Native American Masks
.... members of secret societies .
Throughout rituals, there were two additional types of dancers .
they were called the Fools, and the Grizzly Bears . The Fools and the
Grizzly Bears acted as sort of the police at these events, and were there
to make sure everyone in the audience behaved.
One of the most dramatic Northwestern performances was the Ghost
Dance . This was a reenactment of a visit to the land of the dead . Few
Northwest traditions are still carried on today .
Subarctic and Arctic
Masks were essential to hunting festivals, and healing ceremonies
for the Inuit Indians of the subarctic and arctic regions . The danc .....
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Medieval Weapons
.... 50 pounds, and cost as much as a small farm. Because of the huge cost
many knights would scavenge for armor on the battlefield.
As weapons, such as crossbows and guns, were improved armor slowly
became very ineffective. Bullets would tear through the steel and provide a
hard time to get in side and clean wounds.
SWORDS
The sword was the knight's main weapon. It was considered a
knight's main weapon and was usually designed with a special hilt. One
handed swords usually had two sides and was about 30-40inches long. They
were used with a cut and thrust style of attack. The first blow .....
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Hades
.... dog with a
dragon's tail - or snakes growing out of its back, Cerberus. He will let
you in - but not out. The dead would appear before a panel of three judges,
Rhadamanthus, Minos I, and Aeacus, who then pass judgment. This is to find
if you were worthy or not to be in the underworld.
The Styx was one of the rivers that bounded Hades; there were
actually five: Styx (River of Oath by which the gods swear), Lethe (River
of Forgetfulness), Acheron (River of Woe), Phlegethon (River of Fire), and
Cocytus (River of Lament). By the time Dante wrote his Inferno (1307-1321),
he placed four of the rivers into his depiction of he .....
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Tequila And Agave
.... soap,
tortilla flavoring, a chemical for stunning fish, a vitamin mixture for
livestock, and a chemical to enhance the whiteness of the pulp in paper
making.
Agave is actually a monocot in the Sisal Family, Agavacae. There
are 12 genera and 400 species that make all sorts of products from sisal
hemp (rope like fiber) to medicines and drinks such as tequila and mescal.
They are flowering plants that have rosettes of large succulent leaves and
short spines. Most plants are found in tropical and subtropical regions and
particularly in arid areas.
Tequila is the product of agave we are going to concentrate on the
most .....
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Arches And Vaults In Architecture
.... voussoir is the keystone. The inner edge of the arch is the
intrados; the outer edge, the extrados; and the undersurface, the soffit.
The molded band that often is found around the opening of the arch is the
archivolt. The wall spaces on either side of an arch, or between adjacent
arches, are spandrels. If the space between the arch and the lintel is
filled in, the resulting flat surface is the tympanum. Arches have been
built since prehistoric times. Rude prototypes were made by leaning two
slabs of rock together or by constructing a stepped, or corbeled, arch in
which projecting elements from a wall rise in steps from the .....
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Mummies And Embalming
.... with a mask that looked like the person's
face. Then the mask was wrapped and the entire mummy was coated with resin.
Finally the mummy was placed in a series of coffins and painted with all
king of gods, goddesses, and magic spells. This was put in a stone
sarcophagus and painted with all kinds of scenes about the person's new
life.
Today X-rays are used for studying mummies and doing autopsies. Because of
this, we have been able to learn a lot about this area in Ancient Egypt.
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Hebrew Text And Fonts
.... and print. The
script form of the Hebrew type is equal to the commonly used italic form of the
English typeface. Hebrew print form is a more linear and boxy form of the
hebrew lettering.
The Hebrew fonts and word processing software is easily downloadable to
anyone though access to the internet. These programs are not compatible with
English software but work on their own to allow for the ease of typing and
printing of Hebrew documents. They also allow for communication and access of
the Hebrew language through the internet and e-mail.
Through this new step we see that the written language has taken another
step forw .....
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How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies
.... an
electric mixer.
After combining all the ingredients and mixing them until they are
smooth and creamy, add the chocolate chips. It is up to the baker to decide
what type of chocolate chips should be used. Most people prefer the milk
chocolate ones. Add one six ounce bag to the dough. Stir them in by hand,
and if wanted, add one-half cup of chopped nuts. The dough is now ready to
be baked.
On an ungreased cookie sheet, drop a teaspoon full of dough into
rows. Space them evenly apart so the cookies will not bake together. Now
bake the cookies at 375 degrees in the oven for eight to ten minutes. The
cookies should be golden brow .....
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Halloween
.... Muck Olla
where a parade of people begged for food and the leader wore a mask, which
is how costumes were started.
Halloween didn't become widely celebrated in the United States
until the 1800's when immigrants from Ireland and Scotland came to America.
The immigrants brought their own customs as well as making new customs in
America. In Ireland people lit candles and placed them in turnips as jack-
o-lanterns, but when coming to the new world they found that carving
pumpkins and putting candles in them was a much better way to make a jack-
o-lantern. The original jack-o-lantern came to be when a man named Jack
made a deal wi .....
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A "Full House" In The "Hand" Of Education
.... juxtaposition; red, green, and white
change their shades,according to the contrast to which they are submitted.
And in like manner, the drift and meaning of a branch of knowledge varies
with the company in which it is introduced to the student. If his reading
is confined simply to one subject, certainly it has a tendency to contract
his mind. If it is incorporated with others, it depends on those others as
to the kind of influence which it exerts upon him(40). Teachers also play a
big role in education. They can guide students to choose certain subjects
and evaluate the ones they have chosen, to see if they will benefit from
th .....
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Comparison Between Greek And Islamic Mythology
.... about. It says that Allah is the
only creator of all planets, which include earth. So eventually there is no
other god besides Allah. In which the prophet Mohammed is the only hero in
Islamic mythology because he was the one who spread Islam.
The comparison for these two myth is that there is god and hero in
both myth. But a contrast for these two myth is that Greek mythology has
plenty of gods and goddesses but Islamic mythology has only one god and one
hero, which that one god is Allah and the one hero is Mohammed. In Greek
myth, when gods and goddesses got married and when they had a daughter or a
son, eventually their kids wer .....
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Acient Mathematics
.... all other fractions. For example, the fraction E was
the sum of the fractions 3 and <. Using this system, the Egyptians were
able to solve all problems of arithmetic that involved fractions, as well
as some elementary problems in algebra. In geometry, the Egyptians
calculated the correct areas of triangles, rectangles, and trapezoids and
the volumes of figures such as bricks, cylinders, and pyramids. To find the
area of a circle, the Egyptians used the square on U of the diameter of the
circle, a value of about 3.16—close to the value of the ratio known as pi,
which is about 3.14.
The Babylonian system of numeration was quite .....
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