narrow channel leading into the interior of the body. The arrowhead created a 2-cm-wide hole in the left shoulder blade the arrow punctured a major blood vessel and damaged the neurovascular fascicles of the left arm‚ which would have caused heavy bleeding and possibly paralysis of the arm. The Otzi probably bled to death in a couple of minutes. Otzi was also a victim of whipworm‚ which is a parasite that attacks the intestines. CT scans also revealed that three or four of his right ribs had been
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GEOPACKET SUBSTITUTE essay By Nathaniel lee 22 3/2/2012 In the United States‚ there are good places to live and bad places to live. There are rich cities and poor cities‚ strong cities and weak cities. Cities that need financial aid or ones that are economically comfortable. This same concept applies to other countries and even continents‚ such as Canada and/or Asia. In a continent‚ there are countries that are the best or worst places to live in. In countries‚ they are cities instead
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A Farewell to Arms – Plot Elements In the novel “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway‚ readers are provided with a variety of literary elements. Hemingway used these elements to tell a story of war‚ love‚ and life. Within the novel readers are given a first person narrative of the accounts experienced by Lieutenant Frederic Henry. Hemingway also used setting and characterization to help the story become as real as possible. The following paragraphs will explore Hemingway
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Ithaca Common Council Meeting Ithaca Common Council’s Planning and Economic Development Committee voted 4-1 to circulate an incentive zoning for affordable housing ordinance at City Hall Wednesday. The proposed ordinance provides developers with incentives to build affordable living units. The incentives include elimination of minimum parking requirements‚ density bonuses – which allow developers to build one additional floor in height on certain developments – and exemption from site plan review
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closure? How helpless does one feel‚ attempting to reclaim that stolen treasure? Yet one clings on to desperate hope. One last plea. One last prayer. Don’t let her die. Oh God‚ please don’t let her die. The extract from Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms deals with the plight of a husband dreading his wife’s verdict. His wife has delivered a stillborn child‚ and is fighting for her own life. The protagonist is distressed and escapes to a café to pacify his frets. His anxiety has numbed him so‚ that
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Kurt Anderson Ms. Westmoreland American Literature January 4th‚ 2013 The Themes of Doom and Entrapment in a Farewell to Arms “If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it” (Avanzo 122). This quote applies to the main relationship in A Farewell to Arms between Catherine and Frederic. Frederic is an American ambulance driver in the Italian Army who is serving at the Italian front. Catherine is an American nurse who is stationed in the same location as Frederic‚ nursing the injured
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Summary Brad Manning Arm Wrestling with My Father In reading the essay one can summarize that the overall plot is the relationship between the main character and his father through an unprecedented method. Manning starts out the story when he was younger‚ where he and father would constantly engage in arm wrestling where no matter how much he tried he couldn’t win “Dad would always win”. It also states that his dad was boaster where he took pride in the fact that his son could not beat him. As
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Throughout history many have experienced the debate questioning who has the right to bear arms. This subject can easily affect each individual. The ownership of a fireman symbolizes personal protection. According to Pew Foundation: “seventy-nine percent of male gun owners and eighty percent of female gun owners said that owning a gun made them feel safer” (ProCon.org). There have been several court cases that concerned the second amendment. The Constitution was upheld in most cases; unfortunately
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phaeacian nobles to help him return home? After Odysseus convinced Nausicaa to help him‚ she directed him to go to the palace of Alcinous and meet her father. When he reached the palace he appealed to the king through his wife‚ Queen Arête throwing his arm around her knees and saying: “…….Grant me but this: a speedy passage home‚ For I have suffered long‚ far from my people”. (Homer 7. 155-160). Before the Queen answers him‚ King Alcinous shows him hospitality and good welcome. Odysseus stays among the
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provided hope to the Soviet Union. Although the project was so expensive for the country‚ they succeeded in making an atomic bomb. In 1949 the Soviet Union detonated their first nuclear bomb‚ an aspect that caught the world unaware (Phillips‚ 2010). Arms race The decision by United States to drop nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945
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