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    Ancient Japanese Culture

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    Ancient Japan had many interesting places and customs. It also had samurai to defend Japanese citizens and festivals to attend to celebrate. It even had beautiful cherry blossom trees‚ it still does to this day. Ancient Japan had the beautiful side and the dark side. With earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ and volcanoes‚ oh my! Japan is about 377‚915 square kilometers‚ about the size of California. There are four main islands. Hokkaido‚ Honshu‚ Shikoku‚ and Kyushu. There are also thousands of smaller islands

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    Ancient Egyptians believed that after death there is rebirth‚ which is the reason why they perform certain funeral activities. Egyptians believe that death is just an interruption to life. The body of the dead is preserved by mummification‚ and supplies for statues and other funeral equipment. Each human consists the ’ka’‚ the ’ba’‚ and the ’akh‚ which are supposed to be sustained and protected from harm. After they die‚ they believed that the ‘ba’ (spirit) leaves your body temporarily and then returns

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    Story

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    Practical analysis 1 While reading the following story‚ I noted its plot structure: 1. Are the events arranged chronologically? Do they catch and hold the reader’s interest? All the events arranged chronologically‚ they catch readers interest‚ because after two Soapy’s attempts ”to go to the Island” that were failed it’s interesting to know what’s the end will be. 2. What is the role of the exposition? The exposition is the beginning section in which the author provides the necessary background

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    The novel not only talks about the human destructing the nature but also touches major factors that are used by humanity to destruct this world and those could turn against humanity itself at the end. Atwood talks about technologies‚ genetic engineering‚ scientific inventions‚ private corporations and law and order. The God’s Gardeners in the novels can be compared to the ecological splinter groups that still believe in the importance of nature and take serious actions to protect the nature. Their

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    Ancient Greek Mythology

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    Religion and Mythology in Ancient Greece were looked upon with the utmost importance‚ the Greek myths and tales of religion explained the unexplainable‚ gave reason to live and a sense of stability to a community. Ancient Greek myths can make the protagonist or other main character a role model in the way that they author writes them. The reader can also obtain life lessons from the myth or legend. A worthy illustration of this is the Ancient Greek god Apollo‚ who is a wealthy king a‚ affectionate

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    A story

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    Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story” depicts the complex relationship between a father and his son. Lee portrays the complexity of their relationship by using point of view to understand how the father feels in this situation. The structure of this poem helps paint the fears the father has by shifting to the future. Also the use of diction adds emotion to the love that is being shared by the father and his son. Through the point of view‚ the structure‚ and the diction used in the poem‚ Lee is able to convey

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    innovation but still relied on spiritual and theological explanations to what did not make sense at that time in their cultural development. As part of this‚ ancient cultures created deities to help bring understanding to the unexplainable. In many ways‚ these deities also were reflection on the societies themselves. The ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian societies had both developed theocratic cultures‚ with multiple defined deities that each represented an unknown part of the world‚ such as life after

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    Pyramids and pharaohs‚ mummies and magic‚ picture writing on papyrus—ancient Egypt had all this‚ and much more. Rich‚ powerful‚ and peace-loving‚ this North African kingdom was home to a splendid civilization that lasted 3‚000 years‚ from about 3300 bc to 30 bc. Ancient Egypt was a vast territory‚ stretching 700 miles (1‚100 kilometers) southward from the Mediterranean Sea. Most of it was hot‚ dry‚ and dusty. The Egyptians called it Deshret (red land). But the world’s longest river‚ the Nile

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    system‚ by using cuneiform script on clay tablets. In the 19th century archaeologists exploring the ancient ruins of Nineveh‚ discovered 22‚000 of these clay tablets. When they were later translated the text describes many stories similar to those found in the Christian Bible. "Virtually every story that’s in Genesis‚ the flood story‚ Adam and Eve story‚ they all have precedence with the ancient Sumerians" - Arthur D. Horn‚ PH.D. In 1976 Author Zac Siten published his own translations of all

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    essentially impacted by its geographical features. Because agriculture was of significant importance to ancient Egyptians‚ it was also the foundation of Egypt’s prosperity. Egypt is separated by two lands‚ the “Black Land”‚ which is the fertile land on the banks of the Nile that the ancient Egyptians used to plant their crops. It contained a layer of rich black silt that built up every year after the flood. The “Red Land”‚ which is dessert‚ protected Egypt on two sides from nearby countries and invasion

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