Here’s an interesting piece of WW II history. Tinian Island‚ Pacific Ocean. It’s a small island‚ less than 40 square miles‚ a flat green dot in the vastness of Pacific blue. Fly over it and you notice a slash across its north end of uninhabited bush‚ a long thin line that looks like an overgrown dirt runway. If you didn’t know what it was‚ you wouldn’t give it a second glance out your airplane window. On the ground‚ you see the runway isn’t dirt but tarmac and crushed limestone‚ abandoned with
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Epic theatre is a very interesting style of theatre in which the main incentive is to provoke thought and discussion on current issues rather than to just merely entertain the audience. In the play‚ The Resistible Rise of Arturo by Bertolt Brecht‚ the overall theme of political corruption is very prominent. Not only was the story compelling‚ but so were the many different production aspects that came together to create the show. By combining all of the production elements together‚ the show was brought
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John Alvin Ray‚ or best known as Johnnie Ray‚ has an incredible story. Johnnie was a popular singer/songwriter back in the 1950’s. Sure‚ this is an accomplishment for him‚ but his songs alone weren’t exactly what made him who he was. Johnnie Ray had a past‚ present‚ and a future and he knew what and where he wanted to be a few years down the road‚ and made it happen. At the young age of thirteen‚ Johnnie lost his hearing in his left ear from an accident at a boy scout activity. Him and the family
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have been having a love affair with our cars for centuries. We have pampered‚ wrecked‚ washed‚ altered‚ painted and pined for our cars for our entire lives. One can only imagine it for our vehicles and someone has attempted it. Below are just 10 incredible facts about cars and drivers since the first car was created in 1672 by Ferdinand Verbiest. Perhaps the strangest attempt at renewable energy sources for cars is Cappuccino. The ‘Car-Puccino’ costs around 50 times more to run than the standard
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As I lay Dying and the Odyssey As I lay dying and the Odyssey can both be considered books of epic quests with incredible odds. Faulkner takes the title of As I Lay Dying from a line spoken in the Odyssey by the Greek warrior Agamemnon. Agamemnon tells Odysseus when he travels to the Underworld‚ “As I lay dying‚ that woman with the dog’s eye would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” Both books give off extraordinary characters‚ with what some may call outlandish behavior‚ to possibly throw
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The Hound of the Baskervilles Paragraph In The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ Sherlock Holmes is a very memorable detective. One of his memorable characteristics is that he is very observant. He observes his surroundings like nobody else does. An example of this is Holmes saying to Watson‚ “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes” (pg. 36). Another example of this is when Holmes notices Watson eyeing the walking stick left in Holmes’s apartment
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Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of her misfortune began to blow. The enormous mansion of moon like concrete lost in the solitude of the desert trembled down to its foundations with the first attack. But Erendira and her grandmother were used to the risks of the wild nature there‚ and in the bathroom decorated with a series of peacocks and childish mosaics of Roman baths they scarcely paid any attention to the wind. The grandmother‚ naked and huge in the marble tub‚ looked like
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1. In India 828 million people‚ or 75.6% of the population‚ live on less than $2 a day‚ compared to 72.2% in Sub-Saharan Africa.[ The World Bank further estimates that fully one third (33%) of the world’s poor reside in India. According to the latest (as of December 2008) World Bank estimates on poverty‚ based on 2005 data‚ 256 million Indians‚ or 41.6% of the country’s population‚ survive below the updated international poverty line of $1.25 (PPP) per day 2. Although Indian economy has
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Man’s greatest achievement? Perhaps not‚ but can you afford not to read on when I am about to tell you about Essay? I find my self constantly drawn back to the subject of Essay. Cited by many as the single most important influence on post modern micro eco compartmentalism‚ it is yet to receive proper recognition for laying the foundations of democracy. The juxtapositioning of Essay with fundamental economic‚ social and political strategic conflict draws criticism from global commercial enterprises
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Descriptive Essay Italy‚ a gorgeous country shaped like a boot‚ is one of the most beautiful places one can visit. I recently vacationed in Italy‚ and never gave my eyes the chance to take a break from the beautiful scenery: from the ongoing gorgeous landscape to the remarkable architecture. My family and I really enjoyed our little time in Italy‚ between visiting our loud and obnoxious extended family to tasting and smelling amazing Italian cuisine. Vacationing in a different country is a remarkable
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