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    How “Adventure Time” shaped my well-being, as a person, artist, and aspiring animator The most significant time of my life didn’t happen in the blink of an eye, but rather it gradually came to me since my early high school years and until now at college age. Surprisingly, it’s not school-related. It was about a kids’ cartoon that hooked me up since my older brother introduced it to me, called “Adventure Time (with Finn and Jake)”. I know it turns people off because of how crazy, trippy and…

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    ==History== “Beginner’s Guide on Blacksmithing” was written by Blanchard Raske, a blacksmith hailing from the southern reaches of [[Daendroc]]. Toward the end of his life, he had camecome to the realization that not all children are fortunate enough to gain an apprenticeship under a competent blacksmith. He offered this publication as a basic guide for young blacksmiths to follow in order to gain experience. It details basic blacksmithing techniques and how to create a dagger. This article is…

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    While autism is highly heritable, researchers suspect both environmental and genetic factors as causes. In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects. An autistic culture has developed, with some individuals seeking a cure and others believing autism should be accepted as a difference and not treated as a disorder. As of 2010, the number of people affected is estimated at about 1–2 per 1,000 worldwide. It occurs four to five times more often in boys than girls…

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    call him a tyrant. But before we get to all that, let’s start with a little background information. Vladimir was born April 10th, 1870 (which is actually by a European style calendar, today his date would fall on April 22nd. Just some interesting trivia) but not with the last name of Lenin. His actual name is Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov and he was born in the Russian town of Simbirsk, which was actually renamed later to Ulyanovsk after him. The name Lenin was later adopted while doing undercover work…

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    What’s eating Gilbert Grape is a fictional film about the titular character who lives in a small town, where her cares for his younger brother Arnie who has a mental disability. Gilbert is responsible for the upkeep of the family home, where he lives with his extremely obese mother and two sisters. The film states that his mother gained a great deal of weight following the passing of her husband who committed suicide and has failed to leave the house in over five years. The film focuses on…

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    called Terminator. We were really bad at it at first,but we gradually got better. We went to many restaurants such as Bubba Gumps, which is based off the movie Forrest Gump. It was really enjoyable because the food was amazing and we even got to answer trivia questions from the movie. I knew almost all of them and I was shocked because I haven’t watched the movie in quite a while. We went to another seafood restaurant that was right next to the hotel and I had the most amazing shrimp alfredo.…

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    Martha Gellhorn was a brave lady and witty woman to be named of the 20th century. She was a well-known American Novelist, but the genre of her writing made here different from the others. It was War. She was basically a journalist, who used to pen her experience of witnessing war-affected people. She reported on three significant conflicts of that time, Spanish War, World War II and Vietnam War. Taking journalism as a career was not common for the women in those days, but Martha Gellhorn had the…

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    1. Snorri may have euhemerized the position of Asgarth vs Mithgarth. The position of Asgarth over Mithgarth makes sense, as the worlds were diagrammed as a tree. As seen in the prologue, he says that the gods may have been kings or leaders in the past. Snorri may have intentionally done this, or it could have been more of a bias of his intelligence. We don’t know if any myths are euhemerized for sure, but there is quite the possibility that some features have been modified, while the meaning…

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    Impact of technology on human’s critically thinking Technology is the most pervasive industry in today’s world and it has profound impact on people’s lives. The more advanced technology becomes, the more it seems to have control over their lives. In the essay “Does The Internet Make You Dumber?” by Nikolas Carr and “The Fakebook Generation” by Alice Mathias, the authors write that technology, especially the internet, distracts people deeply. It is detrimental for damaging people’s ability to…

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    In loving memory of Luther Vandross is a story about a man who blazed our hearts with love songs. Who could get enough of hearing Luther woo during the '80s and '90s or even today? He was made for this! There was just something about Luther Vandross music that illuminated love and tenderness that we'd all fall under his spell. A Superstar in the Making The superstar was born Luther Ronzoni Vandross in 1951 on this date, April 20th. Luther Vandross birthplace is in New York. Luther was the…

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