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    Neolithic-Chalcolithic Europe; Tyrolean Alps; Austria/Italy; September 1991, discovery of the Iceman í–tzi among the í–tztal Mountains, dating back to 3000 BC with range starting circa 6000 BC. 1996, Alasdair Whittle wrote Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds which is an general overview of the Iceman and Neolithic according to the ppt. 1994, Barry Cunliffe (ed.) authored Prehistoric Europe: An Illustrated History which is also has coverage of the Neolithic according to the ppt. 1984, Timothy Champion

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    European country thought to be full of luck, but instead it is a country rebuilding its economic identity from a devastating tragedy. This country is a land of kindness, tradition, tenacity, and ineffable beauty. Ireland is the pot of gold in this world with a royal history, a firm government, a reviving economy, a verdurous geography, ancient landmarks, and a wide variety of culture with competitive sports, extraordinary art, many leisure activities, and undying traditions that introduced many well

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    The Oracle Bone, which is usually inscription on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty (Turchin, Adams, and Hall). This had been used until the early period of Zhou Dynasty which was right after Shang Dynasty. It is the representative of one of the earliest Chinse characters. This item was very often used by the royal family of Shang Dynasty to predict whether there would be good or bad fortune coming up in the future. Also, the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells were

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    Have you ever thought of the way humans are devolving?We go to the store. All we need to do is sit in a car and be lazy to go and get really fatty foods that are already butchered, cooked, and served right there. Do you think that humans are completely devolving?Or do you think that there is still some out there that still can live off the land? As a society many people are relying on technology and devolving, except for the mountain men that use things like bows and arrows to live off the land

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    shares a story with his disciples. In his story he talks about two different events from the old testament, Noah's Ark with the world ending with a massive flood, and Lot leaving Sodom, with him turning back to see his wife turn into salt. These two have a few common ideas, they both start with God or any other holy figure warning them that they were going to destroy the place, in Noah's case the world & Lot ; the city of Sodom. The two main of two different stories both obey the command, and take

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    In the modern world, many people believe that being on the defense side means an attorney has prove the client not guilty, but in reality the attorney has to poke holes in the prosecutors side to give doubt in the jury’s mind. Trials of first degree murder happen all the time, but in this prosecution Mr. Heart thought the eye of the old man was an eye of a vulture and it haunted him day and night. Each time Mr. Heart looked at the eye it made he feel more and more coerced to get rid of the eye by

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    poem revolves around a man that lives with an old man that has an eye that the narrator fears. He calls it the vulture eye. He believes that it is evil, so he plans to murder the old man. Edgar Allan Poe expresses the themes of insanity and guilt by using the symbols of the beating heart, the vulture eye, and the lantern throughout the poem. In the poem, the beating heart represents the narrator’s extreme guilt and remorse for the murdering of the old man. After the narrator murders

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    story “Tell Tale Heart”, a fictional story by Edgar Allan Poe, we can see what the narrator is thinking when he plans the murder of the old man. How he peeks at the man every night, looking at his vulture eye. Does that sound normal, how he committed premeditated murder because of the old man’s “vulture” eye? In the end, after dismembering and hiding the limbs of the old man, the cops came to investigate and he revealed his crime. Now it leads the final question, was he guilty or not guilty? The narrator

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    what he had thought to be the old man 's heart, long after his gruesome murder (Kirkland, 13). Poe uses these examples to convey the message that guilt is sometimes too much of a burden on the human heart. In addition to Poe 's theme of guilt to deliver his message, he also uses symbols. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator becomes fascinated in this old man 's eye. He names it the 'vulture eye ' and credits it for his behavior in murdering the old man. A vulture is something that preys on

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    watch, and the heart. The vulture eye in Tell Tale Heart is the focal

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