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• Albania - country.

  Joining the international community in its concern over the degradation of the environment, Albania is party to international agreements concerning biodiversity, climatechange, and wetlands. III THE PEOPLE OF ALBANIA In 2008 Albania’s population estimate was 3,619,778, resulting in an average density of 132 persons per sq km (342 per sq mi). More and more people have left ruralareas for urban ones, particularly in the northern districts, such that in 2005 some 45 percent of the population live...

• Who am I, who are you

  Because friends come in different colors, shapes, nationalities, religions... So please, don't judge a person from the outside!   We can learn from each other, About different cultures, We can teach each other, Different languages, And spread love and peace all over the world.   Wars were made, People were dead, Concepts were made, Justice was sometimes served, But wars didn't disappear! I wish we can all scream: Yes to love & no to wars!   My brother lets hold our hands together, And shout to t...

• Is the American dream a concept

  "The Supermarket Lady" perfectly illustrates her time and American society in the 1960s the birth of the society of mass consumption, the shopping cart replaces the basket, the products are manufactured industrially( cans of tomatoes ; spaghettis, Eggs), the overweight of the model shows the opulence of this consumer society. I believe everything displayed here has a meaning and everything here has a purpose. His main while expressing himself throughout his sculptures is to transport scenes fro...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: John Henry Newman

  intolerance of contrary sugges¬tions. If we are certain, we spontaneously reject objections as idle phantoms, however much they may be insisted on by a pertinacious opponent, or present themselves through an obsessiveimagination.I certainly should be very intolerant of such a notion as that I shall one day be Emperor of the French; I shouldthink it too absurd even to be ridiculous, and that I must be mad before I could entertain it. And did a man try topersuade me that treachery, cruelty, or ing...

• Life of Pi

  Later, his family decides to sell all the animals from the zoo and to move over to Canada, having his family and all the animals on the same boat. However a storm occurs and Pi is thrown onto a life boat with several animal. Richard Parker, the tiger and Pi are left alone on the boat after all the other animals have been eaten up either by the hyena or the tiger.    Pi then realises he will have to survive with what is left in the boat and try to survive with the biggest fear of being eaten up b...

• Article Paper Assignment

  The G reat White Way. Even though the article was short, the content was explicitly accurate to the topic. Neil Simon, Broadway Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 91 is an article written by Charles Isherwood, in honor to the playwright . Neil Simon was famous in Broad way and had a major role in redefining the American humor. From 1950s, he made of the popular theater and, more particularly the famous and successful Broadway, an inexhaustible reservoir, which served so much so...

• Bees. It's a warm summer afternoon in a park or garden.

  become the queens. When a honey bee finds food, it tells other honey bees. The bee comes back to the hive with nectar. Itthen performs a dance. The bee’s movements tell the other bees where to look for this nectar. BUMBLEBEES If you go on a picnic, a yellow and black bumblebee may buzz by. Bumblebees have thick, hairy bodies.Their hair helps keep them warm. Only the queens live through the winter, however. The workers anddrones die. Like honey bees, bumblebees live in colonies. Bumblebees like t...

• Nepal - geografía.

  sherpas, que son conocidos por ser guías y porteadores en las expediciones de escaladores, y los gurung, tradicionales soldados. Los gurkhas, expertos soldados elegidosentre varios grupos étnicos nepaleses, han servido en las fuerzas armadas indias y británicas. 3.1 Características de la población Nepal tiene una población (según estimaciones para 2008) de 29.519.114 habitantes, con una densidad de 206 hab/km². La esperanza de vida al nacer es de 60,9 años. Lamayoría de la población se concentr...

• Liberia (república, África) - geografía.

  marina. A nivel regional, Liberia ha ratificado el Convenio Africano sobre la Conservación de la Naturaleza y los Recursos Naturales. 3 POBLACIÓN Tradiciones en LiberiaEstos jóvenes liberianos interpretan música polirrítmica con tambores de mano en una celebración de la comunidad, siguiendo latradición.Liba Taylor/Corbis La población de Liberia comprende 16 grupos étnicos, pertenecientes a los grupos lingüísticos mandé, del Atlántico occidental y kwa, y los descendientes de los esclavos quese a...

