Attan Attan is a traditional Afghan dance. It is said to be one of the oldest forms of Afghan Pagan dance. It is usually performed with a Dhol‚ which is a double-headed barrel drum. The dance can be anywhere from 5 minute to 30 minutes long. There are many different regional variations of Attan‚ the most famous being Kabuli‚ Paktiyaya‚ Mazari‚ Kandahari‚ Sistani‚ Herati‚ Pashayi‚ and Nuristani. During King Yama’s time‚ Attan was performed before going to a war because it used to give the army the
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Severe Weather Storms: Hurricanes and Tornadoes A hurricane is an extremely violent tropical cyclone. The origin of the term Hurricane originates from a Mayan Storm god by the name of Hurakan. He was a Central American idol who believably caused the storms. Years later‚ the hypothesis of someone creating angry storms has been corrected. It is known that these storms are an act of nature by God’s laws at work. The term hurricane just stuck with the weather condition. Another source states
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Unforgiving Weather In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ life moves fast and there’s no time for people to care about each other’s problems. Now‚ this is not simply because people have become selfish. Instead‚ it’s the fact that pretentiousness has consumed the moral compass of East and West Eggers alike. Fitzgerald shows this ugly truth by using various symbols like cars and colors to represent different things. One motif or symbol that is evident throughout this novel is weather--which helps
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The Terrifying Importance of London’s Weather Through Sherlock Holmes In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of Detective Sherlock Holmes‚ the city of London itself is an important character and has a very active role. The city interferes constantly with the story and places itself dominantly in the novels. It is important to note how the city of London is represented and what kind of role it plays in the tales of Detective Holmes. Looking into how the city not only seems to create its own crime
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to fade‚ the winter winds whipped into Maycomb‚ Alabama. In a southern town touched throughout the year by sun and mugginess‚ the unusually harsh cold bit into the residents‚ promising a longer winter than perhaps it had yet experienced. The cold weather front sweeping into the sleepy Alabama town not only laid the groundwork for important plot points‚ but also carried with it deeper significance. The onset of a cold winter in the setting of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portended a bitter cold
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The Black Death was a plague that devastated Europe during the 14th and 15th Century. Before the plague‚ Europe was in the Late Middle Ages‚ a time of both development and problems. Some of these problems were causes of the plague. The Black Death has changed Europe economically by causing people to pay for religious services‚ making nobles pay higher wages to peasants and serfs and helping peasants gain money. Socially‚ the Black Death caused the downfall of feudalism and created discrimination
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Literary Analysis: The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Siddiqui Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Rainy Day” uses the themes of lost and renewed hope‚ youth and grief to show how much our past and future experiences affect our lives and how though we face multiple struggles in life we can overcome them. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born February 28th‚ 1807 and died March 24th‚ 1882. He was inspired to write poetry from Romanticism. Not only did he accomplish writing many pieces of poetry
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understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather is a set of physical conditions of the lower atmosphere‚ including temperature‚ precipitation‚ humidity‚ wind speed‚ cloud cover‚ and other factors‚ in a given area over a period of hours or days. Weather differs from climate‚ which is the general pattern of atmospheric conditions in a given area over periods ranging from at least three decades to thousands of years. In other words‚ climate is the sum of weather conditions in a given area‚
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Are Sunny days special without Rainy days Yes. Sunny days can become special EVEN without Rainy days. Sunny days imply days having sun and rainy days are those which are raining. they do not refer to the seasons SUMMER ‚ RAINY... This question is not a simple one as to answer that rainy days are not suitable for playing and sunny days are quite suitable. What is that SPECIALITY is the question. Sun and rain are two sides of same coin. They are among five elements of NATURE- Pancha Bhootas. Sun
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A major point in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is the representation of weather that is taking place throughout most of the story. This storm is the reason that Calixta’s husband and son cannot return home from the store and causes her to run into her former lover Alcée Laballire. A storm is typically something that can be frightening‚ builds in intensity‚ and invokes chaos momentarily in the outside world. As Bobint points out in the story‚ the storm created “sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister
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