A desert is a landscape or region of land that is very dry because of low rainfall amounts (precipitation)‚ often has little coverage by plants‚ and in which streams dry up unless they are supplied by water from outside areas.[1] Deserts can also be described as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.[2] Desert plants must have special adaptations to survive with this little water. Deserts take up about one third (33%) of the Earth’s land surface.[3] Bottomlands
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Santiago‚ at first‚ seems hopeless; he is the joke around town and has not caught a fish in eighty-four days. However‚ Santiago continues to go out to sea everyday in hopes of catching a fish. With the old man’s determination and his pride on the line‚ Santiago caughts the biggest fish that anyone has seen‚ but is then eaten by sharks. Therefore‚ Santiago’s commitment in killing this big fish‚ eventually leads to his downfall. Going months on end without catching a fish‚ Santiago becomes the laughingstock
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Every single person endures‚ it’s how much you can endure until you break that makes people’s endurance different and unique. Weather you’re mentally enduring talking politics with your opinionated family on Thanksgiving or you’re enduring the physical pain of a gunshot wound‚ you continue to endure the pain and see the day through. Endurance is the ability or strength to continue‚ especially despite fatigue‚ stress‚ or other adverse conditions. In Ernest Hemingway’s book‚ The Old Man and the
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Santiago is an old fisherman who always is accompanied by a faithful friend named Manolin. The bad luck of Santiago is extended to 84 days and was so bad his reputation as a fisherman who the child’s parents forbade the boy to fish with him after the first 40 days without success at sea. Although mandolin wasn’t fishing with the old man he always worries about his well-being and does its best to be with him and helps in every way possible. One of the differences of the book and the movie is
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Not only did it help with competitors‚ but also it limited production so that the prices of products would increase. Both of these acts “were designed to address unemployment by regulating the number of hours worked per week and banning child labor” Then came along the Public Works Administration that helped improve cities. FDR believed that if you invest money on improving where people lived‚ it would help the economy as well. FDR brought attention to bring new policies on financial sector‚ this
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Alchemist tells the story of a young shepherd named Santiago who sets out on a journey after leaving his sheep and country behind to find a treasure following a recurrent dream he experiences. While on his journey‚ Santiago meets some interesting characters that help him realize his true potential and what it means to truly follow your dreams. Throughout the book‚ Santiago learns that if you have a goal in life‚ the world will come together to help you achieve it. He also learns that a lot of the personal
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Napoleons efforts were in vein as he restored an abolished monarchy‚ abolished most newly gained women’s rights‚ and made peace with the Catholic Church. But he also helped the revolutionaries in many ways. Napoleon overall did more to help the efforts of the French Revolution than he did to negate the revolutions social and political reforms. In1792 when a crowd of Parisians stormed the Tuileries and slaughtered the kings’ guards France was a very troubled state. After grain prices quadrupled‚ the third
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Is Santiago Heroic? What is a hero? A hero is defined as‚ “a person who is admired or idealized” (Google). When thinking of the word “hero” mostly to everyone‚ a superhero comes to mind. Not all heroes are superheros. To me‚ a hero is someone who is courageous and never gives up no matter the circumstances. Speaking of someone heroic‚ Santiago is an old fisherman in The Old Man and The Sea written by Ernest Hemingway. Although Hemingway did not exactly state that Santiago is a hero‚ he displays
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messages of power and peace to appeal to different audiences be it women and the working class to ex-soldiers and extremists. Both of these factors worked well because of Goebbels clever propaganda which worked like a well-oiled machine‚ linking to how all these reasons were connected‚ and this inevitably led to the well-organised propaganda being such an important factor in the Nazis gaining control‚ starting with convincing the people in their own country that they were the party to support. When
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was wounded in battle‚ no matter how minor the wound. This death sentence was caused by wound infections‚ and the doctors in the field hospitals were working fervently to save lives. Alexander Fleming was one of those doctors. Alexander Fleming attended the Royal Polytechnic Institute in London. After receiving an inheritance from a family member‚ he was able to attend St. Mary’s Hospital medical school. Mr. Fleming used his training from medical school to help him in the Royal Army Medical Corp
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