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Lake Mead is at a record low as of this past Tuesday,The bureau reported Lake Mead's elevation at 1,074.98. But the elevation went back up to 1,075 since 2 a.m. (Mst. Mountain time) the current "straws" take water from 1,050 feet and 1,000 feet. At the moment, Lake Mead is around 1,075 feet which means the first "straw" is only about 25 feet from sucking air in. For Las Vegas, the record made clearer the need for a nearly $1.5 billion project to tap deeper into Lake Mead. The Southern Nevada Water

In “Warfare: An Invention,” Mead talks about the invention of war, and how it is completely unnecessary. She uses examples of different civilizations such as the Eskimos, the Pygmies, and the Pueblo Indians to show us the differences between cultures who do/do not condone warfare. Mead also uses other models to justify her claim, such as the concepts of marriage and fire. “And yet even such universals as marriage and the use of fire are inventions like the rest, very basic ones, inventions which

Alice Mead published Year of No Rain on May 8, 2003.She wrote a book about three friends; Stephen,Wol, and Jairo, She made wrote about them going through hunger and thirst in their village and they can’t attend school because the village’s school due to the civil war between the northern soldiers and the southern soldiers,when the bombs exploded Stephen's Mother told him and his two other friends to run away so they won't be captured by the enemy soldiers.They’re on a journey and they all have to

Attribute theory is a theory of culture that arose in the late nineteenth century that describes culture “as a set of stable and knowable attributes” (Yon, 2000a, 8). This view of culture suggests that culture is a “complex whole” of these particular attributes: “beliefs, morals, customs, capabilities, and habits that people acquire as members of society (Yon, 2000a, 8). Overall, attribute theory depicts culture as “coherent and predictable” and this means that there are noticeable “patterns of culture”

of what is expected to be able to fit into the category of what is known as successful. For this reason the people you think of being successful are those who are the most well-known and wealthy; those we classify as celebrities or famous. Margaret Mead says, "For many Americans, the concept of success is a source of confusion. As a people, we Americans greatly prize success. We are taught to celebrate and admire the one who gets the highest grades, the one voted

In the book ¨The Year Of No Rain¨ Alice Mead and the message in the book is to respect everything in life and to not take advantage of anything. Although, Many people take advantage of things in life. But not in the article, Is There Any Hope for Peace in South Sudan? they have to respect everything. To support this,“UBA, South Sudan — they have hunkered in a schoolyard with nothing to do and nowhere else to go, dozens of people battling hunger, swarms of mosquitoes — and fear.” This quote is saying

Reviving Ophelia Dr. Pipher remembers her cousin Polly as a young girl. She describes her as energy in motion. A tomboy, Polly dances, plays sports with the neighborhood boys, and rides horses. Once Polly enters adolescence, however, other children begin teasing her about her tomboyish ways and insist that she be more ladylike. The boys exclude her from their activities, and the girls isolate her because she is different. Polly becomes confused and withdrawn. Later, Polly begins wearing

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is based on the biblical story of Joseph, who was born in Canaan, or ancient Israel. In the musical version, he is listed as the last of the sons of Jacob. His brothers are jealous of Joseph and when they were in the fields, they beat him up and sold him into slavery to a group of Ishmaelites. The Ishmaelites take Joseph to Egypt, where he first serves the house of Potiphar, one of the richest men in Egypt. He is accused of attacking Potiphar’s Wife and

As Grendel and The Captain struggle more with the concept of good and evil, it seems apparent they choose the easier path, evil, which nearly soothes both of their fears of rejection, isolation and alienation. While they both want to be good people, they have already strayed too far from the road and toward malice to turn back.. While it seems their decision to pursue violence and deception is cut in stone, it is far from it. This is seen in Grendel's constant change of mind between preserving and

It was almost instant. A blink. A flash of light. A momentary glance away and suddenly, without warning, he appeared once more in the icy, cold snow; as if nothing had changed, his sinful eyes still shimmering with hostility. Hansel stood, his body stiff, a shadow hovering over his sister in protection. The creature sat motionless, merely a few feet away, fur raised and back arched He straightened his form before slowly letting out a raspy whisper, “You know I don’t like it when you run, -” his