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When conditions become life-threatening, it is human instinct to fight for survival. For Odysseus and Slavomir, this survival instinct guides their lives and keeps them moving on the path home. While on their separate journeys, they both face insurmountable odds and obstacles. Odysseus and Slav have to carry on with their treks even when their comrades fall into the hands of death. They must rely heavily upon their wits, but they also accept the kindness others they meet along the way. These

Pipeline If the North Dakota pipeline continues to be built, will it have a negative ecological impact? A part of the pipeline is routed to be underneath a part of the Missouri river known as Lake Oahe, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation’s main water supply. If the pipeline were to leak it would contaminated the river and surrounding areas. Pipes will eventually leak; the Dakota Access pipeline should not be built so close to bodies of water of any kind. The pipeline belongs to the Texas-based

The order Falconiformes is less unified than other orders of birds. Specific features of particular groups resulted from similar ways of life, which gives the Falconiformes similar adaptations. Taxonomy systems even divide this order into three orders of Vultures, Raptors and Falconids. The most frequent classification, under which 295 species are divided into 5 families: Cathartidae, Pandionidae, Accipitridae, Sagittariidae and Falconidae. Falconids (Falconidae) includes 61 species from almost all

Acupuncture The traditional Chinese treatment of acupuncture is an affective alternative medicine that has been around for thousands of years. Acupuncture is one of the most researched and documented alternative medicines around (Acupuncture). Although a vast majority of people believe Western medicine is the only cure to sickness, many people benefit from acupuncture everyday. Most people disregard the ancient art all together without giving it a chance because are scared of the needles it

I first noticed the curved shape of the conference room stretching out like the wingspan of a gull. Then I noticed the roof which shone with sun-clad metal tiles resembling fish scales. Getting out of our car, I saw that the building I was looking at was built entirely on sand and suddenly I knew this was no ordinary building. At a TEDx convention in 2015 President of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Will Baker asked,“What if we could build our houses, our schools, our churches, our synagogues, and

Victorian Hypocrisy Sexual repression, a low tolerance for crime, and a social ethic which included respect of privacy and maintaining reputation--these ideological pillars held up the Victorian Era. Along with keeping this ideal, status was of great importance to both men and women, so they strove to create families and ensure they were regarded as respectable members of society. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, shows the antithesis to the Victorian ideal

Understanding Suffering The suffering of man is a very complicated matter that is most likely impossible to understand completely. It is a subject that people have grappled with since the dawn of recorded history. In fact, suffering is evident in every form of art man has created. Suffering is in our paintings, our poetry, our music, our plays, and in anything else that is conceivable. But still, we as a whole still struggle with the idea of suffering. It is my opinion that some individuals may

The Violets by Gwen Harwood was written during the late 1960s and was published in the anthology Selected Poems in 1975. As we know, Harwood’s poems explore philosophical and universal ideas. Harwood herself says “My themes are old ones – of love, memory, experience etc”, all of which are explored in this poem through the use of poetic and language techniques. Literally, the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her, like violets and a blackbird, trigger a memory from

pick on this and starts working towards destroying Othello through his only shortcoming. Iago uses a gamut of devious methods to achieve his means. His use of Roderigo is a masterly move. From being "a Venetian gentleman," Roderigo becomes Iago’s gull. In the very first scene he gets him to confront a sleepy Brabantio and give him the news of his daughters escapades with the Moor. At the end of the court scene in the first act, Iago and Roderigo are left alone with the poor doting lover in great

showing up both occur within the first few pages of the book. On page five, Nick, Gatsby’s friend describes the eggs that gave the villages their names as “a pair of enormous eggs.…” with a shape that “must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.” (Fitzgerald 5). This is an important quote because it directly links