500 BCE there were two city states that were controlling powers in Greece. These two city states were Athens and Sparta. These two city states were very different with Sparta being a military state with an Oligarchy‚ and Athens‚ a naval‚ peaceful state with a democracy. Sparta is the better city state because they have the best army‚ the safest city‚ they are the leader of the Peloponnesian league‚ they have rights for women‚ and have strongest government. Sparta is the best city state with the best
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length‚ this is effected by the quantity of fuel available (as more fuel equals larger fire) and the rate to which the fire advances. The extent to which a community or environment is effected by a fire relates to magnitude‚ so the level of damage to a city‚ town i.e. is included in a fires magnitude. A way to categorise the danger of a fire
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Theme: Sacrifice Various cultures believed that sacrifice were communicating tools to the gods. In this belief‚ various religions offered human‚ animal and material sacrifices to their deity. "They spoke to the Gods through sacrifice and believed in creation and destruction to better the world and its birth and its rebirth." (Sterk) The Chinese‚ Sumerian and Celt’s believed in tradition and cultural sacrifice to their deitie’s. Sacrifice in cultural myth is part of their religion and everyday tasks
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definition of sacrifice is to give up something for the sake of something else‚ whether it is for another human life‚ for an idea‚ or even for a belief. "She was 17 years old. He stood glaring at her‚ his weapon before her face. Do you believe in God?’ She paused. It was a life-or-death question. Yes‚ I believe in God.’ Why?’ asked her executioner. But he never gave her the chance to respond. The teenage girl lay dead at his feet." (DC Talk 17) This example of a sacrifice really happened
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They said they heard a bloody scream from the north wing. Maybe the mouth from which the scream came‚ would be the source of the fires. There have been at least three fires this past week: one in the south wing‚ and two in the north. Silverwood Asylum had been abandoned for at least ten years. The police shut it down when they discovered that the doctors performed unruly experiments on the patients. When Silverwood first opened‚ they only admitted the worst of the worst‚ once a man who had murdered
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In the tragic tale of Othello‚ the evil deeds of Iago cause many of the characters to make sacrifices‚ with some giving the ultimate sacrifice: their lives. Emilia can be categorized as such a character‚ whose martyrdom provided important insight regarding her views on honesty‚ marriage‚ and morals. Shakespeare introduces Emilia as a laconic woman with a bitter‚ worldly demeanor. Her views towards men and marriage in general are largely negative‚ stemming from her tumultuous marriage to Iago. Evidence
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It was 5:30 am. Justin‚ Blake‚ and I were catching horses to go to work. It was supposed to be an easy day of it too. Us 3 went to the pasture we were supposed to be geathering. We unloaded our horses and got on them. We trotted of into the the most brushey‚ tree coverd‚ canyon filled‚ pasture on the whole ranch. It took us 2 hours of walking to geather them into a near by wheat field. Justin and i counted them while Blake pushed them so we could count them along the fence. We got our count which
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From there he was able to create an essay titled This is How We Lost to the White Man. And through the narrative of Bill Cosby (before his being accused for sexual assault)‚ we begin to understand more about Coates thought process. “The Pound Cake speech‚” one of the most known speeches of Cosby (even having its own WiKi page) where Cosby blames the condition of black life on black people themselves. He said things like “[There] are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in
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Babbie indicated eight (8) criteria must be met by a discipline for it to be classified as a science. Identify and discuss this statement. “Science is best defined as a careful‚ disciplined‚ logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe‚ obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon [the] discovery of better evidence.” – James Randi (1987) Earl R. Babbie advocated that a discipline became a science when
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The elk loved being hunted by predators his family had runaway where they were because‚ the elk was suicidal so he stayed lonely in the forest. Some elks came across the forest where he was and they saw that he liked being in danger so they decided to just leave him their. The elk decided to move on and went to another forest where he heard that it was the most dangerous forest in the world. The elk was in the forest and he was just walking by and saw lots of bones of elks but he wasn’t afraid‚ remember
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