One of the most common and most famous ones is Yubitsume. Yubitsume is a ritual used to atone for offense to another‚ usually a way to be punished or apologise to another. It is the act of cutting off portions of one’s little finger. The ritual first originated with the bakuto (gamblers). If someone was unable to pay off their gambling debt‚ some groups would accept yubitsume as an alternative payment. The reason it is the little finger that is amputated is because in Japanese swordsmanship the
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As coal is a cheap fire material‚ and coal fired boiler is still very popular used in many industry. Here this article will say something detail about how to improve the efficiency of a coal boiler. In high capacity pulverized coal fired boilers‚ the total losses account to about 12 to 14%‚ i.e. 86 to 88% boiler efficiency. Roughly 50% of the losses can be tuned to the optimum and the other 50% is governed by fuel properties like hydrogen in fuel‚ moisture in fuel‚ and ambient air conditions. Boiler
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It has been something we have been dealing with for a long time. It almost seems impossible to get rid of it‚ and we hear about it almost everyday. Littering. Littering has become such a regular problem that almost nobody cares about it anymore. Littering is wrong‚ and really harmful to everyone and the environment. There are three reasons why I believe this is so. One of them the reasons is that over 9 billion tons of litter end up in the ocean each year. Another is that littering is a waste of
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About Lafayette http://www.ci.lafayette.ca.us/ The community of Lafayette located in Contra Costa County‚ California is home to more than 24‚000 people. The city in the hills is known for its luxury living and pastoral scenery. The rural community‚ located between Walnut Creek and Berkley‚ boasts hills carpeted in woodland‚ clean air‚ and a mild climate. Only 25 minutes from San Fransisco‚ the area is prized for its high quality life‚ safe neighborhoods‚ excellent schools and and wealth of natural
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threatened with imminent annihilation or given a short time to live‚ we are predisposed to perceive of the future as something open-ended and unlimited‚ regardless of our age. We are loath to admit our existence is finite. Some of us are so sensitive about the subject of death that people or practices that appear to be different from the familiar give us pause. We reject otherness‚ change and uncertainty because they represent the possibility of our demise. Thousands of religious belief systems exist
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Paragraph (written in complete sentence/correct paragraph format): I have two questions. My first question is why did the mob leave? I believe that one of the main reasons why the mob left was because of Scout. Scout would not leave the prison even after the mob threatened her and Jem. In response to one of the men trying to remove Jem from the prison‚ she kicked the man very hard in the leg. Scout made the men feel guilty about what they were planning on doing. One man in particular Scout focused
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the Singapore government know that their small country lacks nature resources and can’t compete with other countries. Because of this reason‚ the Singapore people try to give an unpolluted and beautiful homeland to their offspring. Singapore did the first thing to promote the people’s environmental awareness. For instance‚ all of the students in the Singapore have a class of environment. Singapore government wants their citizens to know how to protect environment from younger because a good habit is
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What You Need to Know About Rickets Rickets was once viewed as a public health problem that required urgent care. It was known to have largely fallen off of the public’s radar until recently. Many researchers are calling attention to a revival of rickets. But what is Rickets and why is there a resurge of incidents being seen? Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children also known as Osteomalacia in adults‚ usually because of a vitamin D deficiency or genetic condition. Vitamin
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of being communicated. 2. the imparting or interchange of thoughts‚ opinions‚ or information by speech‚ writing‚ or signs. 3. something imparted‚ interchanged‚ or transmitted. 4. a document or message imparting news‚ views‚ information‚ etc. 5. passage‚ or an opportunity or means of passage‚ between places. 6. communications. means of sending messages‚ orders‚ etc.‚ including telephone‚ telegraph‚ radio‚ and television. routes and transportation for moving troops and supplies
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all of my friends and my roots. I was a very intelligent student; however I knew that the biggest challenge for me was going to learn to speak English. Everything was new for me and had to adapt fast. I remember when my dad started talking to my mom about moving over here. I heard them talking but I did not give it any importance. The idea of changing houses to me seemed absurd. We had everything there was not any need for us to do such thing. At that time my sister had been having trouble with school
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