• SUJET NATIONAL, SESSION DE JUIN 1995 LANGUE VIVANTE 1- SÉRIES ES/S

  Tuen her voice again. "Y es." "What have you got?" The first voice. "What have you got there 30 in the back?" Her voice. "Old clothes. I'm making a collection for China War Relief." The first voice. "We'll have a look, if you don't mind." Her voice. "Go right ahead." 35 The sound of the door opening. The sound of the blonde girl mo- ving over so that the policemen could gain access to the back seat. He started to picture it again. Th...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Midas - anthology.

  Gordius, being made king, dedicated his wagon to the deity of the oracle, and tied it up in its place with a fast knot. This was the celebrated Gordian knot, which, in after times it was said, whoever should untie should become lord of all Asia. Many tried to untie it, but none succeeded, till Alexander the Great, in his career ofconquest, came to Phrygia. He tried his skill with as ill success as others, till growing impatient he drew his sword and cut the knot. When he afterwards succeeded i...

• Bivalvo - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  entierran profundamente en la arena o el barro. Los que así lo hacen tienen a menudo largos sifones. Los dátiles de mar y los teredos tienen una envoltura modificada enforma de órgano raedor con el que horadan la roca o la madera. 3 CICLO VITAL La reproducción suele ser sexual, con sexos separados. El esperma y los huevos son liberados en el agua, donde tiene lugar el desarrollo. El joven bivalvo, o larva, nadahasta encontrar un hábitat apropiado. En ocasiones, no obstante, se omite la fase lar...

• Biographie George Orwell en Anglais + Resume court de Animal Farm

  Animal Farm is a short political fable based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. It was published in 1945. The animals of the Manor Farm live in a bad situation because their farmer Mr. Jones, a mean and always drunk man, exploits them. One day Old Major, an old pig, called a meeting of all the animals and told them about a dream that he had had the previous night. He had dreamed about an old song 'Beasts of England' that started a resistance against the human beings. Everyone...

• Henry Morton Stanley.

  VI EVALUATION If Stanley was among the most ruthless and driven of Europe’s African explorers, he also was among the most accomplished. Much of what the Western world came toknow about Central Africa, including the drainage of its lakes and rivers, was derived from Stanley’s explorations. Moreover, he was one of the central figures in eventsleading to the Scramble for Africa. His call for the Christianizing of Africans and for the development of commerce with the interior echoed the call Livin...

• Henry Morton Stanley - explorer.

  VI EVALUATION If Stanley was among the most ruthless and driven of Europe’s African explorers, he also was among the most accomplished. Much of what the Western world came toknow about Central Africa, including the drainage of its lakes and rivers, was derived from Stanley’s explorations. Moreover, he was one of the central figures in eventsleading to the Scramble for Africa. His call for the Christianizing of Africans and for the development of commerce with the interior echoed the call Livin...

• Edgar Allan Poe.

  dulled themHow, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story. Poe’s other masterpieces of horror include “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842), a spine-tingling tale of cruelty and torture, and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846), aneerie tale of revenge. Although Poe believed that the short story was the most suitable form for fiction, he wrote a short novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), in the hope of making some money. Based on tales of...

• Victoria (city, British Columbia) - Geography.

  routes, and good agricultural land. These advantages were publicized by Sir James Douglas, the chief factor (administrative head) of the company’s Pacific Coastoperations, who founded the fort. They were in turn recognized by the British Colonial Office, which made Victoria the capital of the colony of Vancouver’s Island (the oldname for Vancouver Island) in 1849. The community’s growing commercial importance during the Fraser River and Cariboo gold rushes of the 1850s led to itsincorporation in...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Niobe - anthology.

