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Mixed Race French Speaking
1,354 wordsWhat is a Creole? The word Creole means many things to many people. It derives from the Latin word Creare, meaning to beget or create. The Webster dictionary says a Creole is a white person descended from the French or Spanish settlers of Louisiana and the Gulf States and preserving their characteristic speech and culture. Creoles, a term first used in the 16 th century in Latin America to distinguish the offspring of European settlers from Native Americans, blacks, and later immigrant groups. I...
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Electromagnetic Radiation Infrared Radiation
1,377 wordsYou might remember the heroic role that newly-invented radar played in the Second World War. People hailed it then as "Our Miracle Ally." But even in its earliest years, as it was helping win the war, radar proved to be more than an expert enemy locator. Radar technicians, doodling away in their idle moments, found that they could focus a radar beam on a marshmallow and toast it. They also popped popcorn with it. Such was the beginning of microwave cooking. The very same energy that warned the B...
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Petri Dishes Test Tubes
899 wordsControlled Comparison: During class, our instructor set up the same lab that we were doing with 2 solutions, both of which were known acidic or basic. He placed 2 ml of the known acid into 2 different test tubes, and 2 ml of the known acid into 2 different petri dishes. Then using forceps, he tested blue litmus paper in one petri dish, and red litmus paper in another. The blue litmus paper, after being dipped into the solution, turned red in reaction to the acidic solution. While the red litmus ...
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Chinese Language Vietnamese People
931 wordsA man walks into Footaction to browse the wide selection of shoes and apparel that the store has to offer. As he comes across a pair of shoes that have some Chinese writing on it, he automatically turns around and asks Chris, an Asian sales associate at Footaction, what it says. Chris, who is not of Chinese decent, tells him that he does not know. The customer says, Well, arent you Chinese? Chris replies, No Im not, I am Vietnamese. Vietnamese, Chinese, they are all the same, the man remarks. Ch...
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Dry Ice Petri Dishes
1,905 wordsA particle cloud chamber is a device that makes visible to the human eye the presence of certain particles and cosmic rays. This paper will discuss the process in which a successful chamber prototype was developed. This paper will also discuss how the chamber utilizes the properties of a supersaturated environment to detect these particles. Finally, plans for the future development of a larger model to study the charge and energy of particles through the use of a magnetic field is presented. The...
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Wife And Mother Piece Of Land
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Snaps His Fingers Fire Which Would Pass Chief
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Snow Crunching Heavily Blood Red Snow Keith
1,248 wordsThe extremely cold wind sent shivers all through my body. Opening the door to a red building shape like a barn, I felt the warmth as I enter. I notice canning jars filled with grape jelly and strawberry jam, sitting through out the room. Old photographs of trains, people, towns, and old baskets hanging on the wall. Sitting on the shelves are artificial red flowers, green vines, old dishes and jars. In the middle of the room sits a glass cabinet with perfectly backed pies. Blue and gold curtains ...
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Puerto Rico Sq Km
919 wordsVs. Puerto Rico By: David Torres 2 / 14 / 00 Norway and Puerto Rico are two completely different countries, in so far as terrain, climate and native culture. Local phenomenon such as natural environment and climatic atmosphere has produced two very distinctive cultures. This is reflected in everything from regional cuisine and clothing styles to social events and the dictates of cultural norms. Moreover, the location of each country plays a very important role in its' national cuisine and typica...
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Alternative Cancer Part 2
1,518 words... unique system of healing and renewing of humans organism. This is a very educated man who has a degree of doctor of psychology, pedagogics, philosophy and medicine. This man combined the teachings of East, with the teaching of Sufis and the modern understanding of life. The main three postulates of his methods are that: Man is not a collection of organs (healthy and not really healthy ones), he is a whole, united system, in which the physical components are interconnected with other componen...
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Chef Jean Georges Vongerichten
1,199 wordsCHEF JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN The outskirts of Strasbourg in Alsace, France boasts of one of the greatest chefs the world has ever produced Jean-Georges Vongerichten. He was raised in a household that appreciated the preparation and cooking of food. His family's activities centered around the kitchen. His earliest memories of his mother and grandmother revolved around lunch for almost 50 employees of their family business (Knives are your own, personalized tools). Vongerichten remembered waking...
