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    Avery Bell Coach Askren Physical Science Honors December 11‚ 2012 The Truth about Anesthesiology Anesthetics have been around for over a hundred years. The first ever recorded use of an anesthetic was during the time of the Incas. Shamans drilled holes in the heads of their patients while holding chewed up cocoa leaves over the patient’s mouth and nose. This ritual was believed to set free your bad spirits through the holes and the cocoa leaves provided you comfort while returning back to

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    Ugly or Beautiful?

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    Ugly or Beautiful? It is well known that beauty and ugliness are opposites. If that is so‚ how can art be ugly and beautiful at the same time? Some pieces of art are ugly to the eyes but beautiful mind. The Venus of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf: 1-3) is an example of such. It is a small figure of a large woman. She has very large breast with skinny little arms rested on top of them. Her breast lay on her even larger stomach‚ which hangs down to just above her pubic area. Her pubic area and

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    The Truth about the Chicken Nugget Have you ever met anyone that hasn’t tried a chicken nugget? Probably not‚ unless you have traveled to a remote part of this planet where the chicken nugget does not exist. The fact is that most humans ate the chicken nugget‚ but they don’t have the slightest clue of who created the concept. That “prototype of the nugget”‚ as stated in “The Father of the Chicken Nugget‚” was created by Robert C. Baker. This article was written by Maryn McKenna‚ “a senior

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    The Truth About Christopher Columbus Millions of people around the world celebrate Columbus Day every October 12. The tale of Christopher Columbus‚ the legendary Genoese explorer and navigator‚ has been retold and rewritten many times. To some‚ he was an intrepid explorer‚ following his instincts to a New World. To others‚ he was a monster‚ a slave trader who unleashed the horrors of the conquest on unsuspecting natives. What are the facts about Christopher Columbus? The Myth of Christopher Columbus

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    Lynda Barry

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    English 101-1203 The essay on page 69 of The Blair Reader entitled: “The Sanctuary of School” was written by Lynda Barry. In this literary work‚ Lynda Barry remembers her Seattle grade school in a racially mixed neighborhood as a nurturing safe haven from her difficult family life. In the following essay‚ we will discuss how through this descriptive and pathetic story‚ Lynda Barry glorifies schools and reveals the importance of public schools by comparing her life at school and her life at home

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    The Truth About Animal Experimentation Millions of animals are used in scientific and medical research‚ including mice‚ rats‚ rabbits‚ primates‚ cats‚ dogs and other animals. They are locked inside cold barren cages in laboratories across the country. Unfortunately all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedures that will be performed on them. More than 100 million animals every year suffer and dies in cruel chemical‚ drug‚ food and cosmetic

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    Lynda Barry

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    Lynda Barry has an amazing and strong connection to her school. Throughout the story she is talking about how meaningful it is to her and how she thinks it’s the only place where she actually gets noticed. In the illustration‚ Barry has a big smile on her face which means she’s happy and it’s showing that the school is Barry’s safe-place and though it’s not her home‚ church‚ or anything like that‚ it makes her happy and she feels like she can count on the people to look out for her. Along with the

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    The Uglies Essay

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    I think that the book The Uglies is very similar to our generation now. In the book you are judged by your appearances‚ teens consider themselves awkward and ugly. They also think that the adults do not understand what they go through as kids‚ and everything is different from when they were that age. This is exactly how our generation is now. The book takes place in the future‚ they have hover boards‚ and their whole life is based around “the operation”‚ but besides all of that there isn’t a huge

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    Barry Strauss

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    In Barry Strauss’‚ “The Trojan War: A New History”‚ he discusses a topic that has been talked about for thousands of years‚ yet is able to bring new interpretations and arguments about it. While Strauss shows that many of the accepted ideas about the Trojan War can be disproved‚ he also fails to support his claims with adequate historical references and analyzes. To begin the book‚ Strauss introduces Helen of Troy. Helen was the wife of King Menelaus and had attracted the attention of the Prince

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    Ugly Essay

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    What is Beauty? The definition of beauty varies with one another. Not one human being in this world can perfectly define the word beauty. The word beauty carries so many explanations that judge each person differently. Who are you to say what the true meaning of beauty is? I believe that everyone in this planet deserves to be called beautiful. Whether it comes from your own parent or a loved one‚ each and every human being deserves the right to be beautiful. When you define something as ‘ugly’ what

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