Alcatraz Island The island we all know in the San Francisco bay was first explored by a French explorer names Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775." While the exact meaning is still debated‚ Alcatraz is usually defined as meaning "pelican" or "strange bird"(Bop). Instead of being called Alctraces‚ the name conformed and just became known as Alcatraz. The island opened as a federal prison in 1934. It was notorious for being the prison that held most‚ if not all of the United States of America’s most hazardous
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Shutter Island: Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character named Teddy‚ a disturbed inmate imprisoned on Shutter Island. Through the course of the movie it becomes clear that Teddy suffers severely from hallucinations‚ paranoia‚ and extreme memory loss. In his own mind he believes he is visiting Shutter Island as a detective assigned to find a missing patient and is disturbed by the “insane” people on the island – when really‚ he is the most watched‚ and in fact‚ the missing patient. Throughout the film
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Geothermal Energy Being open with the public will move the county and state of Hawaii forward towards the conversion to geothermal energy without repurcutions HILO‚HI-The topic of geothermal energy here on the Big Island has been an on ongoing debate for almost the past two decades. Without personal insight‚ geothermal energy seems to have no negative side to it. “Who wouldn’t want to go green? Isn’t having renewable energy a good thing?” are the type of questions that come to mind when asked
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Roanoke Island: The Lost Colony Alycia Roberts HIST113 VC On July 22‚ 1587‚ long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock‚ 117 hopeful colonists from England landed ashore onto a tiny island along the coast of what is today North Carolina. The group unpacked and founded a settlement‚ Roanoke Island. Then they vanished without a trace. The story of the Lost Colony has fascinated people across four centuries and remains one of the enduring mysteries of early America. There are several theories
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Shutter Island is about a World War II veteran‚ Andrew Laeddis who believes he is a United States marshal. He believe he has been sent to Ashecliffe mental hospital in Shutter Island‚ Boston to investigate a missing patient. Along the way Andrew faces several hardships but those that are most pressing lie in the areas of deviance‚ illness‚ and intelligence. Andrew Laeddis is actually at Ashecliffe because he killed his wife after she drowned their three children in the lake behind their house. He
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Singaporean society‚ this essay discusses the importance of reciprocity and the circulation of gifts for the establishment and maintenance of social relations. The Trobriand Islands - Importance of yam and kinship From adolescence‚ adulthood and finally death‚ reciprocal gift giving is prevalent in the Trobriand Islands. This is exemplified in the way men give gifts of yams while the women give banana leaf bundles and red fiber skirts. According to O’Sullivan et‚ al. (2008)‚ yams are “the most
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In Jared Diamond’s "Twilight at Easter‚" we travel across the mysterious Easter Island as he describes the most intriguing fact about this place: the island consists of monolithic stone statues that had once been found all over the island despite the apparent lack of means to create them or ways of transporting them to their different coastal locations. This central mystery of standing statues had been explored since the earliest recorded European contact by Jacob Rogeveen in 1722. While the mystery
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LORD OF THE FLIES a novel by WILLIAM GOLDING With a biographical and critical note by E. L. Epstein A Perigee Book Published by The Berkley Publishing Group 200 Madison Avenue New York‚ NY 10016 Copyright 1954 by William Golding Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 59-11717 ISBN 0-399-50148-7 Contents 1. The Sound of the Shell page 2. Fire on the Mountain 第 1 页 共 117 页 http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原版英语阅读网 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Huts on the Beach Painted Faces and Long Hair Beast
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Easter Island is one of the most unusual places on the planet. In A Green History of the World Clive Ponting notes‚ “Easter Island is one of the most remote‚ inhabited places on earth. Only some 150 square miles in area‚ it lies in the Pacific Ocean‚ 2‚000 miles off the west coast of South America and 1‚250 miles from the nearest inhabitable land of Pitcairn Island‚” (Ponting‚ 1991). The extreme isolation of Easter Island or Rapa Nui is not the islands most distinguishing feature. The most interesting
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Treasure Island Rob Johnson May‚ 2012 About the Author Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson was born on the 13th of November in the year 1850 in Edinburgh‚ Scotland and died December 3rd‚ 1894 in Vailima‚ Samoa. Stevenson was of Scottish descent and was the only child of Thomas Stevenson. At age six‚ Robert attended his first school and found it hard to fit in
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