Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small‚ cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion‚ territory. Demure Shy and reserved. Denouement The resolution of a mystery. Desuetude Disuse. Desultory Slow‚ sluggish. Diaphanous Filmy
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Every society has a mold. If a person cannot fit into that mold‚ they cannot conform to that society‚ which leaves them as an individual. Society can be a detriment to one’s individuality by casting them aside and portraying them as an evil. If not accepted into society‚ an individual may have no choice but to fight against the society by acting out‚ however‚ an individual is only one person and one person cannot do much against a society of many. In “Harrison Bergeron”‚ Harrison is an outcast
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Bath Salts Since synthetic drugs have become a common theme in the news I wanted to look more into “bath salts” otherwise known as synthetic cathinones. The questions I was pondering were: what exactly do these “bath salts” do‚ how is this latest development in drug abuse affecting the brain and how can you treat someone on these dangerous chemicals? I used Google Scholar to research my topic. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Minnesota+Bath+Salts&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C24&as_sdtp=
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In this research paper‚ I am going to talk about many different subtopics surrounding the human eye‚ such as how an eye works and some of the diseases and conditions that affect someone’s vision. I also want to find out if myopia (near-sightedness) disappears by adulthood‚ considering my brother has just been diagnosed with it. Plus‚ I am curious to see if there is some type of cure for blindness‚ considering how many people it must affect. First‚ let me explain how the human eyeball works! The
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Movies come out every year and not one will every film critic will agree if a movies is good or not. Even from the 1972 film The Godfather‚ which is considered by most the best film of all time‚ but even The Godfather will get a negative review. For me though‚ the 1999 film American Beauty is a perfect film‚ that won best picture at the Oscars that year‚ and for most critics gave it positive reviews but it did get negative reviews but why is that? By comparing three negative reviews of the movie
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slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were millions of elephants in the world in both Africa and India‚ but today because of the hunting for ivory‚ there are barely any of these giants left in the wild. Throughout history Europeans have been moving in on central African states to make money out of ivory found on the tusk of elephants. Ivory is often used to make piano keys‚ knives
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“I was going to tell you we haven’t found Bane yet. I think he either made good his escape and is now a violent desperado on the run—if so‚ we’ll capture him—or he’s come to some kind of woe in the canyon.” I envisioned a brave-hearted sheriff in tinkling spurs bumping a tumbleweed out of his way with his rifle as he snatched the masked bandit Bane up by the bootstraps. “Aunt Emma wouldn’t press charges on Mr. Shaw‚” Chizelmen continued. “She just sent him away and told him never to return. Anyway
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conquest for ivory‚ (intertwined with greed and lust)‚ drove their race into complete madness‚ which is most evidently exemplified by Kurtz. Kurtz represents a typical European male of the 20th century who had a craving for ivory and sacrificed everything for it‚ including stripping himself of all humanly morals by killing and brainwashing (i.e. colonizing) the inhabitants of the Congo‚ in order to fulfill his as well as other Europeans’ desires for ivory. Kurtz’s uncontrollable need for ivory had the
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The African Elephant is the largest land mammal today. He has huge ears. The African Elephant is from the one of Asia. The African Elephant has 3 nails on its hind legs while the element Asian elephant owns 4 .The elephant trunk of Africa has two appendages instead of one for the one from Asia. African elephants live south of the Sahara‚ in savannas and forests and sometimes in semi- desert regions. Asian elephants live in Southeast Asia and India and prefer forests dense. Asian elephants are intelligent
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The slaves dream The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland‚ Maine in 1807‚ he became a national literary figure by the 1850s‚ and a world-famous personality by the time of his death in 1882. He was a traveler‚ a linguist‚ and a romantic who identified with the great traditions of European literature and thought. At the same time‚ he was rooted in American life and history‚ which
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