...CMatter02.06 1/24/06 10:37 AM Page 8 ChemMystery Real or Fake? The James Ossuary Case By Lois Fruen C SI (criminal scene investigation) is not limited to murder. Recently, a crime team was assembled to examine a controversial and potentially priceless bone box and black stone tablet. Although the bone box may have once held skeletal remains, the team was not interested in DNA or fingerprint evidence. They focused on a grimy buildup, called patina, on the surface and in the inscriptions of the box and tablet. If proven to be fake, the patina could expose a forgery ring that has faked inscriptions on ancient objects found in museums all around the world. The inscription on the bone box claims that it once held the bones of the brother of Jesus, while the tablet reports ancient repairs to Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. Too good to be true? The Israel Antiquities Authority thinks so. But what did the crime team find? Dr. Elizabetta Boaretto at the Weizmann Institute radiocarbon 14 C–dated the tablet, using samples of patina from the inscription. Patina is the coating that builds up on ancient objects over long periods of time. The main component of the patina in the inscription is calcium carbonate (CaCO3), called calcite by geochemists. Calcite contains carbon, which can be 14C tested. Dr. Boaretto reported that the patina dates to 390–200 BC. This makes it tempting to declare the tablet authentic, but 14C dating is not...
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...CHAPTER 1 INRODUCTION Rationale of the Study Philippines is one of the countries in Asia which has the highest incident of poverty and the high percentage of population belongs to poverty line. There were so many reasons why poverty exists and this is due to unbalance resources or unequal distribution of resources, large family size, lack of opportunities for employment, values and norms of Filipinos that leads to a low level of educational attainment, and lacks motivations to one’s self.(Gabutin, 2015) According to a barangay Captain of Barangay Zone 6 in Sta. Barbara, Iloilo, poverty is a condition that is rapidly growing in their place. This barangay has a total land area of 144.049 hectares with 7 sitios or puroks. It provides health services to all its constituency including senior citizens. Based on the barangay data, the total population of this barangay is approximately 3,100, among of these are 524 males and 1, 573 females accordingly. Based on the barangay record there are 756 total number of households in the barangay and 762 are the total numbers of families in the barangay (2013). The same report shows that almost 100 households are earning below Php 5,000. The effect of a high poverty incidents was having a high crime incidents, many of them depends on how the government program’s (like 4P’s) will save them from that situation. According to Tony son of a 4P’s beneficiary. His father use the money intended to support the economic and educational needs of...
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...Arjun Watane, a junior computer science major, is an athlete and pianist with aspirations of becoming a physician. He is also one of just 20 students being recognized with UCF's most significant honor, the Order of Pegasus award. Watane is most comfortable on the UCF tennis courts. He took up tennis when his father put a racket in his hands around age 5. “I played my first tournament when I was 7 years old, and made it all the way to the finals,” Watane said. “My dad was so happy I had made it, he took me to Burger King after the semi-finals. I ate a big meal and drank a lot of Coke. My stomach hurt so bad afterward that I had to forfeit the finals." Through years of practice and participation in tournaments, he was able to draw the attention...
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...Experiencing Bollywood: An Avant-garde Attempt Introduction Bollywood has been characterised for its larger than life plots, elaborate song and dance sequences, melodramatic acting which underpins the Indian social framework. With the advent of globalisation, it has paved way for a wider variety of film genres and has managed to reach out to audiences beyond the Indian diaspora. Constantly pushing the envelope at various junctures, the Bollywood phenomenon has become prominent in the world today. The primary mode in which Bollywood is encountered is through cinemas. Cinema has the unique ability to interact with its audiences with such intimacy and immediacy that gives filmmakers the access to communicate their work, creativity and ideas to the audiences with such ease. It has been a medium where social frameworks and modernity has been successfully transmitted to its audience thus far, standing testament to Bollywood’s popularity. Sprinkling magic dust and constructing fantasy through spectacle, Bollywood has managed to merge the reality with fiction for the audiences’ gaze. Moreover, this sensory experience of ‘watching’ Bollywood movies has managed to dissolve and reconstruct the boundaries of the cinema as a public place of consumption. In so doing, the cinema-going element has defined Bollywood and how audiences experience it – association of cinematic practices and cinematic image. This paper aims to textualize this experience, as observed and understood by...
