Shaping North America 350 million years ago- The Appalachian Mountains formed 225 million years ago- Earth’s supercontinent broke up into separate continents. 135-25 million years ago- Western North American mountain ranges formed. 10 Million years ago- North America’s basic geological shape is formed 2 Million years ago- The Ice Age begins; glaciers carve into the land creating formations such as the Great Lakes. 10‚000 years ago- The Ice Age ends Peopling the Americas Evidence suggests
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In the exposition of this story‚ a character named Gregor Samsa is awakened on his bed‚ only to find out that he has oddly enough transformed into a giant bug. As the story continues‚ Samsa contemplates the struggles he would normally have as a human‚ now only with the added conflict of being an insect as well. He tries to go back to sleep in effort of trying to forget what he had come to realization of‚ which is his new form. Samsa tries to evaluate the situation that he had found himself in‚ and
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Everything’s moving along great in their relationship until the early morning the Finman breaks into her Grandmother cottage and kidnaps a sleeping Aileana. He beats her unconscious when she fights the Finman. The Finman carries her to his boat and rows her to the Finfolk island of Hildaland. A floating island shroud in a heavy magical fog that humans cannot find. The Finman looks forward to playing with his captured prey. He watches the unconscious woman as he lifts his massive cock. He fists
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Prologue "Some say before mortals could speak‚ Iphor the god of darkness‚ attempted to wage a war against Eltarr‚ the god of light. One day‚ while inhabiting a mortal body‚ they met each other in Aldren; fought for days‚ laying waste to everything around them‚ which created the Godscar. Eltarr eventually won --" "And banished Iphor for all eternity‚ I’ve heard this story hundreds of times‚ Grandfather‚" Rendar continued. "Rendar
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ur story begins in an opulent throne room‚ furnished with large‚ gorgeous‚ red oak furniture‚ and exquisite artworks. Kneeling down on one knee‚ Tocharian Blackburn‚ the lead commander in charge of King David’s forces‚ recounted to his majesty: “The Kingsmen in Apteron believed‚ bandits slay Rebekah Basin‚ and her ailing mother‚ Susannah Basin‚ from the condition in which their home was found.” He glances up to the king‚ feeling the ache in his sixty-year-old bones from the heaviness of his metal
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Benjamin Martin raises seven kids as a single father. His thing was building rocking chairs but he is not good at it. Then the town has a meeting. Benjamin Does not want to have war. The war goes on for two years and Gabriel write letters to his family. Then his little brother Thomas tells his dad that he wants to be in the army. His dad said two more years. He said that the war will be over by then. Outside their house gunfire is going on and Gabriel comes into the house bleeding. His dad and
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In 1929‚ Nick Carraway‚ a World War I veteran‚ is receiving treatment for alcoholism at a psychiatric hospital. He talks about Jay Gatsby‚ the most hopeful man he had ever met. Nick’s doctor suggests that he writes his thoughts down‚ since writing is Nick’s passion. In the summer of 1922‚ Nick moves from the Midwest to New York after abandoning writing. He rents a small house in the North Shore village of West Egg‚ next to the mansion of Gatsby‚ a mysterious business magnate who often holds extravagant
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Brave New World Chapter 1 Summary (Notes) -Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. -The year is a.f. 632 (632 years “after Ford”). -Director of Hatcheries / Conditioning is giving students a tour of a factory that produces humans and conditions them for their roles in the world. -Explains that humans no longer produce living offspring. Instead‚ surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in bottles. -The Hatchery destines each
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Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington – Exploring Strategy‚ text and cases Chapter 1 – Introducing Strategy Defining strategy - Strategy is about the key issues for the future of organizations‚ or in other words‚ the long term direction for an organization. The description of strategy in the book has two advantages: 1. It can include deliberate‚ logical strategy and incremental‚ emergent patterns of strategy; 2. It can lay the focus on differences and competition as well as on recognizing the
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A.P. U.S. History Chapter 3 Pages 68-83 Expansion and Native Americans 1. What caused a massive decrease in the numbers of New England Native Americans? Huge amounts of people fell to conflict and even more to disease. 2. What actions were taken by New Englanders to further the demise of Native tribes? The New Englanders regularly raided and massacre the native peoples around their towns 3. What were the causes of the Pequot War? The results? The cause of the Pequot war was a
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