Once a year a society that anthropologists have been studying for years, celebrates a tree ritual on a day in late December, but the preparations begin long before that. At the beginning of that month, there is some sort of “tree-trade” that enters the market. People go into the forest, cut down trees and sell them to other people who buy them for the purpose of placing them in their homes! Each head of the household, usually the father, purchases the tree, straps it onto the roof of his car and
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Penang cuisine is the cuisine of the multicultural society of Penang, Malaysia. Most of these cuisines are sold at road-side stalls, known as "hawker food". Penang has the reputation as being the "food paradise" in the region as it offers a diverse and exotic mix of Malay, Indian, Chinese and western cuisine, which reflects the multicultural mix of the city. It is popular among locals and tourists alike. Local Penangites mostly find these hawker fares cheaper and easier to eat out at any time of the day
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A business or government agency would need to consider a variety of important possibilities and consequences before transferring a hardy but nonindigenous species to another country. From worrying about how the environment around the species would be inevitably affected or the result of other people’s lives based off of this decision to the unforeseen “what-ifs” that lie beneath the surface, there are serious factors that either a business or government agency would need to consider. One of the
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The Smithsonian Museum that I will develop an exhibit in the Cooper Hewitt, Design Museum. I chose this particular museum because the other exhibits represent realism and exotic way towards their art. I can tell that Wes Anderson’s distinctive visual and narrative styles will fit in perfectly, as its symmetrical and unusual shots in his film. You can tell, I chose the American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor Wesley Wales Anderson. What will be included in the exhibit are his
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Not until a July afternoon in 1911 has the Inca city of Machu Picchu been touched since the end of Inca civilization. The city contains ruined homes with walls of “white granite ashlars”. Travel through the vast forests of Peru to find out this mysterious city! You will want to visit the city of Machu Picchu because of its architecture , it is a world renowned archaeological site, and the city is an important cultural site in Latin America. One reason you should visit the city of Machu Picchu is
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“During the silent [film] era, roughly from the turn of the century until about 1930, Chicanas usually served as passive adjuncts to the main action of [a] film…from about 1930 to the end of World War II, Chicana and other United States Latina characters began to move into center screen, but with limited diversity and little depth of characterization” (Cortés 126). In his essay, Chicanas in Film: History of an Image, Carlos E. Cortés defines four broad eras of Chicana women in American film. The
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Maui is called the “Valley Isle of Hawaii” because it derives from the fact that Maui sits between two mountains. To the east is Haleakala and to the west is the Maui mountains. The Maui population is about one hundred forty-thousand people. Maui has many beautiful waterfalls and beaches, but the waterfalls can carry a bacteria called leptospirosis which comes from animal waste seeping into the waterfalls. Maui has Green Sea Turtles which are known as “honu” to the Hawaiians. These majestic sea turtles
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Introduction Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases which can be transmitted from animals to man. Due to frequent contact and domestication of wildlife animals, zoonotic diseases are increasingly becoming more prevalent. Public parks and gardens are home to abundant populations of birds. One of the most frequent species known to thrive in such areas are feral pigeon (Columba livia). Although there are few reports of disease transmission between pigeons and humans, their close interaction
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decisions will result in higher stock prices, and bad decisions will result in lower stock prices. Bond – If the debt has a maturity longer than 10 years it is called a bond and is sold in the capital market. Bonds are generally described using fairly exotic terminology. Capital – Decision-making process of planning and managing a firm’s long-term investments is called capital budgeting. The mix of long-term sources of funds used
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element because it has 8 valence electrons and is completely stable, the only reason elements react is to form a stable octet, since neon has a stable octet, there is no reason for it to react. Although neon is classified as inert, it can form an exotic compound with fluorine under extreme laboratory conditions. While it is not known for sure, some evidence suggests that this compound may be able to form naturally. Neon gas also has the ability to form an unstable hydrate when it reacts with water
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