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    the end times are yet to be accomplished. A pre-tribulation futurist would also believe that the rapture of the Church will occur before the seven year span of time known as the “Tribulation”, the time appointed when God will judge mankind and the earth. This view would line up with a literal

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    Return Threshold Siddhartha tried one more time to go back to the city to look for his son, but the river laughed at him. It symbolizes the

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    scared to death. He fell to the ground and covered his head shoving it in the dirt beneath him. All he heard was a swooshing sound of ash and rock exploding from the side of Mount Saint Helens, an active volcano. He head a deep tumbling and felt the earth shake just seconds ago. He could see nothing. Understand nothing. Just the terrifying thought of death overwhelming him. Charles started to feel a burning sensation covering his back. The winds slowed to a normal speed and he moved his head slowly

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    The films Stage Sisters and Yellow Earth were made twenty years apart in different political climates in China. The films have similarities drawn from policies and ways of thinking that were set in place during the Cultural Revolution and have differences that show the progression filming style and acting post Cultural Revolution thinking. Both Yellow Earth and Two Stage Sisters use oppressed females as the main characters where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could be the solution to provide

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    themselves on earth, and lastly, the Minotaur was conceived out of a bestial union that is against the law of nature and against God as well. Other than the Minotaur, there are creatures found in Canto XII who are also hybrid in nature—they are called Centaurs. Similar to the physical characteristics of the Minotaur, the Centaurs own a human body from head to waist. This implies that despite their hybrid nature, the Centaurs are thinking beings too. Additionally,

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    Beavers: Expert Builders Nature has ways of teaching humans valuable lessons about how to live on Earth. One of nature’s best teachers is the beaver. Although many may see the beaver as a destructive force that threatens livelihoods, the beaver’s determination warrants this mammal’s protection and understanding. The first lesson people learn from beavers is how to be selective. Beavers build only what they need to survive. When selecting materials to use to construct their lodges and dams, beavers

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    documents can help one understand their primary counterparts. The article concerning the Onondaga on the New World Encyclopedia website allow readers to better understand the key details pertaining to the Onondaga tribe presented in “Onandaga: The Earth on Turtle’s Back”. This secondary source provides important background information to the reader, which assists them in understanding the myth. The secondary source, the Onondaga article, enables us to understand why the Onondaga used certain details

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    brought up in Part II make the Round River essays, inserted as the modern edition’s Part III, titled "A Taste for Country," particularly apt, because this is the section of the book that deals primarily with philosophies. It is here that Leopold states that "poor land may be rich country, and vice versa". It is here that Leopold introduces the concept, radical then but widely accepted now, that the planet itself is a living organism and, through the natural cycles of earth, wind, fire and water, continually

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    will cease to exist. This very important resource is rapidly being contaminated with chemical waste and trash. Chemical waste comes from many different sources like factories and ocean vessels. These two examples dump oil and hazardous waste into the earth water resources every single day. Chemical

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    energy, excluding ecological impact. Unlike solar and wind, it requires minimal extraction of metals from the earth and unlike nuclear and fossil fuel it creates no negative byproducts. There are two main typed of hydroelectric dams. One version uses the natural flow of the water to spin a turbine and generate electricity and is significantly less ecologically damaging than its counterpart, the gravity dam. A gravity dam spins a turbine by using gravitational energy to transport water from the top

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