…

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    Native Americans felt that the colonists took their land and abused it, “They have robbed the Indians’ temples? Taken the jewels from the bodies of their dead werowances? Set their houses on fire?”(pg. 190) The colonists just wanted the Indians’ jewels and wanting treasure. Both the movie and the book were similar in many ways but also had many differences. In Pocahontas George Percy was a dog while in Blood on the River he was a human of which he warned the other colonists to not come to…

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    “They lived there because they were poor and black, and they stayed there because they believed they were ugly… their poverty was traditional and stultifying” (38). By this excerpt, one can understand that Morrison is inferring that being an African American can strongly determine one’s political stance and even lead to affecting one’s own personal thoughts of oneself. In The Bluest Eye, the concept of human equality does not exist; hence in the novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison demonstrates…

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    Chicago biggest building is the Willis Tower is formerly known as the Sears Tower, and New York City’s biggest building is The World Trade Center. Both cities also share a love for hot dogs. The Chicago hot dog is an all beef dog, with chopped onions, pickled relish, and a poppy seed bun. The New York hot dog is a hot dog dressed with onions, sauerkraut, and yellow mustard. The music scene is both cities are some of the biggest in the world.The Bronx in New York City has been widely accepted at…

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    it is important to note their assemblage of one of the greatest engineered civilizations, which led to a daunting and wholesome empire in just a short two hundred years. The Azteca are to thank for many of the world’s inventions that include grand temples, palaces, and more specifically, the aqueduct. However, upon the arrival of the Spanish invaders, the Azteca were unable to fathom some of their advanced technology and warfare tactics that eventually led to their conquest. Many different…

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