years on Rikers Island. During that time, he endured about two years in solitary confinement, where he attempted to end his life several times. For two years straight, Kalief was not allowed any human contact as he was locked up in a small room with nothing, but a window, and a toilet. In 2013, Kalief Browder was finally released but the mental scars that solitary confinement left him remained and continued to haunt him in the outside world. When this young man entered Rikers island, he was 100% mentally
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Arthur G. Pauli is from Trostberg, Bavaria and is the pioneer of river surfing. He was a good swimmer & was a water sports aficionado. After the terrors brought by World War II, the Golden Age of Surfing occurred in the 1950s, when individuals enjoyed having vacations. Since the nearest ocean was 1000 km away, Pauli thought of the Alz River which was behind their family house. In the summer of 1965, Arthur G. Pauli built his first surfboard. The length of the surfboard was 2,200 meters. It was sourced
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Many people say knowledge is power. Looking around the world this seems like a perfect assumption. Those who do well in school move on to college and eventually have successful jobs. Most would say they will be happy and enjoy their life more. However I find this assumption completely and utterly false. My proof is the Play W;t written by Margaret Edson. This very play highlights no matter how many books you read you can’t possibly know everything. You cannot share a laugh with the written material
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As many may know, penguins in the Antarctic contain a rough life. In between November and February, every 251 Adélie breeding colonies line their nests with pebbles to prepare for their two eggs that they are about to lay. They make their nests slightly higher than the surrounding ground, therefore when the temperature ascends, causing the snow to melt, their breeding grounds do not flood. The male and female parent take equal duties caring for their eggs and chicks. These duties include protecting
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The Plastic Game: ideas • Goal: decrease the consumption of plastic bottles • Principle of the game: Each bottle, when produced, would be given a token, which would follow the way the bottle make from the production to the consumption, ending in the waste disposal. Once bought by a consumer, a system would automatically register this number in a database, as well as the name of the consumer. Once a year, the Plastic Game would take place (one per country). It would globally happen like
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Galápagos Islands: The Galápagos Islands are a small, but unique group of islands in the pacific, approximately 1000km west of South America; the islands were discovered in 1935 by the Spanish. Their volcanic origin should make the islands uninhabitable, but in fact, it’s actually teaming with life on the island. The current between the islands is hot and cold, giving it a good diversity, which means there is a variety in living organisms in that area. Life is everywhere on the islands because the
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an article about it. They said it would be the show of the year. It was now three months ago I came to New York. And nothing had changed. I had auditioned for several parts in all of New York. I had been in Manhattan, Queens, Bronx and even Staten Island. This was my last change. I was in Brooklyn now. Unfortunately with a whole lot of other people too. We were all here for the Oliver Twist role. “Christian Jorgenson” My heart stopped. That was my name that was called over the speakers! I was among
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“The Wife of Bath’s Tale”: The Envy of Youth In “The Prologue of the Wife of Bath’s Tale” experience, power-struggles, and manipulations created knowledge, but eventually after time age had belittled: and the envy of the young arose. The main objective is authority, who is engaged by it, who has acquired it, who is deprived or ruined from it; and how can one acquire it. The wife engages her audience by sharing her experiences. She says, “Experience-and no matter what they say in books-is good
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descriptions of vimanas and reports by people who claim to have seen UFOs, ancient alien theorists have suggested that astronauts from other planets visited India during ancient times. The Moai of Easter Island The Polynesian island of Easter Island is famous for its “maoi”: the 887 giant human figures with enormous heads that guard its coastline. Roughly 500 years old, these monolithic statues stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, but some are twice as tall and much heavier
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Jakarta, 15 November 2010 Current Update of Disasters in Indonesia 1. Disaster events since the beginning of October 2010, ranging from flash floods in the province of Wasior, West Papua in October 4, 2010, earthquake and tsunami in the Mentawai Islands of West Sumatra province on October 25, 2010, when the rehabilitation and reconstruction after earthquake in West Sumatra-30 September 2009 still underway, and the on-going eruption of Mount Merapi in Central Java and Yogyakarta until now. 2. These
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