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    The Dead Sea Scrolls

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    In today’s society, we sometimes find ourselves glued to our cell phones or computers, watching YouTube videos about the “End of Days”, “The Coming Apocalypse”, or “The Rapture”. These videos can be quite appealing in the nature that it’ll leave you feeling either a bit fearful or curious. We also find ourselves intrigued when magazines such as The National Enquirer or Star Magazine write articles revolving around such disaster. Such as, linking the upcoming apocalypse to the Dead Sea Scrolls.…

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    dress, and some fun activities they did! Let's start with the life of the poor! The poor are also peasants. The poor didn't have as many food selections. They didn't eat meat. They ate birds and poultry. Another topic is Clothes. Palm and woven papyrus were the materials used to make sandals for the poor. They weared cheap linen compared to the rich. Let's talk The poors house were only one story of bricks high! Some things both the poor AND rich did were they watched and played…

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    Organizational Behavior is considered a recently developed curriculum. It was introduced as an area of study in the 1970’s. Although, Organizational Behavior may be considered relatively new because it is a multidisciplinary field of study, it is believed its emergence began long before its rise in the 20th century. This paper will trace Organizational Behavior in its antiquity through all its developments to its current state. In order to determine the origin of Organizational Behavior one…

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    X-Rays In Medical Imaging

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    many of them in the process. The quest began to find different ways to read the papyrus scrolls without damaging them any further. Conventional x-rays showed nothing on the scrolls, but a technique similar to a CT, called phase-contrast tomography did. Phase-tomography emits about the same amount of radiation to the rolled up scrolls as a chest x-ray. This technique can distinguish the difference between the papyrus and the charcoal ink. The first attempt made to decipher 24 letters from…

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    Today, in a group I travel to Egypt to set out on finding new discoveries or information about the societies that lived there. When we arrived, there was the Nile River it is an important source for growing crops, and act as a source of water. The Nile River was worshipped as though it was god that provided life for the Egyptians. I learned that the Nile River did cause flood destroying villages and the production of silt would change depending on the amount of floodwater. The areas of Lower…

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    Greek Music

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    is no way of knowing exactly what Greek Music sounded like. All information we have about Greek music comes through the writing of philosophers and scholars, depictions of instruments in Greek art works, and few dozen fragments of stone and papyrus inscribed with musical notation. Like our music today Greek music was mixed or combined with poetry, music, and dancing. Greek music also, played a big role in religion like gospel music plays a big role in religion today. Music was…

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    Sappho Fragment

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    In the fragments of poetry assigned for the class, the poetess Sappho originally wrote on papyrus and not all of its parts survived to our days. In the first fragment, Sappho is asking the goddess Aphrodite to hear and respond to her prayers. Sappho is asking for assistance with the matters of the heart. In another fragment, Sappho is inviting her beloved to come over to a place she is describing so they can spend time together in "festivities and pour the libation." (What is confusing here is…

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    Drug is a substance that is used for diagnosis, cure, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease. It is either a natural product, pharmaceutical preparation or chemical substance. Anti-inflammatory drugs are used for treating inflammation which is characterized by four cardinal signs: redness, pain, swelling and warmth. Most of anti-inflammatory drugs work by inhibiting prostaglandins secretion. Prostaglandins are the chemicals that responsible for promoting inflammation, fever and pain.…

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    The early Egyptian were very much concerned with the afterlife so they invented mummification in which ones body was preserved for the afterlife. They thought that the body should be in its original state and recognizable for one afterlife as they body should be possessed again by the soul of the departed. A proper procedure was introduce for preserving the bodies consisting of two steps embalming and wrapping. In “Embalming” the body was washed with the water of the Nile and a good smelling…

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    What causes diabetes is when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t produce any insulin. Diabetes is an incurable disease. However people with type 2 diabetes most times go into remission. Remission is when all symptoms of diabetes can disappear. That can happen when people exercise daily and eat healthier and they manage to keep a healthy lifestyle. When at the borderline to getting diabetes you can easily prevent it by going to the doctor getting prescribed medicine and changing…

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