...Halloween vs. Day of the Dead Amy Barrows Com/170 10/31/2012 Margaret Munger Similar traditions are held between the Day of the Dead and Halloween, yet they have very different origins. They both started out as their own separate festivals/celebrations but over time they gained either Catholic or Christian tendencies. Which only served to make them even more similar, leading confusion for many Americans now a days. Most people know of the similarities but do not know of the origins of either! Even most Americans who celebrate Halloween do not know of it is origins! Day of the dead was a celebration to celebrate the Aztec goddess Mictecacihuatl, Lady of the dead. They celebrated for about a month long in their calendar what all know as August. They had all the same traditions as they do now but back then the altars/shrines they made were at the graves themselves to bring the family/descend person back to the land of the living. Aztecs would spread the flor de muertos (flower of the dead) from the grave sites to their homes. A way of leading the lost souls to their families and loved ones. Aztecs would even make foods and treats with the deceased name on the calaveras de azucar (skull of sugar). This all went on for many centuries until the Spaniards came and influenced their religion with more Catholic ties. Example being they changed the month-long celebration to be only two days coinciding with November 1, All saints day and November 2...
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...A Day When Everything Went Wrong A.I.U Abstract This paper is a story about how I never thought I would be that someone who goes threw a rough day like I have experienced in my life. The sad part is that it seemed to continuously happen throughout my whole entire da, but when I really do some brainstorming it does not take a genius to figure out am not the only one who has days out the week that are ups and down. So therefore I am going to share one of my days that I had when everything went wrong. A Day When Everything Went Wrong There not a person in this world who can say they never had one of them days everything went wrong. An you sit back and say to yourself why is this happening to me. Well everybody life has it’s high and low and ups and downs. Sometimes you might have a day you feel as though you’re on top of the world, and then other times you may feel as though everyone and everything is against you. I remember it was the month of May my high school junior year was a day when everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong as of that day. I remember as though it happen at this very moment, it all started by my alarm clock not going off by me forgetting to set it the night before. I woke up late and only had ten minutes to do everything I had to do and make sure I mad the school bus. Well luckily in that little bit of time I had made the bus but in the back of my head I knew it was not going to...
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...For my book project I chose the book The One and Only Ivan. In the book this zoo adopts a gorilla named Ivan. So he goes in a cage. The zoo adopted him because they needed more business. So Ivan was like the main reason the zoo was still running. The zoo would have a janitor come every night and clean the pens and the walkways and stuff. So he always would bring his daughter and she would come and sit outside Ivans cage. Ivans cage neighbor was a elephant named Stella and she was a circus elephant. She was really old and her and Ivan would talk everyday and so one day when the janitor's daughter Julia would come and sit with them and talk to them. So one day Julia gave Ivan a piece of paper and a crayon and he would just draw. Julia one day...
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...About the Seventh Day Adapted from Why God Said Remember by Joe Crews. Part of Satan s strategy to destroy humanity s trust in God has been to attack His claim as the Creator. Obviously, the theory of evolution is part of this deceptive and soul-destroying effort. With its amoral humanistic emphasis, Darwin s doctrine has turned millions into religious skeptics and enshrouded in darkness their need for the Savior. Yet while many Christians rightly denounce this unscientific belief, ironically, many are still falling into the devil s trap of denying God s sovereignty over the earth. That trap is the ages-long effort to twist and destroy the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath. Through Satan s false information and man s trust in traditions over the sure word of Scripture, millions of Christians have been led to discount or even reject the importance of observing the Sabbath. “The seyenth day is the sabbath of the Lord: in it thou shalt not do any work (Exodus 20:10). No one disagrees with the clear meaning of this text, yet millions are finding ways not to follow it. Why? The general Bible ignorance of the church and the clever arguments of Satan have created a climate of prejudice against the holiness of the seventh day in favor of the observance of Sunday. So in the interest of promoting God s law over the theories of men, let s take a moment to rediscover some amazing facts about the seventh-day Sabbath. Fact #1: ‘ The Seventh-day Sabbath Establishes...
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...------------------------------------------------- Chicks don’t want to be alone December 2, 2013 J.J.Jacobs 16209664 December 2, 2013 J.J.Jacobs 16209664 Chicks don’t want to be alone J.J.Jacobs 16209664, Biology 154 student, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 Abstract An experiment was done on 1-2 day old chicks to see to see how they will respond behaviourally to different stimuli, the behaviours could be either taxes or kineses. For the taxes part chicks were left to face each other, a mirror, sheet of paper (similar colour to theirs), another chick and another chick separated by a cardboard, if the chick walked towards any of them a positive reading was recorded. The kineses part of the experiment was done by placing the 1-2 day old chicks alone in the dark, alone in a lit box, facing a mirror and facing another chick then the average chirp rate was measured as an indication of how stressed they were. The results for the taxes part indicate that the chicks want to be close to one another and have well-developed eye-sight and hearing. Furthermore in the Kineses part of the experiment the chicks that faced one another, faced a mirror, was in a lit box was less stressed than the ones that were left in the dark. In conclusion, chicks don’t want to be alone and have excellent eye-sight and hearing to accomplish this task. Introduction “Neural signalling, communication by neurons, is the process by which animals respond appropriately to a stimulus.” (Russel, Hertz, &...
