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    Silk Sarees Essay

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    Everything about Silk and Silk sarees A natural fiber made fabric that is get woven in the textiles to make a perfect fabric or cloth, is Silk, the base fabric of all. Natural silk is the most sober ones and mainly there are 4 types of natural silk that are produced and induced from silk-worms. Among them, mulberry silk is the very well known, commercially. It comes from silk-worms and it is also the most contributed one (around 90%). India is the second largest producer of silk fabric after…

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    Oolong Tea Case Study

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    Tea has been a long time traveler, conquering the world one county at a time, and is known for being one of the healthiest beverages. For over 700 years people have started, as well as ended their day with a nice hot cup of tea; reaping the benefits of its herbal medicinal properties. Did you know that during the time of the Han Dynasty in China, between 202 BC and 220 AD, tea was extremely hard to come by and was only able to be drank by the rich and people from Royal families? It wasn’t until…

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    Qi Tea Case Study

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    Where is Qi Tea from? Qi Tea was originally founded in China by Joe d’Armenia in 1997. The Tea leaves are grown in the well-known Yellow Mountain Regions of China. Who makes Qi Tea? Herbal Health Ltd. What is Fairtrade about? Fairtrade is about making sure all the people involved in making and producing a product are paid what they deserve. When a product is fairtrade certified all the people involved in the final product are paid fairly are probably better off than if the product was…

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    Min Wenshui

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    However, setting the boundaries between different social classes was not always the case. The commoners with outstanding sensual sensitivity and excellent expertise in water tasting and tea drinking could gain lots of respect from the elite class. The story of Min Wenshui was such an example. Min Wenshui was born as a commoner and later residing in the city Nanjing. His reputation spread when local tea drinkers found his expertise in discerning different tea and his skill in innovating new tea,…

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    Wu Lu Beliefs

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    No matter it was Wu Shi or his servant who first created a stoneware teapot that fit the taste of the scholar-officials, the Wu family had played a significant role in the transformation of tea wares occurred in the early-16th century. This transformation not only occurred within the Wu family but also corresponded with the trend of tea consumption in Chinese society. Furthermore, it guided the practice of tea drinking among the elite class to a new direction and generated a new discourse of…

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    Short Story: Mrs. Dubose

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    one day as I was serving lunch to Mrs. Dubose, she grabbed her cane and suddenly got up. She glared at the window by the front porch, her eyes piercing through the window. I immediately turned around and got a glimpse of two children hacking at the camellia bushes. I was horrified! Those flowers were the only thing that I honestly took care off around this house, and these two kids were destroying them. As I stormed towards the porch, Mrs. Dubose commanded me to stop. She wheeled over to her…

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    To show, the novel portrays this theme through the Camellias, when on a rampage Jem destroys the flowers with Scout's baton. As stated on page 137, “He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every Camellia bush Mrs.Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves” (137). The symbol of the Camellias and Jem destroying them help prove the theme that empathy connects to one's coming-of-age because Jem destroys…

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    The Garden of Gatsby Flower imagery is a popular trend in literature. The symbolism and imagery of flowers are greatly important to the themes and characters of The Great Gatsby. Elements of wealth, secrecy, and dying dreams are all represented by flower imagery in this novel. Symbolism of a rose majorly defines Nick Carraway. Daisy says, “I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a – of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn't he?” She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: “An absolute…

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    Sirius Black once said, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” Good and evil oppose the meanings of one another. Often in this world, people describe others by either all the positive qualities or by the negative qualities, forgetting that nothing in the world is perfect or completely imperfect. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, uses numerous themes and symbols throughout the novel; however, none serve a…

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    Caffeine Extraction

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    from tea leaves and using chromatography for testing its purity. Extraction is a method of separating the desired from the undesired substance in a mixture through the solubility properties of the substances. In the experimental extraction, Camellia sinensis was used and extracted with CH2Cl2, 6M NaOH, and NaS04 which yielded 0.0258g or 0.25% caffeine. Water boiling point is 100℃ while caffeine boiling point is 178℃. Extracted caffeine was tested to be pure through a comparison with a pure…

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