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    Magic and ritual are often associated with vengeful gods and bloody sacrifices, possibly due to their representation in book, movies, and other forms of entertainment. One might think that they have no power to bring a community together, other than through fear. However, through the lives of the Trobriand islanders, well observed by the polish anthropologist and ethnographer Bronisław Malinowski, we see that rituals and customs maintained by a powerful connection to magic is a mechanism of social

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    ask, who is good and who is evil? After the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States was eager to learn more about the impacts of nuclear devices on the environment. The United States set up several nuclear bomb tests on the Marshall Islands in which they properly planned for. However one test, code named Operation Castle, went horribly wrong. Scientists involved in the test claim they expected an explosive yield of four to six megatons, but instead a yield of fifteen resulted. For reference

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    John white, a person who not many people are familiar with. This English born man did so many important things in his lifetime, but just never got recognized. Little is known about John during his early years in England; however, used his abilities to upgrade his station in life, contribute to the art world and journey across the ocean during the Age of Discovery. John White was born roughly between 1540-1550 in the English midlands or Cornwall, which is a southwestern peninsula that is surrounded

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    The Mystery Behind the Disappearance of the Roanoke Colonials On August, 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke colony returned to the island of Roanoke to discover that the colonials once inhabiting the land a few years ago, were now gone. All that was left was peaces of iron, armor, and some logs burning in a fire pit. It was 3 years ago when John White was voted to sail back to England, for the English colonists were in need of more supplies, since planting crops wasn’t at the time a

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    Zhou Enlai government in 1949 from the so-called “eleven-dashed line” map drawn unilaterally by Chiang Kai-shek government in 1947” (Nguyen, 2012). The islands was so important to China that they had even go as far as building structures and military base in the area. Accordingly, the area is important to China as “Controlling the many tiny islands is in part a matter of controlling of the wealth assumed to lay beneath the sea in the form of unexploited minerals and oil and gas, not to mention the

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    culture of the Cook Islands came from the various sources of ancient migration, and early land settlement. The islands got its name from a British man named Captain James Cook. He landed on the island in 1773. It was in the 19th century is when missionaries started to come to the islands. They brought with them many sicknesses as well as churches and schools to share the gospel. Through this, the island’s dominate religion is Christianity. In the Cook Islands culture, “all the islands employed a chiefly

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    Endorphina and Betmoin come together for brand new content deal In the world of online casino gaming there is absolutely no room for a software distributor and developer to take a backwards strep. Showing that they are always thinking forward, Endorphina is seemingly moving forward with Betmotion through a brand new working arrangement. This agreement relates to content, as both will now be joining forces to give players the total gambling experience. Speaking on Endorphina specifically, it represents

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    The 2010 Horizon Oil Rig Explosion On April 20th, 2010 an explosion occurred that would be considered one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history. The explosion was cause by a surge of natural gas that made it way to the Horizon rig’s platform that ignited. This caused the rig to capsize and sink, thus breaking risers that were being use to counter act the large amount of pressure from oil and natural gasses (Pallardy, 2015). The explosion killed 11 workers and injured 17 others. The explosion caused

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    Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research, Vietnamese official position regarding its sovereignty claims to the South China Sea islands was first brought about in a White Paper published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974. Like China, Vietnam also insists ownership over all of the Paracel (or Hoang Sa, as people call) and Spratly (Truong Sa) islands based on several factors including 1) historical evidence and 2) economic advantages. Firstly, Vietnam claims that it has actively ruled

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    Bradley Ramsey English 1 Period 5 12/12/2016 You’ve just gotten your college summer job working at the theme park, Joyland. You hear the story of the girl that was murdered there years before, and the murderer was never found. Do you pursue the story or just get your money for college and get back to normal life? Joyland is a crime thriller written by Stephen King. It was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Joyland will keep you in suspense right until the end. Devin

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