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...minerals, vitamins, and other nutritional components is much more difficult that I would have guessed, even for just one day! Though I did manage to find the right combination of foods which would provide me the recommended amount of various nutrients in one day, I cannot eat the same thing every day! Planning the one day took research and attention to detail which I have never used toward planning my daily diet before. I was very happy with the result as I got to enjoy three great meals and a few snacks as well (all similar to my normal eating schedule and habits). It was interesting to see that foods I do enjoy and eat regularly can be combined into a one day super-diet! This reassured me that it is completely possible to plan a healthy diet and maintain it because it includes foods I already enjoy. The most shocking aspect of the diet that I noticed while doing this assignment was that my sodium levels were way outside of the recommended range. I knew that lots of food products have crazy amounts of sodium from my athletic trainers and coaches warnings during my participation in high school sports. I realized during this process that I have not done as good of a job at watching out for that as I thought! The sodium was still a part of the recommended diet that I had to work with a lot, so I am now even more aware and will watch out for its presence in food. I was very proud to see I met the fiber requirements, though I cannot say I’m surprised because I’ve become accustomed...
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...Margaret Houlihan, RN, “It never fails to astonish me, one minute you are alive, the next minute you are dead.” Welcome to M*A*S*H 4077, Korea; the episode “Death Takes a Holiday” directed by Mike Farrell and was originally aired on December 12th, 1980 (Farrell). In this episode we see the staff struggle with the issue of death. This episode depicts the staff struggling with the issue of death. It is Christmas day and a soldier who was shot by a sniper is brought in to the camp by a Military Police. Colonel Potter, who was dressed as Santa Claus, summons his staff to take the solider for evaluation and treatment. Upon evaluation, it is determined he is a terminal patient suffering from a brain stem injury that he acquired from sniper fire. Today, if he had been in the right place when he was shot he might have stood a chance of survival but with paralysis. Back in those days he was considered terminal and the only choice was to make him comfortable until his death. While medicine in the 1950’s was not as sophisticated as it is today, some of the technology we are using today was just being developed and it was very limited in the United States, let alone in a war occurring in a foreign country. During other episodes of M*A*S*H we saw the physicians struggling with making their own versions of medical equipment that was being developed stateside. One example of how the doctor’s improvised with medical equipment was they had a local jeweler custom make a clamp for vascular...
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...vitality, genotype, seed maturation and seed dormancy. The external variables are the variables that are part of the environment where the seed is germinating. The external variables that affect seed germination are light, temperature, water and oxygen. We chose water as our external variable due to it being an essential element that is needed for survival. When the water is poured into the container, the soil will absorb the water. The germination of the bean will begin. The seeds go through the process of imbibition, when the seed uptakes the water and hydrates the food supplies and expands the enzymes. The first part that will emerge from the seed will be the radicle. We have a wide range of amounts of water to test on the broad beans. One of these is 0mL, so the beans will have to grow without the aid of water. Photosynthesis is a process that is used in plant leaves to convert light energy to chemical...
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...spark tested his Taser for one second at 0509 hours on Saturday, September 26, 2015 (day of the incident). It didn’t spark again until 0502 hours the next day. Case Summary On September 26, 2015, Sergeant John Arvin was assigned by the chain of command to conduct an administrative investigation reference an in-custody death involving 18-year-old, black male, Terrell Day. While there are no specific allegations against apprehending IMPD Officer Randall Denny, this investigation reviewed all aspects of the incident, including the 911 audio from the Burlington Coat Factory Loss Prevention officer reference the shoplifting allegation inside the Washington Square Mall at...
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...Katelyn Long World History Ms. Rizzo 12/16/10 Saint Patrick’s Day Saint Patrick’s Day is an old, historical Irish holiday. It has two histories, the history of Patrick himself, and the history of the day, March 17. It marked an important religious movement in Ireland’s history also. It was significant, and brings many of the important Irish symbols and legends together into one day. The person who was to become St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Wales, Scotland or Roman-England in about AD 373 to AD 390. His father was Calpurnius; he was a Roman-British army officer. His original name was believed to be Maewyn Succat, and he almost didn't get the job of bishop of Ireland because he didn’t have the required scholarship. Until he was 16, he considered himself a pagan; then he was sold into slavery on the west coast of Ireland by either a group of Irish marauders, or pirates that raided his village. During his captivity, he became closer to God. He escaped from slavery after six years this was when he started to convert to Christianity. He dreamed of having seen God; legend says, he was then dictated by God to escape with a getaway ship. Then he went to Britain where he studied in the monastery under St. Germaine, bishop of Auxerre for about twelve years. During his training he became aware that his calling was to convert the pagans to Christianity. His wanted to return to Ireland, to convert the native pagans to Christianity. But his superiors...