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...Cameron Ray Professor Barnett SOC M/W 3 P.M. 24 November 2014 Putting On My Social Make-Up Since the day I was born, I was ascribed to take on the gender role of a male. The Norms that males are expected to follow are to be strong, take action, be competitive, have honor, to be a protector/provider, and to be hypermasculant. Males must also restrict their emotions, be self-reliant, be homophobic, and boast about sex. I undoubtedly followed the social structure and norms while growing up which ultimately shaped me to be the person I am today. School is another huge factor in shaping the roles of males, especially in middle school when children are beginning puberty and starting to notice girls. When I was in middle school I was expected to act tough, look/be cool, and to be interested in girls. Since boys are just starting to notice girls, we don’t know what we want so we date girls anywhere from 4 hours all the way to a whole two weeks. I guess I was “the cool kid” because I had a lot of friends, I was good looking, acted tough, and dated girls. As males are just getting becoming comfortable in middle school, they graduate and get sent to high school, which is a total game changer. High school is nothing like middle school. High school expects you to grow out of your immature puberty stage, and grow up and become mature. Males in high school are split up into different social groups such as athletes, who paly sports, the EMO kids who hates life and contemplates death...
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...PRELIM ROUND Given our theme for inertia take 4 it is only fitting that we start off our journey basing and testing your knowledge by putting a new spin on an age old classic KARAN ARJUN. After the immense success of Krish 3, Rakesh Roshan has decided to revisit Karan Arjun and plans on makin a sequel and has already invested an upward of RS 75 crores in the venture. Miraculously Mr. Shah Rukh Khan has agreed to work alongside his alleged archenemy Mr. Salman Khan. The paparazzi have gotten wind of this fact and there was a full-‐page article citing the temporary arrangement and there are a lot of expectations from the film. Old timers are looking at it as a revolution of Indian Cinema in the modern era whereas die-‐hard fans of “The Khans” are looking at it as a duel to finally crown the king of...
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...Case Study Objective- Bisleri International was looking for expansion and that the Company wanted to make a strong foothold in North India, especially in the regions of Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Allahabad and other parts of Northern India. The Company was planning to set up new plants and that wanted to add more franchisees in their list. Strategy - The Strategy was to make probable associates aware about the plans of Bisleri International expansion in Northern India through focused communication strategies and enhance the level of Market Penetration in mentioned locations. Communication – Expansion plans were highlighted in all the communications wherein locations as well as future plans were highlighted which could further attract probable associates. Key Messages – Product Specific New Products (Face spray, Flavored water etc.) in the Portfolio Make bottled water available in every corner of Northern India To invite more associates for Product distribution Strengthen its product reach in Northern India Industry Specific Increasing demand of bottled water has led to rising demand of Bisleri Products To Compete in the market Bisleri now need more Market Penetration Brand Recall in terms of Corporate tieups Target Audience – Investors, Corporate, Associates, Franchisee Owners Proposed PR Plan to Bisleri International PR Tools One-on-one interviews Press Releases Stories Online Media Media Mix Business dailies Vernacular media Wire agencies Target...
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...Nuclear Waste Storage The nuclear waste material is the useless waste material after screening from the nuclear reactor and the process of nuclear fuel production and machining (Michio and Jennifer, 1983). There are three characteristics of nuclear waste material. The first one is it has radioactivity, it can radiates harmful radial and can not use normal physics, chemistry or biology method to eliminate. The second characteristic of nuclear waste material is radiation hazards. It means when the harmful radial from nuclear waste material touch stuffs can make some hazard damage, such as burn people’s skin. The third characteristic is generating heat. After a series of reaction, the nuclear waste material will generate a lot of heat from the inside and makes pollution (Wang, 2009). Therefore, because of those dangers characteristic, how to handling and storage the nuclear waste materials safety and permanently is a serious problem for every country. Scientists from many countries used to think about several ways to storage the nuclear waste materials, and the way to storage is according three types of specificactivity nuclear waste materials, which are high-level wastes, mid- level wastes and low-level wastes. There are two necessary requirements about safety and permanently storage the nuclear waste materials, a sealing container and a safe place. Because of some kinds of high-level wastes have over ten thousand year radiate period, so it is hard to find a sealing container can...
