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    Has anyone wondered why climate is in flux? Who is the major culprit behind this extreme climate changes? “Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius was the first scientist to assert that heightened concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to global warming in 1896.” As global warming is the greatest environmental challenge today, we should be aware that it is actually “a gradual rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.” Global warming

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    This semester I attended the Washed Ashore Sculpture Exhibit. It is located on the campus of Iowa State University in the Reiman Gardens. This event is related to Humanities because exhibit houses many art sculptures made of trash. The trash is plastics and other house hold items that have washed ashore in Oregon and Northern California. The purpose of the exhibit is to raise awareness to the damages of plastic to the environment, what plastic can do to animals and ecosystems, demonstrate how nonbiodegradable

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    and industrial settings that cause pollution and climate change. The smoke coming from the factory in the poster is shaped like a hurricane; a foreshadowing of what will be a result of global warming in the future. In the second poster, a waddle of penguins is portrayed traveling across a dry desert, which was used to interest an audience focused on the effects of global warming on the environment and animals. While the first poster’s image focused on the cause of global warming, this poster focuses

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    of Gotham (the city). He is also a wingman of Salviatore Maroni, who is a mob boss in Gotham. Lastly, he is a spy for Carmine Falcone, who is the head of the Gotham City mobs and the underworld boss. Oswald Cobblepot, nicknamed The Penguin, because of his “penguin style” walking, is at first a timid sycophant who uses his devious plans to manipulate others to achieve goals for Fish Mooney and eventually Carmine Falcone. He has high intellect and is adept at manipulating others with the resources

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    The Ghost of Hamlet Essay

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    The Ghost of the previous Danish king in Hamlet is a potent element that causes Prince Hamlet variety of reactions toward the world around him and the unexpected killer, King Claudius. Besides, the ghost is the tool of knowledge that lights Hamlet's heart with the love of insisting on searching the credibility of the crime. The Ghost of Hamlet's father commanded his son to do the act of revenge from his uncle the King of Denmark the killer of his father and the husband of his mother. Hamlet has been

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    Fight Club Masculinity

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    The normative understanding of masculinity ceases to change in part due to its impervious representation in films. The entertainment industry conveys normative ideas on masculinity to the public through films in often obvious and sometimes subtle ways that creates a singular mainstream view on what the ideal man is. Films such as Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher, portray masculinity in a seemingly unique artistic way, but in the end the cultural philosophies on gender remain the same

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    axe beside him. In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day! Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single

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    wingless midge, Belgic Antarctica, there are however a great many animals that feed in the sea though come onto the land for part or most of their lives, these include huge numbers of adelie, chinstrap, Gentoo, king, emperor, rockhopper and macaroni penguins. Third, the south pole has never had any native people living there. No one set eyes on Antarctica until 1820, the first human foot stepped ashore a year or two later and it was 1898 before people stayed ashore for a whole year. Other than temporary

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    stepped into too soon to help a student. I was helping out in a kindergarten class and the teacher gave the instructions to cut out the outline of a penguin. The boy in kindergarten asked me to help him hold the paper while he used his scissors to cut. So I did just that, I helped turn the paper so he could cut on the lines. Once he finished cutting his penguin out the EA in the room pulled me aside and said “as I

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    Essay about Liberation Theology

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    Liberation Theology I see [liberation theology] as a 'theology of the people,' rather than of professional theologians; rising out of the cries of the oppressed; refined in the experience of those who may not even be able to read and write; clarified in thousands of base communities; embodied in lives that risk everything to be faithful to the good news that God hears their cry, sides with them in their distress, and works with them for liberation- a liberation in which they play a central role

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