  The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now:The very sepulchres lie tenantlessOf their heroic dwellers; dost thou flow,Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness?Rise with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.'Childe Harold, IV. 79. As an illustration of this story there is a celebrated statue in the imperial gallery of Florence. It is the principal figure of a group supposed to have been originallyarranged in the pediment of a temple. The figure of the mother clasped by the arm of her terrifie...

• Excerpt from Macbeth - anthology.

  As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands.Listening their fear I could not say “Amen”When they did say “God bless us.” LADY. Consider it not so deeply. MACBETH. But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”?I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”Stuck in my throat. LADY. These deeds must not be thoughtAfter these ways; so, it will make us mad. MACBETH. Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep—the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,The...

• Putrefacción y descomposición - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  5 DESCOMPOSICIÓN Y ALIMENTO La descomposición por microorganismos afecta también a la economía industrial. Ciertos productos alimenticios, como el queso y el yogur, se forman gracias a la actividadde microorganismos específicos, pero el resultado se degrada rápidamente cuando el proceso se ve contaminado por otros microbios. Asimismo, la colonización microbianade los alimentos altera la consistencia, el olor y el sabor y los hace menos apetitosos. El crecimiento de determinados organismos duran...

• Arte románico.

  en la región de Aquitania (en el suroeste de Francia) y en Escandinavia se construyó de esta manera. San Vital de Ravena (526-548), construida para el emperadorbizantino Justiniano, y la capilla del palacio construido para Carlomagno en Aix la Chapelle (hoy Aquisgrán, Alemania) entre el 792 y el 805 según el modelo de San Vital(también en Aquisgrán) son los ejemplos más complejos y mejor conocidos. El desarrollo del cuerpo occidental de las basílicas cristianas a modo de fachada monumental,flanq...

• Essay : Stranger in the village

  people are courteous, he still can feel that he is not welcomed in this village where people are racist and narrow-minded.               The reactions of the villagers can partially be explained by their lack of culture and their narrow-mindedness. Indeed, these people live in a tiny village which is cut of the outside world.  They have to go to the village at the foot of the mountain to see a movie or go to the bank as there is no movie house, no bank nor library in the village. It seems that p...

• Titian.

  Flaying of Marsyas (circa 1570-76, Kroměříž, Czech Republic) and the Nymph and Shepherd (circa 1574, Kunsthistorisches Museum). Here colors are more subdued, but the turbulence of the brushwork, hardly matched again until 20th-century painting, almost submerges the form entirely. These late mythological paintings, whichTitian called poesie (poems), stand among the most formidable statements ever made of the irresistible, elemental powers of nature. These works are paralleled by a sequence...

• If he asks anything, just let him know that it will be OK.

  That's true. It's ashame tobe inside. I guess so. But here weare. I wanted toturn toface him, butIcouldn't. Imoved myhand totouch hishand. They letyou outofschool? Practically immediately. Do you know whathappened? Yeah. Have youheard fromMom orDad? Mom. What didshe say? She said everything wasfineandshewould behome soon. Dad willbehome soon,too.Once hecan close upthe store. Yeah. You pressed yourpalms intothebed likeyou were trying tolift itoff us. Iwanted totell you something, butIdidn't know...

• Flood Control.

  When scientific research into the causes of floods showed that the construction of levees was insufficient as a method of control, the first steps were made to provide forreforestation and soil conservation. The Clarke-McNary Act of 1924, the Mississippi Flood Control Act of 1928, and the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928 were all directedtoward that end. In 1935 the Soil Conservation Service was established by the Congress of the United States under an act declaring a policy of permanent provision f...

• Theseus - Mythology.

  claim his birthright from his father, the king. Aethra took Theseus, when he was 16, to the rock, which the lad lifted easily, and sent him on his way to Athens. Theseus had many adventures on his journey and entered Athens as a hero. Warmly welcomed by his father, Theseus then went on to his greatest adventure, the slaying of the Minotaur, the dreaded bullmonster of King Minos of Crete. Every year, Minos demanded seven men and seven maids from Athens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, thus bring...

