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    Alchemist Allegory

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    To start with‚ the definition of an allegory is that it is a type of writing that has a double meaning. On one level‚ it is a romance or adventure etc while on another level‚ it is a description of a moral‚ spiritual or political reality common to all people either actually or potentially. While it is not specifically stated in the definition of allegory that the characters have titles as names ‚ it is a common characteristic of allegory that they often do substitute names Having said this‚ the

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    Cave Of Speleothems

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    Another paleoproxy that I have found is speleothems‚ also known as cave rocks. Unlike glaciers and ice sheets that are exposed to erosion and weathering‚ speleothems are well preserved in caves. They contain climate data from thousands to millions of years ago and are dated by measuring how much uranium has decayed into thorium for each layer. For example‚ one of the world’s largest cave of speleothems is the Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico‚ and it provides a record of precipitation for that general

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    Caves 1

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    Caves Joshua Feuerstein JKF Publishing PHOENIX‚ ARIZONA Copyright © 2014 by Joshua Feuerstein. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or other electronic or mechanical methods‚ without the prior written permission of the publisher‚ except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. JKF Publishing

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    Waitomo Caves

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    Waitomo caves‚ in the central North Island of New Zealand‚ consist of a 45 km network of underground limestone caves. The limestone that makes up the Waitomo Glowworm Caves was formed about 30 million years ago when the region was beneath the sea. The limestone is a fossil rock that is made up of the shells and skeletons of dead marine animals. The shells and skeletons of millions of dead marine animals were broken down by the sea into tiny particles which slowly rested on the seabed. Over time

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    Bellamar Cave

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    Bellamar Caves are a National Monument that is located in Matanzas‚ Cuba‚ they are a set of cave with more than 23 kilometers of galleries. By the beauty of its gallery and caves‚ they were declared a National Monument. The galleries and passages of the cave started forming about 300 thousand years ago. According to the studies the caves were originally under the sea‚ part of the bat of Matanzas. While they were under sea level‚ these caves were full of water. The tectonic movements caused the area

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    ajanta caves

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    Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra‚ India are a Buddhist monastery complex of twenty-nine rock-cut cave monuments containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art"[1] and "universal pictorial art"[2] The caves are located just outside the village of Ajinṭhā in Aurangabad District in the Indian state of Maharashtra (N. lat. 20 deg. 30 ’ by E. long. 75 deg. 40 ’). Since 1983‚ the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Excavation of the caves began

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    The Cave of Lascaux

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    The Cave of Lascaux During the prehistoric time‚ people would express their thought by drawing many pictures in the caves and usually drew on the walls and ceilings inside the caves. The most common pictures in cave paintings are big wild animals‚ such as horses‚ tigers‚ deer‚ and tracings of human hands. Many cave paintings were found all over Europe and usually‚ they were on the wall of abandoned cave with the blocked entrance for many years‚ so the paintings were well preserved inside the

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    Comparison Essay

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    Schools of Thought Comparison By: Amanda Szyszkowski There are three main types of schools of thought that are noted in the field of philosophy. The three schools are continental‚ pragmatic‚ and analytic philosophies. We are going to take a look at all three of theses and compare them‚ and see which one most appeals to me and why. The first school is continental philosophy. Continental philosophy is a general term that is associated with the philosophical views that originated on the continental

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    cave painting

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    fall into one of two broad categories. Paintings and engravings found in caves along walls and ceilings are referred to as "parietal" art. The caves where paintings have been found are not likely to have served as shelter‚ but rather were visited for ceremonial purposes. The second category‚ "mobiliary" art‚ includes small portable sculpted objects which are typically found buried at habitation sites. In the painted caves of western Europe‚ namely in France and Spain‚ we witness the earliest unequivocal

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    Leaving the Cave

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    Leaving the Cave 1. According to the author‚ what do most people think happiness consists of? * Most people think that happiness is consisted of looking good‚ having a nice car‚ nice clothes‚ and a life based on the images and truth of popular magazines and television “reality” shows. According to the author says that people do not know the reality because the materialistic illusion makes people to be happy. 2. In Plato’s myth‚ what takes place in the cave that relates to the material

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