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Obon-Japanese Cultural HolidayAC0622398
AN 310 Cultural Anthropology
Social Anthropology #8
November 22, 2010
OBON
I am writing my paper on the Japanese cultural holiday “Obon”. Obon is a Japanese Buddhist custom which honors the departed spirits of one’s ancestors. Obon is an abbreviation of the Sanskrit word ...
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The Cigarette Market Case StudyKelsey Thain
Case Study: The Cigarette Market
In this case study I will investigate the tobacco product industry and demonstrate what factors have affected this market, compare and contrast market outcomes and market structures, causes of market failure, and how it has made an impact on the ...
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Aztec ReligionReligion and society
Religion was part of all levels of Aztec society. On the state level, religion was controlled by the Tlatoani and the high priests governing the main temples in the ceremonial precinct of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. This level involved the large monthly festivals and ...
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Life Of A Roman SlaveFor my 12 page paper in ancient history I chose the topic of slavery in Rome. I chose this topic because I am in the Slavery in America class and we briefly discussed this topic in that class as well as this class. For research and a better understanding of this topic, I read two books that ...
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O Pioneers!O Pioneers! Book Review
O Pioneers! Was written by Willa Cather and was first published in 1913 and it is a literary fiction. This book is about all the hardships of living in the planes or even just the hardships and challenges that people had to endure in the life of a pioneer. O Pioneers! ...
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Psychology - AlcoholismImagine yourself at a party with some of your teammates, they have been drinking and they are drunk. They told you they see you later, but what if that was the last time you would ever see them again.
Years ago I was personally at a get-together, at a friend’s house, there was some drinking ...
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Juvenile Curfews, Good or Bad?Juvenile Curfews, Good or Bad?
Our constitution states that all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit to happiness. With the increasing youth crime rate this right is being taken away from young people. In an attempt to lower the crime rate, many cities have implemented teen ...
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Nanjing RapeWhen World War II broke out, on September 1st, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the German Army, there had already been a war going on in China for almost two years. Most know of the war crimes committed by Nazi’s during the war and many know of the war crimes trials that took place once the ...
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Comparing the M-16 and AK-47The great military debate that has existed for decades attributes to which firearm has the better rifle platform, Eugene Stoner’s M-16 or Mikhail Kalishnikov’s AK-47? Both are used extensively by police and military forces around the world. These two weapons platforms have been going head to head ...
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Broken AngelBroken Angel by Francine Pascal Broken Angel by Francine Pascal is a story about Angel Desmond who is at the racetrack and has gambled away all of his money. His girlfriend Tia Ramirez and her friend Conner McDermott are looking for him. They find him at the racetrack and Tia gets very angry with ...
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King Lear“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs”. This quote can be considered to be the foundation of the film “Tragedy of King Lear” directed by Richard Eyre in 1998 where it relates to one of the major themes, nature. It ...
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ClimateIt now takes the Earth one year and six months to regenerate what we use in a year.
We maintain this overshoot by liquidating the Earth's resources. Overshoot is a vastly underestimated threat to human well being and the health of the planet, and one that is not adequately addressed.
By ...
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Summer Road TripIt was a hot and dry summer morning when we packed up the Suburban or as the kids passionately called it “Ms. Burban”. We were on our way to the Seattle, Washington, to pick up my 1968 Firebird convertible that had been in storage since our move from Seattle to Austin. The storage company was ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte's Greatest MistakeThe French invasion of Russia of 1812 was known as Napoleon Bonaparte’s Greatest Mistake. It made French and France’s ally’s armies much smaller and weaker and France lost its dominant place in the continent. France was weakened so much, Prussia and Austria were encouraged to break their alliance ...
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire[TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE]
Our nation has grown to what it is today because we have continued to learn from past mistakes in an effort to grow and be better than ever. Disasters are no exception. In 1911, a disastrous fire in New York City took the lives of 146 people, and could have been prevented ...
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Research About StressI INTRODUCTION
Stress (psychology), an unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that people experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well-being. The word stress means different things to different people. Some people define stress as events ...
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Atomic BombsSome deem this drastic event as necessary, some say it was cruel and ruthless, while others have yet to form an opinion between if it was entirely bad or essential. The atomic bomb, known as Little Boy and Fat Boy, left devastation all over Japan's cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when two U.S. ...
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The AztecsThe Aztecs
The Aztecs are a tribe from Aztlan, which is somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. The Aztecs called themselves Mexica which is a European name for Mexico City and Mexico. The Aztecs were a very strong tribe ruled by fear. The believed in pleasing their gods by sacrificing all ...
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Dystopian LiteratureBoe McAninch
Mrs. Dupont
Language Arts II
4 January 2011
Dystopian Literature
The First trait is the nature of power. " 1. Answer the fire alarm swiftly 2. Start the fire swiftly 3. Burn everything 4. Report back to the firehouse immediately 5. Stand alert for other fires." (Pg. 38) This ...
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Macbeth's AmbitionMacbeth
In Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Shakespeare explores the effect of ambition on a character. Ambition is shown to be a fundamental theme throughout Act one as well as a recurring theme throughout the play. As in the case of tragic dramas, the protagonist, Macbeth, is first recognised as a ...
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