1. The Stone Age: The Stone Age‚ Bronze Age‚ and Iron Age Most art in pre – Christian Ireland is abstract. It reflected the technical‚ social and intellectual developments of the time. The pace of change in art and technology was slow at first; it took 5‚000 years from the arrival of the first stone age people for metal technology to be developed in Ireland with the introduction of copper and bronze. It took 1.500 years for iron technology to arrive and 500 more years for the major social and
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Derek Bentley: Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British teenager hanged for the murder of a police officer‚ committed in the course of a burglary attempt. The murder of the police officer was committed by a friend and accomplice of Bentley’s‚ Christopher Craig‚ then aged 16. Bentley was convicted as a party to the murder‚ by the English law principle of common criminal purpose "joint enterprise". The judge in court sentenced Bentley to death based on an interpretation
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Star of the Sea By: Joseph O’Connor I.B. English A1 The passage from Star of the Sea was written by Joseph O’Connor. It is a piece of narrative prose which takes place on a passenger ship. The passage is written in a third-person subjective narrative mode. The passage is takes place at a point in the storyline as the ship is passing through a violent storm at sea‚ which portrays the forces of nature The passage starts with a sense of an atmosphere‚ “The music of the ship was howling around
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#1: “The Salton Sea” Summary In 1905 heavy rain falls and snowmelt overfilled the Colorado River. In result the water poured over the headgates in to Alamo Canal. The flood soon reached an Imperial Valley dike and in a period of two years the entire process of the Colorado River flood would soon create the Salton Sea. The Salton Sea is located at the Colorado Desert in Southern California laying below sea level and said to be the largest lake in California. The creation of the sea made Salton City
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“Under the Influence” “Under the Influence” this essay written by Scott Russell Sanders is written about his father and his father’s struggle with alcoholism. This essay shows how alcoholism affects Scott Sanders‚ his brothers‚ his sister‚ his mother and even his own children. It is a detailed explanation on the effects of alcohol on his father and how you can literally see how each beer‚ wine glass‚ shot‚ or swig can transforms him. In this writing Scott Sanders uses many sources to explain
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audience will know that the Dead Sea is devoid of all plant and aquatic life‚ why the sea is so salty and the health benefits. Thesis or central idea: The Dead Sea has a unique environment Main Points: a. The Dead Sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water anywhere b. The Dead Sea is devoid of all plant and aquatic life c. The Dead Sea area has become a major center for health research and treatment Introduction: You know why they call it the dead sea? Because absolutely nothing live
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Riders to the sea SUMMARY: This story begins with a young Irish girl baking and spinning in a fisherman’’s cottage on the west coast of Ireland. Her sister comes in‚ bearing the clothes of man washed up drowned up the coast. They are waiting for their brother Michael to be found--he disappeared over a week earlier‚ and they know he is dead‚ though hope never dies really until one knows for sure. They do‚ and they finally have to tell their mother‚ and that he got a decent burial by the parish priest
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become of their traditional way of life? Will the air and the sea be polluted by chemicals? When a delegation is sent to Bombay to express their worries to the Minister Sahib‚ Hari decides to join the party. Before leaving‚ he decides that Bombay may offer him a better life opportunity than his frightened sisters‚ his sad house‚ his ill mother and his drunken father. And it is indeed in Bombay where this delicate boy |The Village by the Sea
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In the Heart of the Sea Jason Barker In the novel “In the heart of the Sea” Nathaniel Philbrick introduces the reader to Nantucket Island located in the east coast. He establishes the importance of the whaling industry in relation to the island. Philbrick does an incredible job of telling the story of 20 regular men doing their jobs whaling. They set sail on a renewed ship called the Essex. The Essex took a beating from a storm before it finally met its match an angered sperm whale. The whale rammed
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Then‚ when we found what seemed like a good spot for fishing‚ dad stopped the engine and lowered the anchor. The sky was crystal clear and the sea was as calm as a sheet of glass. We spent a good couple of hours basking in the sun‚ fishing rods in hand‚ without a care in the world. It was fantastic just being there‚ staring out at the beautiful blue sea. After we had caught a good number of fish‚ it was time to eat. Mum had prepared some delicious sandwiches and‚ famished as we were‚ we didn’t need
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