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    Green Corn Ceremony

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    Description: The Green Corn Ceremony, or as the traders have taken to calling it, “Busk”, is a ceremony that occurs in late August. They seem to celebrate the beginning of the yearly corn harvest, starting off by giving what the call a “First fruits” rite, in which they sacrifice the first of the corn they get to ensure that the rest would flourish. At the start of the celebration all offenses seem to be forgiven except for the ones that are punished with execution or exile. They start with…

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    relatively quickly, Eyck’s oil paint dried much slower and allowed for small but effective textures and details to be incorporated. Furthermore, Van Eyck used a magnifying glass in order to paint the smallest of the features like the highlights of beads and skin. Another benefit of using oil paint was that, as the paint dried, Eyck used more wet paint and blended colors to make small changes and hint three dimensional objects. This all led to a beautiful scene that depicts Giovanni Arnolfini…

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    them than it was to covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland.” These gulls did not have the same difficulty as the men in the dingey, they even give the men a hard time in the boat.” Often they came very close and stared at the men with black bead-like eyes.” However, the birds are not the only ones scrutinizing the crew, a shark also visits the boat. “Neither knew they had bequeathed to the cook the company of another shark, or perhaps the same shark.” The sharks spokes a few men and…

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    Those that stayed behind staged a mock funeral on October 6, 1967, which they named, “Death of a Hippie.” The ceremony was to signal the end of a played out scene. A funeral procession carried a coffin containing beads, bells, flowers and other hippie symbols was carried from Buena Vista Hill down the length of Haight Street Mary Kasper, who helped organized the mock funeral, explained “We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, don't come out. Stay where you are! Bring the revolution to…

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    Royalty Racing Pig

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    students have to predict the possibility of a plastic pig landing in certain positions. After playing several round, students constructed a third line plot that compared their scores. Then, Groth modified the game by allowing the students to attach a bead to the pigs’ side. This made it more likely that the pig would land in positions that would increase the students’ scores. Students played several rounds like this and noticed that the scores did indeed increase. They created one last line plot…

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    Color Visual & Invisible Uniform 1. The color visual system is a major component of a human because it helps us interpret between the color, depth, size, and shape of an object. In asking to create a synthetic or artificial color visual system you would first need to create an eyeball that could mend its size to the person’s eye socket. Thus theoretically making an artificial retina in the process of making the eyeball. This would have to take the creation of artificial photoreceptors as well…

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    Cathedral Of Norte Dame

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    Reading and Watching: VT 13 & 14 Highlights: During these two units of architecture and Paleolithic Art, I have come across several highlights that will give one an idea of what each unit was about. In the video, “Cathedral of Norte Dame” by Khan Academy, explains how it was the oldest church in its era. It possessed a relic, which is an object that holds special powers, for example in this case, the supposedly Virgin Mary’s tunic. People would travel great distances to see the relic and be…

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    citihair.com.au - Different Methods for Hair Extensions Installation Hair extensions provide you with additional style options beyond what your natural hair allows, and that is why they are so highly popular today. Before opting to have them as part of your hairstyle, you should learn about the various methods for hair extensions installation. Each method has its own unique approach, as you will learn in the information that we present here. First, we will briefly explain the attachment methods…

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    Skeleton Key Sparknotes

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    characters, and some times doesn’t use very much. An example when he uses lots of detail is when he wrote, “She too was casually dressed, in a loose-fitting skirt and blouse, with a brightly colored bag dangling from her shoulder and a loose string of beads around her neck. She wasn’t wearing any makeup. She was slim, with brown, frizzy hair tumbling down her shoulders. She looked more like a schoolteacher that a CIA agent.” An example when he used little detail was when he wrote, “The policeman…

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    3.7. Equilibrium isotherms Langmuir isotherm proposed by Langmuir, (1918) with some limitations Dąbrowski, (2001) expressed as: (4) Where qm (mg g–1) is the maximum amount of the metal ion per unit weight of adsorbent, ‘qe’ is equilibrium adsorption capacity (mg g–1), ‘Ce’ is the equilibrium concentration of the adsorbate (mg L–1), and b is a constant which reveals the affinity of binding sites (L mg-1). From the plots between (Ce/qe ) and Ce the slope (1/qm ) and the intercept…

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