• From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - anthology.

  Ignorance is a frail base for virtue! Yet, that it is the condition for which woman was organized, has been insisted upon by the writers who have most vehementlyargued in favour of the superiority of man; a superiority not in degree, but essence; though, to soften the argument, they have laboured to prove, with chivalrousgenerosity, that the sexes ought not to be compared; man was made to reason, woman to feel: and that together, flesh and spirit, they make the most perfect whole, byblending hap...

• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky I INTRODUCTION Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's work combined Russian and European influences.

  The period of his connection with von Meck was one of rich productivity for Tchaikovsky. To this time belong the operas Eugene Onegin (1879), The Maid of Orleans (1881), Mazeppa (1884), and The Sorceress (1887); the ballets Swan Lake (1877) and The Sleeping Beauty (1890); the Violin Concerto in D Major (1878) and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major (1881); the orchestral works Marche Slave (1876), Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (1878), Capriccio Italien (1880), Serenade (1881), the 1...

• Odyssey Greek The epic poem by Homer that describes the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

  turn his men back into their human forms. Under her spell, he dallied for a year on the island of the sorceress, who gave him warnings about the perils he would encounter on his way home. Odysseus in the Underworld - Mythology. After suffering under the spell of the witch-goddess Circe for a year, Odysseus and his crew grew restless and wanted to leave. On the advice of Circe, Odysseus and his crew visited the Underworld (1) to consult the ghost of the blind seer Tiresias. Tiresias had many wa...

• "'Well, what can you say about that?

  names belonged toresidents ofthe Sixth Borough, andwere carved whenCentral Parkstillresided there,instead ofin Manhattan. Somepeople believe theyaremade-up namesand,totake thedoubt astep further, thatthegestures oflove were made-up gestures. Othersbelieve otherthings." "Whatdoyou believe?" "Well, it'shard foranyone, eventhemost pessimistic ofpessimists, tospend morethanafew minutes inCentral Park without feelingthatheorshe isexperiencing sometense inaddition tothe present, right?""I guess. " "Ma...

• William Blake I INTRODUCTION William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, and engraver, who created an unusual form of illustrated verse; his poetry, inspired by mystical vision, is among the most original, lyric, and prophetic in the language.

  Your spring & your day are wasted in play,And your winter and night in disguise. Both series of poems take on deeper resonances when read in conjunction. Innocence and Experience, “the two contrary states of the human soul,” are contrasted insuch companion pieces as “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” Blake’s subsequent poetry develops the implication that true innocence is impossible without experience,transformed by the creative force of the human imagination. III BLAKE AS ARTIST The LambThe Lamb...

• Child Labor.

  States, are usually not subject to state laws because they do not fulfill residency requirements, and they are often unable to attend local schools, which have noprovisions for seasonal increases in school enrollment. Other children exempted from federal and state labor laws are children employed as actors and performers inradio, television, and motion pictures, as newspaper deliverers and sales personnel, or as part-time workers at home. IV INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS In the early 21st century, ch...

• Egyptian Mythology I INTRODUCTION Egyptian Mythology, specifically, the religion of ancient Egypt.

  PtahThe Egyptian god Ptah was, among other things, patron of the arts and of artisans. He was worshipped at Memphis, theancient capital of Egypt. This statue of the deity dates from the 18th dynasty and is in the Egyptian Museum of Turin,Italy.Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis In addition to those already named, the important divinities included the gods Amon, Thoth, Ptah, Khnemu, and Hapi, and the goddesses Hathor, Mut, Neit, andSekhmet. Their importance increased with the political ascendancy of the lo...

• Diego Velázquez (artist) I INTRODUCTION Velázquez and Baroque Theatricality Spanish painter Diego Velázquez presents two scenes in The Fable of Arachne (about 1656, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain), also known as The Spinners.

  search for a position as court painter. In 1623, however, he returned to the capital and, after executing a portrait (1623, Prado) of the king, was named official painterto Philip IV. The portrait was the first among many such sober, direct renditions of the king, the royal family, and members of the court. Indeed, throughout the later1620s, most of Velázquez's efforts were dedicated to portraiture. Mythological subjects would at times occupy his attention, as in Bacchus, also called The Drin...

