The birth of Gotham City is one shrouded in both mystery and mysticism. A millennia ago‚ an evil warlock was buried alive beneath what would one day become the central island of Gotham. It is alleged that while the warlock lay in a state of torpor‚ his evil essence seeped into the soil‚ poisoning the ground with his dark‚ corruptive touch. By the warlock’s own reasoning‚ he claims that he fathered the modern spirit of Gotham City and has even taken to calling himself Doctor Gotham. The territory
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dressed like...she wanted people to look at her. Or maybe she did not get what a mess was. She had on a plaid shirt‚ a man’s shirt‚ with half a dozen weird necklaces hanging around her neck and scarves wrapped around her wrists. She reminded Park of a scarecrow or
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One advantage in particular is the guns that they bandits have. The samurai want to know how many they have and where the guns are stationed at. To do this they make a scarecrow-like doll and go searching around trees for the guns until the dummy gets shot at. Although the bandits still have the advantage of guns‚ now the samurai have more knowledge of where they are so that they can minimize their effect. It seems that
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Joel Beckwith February 13‚ 2001 Urban Legends In this paper I will explain exactly what an urban legend is‚and give some examples of very popular ones that have been passed by word of mouth for decades across the United States. 1 " An urban legend is a story that is so bizarre‚horrifying‚or unexplainable‚ that it makes something inside of us want
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hitting‚ and torturing him before tying him to a fence somewhere in the outskirts of Laramie‚ Wyoming. After he was tied‚ McKinney and Henderson left him there before someone discovered him 18 hours later‚ who at first thought that Matthew was a scarecrow. Matthew was then brought to the hospital where he remained in a coma for a little over three days before dying an hour past midnight on the 12th of October 1998 due to severe head damages and internal lacerations. This account‚ although tells
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credit card) and his leather shoes. But that was not the end. McKinney and Henderson tied Shepard to a fence‚ and proceeded to beat him to the point of unconsciousness. He was found 18 hours later‚ his unconscious body initially mistaken for a fallen scarecrow. The police officer who responded to the 911 call testified‚ “Though his face was caked in blood‚ his face was clean where streaks of tears had washed the
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Initially hesitant to openly join the conflict‚ France’s stance changed after the pivotal surrender of British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in 1777. Louis XVI formalized French support for the American cause by signing an alliance treaty‚ recognizing American independence. Over the following years‚ French military assistance‚ led by General Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau and aided by the Marquis de Lafayette‚ proved instrumental in key battles‚ including the decisive Siege of Yorktown. Despite
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The poem "Sailing to Byzantium" is one of the most substantial pieces included in W.B. Yeats ’s final book "The Tower". Created in the later years of his life‚ many of the poems in The Tower deal with the issues of old age and leaving the natural world‚ but none so strongly as "Sailing to Byzantium". Byzantium itself symbolized eternity to Yeats; it was an ancient city that represented a place of artistic and intellectual permanence. Yeats believed that ""in early Byzantium‚ maybe never before or
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Ali Pederson Mrs. Spera English 9 Honors 5 March 2012 Dorothy and Odysseus A hero is someone who is courageous‚ loyal‚ and fearful. Odysseus is a hero from The Odyssey that is told by Homer. The epic story begins when Aphrodite cast a love spell on Paris and Helen. Paris is the prince of Troy and Helen is the queen of Sparta. Helen is Menelause’s wife who is the king of Sparta. Paris and Helen after having a love spell cast on them end up falling in love. When Paris takes Helen back to Troy
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References: 1. ^ McCook‚ Kathleen de la Peña (2011). Introduction to Public Librarianship‚ p. 50. Neal-Schuman. 2. ^ Monroe‚ Margaret E. 1963. Library Adult Education: The Biography of an Idea. New York: Scarecrow Press. 3. ^ Roehrig‚ L. (2010). "The ABC ’s of Adult Ed." Library Journal (1976)‚ 135 (10)‚ 48-51. 4. ^ "Post-Formal Thought in Gerontagogy or Beyond Piaget". 5. ^ "Adult English Language Instruction". Retrieved 11 December 2012
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