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...CHAPTER 3 COLONIAL HISTORY TRACKED Colonialism trumpeted the cultural superiority and rightness of the White. The European empire is said to have held sway over more than eighty-five percent of the rest of the globe by the time of the First World War, having consolidated power and control over several centuries. One of the ways by which colonialism maintained power was by writing its own histories. These histories were conceived within grand narratives of progress, expansion and enlightenment. Inevitably, they both systematically and accidentally recast, ignored and silenced other competing histories from the places and cultures with which they came into contact. Post - colonial studies has consequently set itself the task of examining and challenging those narratives, developing other ways of telling histories, and re – evaluating other ways of remembering. If post- colonial literature means the interrogation of the subaltern to the “center”, no other book is representative of the post-colonial theory and practice as Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace. The novel won the 2001 Frankfurt e – book Award of fifty thousand dollars Grand Prize for Fiction. Abreast of the contemporary academic debates about colonialism and culture, Ghosh is well-equipped in challenging the institutionalized perspectives...
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...Drashti Shah Dr. Maaz Bin Bilal Rethinking Friendship 28 December 2015 Understanding Krishna and Panchali’s friendship and exploring this relationship through its narrative in the book ‘The Palace of Illusions’ Panchali, the beautiful and the fierce princess of Panchal, the embodiment of feminism, the bold dark-skinned woman born out of fire is the protagonist of The Palace of Illusions. It is a narrative of the greatest war of Indian mythology, Mahabharat from the perspective of Panchali. Unlike most books that view Draupadi as a kritya, a female demon which requires the sacrifice of its own clan, The Palace of Illusions humanizes Draupadi and adds volume to the character by her virtue of integrity, love and forgiveness. Criticized for having a mind of her own in an extremely staunch patriarchal society, Panchali found solace in her Sakha, Krishna. “Perhaps the reason Krishna and I got along so well was that we were both severely dark-skinned. In a society that looked down its patrician nose on anything except milk-and-almond hues, this was considered most unfortunate, especially for a girl.”(Divakaruni, p.8) Panchali and Krishna’s friendship was a rare one and beyond the norms of those times. Chitra Banerjee's beautiful portrayal of Draupadi's relationship with Krishna - a mixture of friendship, sibling love, and that of devotion. Draupadi developed a sense a kinship with Him right from her childhood. Whenever her mind wandered into wilderness or when she sought answers...
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...Mintz, S. W. (1985). Sweetness and power: The place of sugar in modern history. New York, N.Y: Viking. La lectura de los dos capítulos del libro de Mintz "Sweetness and Power", titulados "Production" y "Consumption" son un análisis del azúcar a través de su función mercantil. Es el estudio del azúcar como un producto que necesitó (y así mismo produjo) un conjunto de factores políticos, económicos y sociales para posicionarse de un producto exótico a uno de consumo masivo. En este estudio, el azúcar está en el centro del desarrollo de una sociedad industrial y capitalista a finales del s. XVII en Inglaterra que empieza a cambiar sus hábitos de consumo, transformando desde la esfera familiar, los roles de género, y el papel de la clase trabajadora hasta un comercio interoceánico que probaría ser vital en la formación de un mercado. Así, el autor argumenta que la producción del azúcar, íntimamente relacionada con su consumo, experimenta un desarrollo en las colonias británicas que alimentaron triángulos de intercambio a nivel mundial, y que impusieron una nueva forma de relacionar las plantaciones con la metrópolis. Sobre todo esto está una visión comparativa del azúcar a través de la historia; Mintz enfatiza que el azúcar ha tenido diferentes significados y usos para diferentes grupos sociales, lo que finalmente le brinda una relación estrecha entre producción, consumo y poder. Sydney Mintz es un antropólogo de la Universidad de Columbia, caracterizado por sus trabajos en...
