2- Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line The arrival of human populations on Australia led to the extinction of large mammal populations. There are many possible predictions about what may have happened to the animals on that continent. One theory is that they were killed off by the first humans who arrived in Australia. In the text it claims‚ “Just as modern humans walked up to unafraid dodos and island seals and killed them‚ prehistoric humans presumably walked up to the unafraid moas and giant lemurs
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Chapter 1 Summary In chapter one it talks about how hemachromatosis is a hereditary disease and it’s the most common genetic disease for people of European descent‚ in which the body can’t register that it has enough iron. So it keeps absorbing as much of it as possible‚ and this can have very‚ serious side effects (including death). Iron is very important for bacteria‚ cancer‚ and other things to grow. The way this disease is most easily treated is blood letting. Looks like all those crazy blood-letting
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I read the book for university class! -Freakonomics Summary HERE Remember. This. Is. A. Spoiler. Those who haven’t read yet- close these… and go read it peeps!!!! Summary of Freakonomics – short (this’ll be my essay for university :> ) Chapter 1: What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? This chapter’s main idea is that the study of economics is the study of incentives. We find a differentiation between
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A troubled Asian-American man seeks revenge on the men who severely beat up his brother and put him in a coma. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JOHNNY‚ an Asian-American man‚ was adopted as a child and raised by his adoptive parents and his brother BENNY. Johnny loves baseball and often daydreams about the game. It comforts him. Disturbed by memories of his past‚ Johnny tries to move forward with his life‚ but his temper and anger get him into trouble. His therapist was helping him‚ until his therapist died.
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Was this what the Giver was talking about? Jonas pondered to himself. Was this the beautiful sounds the Giver had described before? Could Gabe hear it? Jonas decided he had no choice but to keep going‚ at least until he reached the first house. He felt ashamed to be disruptive on whatever they were celebrating‚ but Jonas knew it was what was meant to happen. Jonas got off the sled‚ with Gabriel still in his arms‚ and began his trek. The distance seemed insignificant now‚ after the long voyage
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Chapter 20 Summary While Victor is working one night on his new creature‚ he begins to wonder about what would happen when he finishes his creation. He imagines that his new being might not want to keep his promises‚ or that the two creatures might have families‚ creating “a race of devils . . . on the earth.” In these thoughts‚ Victor looks up to the windows and sees the monster staring at him through the frame. Stunned by the monster’s ugliness and the option of a second creature like him‚ he
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Most problems have a solution. And all solutions are possible. In Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture‚ he attempts to fulfil his childhood dreams of floating. Through Pausch’s experiences trying to get on NASA’s “Vomit Comet”‚ he learns a valuable lesson that he choses to include in his last lecture. Pausch didn’t want to be an astronaut‚ but he still wanted the feeling of being in zero gravity. To do that‚ he had to get on NASA’s “Vomit Comet”. It was a plane that flew up and down in arc movements.
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Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where
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Freakonomics Chapter 1 Summary In chapter one of Freakonomics‚ Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe how when incentives are strong enough‚ many usually honest people from different walks of life will cheat in order to gain financially or climb the ladder in their careers. The authors define an incentive as “a means of urging people to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing.” This chapter covers three varieties of incentives: Economic‚ Social and Moral. Economic incentives motivate people
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CHAPTER 8 How Did They Make And Use Tools? Technology Summary The physical remains of humanly made artifacts form the bulk of the archaeological record. The artifacts that are found by archaeologists may not represent the range of objects actually used because certain materials preserve better than others. For this reason‚ stone tools and ceramics dominate the archaeological record. Objects made of fabric‚ cord‚ skin‚ and other organic materials no doubt date back to the very earliest archaeological
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