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    Anthropology Prehistoric Culture North America Name of Student Name of Instructor Institution Date of Submission Hopewell prehistoric culture remains iconic in the American archeology. Due to USA political expansion into the Ohio Valley in the early nineteenth century, settlers became aware of the myriad of ancient earthworks making the landscape. The Ohio region was inhabited intermittently since the paleothic, with earthworks appearing in the late archaic. After bout 100BC there were

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    Dylan et al, We have developed general arrangement plans for Tollcross Burn and feel we are now in a position to receive some input from your team and our landscape architects. These drawings show the new Tollcross Burn alignment and full extent of daylighting works within Sandyhills Park. We will follow up this issue with a briefing note to outline our design in more detail. In the meantime, here is a quick brief of our approach. The proposals are generally split into three zones: • The downstream

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    I find myself missing the major hints or clues in a book, even if they are right in front of me. Usually, I have to read a book twice to finally understand why the story ended that way. This is the same way with “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor’s. The story is about a family who wants to have a vacation in Florida. The grandmother, who is the focus of the story, wants to go to Tennessee instead. She tries to convince everyone that there is a killer running loose down in Florida;

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    The turtle continued to the edge of the grass, struggled over the embankment, and climbed onto the road. As the turtle crossed, a van quickly swerved to avoid hitting the turtle. Once the turtle got a little farther across, a truck approached and swerved to hit the turtle, flipping it onto it’s back. The turtle again appeared

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    PROJECT-I REPORT: LITERATURE REVIEW IME864: Risk Analysis Fall, 2014, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS USA RISK ASSESSMENT ON DAM SAFETY VAMSI PRASANTH REDDY MADDI, P253G985 Affiliation City, State, Country Email: ABSTRACT Portfolio risk management is a risk-informed approach for improved management of dam safety. It can be used to identify ways to strengthen technical and organizational aspects of a dam safety program. Portfolio risk assessment is a decision support tool, which

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    Since we do not live around the ocean, the beginning of this chapter was a little more difficult to understand because most of the terms used, we do not hear every day. The author discusses tidelands which are the parts of the land that are covered by the daily high and low tides. They can also be thought of as the land between the uplands and the submerged lands. The public trust is the land that has public interest that is up to the high-water mark. Next, the author talks about the interior submerged

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    How would you describe the mood in this passage? (Mood = reader’s feelings) The mood for this passage is peaceful yet the atmosphere that F. Scott Fitzgerald created was dark and very sophisticated. What conclusions can we draw about how people in America were living in the 1920s? The conclusion we can draw about people in America, and their lives during the 1920s, Is that many poor Americans toiled and worked for the rich. Additionally, that in the 1920s there were many farmers and fruiterers

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    Roswell, New Mexico To many people, Roswell is a small, lousy city with not very much to do. To others, Roswell is a great community, the perfect place to retire, to me Roswell is home. Throughout my life, I have traveled to many places. I have been to “Sin City” (Las Vegas, NV), Denver, Colorado, Lubbock, Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico. I love traveling; it’s fun to explore new sights and places. But no matter where I roam, Roswell, New Mexico will always be home. I was born and raised in this quiet

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    soil which helps keep a good riparian zone as the roots hold the soil in place now the roots have been replaced by weeds which have a smaller root system therefore not being as affective in hold the soil in place this has then caused the steep embankments on either side of the river. The fruit bats that were once living there are now gone but this has then meant that this has damaged the feeding relationships in the food web on the Condamine River. This means now that the riparian is not functioning

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    Some of these proposals were carried out, however, there has been some criticism of this plan and whether it is sustainable, as embankments restrict the channel, affect the fishing industry and increase the height of the rivers, and dams are expensive and could lead to debt. The Appropriate Technology Plan suggested, allowing flooding, but controlling extreme flooding, as well as having

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