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...as I did, there is one thing we know for sure. We will never forget those 444 days in Iran. Iran hostage crisis, yeah, it surely was a crisis. None of us knew our experience in Iran would be so different than what our government contract asked us to do. Although I have always been loved my country, I had one thing that kept going through in my mind every day when I was held as a hostage: failed foreign policy. We knew each one of us were victim of the U.S. foreign policy; Government knew this incident could happen. They might not have known that there will be a hostage crisis, but it was apparent they knew something was going wrong. Even until these days, I see there was tension between Iran and the U.S. which started from a bad beginning. As a person who felt the diplomatic failure in a physical form such as hostage crisis, I know the Iran hostage crisis is what triggered the U.S. to approach other states with various foreign policies. At least, there has not been any more hostile events like the one we had to go through. The day started as just a normal day of November. The sky was blue and air was crisp. It almost feels like being in home, I thought. It already has been six months since I have been working at the embassy in Tehran. After graduating from college, I decided to work for foreign affairs and applied for a job in foreign policy department. As a new employee at the department, I didn’t have many options to choose from. One of my options was to work in U.S embassy...
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...Level My BMI is 35.5 and I am in the obese range. When I was in elementary, junior and high school, my weight was in the normal range. When I was in the Army, my weight was also in the normal range. After my first child, still my weight was in the normal range. However, once I had my third child I began gaining weight. I regularly exercise at least 30 minutes a day on the treadmill or stationary bike. I clean house, run errands, do work study and go to school. As compared to 300 minutes of moderate intensity exercise weekly, I execute around 270 minutes. I do not do muscle strengthening activities at all weekly. I consumed 3,371 calories during the 3 day diet study and my DRI was 7,818. This shows that I consumed 4,447 less calories than is recommended. On the 3 days that I did the diet plan, I consumed less than was recommended on all three days. I do not have any health related data for my paternal side of the family. My maternal side of the family has a history of high-blood pressure and heart disease. My mother has both heart disease and blood-pressure. I have high cholesterol which my doctor says is genetic-related. Foods and Food Components to Reduce Sodium My maximum recommended for sodium is 2,300 mg daily. On day one of the diet study, I consumed 1,404 which is 896 less than recommended. On day two, I consumed 2,565 mg which exceeds the 2,300 maximum recommended for sodium by 265 mg. On that day, I ate one item of Maruchan Roman Noodles; beef flavor dry that contained...
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...that they attend. The three students decide to open their own copy service but soon discovered that they may have acted too soon in their decision. The first obstacle they had was the initial purchase of equipment. Without doing enough research, they purchased a copier for $18,000 that was obtained as a loan from Terri’s parents. After the purchase, they discovered that the particular brand they purchased had a history of frequently breakdowns. Although the copier manufacturer promised prompt repair service, the machine down time could range from one to four days. In order to hopefully alleviate too much lost revenue for the beginning company, the trio wanted to purchase a backup machine to use during the primary machine breakdowns. The cost of the second machine would be $8,000. Before they approached their parents for another loan, they wanted to determine if it would actually be a profitable move or an unnecessary purchase on a whim. To do this, they set up a simulation to determine how often the main copier could break down within a fifty-two week period. They decided that if the simulation showed that they lost more than $12,000 in revenue with just the one copier they would go ahead with the second purchase. They also estimated that they would produce between 2000 and 8000 copies per day at a fee of $0.10 per copy. They decided to estimate the possible daily copies by using a uniform probability distribution. They also determined that the time between breakdowns...
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...the lines at the ticket windows on a warm, sunny day in March 1993, he smiled to himself. SSRCwas having its best year ever and had maintained its position as one of the premier North American ski resorts. SSRCwas not, however, immune to the difficulties faced by the ski industry. First, Mayfield was concerned about the trend among customers of coming to Steamboat and other ski resorts and spending fewer of their vacation days skiing on the mountain, preferring instead to participate in other wintertime activities such as snowmobiling. Second, while skier days1 had continued to increase in Colorado over the last several years, the number of skier days in the entire United States had actually decreased. Furthermore, Steamboat's share of the Colorado skier market had steadily decreased since 1990. FinaIly, Mayfield was concerned about Steamboat's low percentage, relative to other resorts, of visitors who intended to make a repeat visit to the resort. In the 1991-92season, the percentage of Steamboat destination skiers intending to make a repeat visit to Steamboat declined to 55%; other resorts, such as the group of Disney Resorts, claimed as high as a 90% repeat visit rate. These trends, combined with Steamboat management's belief that the average length of a ski vacation at Steamboat had also declined, concerned Mayfield. He was worried about how Steamboat could continue to attract new customers and retain its current ones in what was an increasingly competitive environment. Steamboat...
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...It was late at night before I was finally put to rest. I was looking forward to a good night rest before morning came again and I was put back on for another long days walk. I was tucked all snug and warm in my humans closet. It was dark and cozy but I knew I would not get to rest for long. I was woken up by the sounds of feet walking by and then a light was turned on. I went through this routine day after day, so I knew what to expect. I was not wrong. There were several other pairs that lay beside me but for some reason the human liked me best. Was it because I was more fashionable or was it because I was more comfortable and went with any outfit they wore. I thought it was morning but when I was taken out of my cozy spot it looked like it was still dark outside the window. Then I...
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