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    La Brea Tar Pits

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    To avoid this, the saber-tooth and other La Brea predators would spend more time with their prey animal carcasses, eating them more closely even at the risk of tooth damage. It is also known that as the number of humans increased, the number of giant predators decreased

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    Short of just 70 years ago, the United States was detached; segregated into communities of race and color. In the eyes of our modern society, this practice was cruel and inhumane, an example of just how much a culture’s perspective can change in time. Fahrenheit 451, a novel written and published by Ray Bradbury in 1953, focused on the consequences of change in a society through the eyes of Guy Montag. In the fictitious story, Guy serves as one of many firemen in the community; rather than removing

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    Sigmund Brouwer, there are many signs of the theme being perseverance. Josh Ellroy is trying to find out who took his family's prized possession bull worth $150,000 and at the same time play with a bad linemate, well trying to be good enough to make the Sabers. Josh had to show perseverance for finding the bulls, dealing with a bad teammate, and showing the Buffalo Sabres that he is good enough to make the team. Josh was able to solve his problems through perseverance and achieve big things. Josh lives

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    Star Wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxy that is unlike anything modern society could conceive as being authentic. It exists in a time before Earth was even thought of. At the start of the movie, a civil war is occurring between the Rebel Alliance and The Galactic Empire. A leader of the Rebel Alliance, Princess Leia, stole plans from the Galactic Empire (also known as the Imperial forces) for the Death Star. The Death Star was a very heavily armed space station with weapons capable of destroying

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    Week 5 Case Discussion Explain if the “fight-or-flight” response is evident in this case. * In the case with Coleen Colombo and colleagues resisting mortgage fraud there is evident of fight or flight present. When our fight or flight system is activated, we tend to perceive everything in our environment as a possible threat to our survival. By its very nature, the fight or flight system bypasses our rational mind—where our more well thought out beliefs exist—and moves us into "attack" mode.

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    Evolution of Sports This paper is about the evolution of ancient wargames, more specifically, how they evolved into sports. The focus herein will include an explanation regarding the path of how wargames turned into the modern sport of Fencing throughout the period of recorded history, the cultural influences that impacted changes along the way, and the similarities that still remain. ROOT ORIGINS The origin of Fencing can be traced in some manner, all the way back to the prehistoric era. By Fencing

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    “Cultural Dilemma of Native Americans” In the painting created by George Catlin “Assinneboine Chief before and after Civilization” there are concretely distinct and virtually subtle differences between the left and right side of the painting. These differences are to show the substantially different styles and ways of life the Native Americans lived during the Westward Expansion. On the left side of the painting the chief is holding a peace pipe. He is wearing his Native American tribal gear, which

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    Every war, though happens for a reason and bring a better change, is often gruesome. The Civil War broke America in two groups and, at the time, was the war with the most casualties and injured men. As the fight to preserve the Union progressed, so did a number of other areas, such as weaponry and artillery. The advanced technology produced through the Civil War assisted in increasing number of casualties. The North was more fortuitous than the South in multitudinous ways. One of which includes the

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    both be fight scenes but they are practically complete opposites. If we are to strip away the context of each scene and just look at them from strictly a fight choreographer point of view there is some slight similarities in the way they fight. Light sabers are a cooler version of a sword so the zapping of their collins and the clanging of swords is very similar. When the context of the scenes is brought into play, involving the sound track, it is when they begin to differ. Examining the elements of

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    Cody Oberbeck 8th grade english 11/24/15 Battle of Fort Ticonderoga http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/capture-of-fort-ticonderoga http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-ticonderoga-1777.htm http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battledetail.aspx?battle=3 My paper will be on the battle of fort ticonderoga. Why it happened. Where it happened.Who was in control of the army. What happened at the battle and when the battle took place. The battle

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