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    old flame and entrepreneur Pierce Inverarity. When she is imposed upon to travel to the fictional city of San Narcisco, where Inverarity is said to have numerous real estate holdings, in order to carry out her task, Oedipa stumbles upon a muted post horn; the first of many clues leading her deep into the impenetrable conspiracy

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    Making a Connection in The Crying of Lot 49        For as long as I could read comprehensively, I have always believed that great writing centered around well written stories that would both provide a certain measure of unaffected pleasure, as well as challenge the readers perception of the world at large; both within and outside of the sphere of its prose. Thomas Pynchons' The Crying of Lot 49 encompasses both of those requirements; by enfolding his readers, through a variety of means

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    attention to the intriguing, and absolutely absurd, timeline of the hearing aid. The most common model of the ancestral hearing aid is that of the simple ear trumpet. This was a small, pipe-looking device which was carved from either bull’s horn or seashell, and was held up to the ear in order to amplify sound. The audible result of such would

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    Dumbo octopi are named this due to their ear-like fins reminiscent to that of Walt Disney’s character. They belong to the umbrella octopus family due to the way they look while floating. Their mouth type is very distinctive among other types of octopus because if it’s ability to suck prey in whole instead of having to tear and eat. They measure in at 20 to 30 centimeters. Dumbo octopuses are the deepest living species of octopus; they live right above or on the floor of the ocean at 3000 meters

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    He first glimpsed the sun as it rose above the bell of a French horn. Tuning up for school orchestra, she was attempting a B flat. The result put approximation, echoing throughout the wooden hall. Having felt his levelled gaze, she turned and he beheld the dawn. Embarrassment sent billowing by the temper in furrowed eyes, Her radiant face dazzled the lad who fled through the awkward double doors. Every Thursday morning he would go to see the back of her head, To feel the boundless charm of that

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    The Theatre of the Absurd is a collection of plays written after World War II that were considered of having ridiculous and random ideals. Many of these plays came from Europe, including Rhinoceros by Ionesco. In Rhinoceros, the main character Berenger is a man who is not keeping up with himself and is having a midlife crisis. Everyone else in the town is living a normal life when the townspeople start to turn into rhinoceroses. With his differentness and being so out of place, he is the only one

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    Harp scales and a string passage then follows. There is a brief modulation back to minor, and then the flute repeats the love theme in major, accompanied by pizzicato strings. As the melody crescendos and accelerates, the horn plays a countermelody. Harmonics are heard in the accompanying strings as a legato string melody is played, before the cor anglais returns and plays a gradual diminuendo, ending in a perfect cadence.   The development and recapitulation section

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    Small goats can be picked up by supporting their chest and rump with your arms, watch out for their horns if they decide to swing their heads over. Restraint techniques Goats are topically easy to restrain and can be restrained in multiple different ways. Most can be tied to a solid object with just a halter or a collar with lead. When having them tied

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    I have been in existence for many, many years. I predate the oldest man alive, for as long as any living being can remember my ridged body has stood tall, for longer than even I can recall. I have many children but none are better fit for my near vertical landscape than my favorite creature, the mountain goat. He’s stable strong and sturdy, built for the mountain, virtually a king when to my steep surface, while the goat doesn’t have sharp claws or strong jaws meant to defend themselves from becoming

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    part of you, leaving you to die. Thats whats happening to rhinos. Rhinos are getting poached for their horns, and conservationists are starting to remove their horns, so they don’t get poached in the first place. Rhinos being dehorned is not good thing because poachers still attempt to get the remaining horn, it affects the rhinos long-term wellbeing, and rhino owners who then receive the horns for safekeeping may get robbed. All of these limit a rhino’s survival and social status with other rhinos

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