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Disturbance (archaeology), any change to an archaeological site due to events after the site was laid down Disturbance (ecology), a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem
Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.
In the United States, prosecutions for breach of the peace are subject to constitutional constraints. In Terminiello v.City of Chicago (1949), the United States Supreme Court held that an ordinance of the City of Chicago that banned speech which "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates a disturbance" was unconstitutional under the First ...
Tyrannical governments, natural disasters, crime, violence, poverty—mix these ingredients and you get a hopeless society where people don't live, they just exist.Sounds like a nightmare, right?
A week later, I caught up with former colleagues who shared updates about their lives — the 60-hour workweeks, the missed family dinners, the pride in their ability to “push through” exhaustion.
The 911 call came in at about 4 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2014, to Gilchrist County dispatchers in Florida. On the tape, the 911 operator could hear a man admitting to killing his adult daughter and his ...
[35] the first sentence from his seminal essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature". Science fiction historian Darrell Schweitzer has stated, "In the simplest sense, a horror story is one that scares us" and "the true horror story requires a sense of evil, not in necessarily in a theological sense; but the menaces must be truly menacing, life ...
The Herald first computed the 85th percentile — the figure below which 85% of the sentences fell — and then re-coded all the sentences above that value as that figure.