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    If you have never read the Harry Potter series by acclaimed novelist J.K. Rowling, then you are missing out a thrilling story full of adventures and laughter, perfect for all ages (but mainly children). Assuming you’ve read the book at some point in your life (or seen the movie, if you’re one of those people), you would know all about the antagonist-turned-hero Severus Snape. He held one of the most complex storylines, with a single chapter changing the view of almost every reader. “Almost”, as in

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    This is one reason self-sacrifice is important in this epic When all of Odysseus men died he still carried on. He needed to get home with the help of self-sacrifice. If he hadn’t saved his men from the lotus eaters. He saves them from dying to Charybdis. He takes them to the land of the dead to save them. This is the second way he used self-sacrifice. He saves the men from the cyclopes. He saves the men from the from

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    can lead to many things like gastroparesis (stomach muscles overstretched), diabetes. chronic indigestion, nausea vomiting, binge-eating, obesity, and perforations in the stomach (Sine 2). Now, all these things are no good news to these competitive eaters, no competition should put your health at risk. Levin states that eating too much processed meat (like hot dogs) is strongly linked to colorectal cancer (Levin 1). Just consider, if just a little bit of processed meat can cause cancer, imagine someone

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    honeybees are affected by a syndrome, which causes the population of honey bee decrease rapidly in winter. Honey bee undergoes a serious pressure from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which is a mysterious problem. It causes a dead colony occurs with no adult bees or dead bee bodies can with the queen, honey and immature bees still present in the colony. Honey can be found in the hives, but the adult bees are losses from the colonies. The scientific cause for CCD is still undetermined, but the

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    Wind Style Of Odysseus

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    attacked. They do not enjoy the stay in the new land. Odysseus and his subjects escape from the foreign land and end up losing six men in the conflicts through death. They face the challenge of the strong wind before arriving at the land of Lotus-eaters. On arrival they are given the lotus fruits to welcome them to the land. They lose their brains immediately and lose their main agenda and want to do nothing much apart from eating the lotus fruits. Odysseus is forced to drag his men to the ship and

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    The Walking Dead – Fandom The Walking Dead consists of zombies, survival, and morals that are twisted into an awesome storyline that draws its audience into wanting more. If you were a true fan like me then you would know that, the Walking Dead was originally a comic book series that had several successful spin-offs. The T.V. series and the video game taken over the discourse community with its highly successful run of lately. In my research proposal, I will explain where I am doing my research

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    The Hawaiian Island Chain

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    They also killed people if they violated a taboo or sacred place. If two people were fighting and one was dead while the other was very weak, the victor would eat the heart of his opponent because they believed it would give them strength, however, the Hawaiians were not actually cannibals, well most of them. One man they called Chief Man-Eater really was a cannibal, and they are not proud of him (Westervelt, W. D., 1915, p190). Legends are unclear whether he came from another

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    They were Death Eaters—servants of the Dark Lord. Right after them, Harry watched as Severus Snape sneaked up the steps. One on the Death Eaters, Bellatrix, walked up to Draco. “Well done, Draco,” she said. “Good evening, Bellatrix,” said Dumbledore with a grim grin on his face, “I believe introduction is in order.” “Oh, there’s

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    Most fugitive muggle-born, half-blood, and blood-traitors had been picked down one by one. In the beginning, after the battle had been once, they scattered by roaches. It had been easy enough to find various safe-house as they stupidly hid in hordes, clinging together. Sure, one or two would fight, however the others would look on with hopelessness shimmering in their eyes. Not every fugitive was returned to Azkaban. Most of the males were killed simply because they brought more trouble than they

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    lobsters. In this essay, Wallace uses pathos to show to the readers that lobsters are not what people think they are. In paragraph 5, Wallace says: “…lobsters are basically giant sea-insects”, and “it’s true that they are garbagemen of the sea, eaters of

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