sickening brainwashing they are put through in order to turn them into soldiers-- nay‚ killing machines for sadistic rebel militias that pay for their weapons with diamonds mined by slaves and smuggled out of conflicts zones are positively haunting. The plot of Blood Diamond -- revolving around an escaped slave miner (a passionate Djimon Hounsou: The Island‚ Beauty Shop) who has hidden from his masters a ridiculously valuable pink diamond he discovered‚ meaning to use it to pay to recover his disappeared
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The chapter starts with Israel once again disobeying God. He turned them over to the Philistines for forty years to punish their disobedience (v. 1). During this time‚ a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan had a barren wife (v. 2). His wife was visited by an angel of the Lord who promised a child to her (v. 3). He told her to abstain from wine or other similar beverages and to avoid eating unclean food (v. 4). The angel told her the reason for this is because she would bear a son that was a Nazarite
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Rainforest. The Brazilian government recognizes only 13% of the total land mass of Brazil as being designated to its native tribes. Of this 13% total land mass‚ 98.5% lies in the Amazon Rainforest (http://survivalinternational.org/tribes/brazilian). In Chapter 5 of Mann’s 1491‚ Mann retells the story of the Gonzalo Pizarro exhibition. The first recorded and written description of the Amazon comes from Gaspar de Carvajal‚ the chaplain on the Pizarro voyage. Carvajal’s account was not recognized as being
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Hunter Porterfield Sociology Chapter 1 summary Sociology is the study of the society and the way people interact within it. The field of sociology and trying to study and understand it is very complicating due to the fact that it is such a wide topic. Feelings change along people and nobody can truly explain why people do the things they do. A student attempting suicide out of nowhere is unexplainable or even a random divorce. The unexplainable minds of people and random occurrences really interests
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Nathan Gomez APESION or SAVING THE WORMHOLE BILLIONAIRE 1. THE MAKING OF APESION Synopsis: An ambitious programmer goes on a business trip to Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil where he attends a digital company that uses Apesion‚ a telepathic procedure that uploads virtual reality into a person’s mind. Under a dying CEO’s wish‚ he must complete the remaining programming details of the project with the help of an A.I.‚ who acts as the CEO’s successor. Possible MPAA Rating: R (for some violence‚ disturbing
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she exclaimed with excitement. “What do you need?” The old cat twitched his whiskers in amusement and meowed‚ “Cobwebs to stop bleeding and Catnip for Fevercough.” He instructed. She bounded off ahead of him towards the river‚ Where Catmint grew. Chapter One Robinpaws´ warrior assessment had already begun‚ but to a bad start. She hadn’t been able to catch a single bird‚ mouse‚ or rabbit in the hunting portion of the test. Her prey had all escaped her. Her fighting
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Chapter 1‚ "The Fledgling" Chapter 1‚ "The Fledgling" Summary and Analysis At the Windsor Hotel in Paris‚ the narrator admires himself in the mirror. He is a handsome young man in an airline pilot’s uniform. Moments later‚ he receives another admiring glance from the checkout clerk who gladly cashes his Pan American World Airways paycheck for him. The young man leaves for the airport and‚ once there‚ he fills out a pink form granting him deadheading privileges on the next flight to Rome. Airport
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Can the success of the American experiment be adequately under understood by merely studying the personalities and interpersonal relationships of the founding brothers? Summary: The success of the American experiment can be understood well enough by only studying the personalities and social relationships of the founding brothers. The main purpose of this book was to examine how specific relationships influenced the time period‚ in fact‚ this book is almost solely made up of explaining relationships
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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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The Siege by Helen Dunmore Chapter 17 Summary The chapter begins with Anna sharing how she feels about winter and the snow. Anna has always loved the first snowfall of winter. She knows as soon as dawn comes that it’ll be today. The sky remains dark‚ with a yellow tinge to the clouds. The light has a sharp‚ raw edge. Everything is waiting‚ silent and expectant. Snow will come. She thinks the snow will wipe away all mistakes. Light will stream upwards from the immaculate white of the ground.
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