3. One hundred mounted Torrin soldiers‚ dressed in grey tunics‚ steel helmets and chain mail armour‚ and armed with swords or spears‚ positioned their horses around the carriage. The Princess said as swords‚ spears and chain mail armour continued past her window. “Is this necessary?” the Princess said as headless torso after headless torso passed her window. “We’ve had eight years of peace since the Ikedan invasion. Surely‚ we could scale my escort down to fifty men‚ even fewer. It would make
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How the crocodile got its long tail A long long time ago‚ there was a lazy crocodile. Its tail was as short as a hotdog sausage. It only eats‚ drinks and sleeps all day long under the tree that near the water. One day‚ a man was walking down a hill‚ he saw a crocodile eating an apple. He asked “Can I have some of your apple please?” The crocodile didn’t say anything‚ instead the crocodile threw the apple away and said “Yum!” And it gobbled up the man in two bites. After a while‚ it
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The dragons were the protectors of the region and people known as light. The surviving dragon’s life energy travels to another to insure the life force of all dragons at their death‚ to sustain their kind. The creator wrote across the heavens of our universe their history predefined. Darkness feared the dragons‚ for them knew they kept careful watch on them. Darkness had tried to rise before to take the light‚ but they had halted them. Darkness felt whoever could control the dragons‚ would
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being anything but unique. One dreary night in the city of Avalon; a mama dragon was giving birth to a baby dragon. She was so excited to be having her own baby who would fly around with her and who she could teach all the things she has learned to. A couple hours later... The baby dragon was born and mama dragon named him Danny. Mama dragon immediately realized instead of having the nice dark color scales all dragons have‚ Danny was born with bright purple scales. She decided that maybe it was
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The Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival‚ also called the Duanwu Festival‚ is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years‚ the festival has been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing dragon boats. The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races‚ especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes. This regatta commemorates the death
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new historical works began to surface over the complex period known as the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War. The period which has been subject of such varied and conflicting interpretations was headed by the works of William Dunning. The Dunning School‚ while certainly influenced by the racism of its day‚ believed Reconstruction failed due to the black community being unprepared and unfit to properly express the political rights that were thrown upon them by Northern politicians. These
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Question 1 Edward has fallen prey to what the Dunning-Kruger effect calls a ‘double curse’ in which a person such as Edward is meta-ignorant: “lacking skills depriving him of not only being unable to produce correct responses but also of the expertise necessary to surmise that the responses are not being produced” (Johnson‚ K.‚ Ehrlinger‚ J.‚ & Kruger‚ J. (2003). Dunning et al Dunning et al (2003)). After having Daisy and Jim leave the company‚ Edward simply chose to move from a partnership to being
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Arianna .T Dragon Feast Two dragons in the corn fields with bags of bright‚ yellow‚ delicious corn from fields they were taking them to their barn. Luna‚a dragon with a bright purple scales color with a moon blue eyes but in her human form she has blond hair and the same color eyes and a tan skin‚ with her friend Clara‚ a dragon with pink eyes with dark blue scales but in her human form she has white skin with the same color eyes to and black hair. Were in a rush because in two days the dragon feast
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Dragon Ball was a manga series released in Japan on November 10th‚ 1985‚ written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It followed the adventures of Son Goku and his super powered‚ martial arts fighting friends‚ travelling the world searching for the Dragon Balls; seven magical balls that if gathered‚ grant the user any wish. The manga series became extremely popular‚ not only in Japan‚ but around the world. Looking to capitalize off the popularity of Dragon Ball‚ 20th Century Fox announced that in
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Whooooooooshhhhhh!!!!! There’s a dragon! It all began with the pretty prince and his sister. It is a cold night at a tall castle with a beautiful princess and her name was Nancy. She was scared but her brother‚ Alexander was on his was to save her. Wait let’s start from the beginning. It all began with in a little house in the country. In the house there was a beautiful girl her name was Nancy that was a princess‚ her handsome brother that was a prince and his name was Alexander‚ and their wonderful
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