BRITISH YEAR: Festivals and Holidays 1. Although (1) Midsummer’s Eve is not traditionally a widely celebrated festival in Britain‚ it is celebrated by (2) druids (practitioners of an ancient religion now virtually extinct)‚ at the prehistoric stone circle of (3) Stonehenge . In recent years‚ groups of travellers — caravan dwellers — and (4) hippies have also tried to claim the right to enter the circle to see the sun rise on this day‚ but they have generally not been allowed‚ largely because of
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1. Decision tree for Friday pressing Mr. Ward is trying to decide on how many CDs to press on the first night of the festival. His intuition combined with his experience allowed him to make some predictions of demand. These take the form of probabilities. “The probabilities may be subjective estimates from managers or from experts in a particular field‚ or they may reflect historical frequencies. If they are reasonably correct‚ they provide a decision maker with additional information that can
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mooncakes are to mid-autumn festival what mince pies are to christmas. the seasonal round cakes traditionally have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon. and the moon is what this celebration is all about. mid-autumn festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th month‚ it is the time when the moon is said to be at its brightest and fullest. this year the festival falls on october 1. there are two legends
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New and unusual situations often affect a person’s behaviour. In Lord of the Flies‚ the boys’ situation was that they were marooned on a remote island without any parental guidance. In the beginning‚ Jack Merridew says “[he] agree[s] with Ralph. [They’ve] got to have rules and obey them. After all‚ [they’re] not savages” (Golding 42) which shows that during the boys’ settlement on the island‚ they believed that rules would help them be good civilians while surviving on the island‚ however that did
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Tomorrow is the Dionysia festival. This will be my third one since moving here to Athens four years ago. I plan on attending the newest tragedies being performed at the theater of Dionysus. I heard that Sophokles is introducing one this year. It is called Oedipus Rex. Tomorrow should be an interesting day. Elaphebolion 2‚ 426 Today was a wonderful day. The day began with an early start. I woke up and adorned myself with my finest peplos. I left my home for the festival and immediately headed for
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leading German director‚ who will introduce both the film and the director (if he is in attendance)‚ and then moderate a discussion with the audience and the director immediately after the film. Already shown and praised at various international film festivals such as San Sebastian‚ Toronto‚ Locarno and Venice‚ most of them yet still without German distribution‚ these films have been all but unavailable to audiences in Berlin. AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS gives the unique chance to discover‚ to discuss
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Event Description On February 17th‚ I had the opportunity to visit Flagstaff Bike Revolution to view one of the feature films of the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival. It took place in an awesome mountain bike shop in downtown Flagstaff. Everyone in attendance was someone who loved the outdoors and being active. The short film I watched was called‚ “Across the Sky”‚ directed by Renan Ozturk. You could see many people holding there breath as Théo Sanson walked 500 meters on a slack line from The Rectory
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only writes of school‚ church and other everyday occurrences in the town of Jonesville‚ until October 24th‚ 1860‚ when she finally had something worthwhile to write about. The sun was high and Becca awoke. Today was the Jonesville Annual Harvest Festival. Rebecca arose to put on her dress and walked downstairs. She couldn’t wait to spend the night with her two beaux‚ Alex and Charlie. After daily chores were finished‚ Becca retrieved a horse and wagon from the barn. Becca and her mother‚ Sarah
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parole in prison. Recent statistics show that in 2007 the crime rate increased‚ but in 2015 it decreased dramatically. I agree with the majority of Supreme Court Justices who believe that this sentence violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment because juveniles are still immature‚ developing their brains‚ and unaware of impact of decision. In middle school and in high school is when stages for juveniles behavior happen. They can either go from really immature to the maturest
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EVERYONE GET DOWN!!! You get stepped on while on the ground as another people our running but them see them fall drop to the ground shot up. The bullets stop and all you hear is sirens and screams. The evening of October 1st 2017 a country music festival was playing with Jason Aldean headlining. A man named Stephen Paddock fired a gun into the crowd from his hotel room on the 32nd floor at the Mandalay Bay hotel. 59 people have been confirmed dead and over 500 have been reported injured either from
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