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    how large a circle appears from a certain point of view. An Annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves to cover the sun, but does not cover it fully. Creating a ring of fire effect! -End that part- Refreshing quote! “If you don’t get an A on the final with all this shit, you’re a dumbass!” `end quote. Random Sky shit: An astronomical unit is around 149,597,871 kilometers. Light distance is 9.4607 × 1012 km, in other words. That’s pretty fucking huge. The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in you stupid shit. It’s around 100k light years big… fuck. The magnitude scale is used to describe how large stars can be. The celestial sphere is the plain in which we see the stars and constellations move. Although the earth rotates from West to East, we see the sky moving from East to West. The idea is that stars are in fixed positions and moving around the pole star, but in reality it is the perspective of an individual based on their location. The Zenith is the point directly above you. The Nadir is the point directly below you. The Horizon is the lowest place you…

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    hogan. When First Man was first created by the Creator and the Holy People (Diyin Diné 'é), he needed a home, which they all worked together to plan. In the construction of the first hogan, the Blessingway ceremony was performed, where the chief hogan songs, one of the two types of hogan songs, were sung. (Wyman 1970, 11-13). In the hogan songs, the five basic foundation poles were built from precious jewels: the east pole (though it was two poles rather than one) was made from white shell, the…

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    Although the indoor trampoline park industry is unregulated, Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park is “safe, healthy, fun” because of its thorough rule system and differentiation from other parks. An indoor trampoline park is a new take on the outdoor “jump centres” that debuted in the 1960s, “located indoors, and have wall to wall trampolines to prevent people falling of the trampolines onto hard surfaces.” (Wikipedia, 2014) Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park first opened in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada…

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    quality. There is also the perception that if something looks expensive must be good quality even when the item itself was of low price and quality. The locations where each item was placed were carefully selected, from lower to high price items. Store X has two big entrances with two handbags poles all located at each side. The low priced home brand handbags were placed at the four front poles, as they are the store focus point of sale for several reasons. The front poles served as an…

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    have a very simply body (The Pantheon Paris, 2009). However, the tops and bases of the columns is what has all of the design and detail. The part of the columns that connects them to the roof of the Pantheon is what gives is the elegant look that it has. While in the same area of the Lakefront Park in Saint Cloud I came across a set of six yellow poles that immediately reminded me of Donald Judd’s sculpture, Untitled, which consists of ten copper boxes evenly spaced by mathematical premise.…

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    perpetrator conflict with Jews and Poles. Of course, the two works aren’t exactly the same and there are some major thematic differences. Perhaps the most striking difference is the difference in the identity politics narrative that can be seen in both works. To begin with the major comparisons between both works, one should probably start at the key plot elements that drives Son of Saul and Maus: the…

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    Polish American Culture

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    family is from and visited family. I know a few Polish words, and hope to learn more. Every year, we have a traditional Polish Christmas time meal on Christmas eve. The meal consists of borscht, a traditional beet soup, pierogi, which are essentially Polish dumplings, a fish, because up until Christmas day they are not allowed to eat red meat. We enjoy watching sports like the Polish do, we like to watch basketball, and swimming. We even do this sports! My family also eats a lot of Polish foods.…

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    must've looked sketched out because my neighbor said, “don’t worry he is the best in the fishing company.” Within minutes we started to head out to sea, the day has begun. While we were on our way out my dad gathered us all together. “Let's make today interesting. We can all put in $20 and if the boys don’t have the money we can spot them. The largest fish of the day wins. It doesn't matter what type of fish it is.” Everyone agreed to the bet. Of course all of us kids had to be covered, but if…

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    The Polish culture is a unique blend of Latin and Byzantine cultures and was further engendered by the numerous European occupations, throughout its history. Polish people are friendly and like to show affection while interact with others. “The word "czesc" is Polish for "hi", however, even an English "hello" is guaranteed to start an avalanche of greetings with faces beaming, all around. The first few minutes of any meeting are spent in greeting each other and shaking hands. Familiarity is…

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    and Rosa were best friends, they were happy before the war stared. They had their own secret language that they would communicate in. They met once they were about 14, Erna met her at her moms’ sewing workshop, Rosa learned the trade of sewing really fast. Erna said that they were sitting talking before the war had erupted. They would only see people walking around that they have not seen.The Russians arrived to Czernowitz 1940; Erna said that the disaster started when the Romanians put up…

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