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Thaipusam Procession Thaipusam Festival Devotees
626 wordsThe documentary I watched is about Thaipusam festival. I watched it on National Geographic Channel and was amazed to discover the meaning, the process and the traditions and practices of Thaipusam. It was interesting to watch the procession yet at the same time learn more about it in detail. Every January/February, depending upon the lunar month - on a full-moon day in the Tamil month of Thai, the Hindus will celebrate Thaipusam in honour of their Hindu God, Lord Subramaniam (sometimes referred ...
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Form Of Government Hunter Gatherer
1,126 words... terrify. (The Book Of The Ancient World, p 25) The word government comes from the Latin word, gubernare, which means, to steer a ship. Among primitive people that live today, the leader may be only the oldest person in the tribe, and therefore respected. People tend to follow those that are respected. (The Third Chimpanzee, p 220) It might be that the leader of an early culture might well have been the best hunter, organizer and the strongest man in the village. In ancient Mesopotamia, Greec...
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Aggressive Behaviour National Geographic
1,010 wordsAustralian industry loses more than one billion dollars a year because of sickness caused by alcohol. Alcohol plays a part in more than 50 % of serious crimes in Australia. In violent crimes it plays an even bigger part: more than 75 % of them are linked to alcohol. About half of the people killed in road accidents are killed because somebody has drunk to much. Effects of alcohol on human behaviour From the above facts it is clear that alcohol has a major impact on the lives of Australians. This...
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Impact On Wide Area Network
1,248 wordsPACT OF WIDE AREA NETWORKS ON BUSINESS Where does one start when discussing the impact of Wide Area Networks (WANs) on business? It's been huge! WANs have created an entirely new segment in the business market and revolutionized many of the current ones. A person could write for days or months about all the impacts and effects WANs have had. This essay will focus on three primary areas to describe the impact of WANs on business. First, some specific types of applications will be discussed and ho...
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Spinal Cord Cerebrospinal Fluid
1,005 words... main, in short it's what makes humans, humans. IN THE FUTURE Today many experiments are being conducted that may be break through's for the future. For instance "brain grafting" is one procedure that may be used in the future. Brain grafting is to transplant a very thin layer of brain skin from one person to another. This would result in control of parkinson's disease and other seizure related diseases. Another radical idea that has already been successfully been tried on rhesus monkey's is,...
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The Beauty Of Hilton Head South Carolina
570 wordsBeing a South Carolinian, and having frequented Hilton Head Island, I am familiar with the intense commercialization that has engulfed the seaboard-city in the closing half of the twentieth century. You cant blame the city for capitalizing on its advantageous geographic location aside the Atlantic Ocean, but many cities tend to lose their quaintness and familiarity as they tip-toe along the line between attraction and hedonism. Hedonism is the exact word that Lisle Mitchell threw around so loose...
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J P Morgan Amp Company
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Rapid Expansion Turnover Rate
922 wordsSince the time I entered the workforce in 1987, I have encountered various forms of management and management styles in the career paths I followed. Now that I am venturing into management myself, I have had time to reflect on those various management techniques in order to develop a management style of my own. My experiences have ranged from Fast Food to Information Technology and small private corporations to global public companies. One particular experience with a lumber company has had a ma...
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Yellow Fever E B
984 wordsAedes Aegypti The mosquito that has attracted the most attention is the mosquito Aedes aegypti. It belongs to the family Culcidae, consisting of about 2, 500 species (Encyclopedia Britannica 1999), along with other genera of mosquitoes such as Anopheles, Culex, Orthopodomyia, and the Toxorynchites, to name a few (Womack 1993, E. B. 1999). This mosquito has been known best for transmitting yellow fever and human dengue throughout the tropic and subtropic of the Americas (Womack, M 1993). This mos...
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Packet Switching End User
558 wordsA communications controller running (normally) the LAP-B protocol. Rather than use an external device, such as a PAD, most computers use an internal interface to directly connect to the packet-switching network. These interfaces and their corresponding software drivers provide much of the same function provided by a PAD. The advantage to putting these interfaces into a computer is that computer software can directly access the link (whereas in the PAD the link was external and, for the most part...
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Carbon Dioxide Global Warming
783 wordsIndividual proposal on global warming Recently, a series of discoveries have been made by scientists. They found the tablets of ancient summers in Iraq. Those tablets contain the most complete records of climatic terms and weather reports of all known on the Earth. Their age is about 5, 000 years. The discovery has helped to understand and estimate those phenomena which take place today with our planet. It was noticed that during those early years there were several extreme overall of the temper...
