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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God tracks the life of protagonist Janie Crawford. Told in Janie's first-person narration, the novel reveals themes of gender roles and relationships.

¶ … Art Analysis -- Walter Anderson's Crabs

In the early days of Ufology, researchers appeared too eager to verify sightings, which they then interpreted as evidence of 'nuts and bolts' spacecraft piloted by intelligent EBEs. Like numerous deities and other extraterrestrial visitors, EBEs are generally held to be concerned about human conduct. This concern was widely reported in the spate of UFO sightings after the Second World War and the beginnings of the nuclear age. Sensationalist reports merging with Hollywood fantasy led to a distancing of orthodox science from Ufology. Explanations offered by Ufologists frequently ignored Occam's razor, which is a rule against multiplying entities or - in general terms - a rule which says don't involve extraordinary hypotheses until the ordinary ones have been eliminated. The apparent resistance to falsification also contributed to Ufology's lack of credibility. However, modern Ufologists, such as Jenny Randles and Paul Fuller of the British Unidentified Flying Object Research Association (BUFORA), are strict adherents to Popperian-inspired scientific methodology, enthusiastically seeking to falsify EBE explanations and providing explanations which are acceptable to orthodox scientific opinion. In this respect the modern Ufologist is a debunker rather than a myth-spinning believer. Explanations in terms of atmospheric phenomena, hallucinations or hoaxes are generally expected from BUFORA publications. Over the years the BUFORA standpoint has been vindicated. So much 'confirmatory' evidence has been demonstrably unreliable. Photographs, which were once considered as hard evidence, are now held to have zero credibility because of the likelihood of fakes. With the advent of sophisticated image-manipulation computers whose work is undetectable, photographs unsupported by other reliable confirmatory evidence are unacceptable. Eye witness reports are also problematic as they are frequently influenced by psychological and cultural factors.

Death Penalty as Justified Murder - an Ineffective Method of Crime Prevention

An Argument for Christian Environmental Responsibility

The cultural hero is an individual who embodies the values of his culture in an idealized fashion. He is tested by fire, figuratively and often literally. His mettle must be proved again and again, and every test is…

¶ … world's oldest, largest and deepest lakes, Lake Baikal in Siberia hosts an incredible array of endemic plants and animals. Created more than 25 million years ago, Lake Baikal remains geologically active today.

Pair bonding is the fundamental process that influences evolutionary selection in monogamously inclined species. As such its importance cannot be understated in any evolutionary model.

Addressing flooding from the standpoint of climate change is important, but it is not the only issue. There are also floods caused by deforestation and the damming of rivers and streams. In order to protect the environment, mankind must do more to combat flooding caused by changes to the environment.

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