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    Outfest here in Philadelphia. On Oct. 11, the heart of the "gayborhood" comes alive with thousands of colorful people for the annual celebration of National Coming Out day. Outfest is the first celebration of its kind and spans 10 blocks from Walnut to Spruce street and 12th to 13th street. Since the 1965 LGBT rally at independence hall, Philly has been creating new ways to embrace our gay brothers and sisters. Visit phillygaypride.org for ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary of…

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    Chilean Architecture

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    two houses, serves to assimilate its design to the houses of tenant farmers in countryside of Chile. Since tenant farmers are quite common in Chile, Radic decided to familiarize the concept of his design to theirs. One can view this in the standing walnut trees that are left untouched and on the outside, which it is being blocked by several perimetric walls. It contains a courtyard through the internal space and covered with a tarpaulin to its wall to provide shade, living room with a little of…

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    “We have to move, the rent is too high here we can not afford this anymore” my mother told both my brother and I. We have moved to my friends’ house twice and now we finally settled in a house on Vejar Rd. in Walnut for my senior year. All throughout middle and high school, I have moved five times and each time it is because we do not have the money to pay for the rent. I do not hate my father, but I definitely strongly dislike him. I have came to realize that…

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    replaced with an unquenchable thirst for power. Similarly, Boon, despite his obvious efforts to understand nature and to fully accept his Indian heritage, is innately corrupted, a “walnut a little larger than a football and with a machinist’s hammer had shaped features into it and then painted it…” (206). Like a walnut, Boon represents a product of nature corrupted by human influences, a product of the wilderness subject to the willpower and needs of man; Boon may be part American Indian, but…

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    Over the course of history, many ancient empires have shared one common practice, a practice which linked these various cultures over the boundaries of religion, language, and even geography: colonialism. This custom often involved inserting colonists into foreign lands, encountering indigenous people, and most importantly, establishing trading networks amongst themselves; the settlers take over certain portions of the land’s natural resources, and the natives gain access to superior technology.…

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    A proper nutritional plan is absolutely a must for a person who wants to maximize his/her potentials. If we adapt a plant-based diet, we can expect the followings: more strength, more endurance, accelerated recovery from trainings (or from injuries), much better bowel movement, less body odour, better sleeps and greater peace of mind. Firstly, let’s talk about proper hydration. While we are working out, we breathe much faster and much more as well as we’re sweating like on a hot day. Obviously…

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    Times were tough when Wilder came into the world. She grew up on the prairie with her family of five. Laura Ingalls Wilder stories reflect her life in the midwest. Her pioneer lifestyle and the struggles of raising crops and a family are often the subjects of her work. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born February 7, 1876 in a log cabin close to Pepin, Wisconsin. This was the home her first book “the Little House in the Big Woods” was written about. She was the second of five children born to…

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    Fitzgerald was a rare man for his time. He wrote some of the greatest books like The Great Gatsby and Save Me Waltz. His life was filled with little gain and far more tragedy. A lot of his stories reflect his life and the American Society during the Jazz age. He is seen today with another number of people as a part of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. He did have humble beginnings though. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota (Harmon). He moved…

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    internal jugular veins as well. As the external jugular veins descend through the lateral neck, they pass obliquely over the sternocleidomastoid muscles and then empty into the subclavian veins. The brachiocephalic vein a vein that returns oxygen-depleted blood from the upper limbs, neck, and head to the heart. There is a brachiocephalic vein on the left side of the neck and one on the right. The two brachiocephalic veins merge together with the azygos vein, which carries deoxygenated blood from…

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    The disease i am going to talk about is cancer, cancer is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. How does cancer from cancer forms or develops when the body’s normal function for control stops working it happens like this old cells don’t die instead they grow not just any normal growth it’s an out of control type of growth with this growth it destroys the surrounding tissue it could possibly spread to other areas in a process called metastasis how does metastasis do this well it…

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