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    Without doubt, poetry is the most diverse, flexible and philosophically profound branch of creative writing; in fact, this is especially true about modern poetry. Alehouse, an independent literary journal, represents a remarkable example of the modern poetic liberation, providing a collection of short poems exploring different subjects and forms. As most poetry, the Alehouse poems have no plot, no immediate subject; nor do they allow one clear and simple interpretation. Although a poem’s ultimate

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    excellent explanation for a verse that is heavily debated by scholars, that this context is gladiatorial. This indeed makes sense, that the Christians would be sent to an arena to fight to death and those that died, would be awarded a crown, post-humus. Furthermore, if one then places Polycarp’s persecution into consideration with this idea, it seems difficult to deny. Polycarp, a bishop of the Smyrna Church, was taken to an arena, threatened with wild animals and fire in an attempt to make him

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    The omnivore’s dilemma is that we eat everything, but we can’t tell if it's harming or helping our health. After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, I’ve been led to believe that the Sustainable/Local food chain is our solution to this problem. The top three reasons to support this are: It is a shorter food chain, therefore it uses less fossil fuels, there are no chemicals or antibiotics needed, everything is natural and there is not any behind the scenes business. Buying locally helps

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    Investigation Part 3: Composting The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranks methods of handling food waste in the diagram below: Composting is listed as the second least preferred method of reducing the environmental impact of food waste. Nonetheless, it will be explored in this portion of the investigation. Background Information All organic material – such as orange and banana peels and apple cores that come from Stuart’s cafeteria – will eventually decompose, but composting is a human-monitored

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    Joanne K. Rowling is a plagiarist. Here are some facts to consider: Rowling does not have a middle name. My middle name is Ronald, my father's first name. I am the original creator of the Harry Potter stories before the plagiarism of it occurred. J. K. R. was formed by me as my mother's preferred name is Joy. I chose the name Joe as my first author name because my main character was first named after a girl I knew named Joanne. That was in 1980 when she was nine years old. I was 22. I am a Leo, so

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    1. Black soils The principal region of black soils is the Deccan plateau and its periphery extending from 8°45'to 26o north latitude and 68o to 83o45' east longitude. They are formed from Deccan basalt trap rocks and occur in areas under the monsoon climate, mostly of semi-arid and sub-humid types. The overall climate of black soil region may be described as hot and dry summer, 40-100 cm rainfall per annum, mild to moderate winters and annual temperature ranges from 24-30o centigrade, mean maximum

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    Angus Kwan, 18989160 British Columbia: Engulfed in flames Every year, Canada experiences a hotter and drier summer due to the temperature increases in the world. In fact, this past summer has been one of the hottest summers that British Columbia has ever experienced with temperatures rising as high as 30.9 degrees Celsius. With such high temperatures, rainfall had also fallen dramatically. The summer of 2016 had the lowest rainfall ever for Vancouver, Victoria, and Kelowna combined. A total of

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    point of interest for my location 62. 63.The name is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 64. 65. A Satrap is a governor 66. He was a king of Persia 67. 68. 69. Zatar is an herb and is made from combination of ground thyme, oregano and sesame seeds 70. Humus is an organic part of soil and is made by the decomposing of plants 71. 72. 73. They are dark skinned grapes used for red wine 74. They are

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    Importance of Microbiology| in Nursing Agriculture Pharmacy Advertisement Microbiology is a subject dealing with microbes and related concepts. Microbiology has come a long way since discovery of microbes and is presently of great help to mankind. It is used in health care, food production, diagnosis, production of alcohol, maintenance of sterility and cleanliness etc. Though the subject was initially limited to study of microbes and their characteristics or properties, latter it was explored to

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    Dehradun : Dehradun is located in the Doon Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas nestled between two of India 's mightiest rivers - the Ganges on the east and the Yamuna on the west. The Dehradun district has various types of physical geography from Himalayan Mountains to Plains. Raiwala is the lowest point at 315 meters above sea level, and the highest points are within the Tiuni hills, rising to 3700 m above sea level. The Doon valley has the Terai and Bhabar forests within it as well as the

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