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the Emeryville mound. This mound is located in the San Francisco Bay area. More specifically, in the city of Oakland. The Emeryville mound is associated with the Native American Ohlone tribe. There was originally a culture of a half a dozen or more mounds in Shellmound Park (Nelson 1906 p.1). Theses mounds are so important because they are considered the “cultural jackpot”. This is because the Native American tribes who utilized these mounds, not only built their villages on the mounds, but they also…
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constructed. Using only picks made of deer antlers, a ditch. first group, the Windmill Hill people, named after one of their earthworks on Windmill Hill, near Stonehenge, built the large circular furrows and mounds. They had collective burials in large stone-encased tombs. Most of their burial mounds point east-west. Originating in eastern England, they were one of the first semi-nomadic hunting and gathering groups with an agricultural economy, maintaining a strong reverence for circles and symmetry…
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Response Paper 4 In Ancient Greece it was an important part of Greek culture to bury the dead. As seen in the Odyssey, Elpenor, one of Odysseus’ men who fell to his death unnoticed from Circe’s roof, talked to Odysseus in the underworld and asked for a proper burial. Odysseus sailed all the way back to Circe’s island to find his body and give him his burial rights and a grave mound just as Elpenor asked, for fear that his death will become the god’s curse upon him. By going back, this showed the…
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Randall Kenan’s story “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead” is a story about the origins of a town called Tearshirt which is now known as Tim’s Creek and a mound that’s located in the town. The story starts with a slave named Pharaoh and through his set of skills he could convince his master Senator Owen Cross to give him a high position within his plantation. Pharaoh took advantage of his position to learn the land and smuggle weapons to other slaves within the plantation and one day they revolted leaving…
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place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant…
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pitcher is on the mound you can really see the ball more from the batter's box than when the pitcher is just standing on the ground. Another thing that could change is the way that you can’t get as much push off the mound when it is on the ground so you won’t throw as harder of the ground mound them when you throw off an incline mound. Lastly, when you throw a curveball or an offspeed pitch you can't really get the curve on it if you are on the ground mound rather than the mound of dirt where you…
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Fly Ball It was a typical day in the city. It was slightly foggy and pretty cool outside. We pulled into the valet at hotel we are staying at. “Can I get your bags for you?” said the bellhop. “No,” I said. “I just have a backpack. We’re only here for the night.” “Ok well enjoy your stay and go Giants!” I was wearing a jersey and we were coming up for game one of the NLDS game. The Giants were playing the Reds. Whenever it is postseason in San Francisco the place goes crazy. The city…
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Travel Writing: River Town The next morning I caught a taxi north of Yulin, where the Great Wall ran through the desert. Tourists rarely came to see the wall here, because it was unrestored and the northern Shaanxi roads were so bad. There was no mention of the wall in my guidebook, but I had a Chinese map of the province that marked the ruins clearly. The cabbie took me to a big Ming Dynasty fort that stood five miles outside of town, where Yulin's irrigated fields ended and the desert began. From…
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it becomes too weak near the equator, so hurricanes can never form there. Storm surges are frequently the most devastating element of a hurricane. As a hurricane’s winds spiral around and around the storm, they push water into a mound at the storm’s center. This mound of water becomes dangerous when the storm reaches land because it causes flooding along the coast. The water piles up, unable to escape anywhere but on land as the storm carries it landward. A hurricane will cause more storm surge…
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Heather Davis 4 November 4, 2014 Dr. Claudie Massicotte English 1102 This book, Maus, is a great depiction of a nations terrible history. The author of this book is not only connected to this story because it is the story of his fathers, but he is a Jew. To tell of these haunting series of events he had to tell of not only his fathers but also his survival story. Maus is not a haunting book. Maus is a haunted book. “Mickey Mouse is the most miserable ideal ever revealed…. Healthy emotions tell…
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