• moderne, art - peinture.

  La seconde phase, appelée « cubisme synthétique » (1912-1914), est issue de la technique du collage. Des matériaux divers comme le bois, le papier peint, la toile cirée, les journaux, le sable ou les plumes sont collés sur la toile, jouxtant des parties qui sont peintes. L’objet réel, et non plus représenté, est introduit pour la première fois dans une œuvre d’art. Picasso réalise cela pour la première fois avec la Nature morte à la chaise cannée (1912). Bien que les formes restent fragmentées...

• moderne, art - sculpture.

  La seconde phase, appelée « cubisme synthétique » (1912-1914), est issue de la technique du collage. Des matériaux divers comme le bois, le papier peint, la toile cirée, les journaux, le sable ou les plumes sont collés sur la toile, jouxtant des parties qui sont peintes. L’objet réel, et non plus représenté, est introduit pour la première fois dans une œuvre d’art. Picasso réalise cela pour la première fois avec la Nature morte à la chaise cannée (1912). Bien que les formes restent fragmentées...

• Central Processing Unit.

  Development of the computer chip started in 1958 when Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments demonstrated that it was possible to integrate the various components of aCPU onto a single piece of silicon. These computer chips were called integrated circuits (ICs) because they combined multiple electronic circuits on the same chip.Subsequent design and manufacturing advances allowed transistor densities on integrated circuits to increase tremendously. The first ICs had only tens of transistorsper chip com...

• New Orleans - geography.

  levees bordering Lake Pontchartrain. On the 17th Street Canal, a section about 90 m (about 300 ft) wide collapsed, allowing a torrent of water to enter the city. The rapidlyrising waters flooded more than 80 percent of New Orleans. The disaster prompted a mandatory evacuation of the entire city. A week after the storm, the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers finished patching the 17th Street Canal levee and began pumping water out of the city. But by then the damage was catastrophic. The city’s low-lyin...

• Excerpt from The Tempest - anthology.

  When he comes back; you demi-puppets thatBy moonshine do the green, sour ringlets make,Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastimeIs to make midnight mushrumps, that rejoiceTo hear the solemn curfew, by whose aid—Weak masters though ye be—I have bedimmedThe noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds,And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vaultSet roaring war; to the dread rattling thunderHave I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oakWith his own bolt; the strong-based promontoryHave I m...

• Madrid - geography.

  Madrid’s Plaza MayorBuilt in the early 17th century, the Plaza Mayor was used for a variety of activities, including bullfights, executions during theInquisition, and festivals. Today it is one of Madrid’s main tourist attractions.Cesar Lucas/The Image Bank The traditional heart of Madrid is an area 3.9 sq km (1.5 sq mi). In 1656 King Philip IV had a city wall built around the area. Over the next 200 years the city grew throughconstruction of taller buildings and the use of open land within the...

• Calligraphy I INTRODUCTION Japanese Calligraphy This hanging scroll is an example of Japanese calligraphy.

  Section of the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe Egyptian Book of the Dead was a text containing prayers, spells, and hymns, the knowledge of which was to be usedby the dead to guide and protect the soul on the hazardous journey through the afterlife. This section of one such book,dating from the early 19th Dynasty, shows the final judgment of the deceased (in this case Hu-Nefer, the royal scribe)before Osiris, the god of the dead. Hieroglyphs as well as illustrations portray the ritual of weighing t...

• Steam Engine.

  wear caused by this pressure, steam-engine valves are frequently made in a cylindrical form entirely enclosing the piston, so that the pressure is equal all around thevalve and friction is minimized. The development of this type of valve is attributed to the American inventor and manufacturer George Henry Corliss. In other types ofslide valves, the moving portion of the valve is designed so that steam does not press directly on the back of the valve. The linkage between the piston of the engine...

