Fossil Penguin and the Stories Its Feathers Tell Source: BY BRIAN SWITEK (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/inkayacu-perus-giant-fossil-penguin-and-the-stories-its-feathers-tell/) Date Published SEPTEMBER 30‚ 2010 2:00 PM Synopsis: Inkayacu paracasensis‚ a previously unknown genus of prodigious penguin from the 36 million year old strata of Peru‚ was discovered to have its feathers still intact from the fossil. The extinct giant penguin was unique from its group because of
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The movie “Fruitvale station” is a drama biographical film that follows Oscar Grant’s last day and the events leading up to his death. The audience gets a glimpse into Oscar Grant’s life and gets to see the chaos of his unnecessary death. Oscar Grant was a real person who was fatally shot at Fruitvale station‚ on New Year’s day 2009‚ by a police officer. The incident seemed to happen so fast but it seems that Oscar and his friends were most likely stopped due to racial profiling. Oscar was by no
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Rebecca Barnes Mr. Edmonson Geography period 5 10-23-14 Synopsis of John Hus John Huss (1369-1415) was a Bohemian reformer. John Huss was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1401‚ after receiving the bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Prague. He became a powerful preacher of Roman doctrine‚ until he began to translate some of the sermons of John Wycliffe into the Bohemian language. These sermons moved him to cry out for reform in the Church‚ and a return
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Fallada uses Mia Pinneberg to unveil the challenges associated with the expectations of the “New Woman” in the 1920’s-1930’s. Mia embodies the modernized women conceptualized in Germany post-World War I. Her aspirations to climb the bourgeois social ladder stem from a society obsessed with aesthetic beauty‚ and related pressures from being a woman in a high-class society. She mimics the display of the “New Woman” and therefore is driven to bear the weight of all interrelationship problems related
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a. The application of English Law in our legal system. English Law is part of Malaysian law. The definition of law in Article 160 of the Federal Constitution includes ‘the common law in so far as it is in operation in the Federation or any part thereof’. That qualification concerns the extent to which English Law is applicable in Malaysia. First‚ we will discuss on the meaning of ‘sources’. Historical sources is the factor which influenced the development of law in religious and custom. Law
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“A Few Good Men” Movie Synopsis The movie centers around Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee‚ son of a former Attorney General and Navy Judge Advocate General‚ who is an inexperienced U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps lawyer who leads the defense in the court-martial of two Marines‚ Private Louden Downey and Lance Corporal Harold Dawson‚ who are accused of murdering a fellow Marine of their unit‚ Private William Santiago‚ at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Santiago compared unfavorably to his
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Federal Tort Acts of 1946 Jenna Smith CJA 520 Professor Mark Holley July 30‚ 2011 Introduction In the United States today if you as an officer put either you or your department in a liability‚ for any type of act that is not warranted and handled in a professional manner you are opening yourself for a number of different actions which could hurt both you‚ your department as well as causing you to loss everything that you own‚ just because you decided to not following proper protocals which
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claustrophobia. The 12 angry men of the title are the 12 men of the jury. They are identified in the script only by jury numbers(and foreman)‚ and there is no evidence that they know each other’s names. This is indicative of the play’s focus on the case and its broader ethical implications‚ rather than personal details of individual character’s lives. When details do emerge‚ they are only ever discussed with reference to their influence on a particular juror’s vote. The only other character who appears
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Circuit Court of the State of Oregon Multnomah County Roy Keane ) Plaintiff ) Roy Keane’s vs. ) First Amended ) Complaint Bryce Caldwell ) Defendant ) Assault‚ Battery‚ and Intentional ) Infliction of Emotional Distress ) ) ) Not Subject to Mandatory ) Arbitration Plaintiff‚ Roy Keane by his attorney‚ Walter Meier files his Complaint against defendants as follows: Claim 1 – Assault 1. Plaintiff
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The Friars Tale is a story about a corrupt summoner who sets out with the intention of delivering a false summons and extorting money from a poor widow by way of accusing her of infidelity to her deceased husband. On his way‚ the Summoner encounters a yeoman. The two men immediately become close‚ and so they swear to be loyal to each other and exchange the secrets of their respective trades. The yeoman’s revelation that he is‚ in fact‚ a demon‚ elicits a cry of horror from the Summoner. The yeoman
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