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Ain Ghazal’s unique culture centered around its burial procedure, plaster statues, and everyday items. At its peak, Ain Ghazal was inhabited by around 3,000 people. The people of Ain Ghazal buried some of their dead friends and family underneath the floors of their houses, while others were put outside in the surrounding terrain. “Of those who were buried inside, the head was later retrieved and the skull buried in a separate pit below the house’s floor.” In addition to these discoveries,…

from UQAM in Montreal. Guy Laramée is well known for his landscape sculptures carved from vintage books. His artworks are housed in the public collections of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Museum of Art and Design in New York, Acor Library in Amman, Jordan, Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec and numerous private collections. Guy Laramée takes vintage books and transforms them into mind blowing sculptures of landscapes. In his artworks is the theme…

the many outstanding cultures in the world. Within the Amish Culture there are many history, beliefs, and traditions/practices. All which contributes to why culture is so important for a society to live on. The Amish movement was founded by Jacob Amman, a 17th-century citizen of Switzerland. The Amish began immigrating to North America in the early 1700s, first settling in Pennsylvania. Most Amish live in the United Sates and there are now over 250,000 Amish people living in over 28 states. The…

(AGG) In life and the book “Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Staples” refugees are known for having a very tough life filled with pain, suffering and bad experiences. (BS-1) Najmah, as well as real world refugees have horrible experiences no matter what the age. (BS-2) They may see things such as their family or friends being killed, houses being blown up, people being blown up, almost anything bad you can think of happening in the Middle East, refugees most likely have experienced. (BS-3)…

Fly Dubai Dubai Aviation Corporation, under the brand name Fly Dubai is a low-airline fully owned by the Dubai Government with its main hub and flight operation center at Dubai International Airport Terminal 2. Fly Dubai was originally established in July 2008 by the government of Dubai (Flydubai.com (1), 2014). Emirates supported Fly Dubai during the establishment phase, though it is not part of the Emirates Group (Hofmann, 2014). At the Farnborough Air Show on July 14, 2008, Fly Dubai placed…

Life in the refugee camps It’s all about survival they just sit or lay and wait and wait for food and water and medical to show up they are about to die without food and water and medical they need your help all you have to do is donate what you want them to have they don’t care what it is they just want food and water, if they have water it's dirty water but right now they don’t care they are just so thirsty and hungry it’s unreal we need to help them before they die just image all the kids…

Arabic food seems to be one of the dominant markers of Elmaz Abinader‘s identity during childhood as the theme of food is omnipresent in the first part of the story. The role of the Arabic food is a comforting one because the food makes Abinader forget the problems that her differences cause at school. "The smell was hypnotic and mitigated the melancholy I carried home with my lessons to do that night" (3). She tells that on Wednesday her mother cooks several delicious Arabic specialities such…

away from things modern society does, to stay away and shun themselves from society’s standards. The leaders of these Amish communities are the bishops. The bishops set up strict rules of conduct allowed for his district that follow the teachings of Amman, although some bishops are more lenient than others. As you can see, the Amish greatly resist today’s society’s standards just by their way of life and beliefs. Religion is a powerful tool of cultural resistance due to the fact that since it is…

The five competitive forces that shape strategy By Michael E. Porter Structure-conduct-performance (SCP) strategy model is supposed to determine the structure of the market firm behaviour that will determine the performance. This is the model and that are central to the economy of industrial organization, consistent with the view positional strategy, as opposed to the point of considering the existing strategic resources. (Barney, 2007) A Realization of the five forces enables company to grasp…

Zach Chaudoir English 1120 Matthew Goldberg December 1, 2015 What Super Divers Communities Could Learn From Outcast United In the book Outcast United, by Warren St. John, we see how rapid demographic changes in Clarkston led to a vast array of culturally confusing and incendiary moments, but through the establishment of social connection became the training book for working with super diverse communities. The book focuses around an assortment of adolescent refugee boys brought together from an…