• Puppets I INTRODUCTION Punch and Judy Punch and Judy are characters in an English hand puppet show that first appeared in 1662.

  Rod puppets are controlled by rods attached to their limbs, heads, and bodies. Although the traditional rod puppets of Belgium and Sicily are worked from above, likemarionettes, most contemporary rod figures are operated from below. In theaters, rod puppeteers are frequently concealed from view by drapery or stage flats (fabric stretched across frames). On television and in films, rod and hand puppeteers usually hold their figures either above their heads or in front of their faces. In the lat...

• Mercury (planet) - astronomy.

  In 1991 powerful radio telescopes on Earth revealed signs of possible deposits of ice in the polar regions of Mercury. These ice deposits occur in areas where sunlightnever falls, such as crater bottoms near both of the planet’s poles. Similar ice deposits may have been found during the 1990s near the poles of the Moon by theClementine and Lunar Prospector spacecrafts. The ice on Mercury likely comes from comets or water-bearing meteorites that have hit Mercury over the planet’s historyup throug...

• Silk Road - History.

  and high in value because they were carried on the backs of the limited number of camels in each caravan. Thus, of necessity they were luxury items, not bulky rawmaterials or essential goods for daily use. The oases and towns along the route, which were located in or near remote areas, profited from the Silk Road trade and reliedon it for their existence. The great empires of Persia, China, and Rome, however, could easily have survived without the commerce in luxury goods. V SPREAD OF RELIGION A...

• which became a seed.

  BEAUTIFUL ANDTRUE   Mom made spaghetti fordinner thatnight. Ronatewith us.Iasked himifhe was stillinterested inbuying meafive-piece drum setwith Zildjian cymbals. Hesaid, "Yeah. Ithink thatwould begreat." "Howabout adouble basspedal?" "Idon't know whatthatis,but Ibet wecould arrange it."Iasked himwhy hedidn't havehisown family. Momsaid,"Oskar!" I said, " What? " Ron putdown hisknife andfork andsaid, "It'sOK." Hesaid, "Idid have afamily, Oskar.Ihad awife anda daughter." "Didyougetdivorced?" Helau...

• James A.

  Treasury John Sherman, another Ohioan. He went to the Republican national convention as head of his state's delegation and manager of the Sherman campaign. The Republican Party at that time was split into two factions, the Stalwarts, led by Roscoe Conkling, senator from New York, and the Half-Breeds, led by Blaine. The twogroups had few political differences, but disagreed over the division of appointments to federal positions, known as patronage. The Stalwarts wanted control of all federal ap...

• Forensic Science.

  barbiturates, cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin. When a body is discovered in a lake, stream, river, or ocean and the lungs are found to be filled with water, the medical examiner must determine if the drowningoccurred where the body was found or elsewhere. A standard microscope that can magnify objects to 1500 times their actual size is used to look for the presence orabsence of diatoms, single-celled algae that are found in all natural bodies of water. The absence of diatoms raises the possi...

• London (England) - geography.

  D The East End and Docklands The East End, beyond the City of London and the Tower, has long been the home of London’s docks and immigrants. It has frequently been characterized by slums, poverty,and crime. This is the area where the notorious criminal Jack the Ripper prowled. Some portions, such as Bethnal Green, were slums during the Victorian period. Manypoorer immigrants and working-class Londoners still reside in the East End, but its weekend street markets are very popular, especially Pet...

• Magnetism I INTRODUCTION Magnetism, an aspect of electromagnetism, one of the fundamental forces of nature.

  the French physicist Paul Langevin produced a theory regarding the temperature dependence of the magnetic properties of paramagnets (discussed below), which wasbased on the atomic structure of matter. This theory is an early example of the description of large-scale properties in terms of the properties of electrons and atoms.Langevin's theory was subsequently expanded by the French physicist Pierre Ernst Weiss, who postulated the existence of an internal, “molecular” magnetic field inmaterials...