More than 6 000 participants "occupied" the European carnival capital Pernik during the masquerade festival "Surva" that took place from Feb. 1 to Feb. 3 . For three days the people forgot about their everyday lives and became a part of a centuries old tradition . The celebrations in Pernik, whose purpose is to keep alive a long-lasting cultural heritage, occurred in 1966. Although the tradition of kukekrstvo comes from the long gone pagan times, this tradition is inseparable part of the Bulgarian
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Nitendo Situation: Under Armour is an innovative company that makes performance athletic gear, ranging from underwear to camouflage hunting wear. The majority of Under Armour apparel is made of the company’s moisture-wicking and heat dispersing fabrics, which help keep moisture away from the athlete during athletic training, exercise, and performance. Under Armour products are available through internet sales, catalog sales, and retail stores both nationwide and internationally.
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Fiction (1994), a spate of films have aimed to replicate its jazzy, frantic style, its knowing self-referentiality with their own representations of unshakably hip mobsters and icy killers. Most of these aspirants were swiftly dismissed as ineffective wannabes, offering nothing new but a relentless chain of pop culture references and unexpected violent episodes. It’s something of a relief, then, that Guy Ritchie’s Snatch works so well – it is so good, that it seems an appropriate epitaph, the high note
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Adolescent development in Mean Girls The movie Mean Girls is filled with characters that are easy to relate with, quotable lines, and a hilarious but realistic plot line. One other major thing that the movie has is concepts of the development that occurs during late adolescences including social, emotional, and cognitive development. Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady that is attending a public high school for the first time after being home schooled in Africa for all of her life. She knows
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Headnote This two-part exploratory study utilized a social cognitive theory framework in documenting gender portrayals in teen movies and investigating the influence of exposure to these images on gender-based beliefs about friendships, social aggression, and roles of women in society. First, a content analysis of gender portrayals in teen movies was conducted, revealing that female characters are more likely to be portrayed as socially aggressive than male characters. Second, college students were
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00 Do you ever look at a completely messy room? A room that your mother would describe as a bomb site. You know you have to do something about it, but in that moment, it seems like your room is destined to be forever messy. There’s no end in sight. When you think about it you can’t find the start either. That is my world. The world which is home to a group of misfit antiheroes: the Renegades. It’s a mess. To those of us inhabiting this world we cannot find our start or our end. I suppose this is
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MADONNA: The reign of the queen of pop The music industry is full of one hit wonders and brief careers. Pop stars that remain at the top for decades are very few; and even fewer can claim to be one of the wealthiest women in the world, running a highly successful business: this is Madonna’s story of sustained competitive success. Described by Billboard magazine as the smartest businesswoman in show business, Madonna Louise Ciccone began her music career in 1983 with the hit single ‘Holiday’ and
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Running Head: THE BOTAX The Botax Andrew K. Keahiolalo Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract There is a new tax being proposed in some states, ironically not California, to tax plastic surgery and related procedures. Through out the course of this document, we will discuss the effects of the tax. Including the relationship between the industry and demand and price, and who will actually pay the
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It all starts off with two teenagers Rebecca (Katie Chang) and Marc (Israel Broussard) meeting in the hallway at their high school in Calabasas and soon becoming friends. They got interested in minor theft which led to burglaries and stealing cars. The first burglary was of someone that Marc knew, they took some items from the person’s house and stole the person’s car. Robbing celebrities’ homes in Los Angles soon became the targets for burglarizing without the celebrities being aware that they were
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yourself: Light, humorous tone: Check. The play features fairy magic (like Oberon's love potion), silly pranks (like the transformation of a guy's head into that of a jackass), and the botched performance of a play-within-the-play by a bunch of wannabe actors. Need we say more? Clever dialogue and witty banter: Check. Shakespeare is a huge fan of punning and snappy wordplay, so naturally, his characters know how to get their witty repartee on. Shakespeare reserves some of the best dialogue for
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