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United Healthcare Group Service Segmentation And Positioning
956 wordsUnited Healthcare Group service segmentation and positioning paper Choose a product or service and define a segmentation strategy. Identify a target market including a demographic and psycho graphic profile. Prepare a perceptual map and a description of the optimal positioning that has been selected. Segmentation is the process of dividing the desired market into groups based upon important consumer characteristics attributable to the given market (Gorchels, 2001). In other words, a reasonable m...
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Effects Of Global Warming Polar Bears
1,306 wordsEffects of Global Warming On Polar Bears and Polar Seals Introduction Polar bears depend on polar seals as a source of food in the polar region. Polar bears hunt polar seals before winter comes, so they can get all the proteins and fats they need in order to survive. Global warming is increasing the melt of ice in the Arctic region. As a result, polar seals will not be able to survive and face the environmental changes including climate. Therefore, polar bears will be threatened by starvation an...
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Geographic Information Systems Electronic Communication
902 wordsTechnology and Communication Information systems and communication technology are significant tools of contemporary management. These tools constitute the communication infrastructure between organizations and their geographically dispersed markets. Global information networks enable collaborative sharing of information to support decision making and to facilitate resource managing. These information tools provide critical links between the organization, its internal segments and its external en...
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U S Economy Star Spangled
1,794 wordsCanada and the U. S. are inextricably linked geographically and economically, but still they are different historically, politically, and culturally. Nevertheless these differences dont hinder Canadians from looking into opportunities open to them in United States. Thats the geographical proximity that allowed Canadians to approach U. S. model in their aspirations, hopes and expectations. Every day, American commercials showing families hopping into Lexus SUVs and couples boarding cruise ships t...
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British Museum National Geographic
1,185 wordsBlue heaven Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage Deborah Cramer 442 pp, Norton Adventures in Ocean Exploration Robert D Ballard 288 pp, National Geographic Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean Derek Hayes 224 pp, British Museum Encyclopedia of Underwater and Marine Archaeology ed James Delgado 493 pp, British Museum If all Earths history were crammed into a single day, calculates Deborah Cramer as she rocks in the cradle of the deep aboard a research vessel, the Atlantic oceans entire existe...
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Aggressive Behaviour National Geographic
1,050 wordsSome Facts Australian industry loses more than one billion dollars a year because of sickness caused by alcohol. Alcohol plays a part in more than 50 % of serious crimes in Australia. In violent crimes it plays an even bigger part: more than 75 % of them are linked to alcohol. About half of the people killed in road accidents are killed because somebody has drunk to much. Effects of alcohol on human behaviour From the above facts it is clear that alcohol has a major impact on the lives of Austra...
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Earths Magnetic Magnetic Field
1,384 wordsINTRODUCTION: The magnetic south and north poles of the earth create magnetic field lines in which these bacteria travel. These bacteria were found to contain iron, which is comparable to ferromagnet's or magnetite produced synthetically. This iron is found to line up to the magnetic field lines similar to how a compass works. Many of the principles of magnetism can be explained by observing these bacteria. NARRATIVE: The physical principles behind magnetic bacteria rely on the earths magnetic f...
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World War Ii National Geographic
541 wordsPaul Nash s paintings delt with the Battle of Britain. Mainly from the point of view of the brave R. A. F. pilots, and what they may have seen during thier one on one engagements with the Luftwaffe. Nash also did paintings of the areal battle s as someone on the ground. His hope was to make a painting from someone on the ground as what they may have seen. Unlike the other painters, Nash s paintings were used by R. A. F. officials to help inspire their pilots to fight harder and defeat the Luftwa...
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Pp National Geographic Edward S Curtis West
1,146 wordsGo west, young lady Edward S Curtis: Coming to Light Anne Makepeace 216 pp, National Geographic Sacagawea's Nickname Larry McMurtry 178 pp, NYRB I Dwell in Possibility Donna M Lucey 256 pp, National Geographic Phoebe Ann Mosey doesnt figure in I Dwell in Possibility, a history of women who built the United States: no mugshot, no mention, not even under her arena name of Annie Oakley. Likewise left out is Sacagawea, or however you spelled her Shoshone name; she bore a son and carried him on her b...
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