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A craton is a large, stable portion of Earth's lithosphere that makes up part of a continent.
The Kaapvaal craton in Africa is one of five ancient cratons left from the Precambrian era.
The rock has remained tectonically stable since its
formation 3.6 billion to 2 billion years
ago. What do you think the term "tectonically stable" means? Why do you think this rock
formation is important to understanding the history of Earth? Do you think studying
ancient rock formations such as the Kaapvaal craton can teach scientists not only about
Earth's past but also its

c.) because it’s straight forward and uses the commas correctly

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the hobbit: myths,legends and folktales influence world building and how the motifs of the hero and quest are developed in literature."willing suspension of disbelief" is the evidence and an exercise in which the critical intellect has been changed to uncomplaining.

the hunger games : its a story about a reality show where 24 teenagers must kill one another with spears,rocks,arrows,knives,fire and by hand.“destroying things is much easier than making them.”is the evidence which gives us message that destroying is easier and making something new is extremely difficult.

when connie willis was 12 years old, her mother died. in january of 2003, willis was interviewed for locus magazine. she recognized that death is a major issue in her writing, specially because the vacuous and appalling things that people tend to say in order to support you when someone you loved dies. what really saved willis was reading. books, literature, are not false. poetry tells the truth (as dickinson said: "tell al the truth but tell it slant"). it's not a escape from reality, but a nigromantic experience where whe can talk to people that exist no more. that's the definition that connie willis gives in her novel "passage": «(literature) it's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! ». enrique vila-matas has figured out the esence of literary experience when he said in a lecture that he intends to have his revenge against life (and death), because to write (and to read) is a form of living and a way to remember. i like in that sense the idea of not leting anything human to get lost. i feel fiction and poetry as the shapes of an ancient anger. like in the poem from dylan thomas: «do not go gentle into that good night / rage, rage against the dying of the light».

but there is another aspect that i have learned from connie willis's quote. in his famous work "danubio", the italian writer claudio magris describes literature as house removals. some messages reach us, other messages get lost in the labyrinth. those messages which are our inheritance teach us how to live and how to die, how to love and how to hate, how to laugh and how to cry. i think that tales really shape us if we listen to them. maybe through the stories we read we learn how to emphatize with others, knowing that the bells tolls for every each of us.