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    Stephan Badertscher North American Indians Tuesday night 3/30/15 THE BANDOLIER BAG Bandolier bags, also incorrectly called medicine bags, are large pouches with heavy decorations of beads and a slit at the top (Bey, 2004). The beads were to represent the honors given to a worthy man in 1800s and 1900s. The bags were closely identified with the aboriginals of North America in the Great Lakes are and notably the Anishinaabe or Anishinaabeg, in plural which is an autonym, is used by the Odawa, Ojibwa and the Algonquin First Nations in Ontario, Canada and extended down to the natives in Kansas too. These communities speak similar Anishinaabe languages that are part of the Algonquian language family. They all articulate closely related Anishinaabemowin-Anishinaabe linguistics, of the Algonquian language family. The communities are all American- Indian. The bag has its native language nam, aazhooningwa’igan (ag), which literally means "worn across the shoulder". This contributes to the confusion that comes between the medicine bag and the bandolier bag. The difference between the medicine bag and the Bandolier bag is the fact that the wearing styles for both these accessories is different. The medicine bag is worn on shoulder only however the Bandolier bag can be worn on the shoulder or on the front as an apron is similarly worn. These bags were also worn over the neck too or on a horse’s saddle and the number of such bags worn on a person could not be limited by number meaning…

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    It highlights Messalina’s tendency towards adultery and how she manipulated Claudius to achieve her desires with other men. Cassius Dio puts Claudius into an unflattering light, making him appear compliant to Messalina’s wishes and gullible towards her. Dio appears to be critical of both Claudius and Messalina. He mentions another instance of Claudius being manipulated by Messalina by using a freedman, Narcissus, to warn Claudius of the dream he had in which Silanus had murdered Claudius .…

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    Black Sabbath has an album called “Paranoid”. One of the songs on it is called “War Pigs”. “War Pigs” is heavily influenced by Blues and Heavy Metal. The song’s most prevalent instruments are the bass guitar and drums. Blues and Heavy metal music usually contains those instruments. This song is distinctly heavy metal though because it doesn’t contain a piano, like blues or rock. Blues music usually contained solos for certain instruments. “War Pigs” had bass guitar solos. Similar to how Paul…

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    Abortion In Ancient Rome

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    Abortion is nothing new to our society today. It is very well known in the ancient culture as well. Abortion was well known in ancient Greece as well as ancient Rome. In ancient Greece, abortion had started in 322 B.C. by Aristotle but it was also used in Plate as well as the Hippocrates. Ancient Rome was using this procedure in 3 B.C. This procedure was used in Cicero, Dionysius Of Halicarnassus, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny the Elder, Musonius Rufus, Dioscorides, Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, Juvenal,…

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