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Sun And Moon Aubrey Holes
1,579 wordsI. On Salisbury Plain in Southern England stands Stonehenge, the most famous of all megalithic sites. Stonehenge is unique among the monuments of the ancient world. Isolated on a windswept plain, built by a people with no written language, Stonehenge challenges our imagination. The impressive stone circle stands near the top of a gently sloping hill on Salisbury Plain about thirty miles from the English Channel. The stones are visible over the hills for a mile or two in every direction. Stonehen...
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Alessi Chad Tender Loving Hunters Rice Edu Nae Docs Makahfag Makah
1,177 words... he loss of our traditional seafood and sea mammal diet. We also believe that the problems troubling our young people stem from lack of discipline and pride. And we hope that resuming whaling will help The only chance of survival for the hundreds of Native American cultures is tradition. Being a people whose histories were recorded orally until only recently in history, tradition is rooted in the memory of the people. In the Makah memory tradition is the whale hunt. To the environmentalist th...
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Dining Room Wooden Table
966 wordsWe pulled into the gravel driveway a punctual half hour before our expected arrival. Great, I thought, an extra hour I would be waste at my grandparents'. Wasn't it good enough that I was spending the entire weekend here? Did we have to get there so soon? When you are thirteen, each minute at your grandparents' is like sitting through an oration of the entire set of the World Book Encyclopedia. Climbing out of the car, my sister and I apathetically walked across the driveway to the brick sidewal...
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Ancient Egypt God Ra
959 wordsEgyptians were loyal to their gods and to their pharaohs who were gods on earth, as established by their enthusiasm to build the pyramids for the safe means of access of their leaders into the next world. Understanding the development and belief system they had with the physical and afterlife, you would have to know a little bit about the location of the area, which the Egyptians began to rise. The villages of ancient Egypt were found all along the Nile. The Egyptians were skillful farmers. They...
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De La Croix Polynesian Tattooing Tattoo
709 wordsPolynesian tattooing existed before the arrival of Europeans in the South Pacific and was the most artistic tattooing in the ancient world. It had evolved over thousands of years throughout the islands of the Pacific and, in its most highly developed forms, was characterized by elaborate geometrical designs which were often added to, renewed, and embellished throughout the life of the individual until they covered the entire body. In beauty and complexity ancient Polynesian tattooing rivals the ...
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Havisham And Estella Pip
761 wordsComparing Character Traits With Pip From Great Comparing Character Traits With Pip From Great Expectations And Odysseus From The Odyssey 1. Thesis: Pip and Odysseus? personalities are evident in more than one aspect. Our hero, Odysseus, not only shows bravery, but also tells lies for a purpose as Pip does too. Pip? s early childhood was spent in an honest moral atmosphere. With the entrance into his new life of outside influences he becomes ashamed of what he is and ambitious to change. 2. Main ...
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Directly Proportional 50 Cm
1,310 wordsPhysics Coursework: - Bridges. Plan. Aim: The aim of this experiment is to find out the amount of sag a bridge of different lengths can cause when under different kinds of tension and mass. Apparatus: To carry out this experiment we will need the following apparatus Weights (In different proportions) A measuring apparatus (Ruler) 1 metre of wood Two wooden blocks. Method: We will assemble the apparatus together and set the pieces up as shown in fig. 1. The two wooden blocks shall act as the supp...
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Los Angeles Salt Lake
1,516 wordsThe Chen family lived on a simple farm in Kansas in the late 1920 s; they grew corn and wheat and made a living off that. A few years past and the Stock market had crashed on Black Tuesday, October 24 th, 1929 (web). The Great Depression was setting in, and the Dustbowl hit in 1935 (Garraty 57) all across the central part of the United States causing dust to be blown everywhere. This prevented all the farmers to grow crops and thus driving them out of business and going poor. The Chen family los...
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House And Miss Social Classes
532 wordsIn the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens there are two main settings which are London and the marshlands. The two settings and different social classes have an impact on Pips life. Pip life would have been drastically different if he had not had gone to these places. Miss Havishams house and Mr. Jaggers house have similar atmospheres. Miss Havishams lived up town as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life ...
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Kool Aid Makes World Go Round Water
426 wordsIt has been said that Kool-Aid makes the world go round. Let it be advised, however, that without the proper tools and directions, the great American beverage is nothing more than an envelope of unsweetened powder. There are five simple steps to create this candy-tasting concoction. Picking the proper packet of flavoring is the first step in making Kool-Aid. Check the grocers shelf for a wide variety, ranging from Mountain Berry Punch to Tropical Blue Hawaiian. If it is a difficult decision for ...
