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Allied Troops Pacific Islanders
1,169 words... ent all the more difficult. Unfortunately, malaria and yellow fever were not the only dangerous diseases that plagued the armies in the South Pacific. There were dysentery, scarlet fever, dengue fever and scrub typhus, another insect-borne disease. Yet there were thousands of native people who over the centuries had made the South Pacific their homes and seem to have made peace with its fierce nature and an unpredictable environment. They learned to get by with coconut milk when they were wi...
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A History Of Body Piercing Throughout Society
1,236 words... therefore cause it to be pierced like the lobes of the ears of an infant pierced for earrings. " The Palang (often incorrectly called Ampallang) is a piercing that occurred among the Dayak, Kenya, Kelabit, Dayak, and Iban tribes of Sarawak on the Island of Borneo. It involves piercing the Glans of the Penis horizontally, and the insertion of a barbell. The term "Palang" translates as "Crossbar" in Iban and can be related to the timber roof supports of the longhouses of the tribes of the area...
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Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr
569 wordsStevenson was a well known Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure. Characteristic for Stevenson's novels is power of invention, psychological depth, and skillful use of horror and supernatural elements. Arguing against realism, Stevenson underlined the "nameless longings of the reader", the desire for experience. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses...
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Noble Eightfold Path Four Noble Truths
3,189 wordsSiddharta Gautama was twenty-nine years of age when he abandoned his family to search for a means to bring to an end his and other s suffering. He studied meditation with many teachers. At the age of thirty-five, Siddharta Gautama sat down under the shade of a fig or bo tree to meditate; he determined to meditate until he received enlightenment. After seven weeks he received the Great Enlightenment: the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. Henceforth he became known as the Buddha. This Mid...
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Noble Eightfold Path Four Noble Truths
3,241 wordsSafe K. Mental Jr. Buddhism Paper 3 / 22 / 00 Siddharta Gautama was twenty-nine years of age when he abandoned his family to search for a means to bring to an end his and other? s suffering. He studied meditation with many teachers. At the age of thirty-five, Siddharta Gautama sat down under the shade of a fig or bo tree to meditate; he determined to meditate until he received enlightenment. After seven weeks he received the Great Enlightenment: the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. Hen...
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Ho Chi Minh Robert Louis Stevenson
1,573 wordsChapter and verse Colin Dexter's Oxford The city of dreaming spires is haunted by the ghost of Inspector Morse, Dexter's morose detective. The brooding buildings are as important a presence as any of the characters in the novels and the 33 episodes of the television series which concluded last year with Morse's death in The Remorseful Day. A two-hour Inspector Morse walking tour departs from the tourist information centre at Gloucester Green at 1. 30 pm every Saturday. Price &# 163; 6. 35 (&# 16...
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Coming Of Age Margaret Mead
1,718 wordsMargaret Mead? s? Coming of Age in Samoa? , which was actually her doctoral dissertation, was compiled in a period of six months starting in 1925. Through it, people were given a look at a society not affected by the problems of 20 th century industrial America. She illustrated a picture of a society where love was available for the asking and crime was dealt with by exchanging a few mats. This book helps one to realize the large role played by social environment. One of Mead? s biggest challeng...
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Russo Japanese War Open Door Policy
1,046 wordsImperialism is the pursuit of colonial empires. Many countries took part in this, but none quite like the United States. The motivation that the United States had to get involved in such an enormous task was first shown in Samoa in 1889. After that important part of United States history, there were many more events that occurred in the eyes of United States imperialism. There were many positive aspects concerning America s intervening with other countries affairs. These proved to shape the soci...
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Easy To Learn L M
722 wordsSamoan is a rich language that remains the principal language of the people of Samoa. The Samoan language is exquisite and quite easy to learn and is similar to other languages in the pacific region. ? Samoan is a branch of the Austronesian Language, formerly called Malayo-Polynesian language, one of the word? s largest language families, both in terms of numbers of languages-more than 700 -and geographic spread-covering islands and some mainland areas from Madagascar in the west to Easter Islan...
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