Archerfish The archerfish is native to the Indo-Pacific region. Commonly found in small rivers and stream across Asia (The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica). They are mostly found in fresh waters and occasionally in brackish salt water. According to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, they can live 5 to 8 years while in captivity but only around 2 in the wild. The archer fish is most commonly known for their ability to shoot land-based insects down using water from their mouths. When the archer fish
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defeating the Native American stereotype. He was looked down upon by fellow Native Americans because of his reading talents. “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike...We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid,” (Alexie). Being intelligent in this example was wrong, wasn’t the normal standard for an Indian boy. Their reservations view was that they couldn’t do better, couldn’t exceed higher expectations. American students should be
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In the humorous book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian which was written by Sherman Alexie there is a boy named Arnold Spirit Junior. He struggles with a lot of things in his life. The things vary from having a father that is a drunk, being poor people dieing, as well as having brain problems and him looking very odd, the biggest one is leaving the reservation high school to go to a school with only rich white kids. Arnold leaving his old high school was a very big deal because almost
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because of many reasons. He deserves to stay on the $20 bill as a symbol of the Era of the Common Man. Some of these reasons include the destruction of the Second Bank of the United States, the prevention of nullification of South Carolina, and the Indian removal act. The Second Bank of the United States was created in 1816. It was the successor of the First Bank of the United States, and it was “America’s premier financial institution,” as stated in the document ‘Old Slickery. Jackson aimed to destroy
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them and made Indians get out of there. The scene reminded me of our discussions in class. When blacks entered the white community, whites began to flee. They regard black
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Prawn Pickle Ingredients: 500 gms shelled, deveined and washed med sized prawns. Around 16 to 20 dry Kashmiri chillies. 1 tablespoon cumin/jeera1 cup malt or cane vinegar( I use Kohlah’s) 1 teaspoon kashmiri mirch powder.1 and a half teaspoons black mustard seeds. Half teaspoon haldi.5 pepper corns.10 cloves of garlic. 1 lemon sized ball of jaggery, crushed. 5 tablespoons of oil. Salt to taste. Method: In a glass bowl soak the dry chillies, jeera, mustard seeds,peppercorns in the vinegar overnight
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The East India Company and Perceptions of Indian Culture Throughout the 16th century, the Indian Ocean was filled with lucrative trade. Incredible amounts of capital and resources were exchanged all throughout the Indian Ocean from the Middle East to the shores of Japan. At the heart of all this trade stood the Indian subcontinent, whose merchants and monarchs accumulated vast amounts of wealth by taking advantage of their geographic position relative to the international market. Although the larger
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Indian Railways customer success story I n dustry • Public Sector BusI n ess Challenge • Providing a seamless and centralized process of purchasing and managing unreserved tickets syBase teCh nology • Adaptive Server® Enterprise • SQL Anywhere® • Replication Server® Key Ben efIts • Minimizes the transaction time of issuance to less than 20 seconds per ticket • Enables advance booking and cancellation of unreserved tickets from
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian concerns Arnold Spirit, Jr. He is a stammering hydrocephaloid living on an Eastern Washington Indian reservation where he endures a daily round of abuse and bullying. This abuse changes when he goes to Reardon High, the nearest “white” high school. His sister is agoraphobic, his parents are alcoholic, and his best friend’s father is abusive to Rowdy, born the same day into the same life. Personally I see this book as Diary of a Wimpy Kid on
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Europeans were able to say that they came to the “American” lands before we did. In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a the Indian Removal Act, which allowed the government to relocate Native Americans from their homelands within established states to lands west of the Mississippi River. This was to accommodate the European-American expansion into the U.S. lands. There were numerous Indian wars during the duration of the American Civil War, which were frequent up until 1890’s. There were still wars, but
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