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Attention To Detail Homer
1,270 wordsThe 1873 masterpiece Breezing Up, by Winslow Homer located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is an oil on canvas painting that measures 23 3 / 13 X 38 1 / 6 in... The primary subject of this painting is a man with three boys in a small wooden sail boat that is moving along with what appears to be a fairly choppy sea. At the center of this painting is the stern of the sail boat. The oldest of the boys is sitting on the high end of the stern with his knees up and his bare feet plante...
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Ft Long James B
618 wordsIronclad ships were also a big part in the Civil War, two of the most famous ironclads were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia a. k. a. Merrimack. The Monitor was built on Mar. 9, 1862 at Hamton Rds. VA. by John Ericsson they, for 4 hours the Monitor and the Merrimack battled. The Confederate ironclad was destroyed by its own crew to prevent it from being captured. The Confederates planned to build several ironclads that could challenge and defeat the wooden frigates and gunboats of the union....
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Captain John Smith Virginia Company
601 wordsIn June of 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of London entrepreneurs, the Virginia Company, to establish a English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America. By December, 104 male settlers sailed from London instructed to settle Virginia, and find gold and a water route to the Orient. According to a list published by Captain John Smith, Gentlemen made up about half of the group, whose gentle birth suggests they knew nothing of or thought it their personal duty to tame a ...
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Medieval Times Middle Ages
1,099 wordsCooking in the medieval times was performed on very big scale, and food was cheap and plentiful. Foreign goods had to be bought at the nearest large town. Food trade was a primary business. It was also a way of determining class. The nobles would eat meat, white bread, pastries, and drink wine. This sort of diet caused many health problems, such as skin troubles, digestive disorders, infections from decomposed proteins, scurvy, and tooth decay. A peasant would eat porridge, turnips, dark bread, ...
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Author Unknown Bushido Code
1,653 words&# 9; During Miyamoto Musashi I. Introduction &# 9; During the ancient period of Japan there existed a time of war and power struggles. There were many people who followed the Bushido code or way of the warrior. These people were called samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their lives to the Bushido code there were none greater than Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was one of if not the most famous samurai to ever walk the lands of medieval Japan. He was a legend in his own time. II. The Life and ...
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Tinkerbell Perfume Mothers Lap Father
1,175 wordsMy Closet I sat quietly on the couch next to my father. His short muscular arm extended over my head as if to protect his little girl. His fingers got lost in my strands of hair, as I yanked my head forward as if to signal I did not want him to play with my hair. My new baby doll with big blonde ringlets and skin that smelled like a babys skin after it has just been powdered, rested in my lap. My meek hands stroked the tiny doll as if it were alive. My father knelt down and kissed my forehead as...
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Deep Blue Ceiling Cozy And Special Room
321 wordsMy friend s bedroom, on the second floor, is cozy and special. The shape of her bedroom is semicircular. As you walk into the room, the soft green walls and clean deep blue ceiling make the room seem light thus even cozier than it is. Moreover, you can see lots of stars scattered on the deep blue ceiling and walls. This room seems special, because it is as though you were looking at a real starlike scene. Two semicircular windows on the opposite wall are large by light blue drapes. Her bed is in...
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West Side Set Fire
630 wordsThe legend goes, The cow kicked over a lantern, the lantern set fire to the shed, and the shed set fire to the rest of Chicago. Although, Mrs. Patrick O'Leary swore under oath that she never took a lantern to the shed on the night of Sunday, October 8, 1871, many witnesses verified the ramshackle building on the West Side as the starting point of the fire. In Chicago, it had been a very dry autumn. Furthermore, nearly all the 300, 000 people of the city lived in wooden houses. The fire departmen...
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United States Patent Revolving Firearm Colt
630 wordsThe colt six shooter will always be a legend to Texas. Whether you know it as an accurate, cowboy, Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West, corral gun, or as a little protection, the colt will never be forgotten in Texas. Sam Colt is known as the inventor of the first revolving firearm. Sams mother died when he was six and his father owned a silk mill in Ware, Massachusetts. When Sam Colt was seven, he was fascinated by guns. He took apart his fathers gun in a field and was able to successfully reb...
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Surfers Tend To Stand Face Of The Wave Board
397 wordsSurfing Surfing is a water sport that originated in what is now Hawaii. People in Hawaii were surfing before explorer Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1942. Today, surfing is popular in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Japan, Portugal, Peru, South Africa, and the United States. Ancient Hawaiians surfed on wooden boards that were up to 18 ft. Long. With the development of lighter boards, however, surfing became a popular sport. By the 1930 s the solid...
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