This video “Xapiri” by Bruce Albert observes the xamãs Yamomami or the shamans of the Yamomami tribe in their spiritual ritual involving the use of a plant produced from the resin of the Virola tree. “At the beginning of time‚ Father Sun practiced incest with his daughter‚ who acquired Viho by scratching her father’s penis.”1 This is considered as a “sacred snuff from the sun’s semen‚ and since it is still hallowed‚ it is kept in containers called muhipu-nuri‚ or ‘penis of the sun.’”1 It is a hallucinogen
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The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1946. The novel begins with Meursault receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Over the next two weeks after the funeral‚ Meursault carries on like nothing tragic happened. He gets a girlfriend‚ befriends a pimp‚ and goes on a beach vacation with both. During the vacation‚ he and Raymond‚ the pimp‚ get into a fight with the Arabs and Meursault kills one without an explanation for the crime. At the murder trial‚ the court said he was cold-hearted
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the road. People may think that Vietnam is a poor developing country‚ but in Hanoi there is an incredible number of cars‚ a lot owned by the government but increasing numbers owned by private individuals. Recently‚ the government approved a policy to allow second hand cars to be imported‚ which is only going to add the the congestion in big cities like Hanoi and Saigon. Food blogger Noodlepie down in Saigon mentions that “he gave up driving a motorbike in Vietnam about three or four years ago” because
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RIO GRANDE SUPPLY CO. A Case Analysis Report for Management Dynamics RO90234 Professor Efren Laxamana Ateneo Graduate School of Business 070610 Revisions RECOGNITION OF DECISION REQUIREMENT FACTS OF THE CASE: • Jasper Hennings‚ president of Rio Grande Supply Co.‚ knew that a company’s top executives are responsible for determining an organization’s corporate culture. He was proud of the culture of the Texas-based wholesale plumbing supply company. His management team espoused
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.‚ May 2002 Robert M. Grant Wal-Mart Stores 1. TO WHAT EXTENT IS WAL-MART’S PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTABLE TO INDUSTRY ATTRACTIVENESS AND TO WHAT EXTENT TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE? A company has a competitive advantage over its rivals when its profitability is greater than the average profitability of all companies in its industry. It has a sustained competitive advantage when it is able to maintain above-average profitability
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The story The Guest‚ by Albert Camus‚ read on page 381 of Perrine’s Literature textbook‚ contains many symbols. Perrine describes symbols as “Something that means more than what it suggests on the surface.”(Perrine 300). This could be any person‚ place‚ thing‚ action‚ name or situation that the story presents us with‚ as long as the story also supports the symbol. Perrine writes that there are four ‘rules’ to identifying symbols. The first is that “the story itself must furnish a clue that a detail
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When Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in 1942‚ his intention was to present absurdism and existentialism to the world. The absurdity of life from Camus’s eyes come to life through the main character‚ Meursault. Throughout the novel‚ Meursault doesn’t wish he could live another life nor does he attempt to change his final judgement. Meursault’s inability to feel emotions and express them to others is a primary example of existentialism throughout the novel. From Meursault’s physical descriptions of
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1 The Guest by Albert Camus Translated by Justin O’Brien he schoolmaster was watching the two men climb toward him. One was on horseback‚ the other on foot. They had not yet tackled the abrupt rise leading to the schoolhouse built on the hillside. They were toiling onward‚ making slow progress in the snow‚ among the stones‚ on the vast expanse oft he high‚ deserted plateau. From time to time the horse stumbled. Without hearing anything yet‚ he could see the breath issuing from the
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military power to take over the Americas despite the rebelling natives. “The Europeans conquered it‚ in spite of resistance by some 300 native people” (Chapman 4). “As early of 1598‚ Juan de Onate had led a group of colonists to the region north of the Rio Grande. These colonists set up small agricultural villages and ranches along the rivers and established the mission and town of Santa Fe in 1609” (Downey 43). Establishment of colonies meant more power‚ and the goal of the Spanish‚ French‚
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929‚ also known as Black Tuesday[1] and the Stock Market Crash of 1929‚ began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States‚ when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.[2] The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries[3] The American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941 moved approximately ten million
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