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    along many coast lines throughout the world providing a haven for swimmers and other beach goers. To enjoy a swim indoors at the pool‚ or outdoors at the beach‚ can be a tough choice since both can provide a variety of experiences. This essay aims to contrast those experiences by talking about some of the temperatures in the environment at the swimming pool and at the beach; the activities that can be done there‚ the cleanliness that can generally be found in the areas and some of the safety measures

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    he does not run around for as long as he used. Yz has all the energy in the world though‚ and his endurance is probably at its best‚ so he is always prancing and running around. Rocky and Yz both have incredible personalities‚ which cannot compare to any other dogs‚ but they are very different. Rocky has always been a very loyal‚ sweet dog. He is one of a kind. It seems like he can feel other

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    Thoreau Transcendentalism

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    Henry David Thoreau is a writer from the 19th century who sparked the movement entitled transcendentalism. This movement was one that people from that time would never of imagined. The basis of transcendentalism was that everyone is what they wanted to be‚ there was nothing holding anyone back; churches‚ work‚ society‚ you could be the center of your own universe and whatever that meant to yourself. The two chapters from Walden‚ Solitude and Higher Laws where both very intriguing and very challenging

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    Emerson Influence

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    During the nineteenth century‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson was able to efficiently influence people from his poetry and essays to his lectures. Born and raised in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ Emerson shared the same beliefs as other intellectuals in the area. He was characterized as an idealist philosopher whose new ideas changed the way people thought about and comprehended reality. Over the time of his career‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson formed many notions shown in his work based upon his independent learnings from

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    populating the latest incarnation of the same democratic experiment‚ owe it not to Thoreau‚ but to the continued development of our society‚ to read and understand the Transcendentalism of Thoreau; because of the valid and compelling rhetorical criticisms of inertial institutions that remain timelessly applicable. Some might argue that we gain a sense of how difficult it is to resist social conformity when we consider that Thoreau himself was unable to live consistently how he advocated. His failure presents

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    Does the ancient Greek’s ideation of the goddess Athena compare to modern day portrayals of her? First‚ how did the ancient Greeks imagine Athena? And now‚ how does that compare to her portrayals now? Does she compare extremely alike or does she differ tremendously? To begin‚ in ancient Greek’s times‚ Pallas Athena embodies the Greek goddess of wisdom‚ crafts‚ and war. The name Pallas translates to mean “girl.” Her other epithets‚ Parthenos‚ Ergane‚ Promachos‚ and Nike‚ translates to “virgin‚”

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    fiber. Dietary Fiber includes pectin‚ gum‚ mucilage‚ cellulose‚ hemicellulose and lignin. Pectin and gum are water-soluble fibers found inside plant cells. They slow the passage of food through the intestines but do nothing to increase fecal bulk. In contrast‚ fibers in cell walls are water insoluble. These include cellulose‚ hemicellulose and lignin. Such

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    the Buddha to be a savior‚ but the Theravadins believe him to be the highest example of what a human can be. The Mahayanists believed that there was a way humans and the enlightened humans not yet in Nirvana could communicate and cooperate. In contrast the Theravadins believed that only through meditation and not metaphysics could they achieve enlightenment. (Mathews‚ 2013‚ P.

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    Judith – Old English and Vulgate Versions Upon looking closely at the Old English and Vulgate versions of Judith‚ one can catch a glimpse of how culture was during the time they were written by comparing and contrasting the elements of the story that are presented and modified. The distinct differences that can be found between the Old English and the vulgate versions of Judith provide a clear view of what the Anglo-Saxons considered to be important‚ and what they felt required respect. When comparing

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    Self Reliant of Emerson

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    0. Introduction The question of the relation between the individual and society is one of the most central questions in the literature of American Transcendentalism. Most of Ralph W. Emerson ’s Essays deal with it as well as the work of Henry D. Thoreau. Margaret Fullers ’feminist Transcendentalism ’ propagated emancipation of women from social norms‚ and George Ripley tried to develop an alternative to society in ’Brook Farm ’‚ a social experiment that aimed at giving the individual more freedom

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