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Record Store Day Hits Vegas This next Saturday April 22nd Las Vegas, and every major city in the US will be celebrating the 10th edition of Record Store Day, an initiative started on the U.S. and now turned into a worldwide event. As the means through which we consume our music have shifted over the past decade, record stores have slowly become victims of new media, like MP3 digital files and more recently, streaming services. Back in the year of 2007, independent record store owners and their employees

Pulse of Morning” and Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels”. Angelou gave her speech “On the Pulse of Morning” for Bill Clinton’s Presidential in inauguration. She talks about four different people in one's life: the rock, the river, the tree, and the mastodon. While Dillard writes about the life lessons she learns during an encounter she has with a weasel, in her story “Living Like Weasels”. Dillard and Angelou both mention three different topics in there works, freedom, equality, and achievement and

1) The book, 1491, by Charles C. Mann gives readers a deeper insight into the Americas before the age of Columbus, explaining the development and significance of the peoples who came before us. Moreover, Mann’s thesis is such; the civilizations and tribes that developed the Americas prior to the discovery by Europeans arrived much earlier than first presumed, were far greater in number, and were vastly more sophisticated than we had earlier believed. For instance, Mann writes, regarding the loss

Different societies have different moral codes. Cultural relativism claims that ethics is relative to individuals, groups, cultures and societies. Relativism resists universal moral normal. The moral code of society determines what is right or wrong in that society. There’s no objective standard that can be used to judge one’s society code against another. Its arrogant to judge others cultures. We should always be tolerant of them. Cultural relativism for many people is a response to the complexity

Inquiry 2- The Hunter Gatherer Until around the year of 10 000 BCE all of our ancestors were only hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherers, were people who hunted for all things, in order to survive, ranging from animal meat, their skin, nuts, fruits and much, much more. When the food on their living area became smaller in quantity and out of season, they would move onto different territory. Our ancestors of hunter gatherers were reported to of lived a very successful lifestyle for more than 100 000 years

Mesozoic vertebrates of Texas have received less attention than Paleozoic. In the early 1900s E. C. Case collected and reported amphibians and reptiles found in Triassic sediments along the eastern edge of the High Plains, and Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University has also made important discoveries there. Notable are skeletons of phytosaurs. These aquatic reptiles, up to thirty feet in length, had elongated snouts armed with thick, sharply pointed teeth. Their habits were probably much like

The concept of species going extinct was not always accepted as fact. It wasn’t until the discovery of the American mastodon that the concept of extinction was even considered. With the discovery of the bones, When the bones were discovered, many theories were constructed, such as that the bones were actually from multiple creatures, or that this was simply an undiscovered

provide food throughout the year. Although small animals and young, ill, wounded, or old animals were easier to hunt successfully, hominids quickly mastered the techniques to hunt large mammals, such as bison, rhinoceros, horses, woolly mammoths, and mastodons, to feed more people. To do so, these hunters had to have high levels of cooperation, intelligence, communication, and abstract reasoning, utilizing disguises, ambushes, camouflage, and traps. At first, hominids lived in natural shelters such as

1. Biogeography The Canada Lynx also known as Lynx Canadensis is primarily in Canada, Alaska, and some northern states. There is a very small population in the lower 48, they primarily residing in Maine, but there are some sightings in Washington state, New Hampshire and Vermont. The Canada lynx use to have a range area specifically is Northeast (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York); the Great Lakes (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan); the Northern Rocky Mountains/Cascades (Washington, Oregon,

A Blizzard of Emotion After reading several very different critical readings, “Let it Snow” stood out the most. A story based around the author as a young child and his siblings during a snow day seemed to be a rather strange basis for a story; however, the dark purpose of this story has shed a light on the unnerving reality that sometimes a mother wanted peace a quiet and the only way to achieve it, was to lock her kids out of the house. As the story progresses, it is truly evident that the children