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...Chitra Benarjee Divakaruni’s ‘Palace of Illusions’ is The Mahabharata from feminine point of view. Here Draupadi is depicted as the protagonist of the story and the entire story of Mahabharata is related from her perspective. Her feelings, aspirations, wishes and desires and her mindset and ideology, how she was able to cope up with extra ordinary challenges in her life are the core content and plot line of this novel. We can see the oppression faced by Draupadi at various levels through out the novel. If you want to interpret a social reality, then you have to rise above caste, creed, religion, region, race, sex and other demographic barriers. The first lessons of patriarchy are learnt in the family where the head of the family is a man/ father. Man is considered the head of the family and controls women’s sexuality, labour or production, reproduction and mobility. Society, when it thinks in a man’s perspective, portrays woman subjectively. At the time of MahaBharata, women were subjective to men. Subjectivity that woman is man’s ‘other’ creeps in. Man sees the woman as ‘other’ of himself. Man is not born. He is made. Woman is not born, she is made. The Social construct of a woman is such that she should be sub ordinate to man. The exploitation continues as long as women allow it and subjugate themselves. So, to challenge this portrayal of Woman from a Man’s perspective, Chitra Benarjee Divakaruni has lent voice to Draupadi, making her the central character of the novel...
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... Geographical Segmentation Colgate has cornered significant markets with sales in North America (19%), Latin America (27%), Europe/South Pacific (21%), Greater Asia/ Africa (19% (“Colgate-Palmolive: A Strong International Position¸ 2012). One of the reasons for Colgate-Palmolive’s success globally is its targeting and tailoring the products to specific local regions. The company has identified in its outlook, that there will be “increases in media investments, targeted geographically” (Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference”, 2012). Each year, for example, in one of their largest market, India, the company signs a local celebrity as the local Colgate brand ambassador, this year it is popular Indian actor (“Colgate signs Allu Arjun as brand ambassador”, 2012). Another great indication of their geographically targeted marketing initiatives is the multiple Facebook pages. There are currently 45 Facebook pages for all Colgate brands (“Consumer Analyst Group of New York Conference”, 2012). The company has different Facebook pages for individual products targeted to specific regions. For example, there is “Colgate Max Fresh India, Colgate Turkey, Palmolive for Men Poland, Palmolive Australia” (Facebook.com). There are currently brands of Colgate products that are regionally...
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...Hari Kunzru Literature Resource Center | Ratcliffe, Sophie. "Hari Kunzru." British Writers: Supplement 14. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 12 Mar. 2012.Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1483000135&v=2.1&u=monroecc&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w | Title: Hari Kunzru British Writer ( 1969 - )Author(s): Sophie RatcliffeSource: British Writers: Supplement 14. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009. From Scribner Writers Series.Document Type: Biography, Critical essay[Image Omitted: ]Table of Contents:Biographical EssayFurther ReadingsWorks In 2007, visitors encountering Hari Kunzru's website for the first time might have been a little surprised. Those searching for more information about this British author would have come across an old school photograph of a small boy aged perhaps five or six years old. A few lines of curt white typeface gave a few brief details: his current age, the fact that he was born in London in 1969, and, perhaps surprisingly, his blood group (HbAD) and a hyperlink to his genotype (human). Kunzru is joking, here, about the contemporary thirst for biographical details about writers. As he puts it, nowadays, "British journalists seem more interested in your biography or your publishing deal--the British press is interested in writers, but it isn't interested in writing" (Litt, 2004). The starkly playful nature of Kunzru's 2007 website poked fun both...
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...led to mass-migration of Muslims from Gurgaon to West Pakistan and vice-versa. The biggest refugee camps were established in this town; namely Bhim Nagar Camp, Arjun Nagar Camp. After the bifurcation of the state of Punjab, Gurgaon became an important market hub of Haryana within the old economic setup. (5) This bifurcation stands as an important milestone not only for Haryana’s growth but also particularly for Gurgaon’s journey towards its growth. By 1965, Gurgaon was reacting heavily to its relation to the power centre of Delhi, and the first masterplan was developed. Gurgaon remained a small farming village while neighbouring Delhi emerged as India's political capital. Throughout these slow economic and administrative changes Gurgaon remained an agro-based feudal society, which depended heavily on the land for economic sustenance. (5) Pre-Liberalisation: Till 1971, the growth was slow, with only present city centre showing some development. Since 1970s, the growth started picking up slight pace and the town and the population started expanding outwardly. In the decade of 1970s, the town of Gurgaon has expanded initially juxtaposed to the old colonies of Gurgaon only. The old colonies constituting old Gurgaon were those present next to bus adda i.e., the main bus terminal. These include colonies such as Jacombpura, Arjun Nagar, Bhim Nagar and 4-marllah, 8-marllah initially expanded into the adjoining areas and these newer colonies got the names such as Madanpuri with its gali...
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