Title: “Everything is Bigger in Texas‚ Even the Attractions.” Purpose: After listening to my speech‚ the audience will be more educated on Texas’s roadside attractions‚ as well as relate to the sites I will discuss in my presentation. Thesis: We Texans know that our states attractions stand out more than all the other states‚ because Texas is the only place where you can have a 72-ounce steak in Amarillo‚ tour a museum filled with decorative toilet seats in San Antonio‚ and feed a beer-drinking
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in the area. Besides building these ceremonial mounds‚ the Mississippians were known for making pottery by the coil method. Clay soil found along creek banks in this area made excellent clay soil for pottery. Tattooing with bone needles and an antler striker was also very common. Ochre pigment and/or black carbon pigment was used to create many facial designs on the Mississippians. Also‚ several archaic spear points were found. Finally‚ I climbed up Monks Mound. It was incredible how far you
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The slasher sub genre is near and dear to my bloody heart. From Michael to Jason to Ghostface and all those wackos in between‚ the slasher has kept afraid of alleys‚ lakes and one time hookups for close to forty years. You could make an argument that the slasher is lifeblood of the entire horror genre. Fanning that flame is writer/director Benjamin R. Moody’s (his wife Rachel produces) Last Girl Standing but Last Girl Standing‚ is not your typical fanfare. While it is a "slasher"‚ the film leans
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earth. * Atna’- large plank house. * Gwich’in- portable‚ dome shaped caribou or moose skin tents. (summertime) Tools and Technologies * Used stone implements for cutting and processing wood‚ skins and for making tools out of bone and antlers. * Distinctive for their use of bark. Ex. Containers‚ roofs‚ vessels‚ bowls‚ and canoes. * They are masters of making and setting snares and deadfalls for capturing animals‚ from birds to bears. Transportation * Birch Bark Canoes
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Other than the Haida and Sioux the Inuit have different art. The materials used by the Inuit are soapstone‚ivory‚walrus tusks‚caribou antlers‚ and whale bones. The transportation for the Inuit are not like the Haida and Sioux. The transportation for the Inuit are dog sleds. Tools are different compared to the Haida and Sioux. The Inuit use bows and arrows‚harpoon heads‚ and knives made
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Off to the trails! Kawasaki Heavy Industries have been manufacturing motorcycles‚ Jet Skis‚ ATVs and heavy machinery vehicles since the late nineteen-sixties. They have long been known for producing good quality products‚ and Kawasaki attempts an appeal to the average outdoorsman in this magazine advertisement. The promise they make is alluring‚ but it is highly exaggerated. Speaking of the appeal to escape‚ Fowles writes‚ “Freedom is the pitch here‚ the freedom that every individual yearns for
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similarities in their material culture such as harpoon heads that were found by Larsen and Rainey. “Additional specimens of apparent typological affinity were recovered from some of the midden deposits. Among the assemblage were 15 ivory‚ bone‚ or antler harpoon heads‚ some of which resembled those of Ipiutak‚ with lashing slots‚ gouged line holes‚ and armed with sideblades or insert tips of chipped stone.” (Dumond 2000: 2) these artifacts came from one of the burials at Point Hope which were not
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only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. The rest were shock-headed‚ but Piggy’s hair still lay in wisps over his head as though baldness was his natural state and this imperfect covering would soon god‚ like velvet on a young stag’s antlers.” (Golding 64). Piggy is‚ “shorter than the fair boy and very fat.” (Golding 7). Piggy’s asthma held him back from many activities. “My auntie told me not to run‚ on account to my asthma. That’s right. Can’t catch my breath.” (Golding 9). “I can’t
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With his new powers‚ he decides to travel to spread his fame. He goes to Rome and plays tricks on the pope by making himself invisible and stealing food. Faustus also travels to courts of Europe and the court of the German Emperor where he made antlers sprout on the head of a knight when he scoffs at Faustus’s powers while impressing Charles V the emperor. Faustus then continues on with his trickery and plays a trick on a horse trader by selling him a horse that turns into a heap of straw when ridden
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for Flesh”. These three terms show the monstrosity of the soldiers‚ and criticises their thirst for killing. He shows us his feelings of hatred and despair towards them. There is also a register of predatory weapons‚ such as “teeth‚ claws‚ talons‚ antlers”. This portrays him as an animal in two ways‚ one is for his savageness in being so determined to kill‚ but also in that‚ animals use their bare limbs for killing‚ and so does he (arms to operate guns and to use bayonets). Anthem for Doomed Youth
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