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Men And Women Todays Society
1,771 wordsBy Bad Choosers Bad Choosers By K. L. Canada The tired clich? has rung throughout the halls of maternity wards and law firms for years. The Battle of the Sexes as it is called; the everlasting struggle for supremacy among men and women. However, in the wider scope of events, how easy ones life is would ideally be more important than how supreme one is. Just ask Colin Powell or maybe even a reincarnate Kurt Cobain. It does not matter much if youre the top dog if your a top dog with an uncomfortab...
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Cable Tv Cable Television
1,696 wordsRemember when Cable TV came into the picture and began bullying around the network stations for all their lunch money? Well watch out Cable because you might get a little taste of your own Medicine from a powerful extra terrestrial, satellite that is. A multi-channel alternative to cable television known as Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) is now available in the United States of America and boy is it ready to rock. DBS provides picture perfect cable-like television programming directly from sat...
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Food Safety Small Amount
1,838 wordsWhat Food Safety Food Safety What comes to mind when you think of a clean kitchen? Shiny waxed floors? Gleaming stainless steel sinks? Spotless counters and neatly arranged cupboards? They can help, but a truly clean kitchen that is, one that ensures safe food relies on more than just looks: It also depends on safe food practices. In a home, food safety concerns revolve around three main functions: food storage, food handling's, and cooking. To see how well youre doing in each, take this quiz, a...
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Olive Oil Greek Civilization
1,574 wordsGreek cuisine: The Greeks usually eat 3 meals a day. The first meal of the day is Breakfast. A typical Greek breakfast consists of a piece of bread, some goat milk and strong Turkish coffee. The Greeks do not eat a large breakfast typically. Their next meal of the day is Lunch it is usually eaten around twelve to two pm. It is also a light meal like breakfast. Dinner is usually eaten later at night than most people are accustomed to. It is eaten between 8 - 9 pm. This is the largest meal of the ...
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Gallons Of Water Water Consumption
1,472 wordsWhat do we use all this water for? Of all the water that falls to California, 60 % is immediately returned to the atmosphere by evaporation or native plant use. The rest runs off into rivers, lakes, streams and the water table, where it is available for human use. We will explain what happens to all this water, show exactly how much water we do use, and give ways to reduce water use in and around your home. The single largest user of water is industry. Industries use 46 % of our annual water sup...
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Miss Glory Maya Angelou
1,946 words/Maya Maya Angelou Finishing School /Maya Angelou/ Maya Angelou (b. 1928) has had careers as dancer, poet, television writer and producer, ac-tress, and writer. She has served as coordinator of the Martin Luther King Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her books include I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), from which this selection is taken, and a memoir, The Heart of a Woman (1981). The irony of the title is immediately apparent to the reader of this graphic portrait of Angelou's racis...
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Calcul Ability Iron Cage
3,360 wordsThe Mcdonaldization of: If you have ever had a meal in a restaurant (fast-food / formal dining), used an ATM in a bank, spent your vacation at an amusement park or simply browsed through a mall, you have been exposed to Mcdonaldization. Mcdonaldization is the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of America society as well as the rest of the world (Ritzer, 1996, 1). Nearly ever aspect of today s society has been affected by Mcdon...
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Political And Social Global Economy
1,557 wordsWomen in Vietnam Towards the end to the Twentieth century, Vietnam a rapidly changing country goes through a political and social transition, from a socialist to an open market capitalist type society. Since the late 1980 s Vietnam has adjusted its economy to compete with the world. In doing so, the country undergoes many political and social reforms. Ideals of the west have been implemented into Vietnam's market economy. There is definitely a change that is occurring however the social status o...
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Wang Lung Umbilical Cord
1,198 wordsPre-communist society was based on the teachings of Kung Fuzi (Confucius, 550 - 478 BC), whose main doctrine explained that inequality of the sexes in society was natural and necessary. He thought that everyone had his place- and a womans place was at the bottom of the hierarchy. Kung Fuzi stated Women are human but lower than men and It is the law of nature that woman should not be allowed any will of her own. In Daughters of the Dragon, by Christine Hall, she lists many beliefs and proverbs, s...
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