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    My Unusual Vacation

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    My Unusual Vacation After a year’s savings and many months of planning‚ it was finally time for my vacation. Travelling has always been my passion because by the age of 17‚ I had already been to exotic places like India‚ Jamaica‚ Ethiopia‚ Australia‚ and Malaysia. So when a friend of mine suggested that we go to Durban I was very excited because of the fun recreational activities‚ the beautiful scenery in a pleasant location‚ and the economical lodging available South Africa turned to be different

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    A Most Unusual Day

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    27th March The title still considered to my same friend wrote another essay but not so long this time. "A Most Unusual Day" happened in a cold country but there’s no information about the place where happened when I read the essay. But I think it is a good essay‚ it describe the coldness in the country and the boringness during the winter. Enjoy yourself. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I woke up groggily‚ my whole

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    Unusual Genes or Toxins

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    Intracellular Parasite Unusual genes or toxins • Poxvirus is one of the largest viruses that contain several subfamilies such as cowpox‚ monkeypox‚ vaccinae‚ orf and molluscum to name a few with smallpox being the most endemic of all •Poxvirdae is one of the largest viruses and one that is a human pathogen that is deadly and was an epidemic that haunts medical professionals to this day • Smallpox virion consists of approximately 187‚000 nueclotides which makes it one of the largest viruses

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    Capital Punishment

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    Over the past century capital punishment has been a very controversial issue. Sentencing people to death does not always sit well with the general public. People that are opposed to the death penalty claim that is does not deter people from committing murder‚ that it is cruel and unusual punishment‚ that it is unethical‚ and that the justice system is flawed and can sometimes result in sentencing innocent people to death. These seem like good arguments on the surface‚ however once expanded upon they

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    Factory Farming: Cruel or Not? Have you ever thought about where your food‚ mainly meat‚ milk‚ and eggs in this particular case‚ comes from? To keep up with the abundant demand for food in today’s world people are always looking for ways to better supply that demand. Factory farming is a farm where animals are raised on a large scale using intensive methods and modern equipment. This method is cruel to animals for many reasons‚ such as very small living space‚ poor diet‚ numerous forms of abuse

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    A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Memory This report describes a woman‚ AJ‚ who claims to have exceptional‚ automatic and uncontrollable autobiographical memory. When she was eight years old her parents made a move to the west coast which AJ claims was traumatizing to her and caused her to want to organize her memories from back east. That’s when she started keeping a diary. At age 12‚ she realized she had a great detailed memory. By age 14‚ her recall became automatic. Despite her abilities

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    Capital Punishment

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    Capital Punishment Capital punishment‚ also known as the death penalty‚ is the toughest form of punishment enforced today in the United States. According to the online Webster dictionary‚ capital punishment is defined as “the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime‚ often called a capital offence or a capital crime” (1). In those jurisdictions that practice capital punishment‚ its use is usually restricted to a small number of criminal offences‚ principally

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    Slavery as a Cruel Institution Cruelty can be defined as an inhumane action done to an individual or group of people that causes either physical or mental harm. Slavery‚ at its very core‚ was a cruel and inhumane institution. From the idea behind it to the way that it was enforced‚ it degraded the lives of human beings and forbade the basic liberties that every man deserves under the Constitution of the United States. Three major areas where cruelty was especially prevalent were in the slaves working

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    New and unusual situations often affect a person’s behaviour. In Lord of the Flies‚ the boys’ situation was that they were marooned on a remote island without any parental guidance. In the beginning‚ Jack Merridew says “[he] agree[s] with Ralph. [They’ve] got to have rules and obey them. After all‚ [they’re] not savages” (Golding 42) which shows that during the boys’ settlement on the island‚ they believed that rules would help them be good civilians while surviving on the island‚ however that did

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    Capital Punishment that was shown in “A Hanging”. The article “Field Punishment Number One” shows us one of the many methods that were used throughout the 1930’s for Capital Punishment. In this article it talks about the Field Punishment Number One which as stated in the article “involves the offender being attached to a fixed object for up to two hours a day and for a period up to three months” (Simkin 6-7). The 1930s is known as one of the worst decades in american history for Capital Punishment which

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