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    was found in 1974 near Hadar‚ Ethiopia (Africa continent). 2. Who discovered the fossil remains that became known as "Lucy"? Donald Johanson‚ an American anthropologist and curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and his graduate student Tom Gray. 3. What other famous anthropologist/paleontologist got into a dispute with the team that discovered "Lucy”? What was the argument about? The other famous was paleoanthropologists Tim White; Johanson and White argue that Afar specimens and Mary

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    for Tom Sawyer‚ the young protagonist of the novel who‚ along with his younger brother Sidney‚ was sent to live in St. Petersburg‚ Missouri‚ after his mother’s death. After hearing no answer to her calls‚ Polly finds Tom eating out of the jam closet. Tom escapes Aunt Polly’s beating by diverting her attention‚ leading Polly into a tirade against Tom’s irreverent ways. During dinner‚ Aunt Polly tries to trick Tom into admitting that he played hooky from school that day to go swimming. But Tom‚ aware

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    “The Devil and Tom Walker” Vocabulary jnjkkkkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj- jjjjjjjjj“The Devil and Tom Walker” Vocabulary jnjkkkkjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj- jjjjjjjjj 1. Abode – a dwelling place; home 2. melancholy – gloomy; sad 3. repose – to rest or relax 4. incantation – a verbal charm or spell recited to produce a magic effect 5. singular – unusual or remarkable; unique 6. daunt – intimate or frighten 7. surmise – to guess 8. resolute

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    Tom Clancy Rainbow Six This book was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in New York‚ USA. Copyright date is 1998. There are 740 pages in this book. Thomas L. Clancy‚ Jr. was born on the 12th of April 1947‚ he is married and lives in Maryland‚ USA. Clancy’s novels can be classified as Military-Techno-Thrillers. He has written fiction and non-fiction books‚ Rainbow Six is a fiction book. As for other titles‚ well there are just to many to list‚ in total 23. Some books that he has written

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    contrast Tom and Huck. Consider why Twain uses Tom in the beginning and the end of the novel. "Tom told me what his plan was‚ and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style‚ and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would‚ and maybe get us all killed besides. So I was satisfied‚ and said we would waltz in on it" (232). Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn details the journey of Huckleberry Finn and a run away slave Jim. Huckleberry Finn’s blind trust in his friend Tom Sawyer’s

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    Report June 9‚ 2014 Introductions Background The dominant thumb experiment is used to observe the correlation between handedness and thumb dominance and whether one inherited trait will always influences another correlated trait. Examples of this experiment of this can be traced back as far as 1908. In this experiment 50 people were asked to clasp their hands and the thumb dominance. Once the hands were clasped‚ one thumb would naturally overlap the other and the handedness of each subject

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    “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving are two very similar yet different stories. Both of these stories talk about the American Dream and how one can want it but be disappointed when one gets it. Tom and Rip both have wives that are turning points in the stories. They both nag so much that it drives them to crazy things. The imagery in these stories gives a real feel for the scenery and how it interacts with the stories. Van Winkle and Tom both get what they wanted

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    The similarities and differences between Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are two novels that focus on the lives of two different young men living in the same town. Both young men are the main characters of each novel. Tom’s character was based much on the life of the author Mark Twain. Both lost their mother at a young age and both were too smart for their own good. The novels are similar

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    In Tom Jones‚ Fielding explores a myriad of characters and situations through the eyes of the main character. These situations expose Fieldings own views on human nature and how it affected society in the eighteenth century. Fielding uses the many characters and their relationships to one another to relate differing qualities of human nature‚ and I will explore those opinions in this paper. Fielding ’s main exploration of human nature is regarding morality in the eighteenth century and how it shaped

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    TOM JONES BY HENRY FIELDING · Tom Jones is represented in the progressing development in his personality. It is sometimes moral‚ misbehave and illegitable boy. · He is not fixed charachter. · End of the novel character has changed ( Tom Jones). In terms of spiritually‚ he has grown. · Major elements of epic are quest and journey. · Romance---Love between Sophia and Tom Jones. · Seriousness and comedy are another issues. He belives in the idea of mixtured. · Henry Fielding represents diversity

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