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    our rainforests is effecting our environment and us more than you may think. We get the oxygen we need from trees‚ forests protect us from Carbon Dioxide‚ and forests protect most of Earth’s plants and animals. We need trees to breathe and rainforests to protect us from harsh things that we emit from our bodies. Many rainforests help and protect us. “More than 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from the Amazon” (Fraser 2)‚ the Amazon is an immense rainforest located in South America. There are many people

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    What I learned in the Frederick Douglass escape was that it took a lot of hard work and bravery to do what he did. He had to face a lot of obstacles on his journey he also met a few people on the way who looked out for him and the ones who recognized him didn’t say much of nothing. When Frederick douglass got to where he needed to go he was still feeling like a slave mentally and physically he didn’t know what to do he was running out of money and was going through hard times. He was traveling to

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    My book is called “The Escape by Hannah Jayne and it is a fiction book that is based off of murder. The protagonist in my book is named Ado and he is a high school senior that is always quiet and left alone. He can get along with people but he choses not to socialize with anyone. He has one friend but they separated once they got to high school and never really talked or hung out anymore. So one day they have a camping field trip and decide to go running off in the woods where they are soon viciously

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    doubtlessly‚ was the occupation of an abandoned state penitentiary‚ commonly known as Alcatraz Island‚ on November 20‚ 1969 (Lapin and Hanna). Young college students from all over California‚ mainly however from the University of California campuses‚ took the island raising media attention from all over the world and gaining the support of the San Francisco Bay Area’s public (Johnson and Nagel 14). After 19 months‚ the Alcatraz takeover ended bringing only little change for the American Indians‚ yet‚ the

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    Harriet Tubman was a phenomenal woman. She helped many slaves escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad. She became prominent as a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad during the merciless 1850s. She helped in many ways: Being a liberator of the slaves‚ being a spy‚ and a nurse in the civil war‚ and an Abolitionist. During her time as a slave‚ she was against slavery. She defended a fellow field hand from getting hit with a two pound weight. Even when she was hit in the head with

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    Socrates’ Moral Decision To Not Escape Was Socrates wise to stay in Athens to die? Examine firstly the context of the word wise ‚ Socrates wasn’t wise in the sense of preserving his own life as he stayed to die. He was encouraged and given the chance to escape by his friend Crito‚ but Socrates did not want to escape . Why? Socrates was a wise man. He believed in absolutes‚ and pursued the knowledge of man’s source of goodness and virtue. He believed that the repayment of evil with evil

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    They made a deal that she would give most of her earnings to him‚ but she kept a small bit of every job. She saved up so she would be able to live on the run and escape slavery. Harriet started to have dreams that gave her one message‚ escape slavery. Harriet heard stories of the Underground Railroad‚ and how many slaves used it to escape. When Harriet was 24‚ her owner arranged for her to marry a free man‚ John Tubman. He was a free black man‚ but he did not change Harriet’s status. She

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    “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles is a Greek tragedy about a man named Oedipus who unwittingly fulfills his tragic fate by trying to escape it. Oedipus was the king of Thebes‚ the city he escaped to run away from his fate. When the priest informs him that the city is going through a terrible plague that Apollo cursed the city with due to injustice and That the only way to save the city from the plague is to find the person who murdered the previous king that’s when complication starts to rise. The search for

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    arguments across both cases 1.1. Mischief? “Likely to do mischief if they escape” The cockroaches with their enhanced jaws have been shown in the facts to cause damage to wooden structures if exposed to them therefore they are likely to cause mischief in their escape. The cockroaches are consistent with the example of beasts given in Rylands v Fletcher. 1.2. Escape? “Anything likely to do mischief if it escapes” In both cases the cockroaches have escaped onto land outside the defendant’s

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