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    This extinction event has been dubbed the “Sixth Extinction” by many catastrophists (scientists who study mass extinction events) and is considered to have the disastrous potential to wipe out the majority or all of life on Earth: including humans. One of the reasons why Kolbert was able to effectively convey this message

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    “Graduation Day” illustrates Maya Angelou’s experience on her graduation day. All of Angelou’s feelings, reasoning, and thoughts of her graduation day are depicted between the pages of her short story. Her text covers multiple different aspects of a segregated community’s lifestyle and explains their decisions on coping with their limitations. The power of words impacts the community in several ways during Angelou’s story. Because words impact and shape people, they influence individuals into themselves

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    for them to escape to. This great extinction, though not to the magnitude of the five previous mass extinctions has the potential to rival them. The sixth mass extinction has its origin starting back to roughly 100,000 years known as the Holocene Event (Lawrence, 2011). This is also around the time that humans began to expand out of Africa, and into the Asian and European continents. Leaving there foot prints on the land and the negative effects on the animals they encountered. Lawrence also states

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    Riversleigh Fossil Site

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    The Riversleigh fossil site is a part of the Boodjamulla National Park. The site was World Heritage listed in 1994. The fossil record of Riversleigh's habitats have greatly strengthened our understanding of evolution, origins, and the history of organisms. Many of the most abnormal and phenomenal organisms in the Australian fossil record have been discovered at the site. The sight contained about 30,000 footprints from a stampede involving nearly 200 dinosaurs. It sits on the south-western boundary

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    Holocaust Reflection

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    Films are a powerful outlet to spread information about a specific event that ay have or is going to happen. Directors are given the power to catch the attention of an audience through various different techniques and allow them to demonstrate the point that they are wanting the audience to walk away with. When reviewing the films that were provided for us in this course which included Night and Fog, Son of Saul, and Shoah, I was able to immediately select a scene from each that impacted me in

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    A hero can be classified into multiple different categories, but to me a hero is someone who impacts the lives of others for the better. A hero realizes a problem, and tries their hardest to fix that problem. The heroes in my life are everyone currently trying to fight for equal rights and that are trying to fight to just be accepted by their peers. The heroes in my life are the struggling families who are still trying to climb their way to the top so their family could have a better life. The heroes

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    Unit 1: Antarctica Antarctica is another name for the South Pole. It is also another continent. A long time ago, the pole was close to the equator. That was 500 million years ago. It was once joined to Australia; then all the land on earth started to move. Antarctica moved away from Australia and went south. Dinosaur’s bones were once found at the South Pole. Do you know why? Dinosaurs lived there millions of years ago. This was before it moved away from the equator. About 98% of this continent is

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    Fosh Sponsor Experience

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    As of this moment, I have never actually done a “Science Games,” but I do have a wealth of large-scale event planning knowledge! I was an integral member of the Science Frosh Sponsorship team, especially when it concerned acquiring the funds and equipment for the most successful frosh of 2016. While I do not have any “new” ideas pertaining to Science Games, I have one idea that may make the Hype Night more successful. When it comes to Power Hour, everyone enjoys being covered in beer, but no one

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    various events in this sport, track and field. There are also a number of track events, as well as field events. All events require the use of energy and concentration, especially the use of techniques and with these three elements, one shall succeed. In track and field, it’s mandatory to take note of the stadium due to the various markings. So therefore, track and field is a true athlete’s sport, due to its many components and elements. There are six different track events. Track events vary from

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    The History Of Fossil

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    Fossils are the way scientists trace the way back to things that were once living but have died. They can be plant or animal bodies that have been partially or completely replaced by minerals. Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of living things. Molds and casts, which are two of the more common fossils, are copies of the shapes of ancient organisms. Petrified fossils are remains in which minerals replace all or part of an organism, Preserved, the process preserves the remains of organisms

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