First Assignment - Summary and Critique Paul S. Martin‚ Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America‚ University of California Press‚ 2005‚ Prologue and Chapter 2 Summary The overkill hypothesis stresses the fact that people were the main technicians behind the late pleistocene extinction of fauna in Northern Eurasia and North and South America. Paul Martin of the University of Arizona and others see a subsequent and spontaneous connection between the presence
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Eng 100 Schantz 17 September 2012 Explanatory Summary of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” In the Stephen Marche’s May 2012 publication in The Atlantic‚ “Is Facebook Making us Lonely”‚ explores the history and usage of social networking along with the most recent theories in order to argue that social networking depends on the user’s motives not‚ social networking itself. Facebook does not create loneliness‚ but it does not exterminate it either. It all depends on ones usage. Marche begins his
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Children’s False Memories for an Implausible Event HENRY OTGAAR1*‚ INGRID CANDEL1‚ HARALD MERCKELBACH1 and KIMBERLEY A. WADE2 1 Faculty of Psychology‚ Maastricht University‚ The Netherlands 2 Department of Psychology‚ University of Warwick‚ UK SUMMARY This study examined whether prevalence information promotes children’s false memories for an implausible event. Forty-four 7–8 and forty-seven 11–12 year old children heard a true narrative about their first school day and a false narrative
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Egypt 3500 years ago‚ queen Hatshepsut. The video said that before Hatshepsut became pharaoh‚ she was a princess and then she became regent when her half-brother died. Egypt will accept a women? Yes. She became an spectacular metamorphosis with a false beard‚ with the Pharaohns Crown and having good relationships with the powerful priests of Egypt. They show us the work of hundred years to discover that place. First of all the archeologist‚ Cheryl Ward‚ found some wooden boxes in the base camp for
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Part B: Summary In his article ‘Fossils Fuels Improve The Planet’‚ Mr Alex Epstein’s main claim was that fossil fuels are not dirty energy as they have created clean‚ healthy and liveable human environment. He also concluded that unlike fossil fuels‚ solar and wind energy - dubbed as cleaner energy - are expensive‚ unreliable and not abundant. He began by arguing that fossil-fuels-powered technologies and facilities have enabled humans to live in the most clean‚ healthy and liveable condition in
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Books 1-4 Book I Summary: The narrator calls upon the Muse to help him tell the story of Odysseus. We pick up ten years after the fall of Troy in the Trojan War (the subject of The Iliad). In trying to return home‚ Odysseus and his shipmates had numerous adventures‚ but now Odysseus has been left alone on the island of Ogygia for the last eight years‚ captive of the beautiful goddess Kalypso. We are told that Poseidon‚ god of the sea‚ will make Odysseus’ journey home to Ithaka even more difficult
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THE MAHABHARATA A Chapter by Chapter summary of the great Indian epic‚ as an aid to finding passages within the original 18 Volumes. Written by Duncan Watson. 14-Dec-92 THE MAHABHARATA Translations by Kisari Mohan Ganguli and Pratap Chandra Roy. The Pratap Chandra Roy version published by Munshiram Monoharlal‚ New Delhi‚ India (Post Box 5715‚ 54 Rani Jhansi Road‚ New Delhi-55): Third edition‚ September 1972. Mahabharata was written down by the great sage Krishna Dvaipayana (Vyasa) about
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The False Promise of Survival: Civil Defense in America during the Cold War David Crosbie U.S. HIST March‚ 2013 The advent of nuclear weapons dawned a new and terrifying era in human history. The destructive power of the atomic bomb‚ demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ ushered in a global climate of fear. Emerging from the rubble of the Second World War‚ the U.S. and Soviet Union became the two most dominant economic‚ political‚ and military superpowers in the global arena. Upholding
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WRITING A SUMMARY OF AN ARTICLE WHAT IS A SUMMARY? A summary restates the main ideas of an author in your own words. It keeps the essential information from the original passage while eliminating most supporting details‚ such as the examples and illustrations. A good
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cannot write a good summary essay of a source that you do not understand. One such technique is the reader’s summary‚ which you write for yourself‚ as a way of understanding the text you are reading. But there is another type of summary‚ the summary essay‚ which is written for an audience other than yourself. The purpose of the summary essay is to convey to others an understanding of a text you have read‚ without their having to read it themselves. Thus for your readers‚ your summary essay functions
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