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    Aztec Origin

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    The Aztecs Origin The Aztecs were a small tribe that went to northwestern Mexico until 1116 BCE. According to a legend‚ one-day‚ Huitzilopochtli which is the god of sun and war‚ told the people to move south. He told them he would take them to a secure home. The new home would be marked with a sign. It took them 100 years until one day a priest saw the sign. It was in the middle of a lake called Texcoco. There were other tribes living in the place. They were reluctant and didn’t let them share the

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    Satan's Origin

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    from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. God‚ of course‚ forbade Adam and Eve from eating from the tree‚ and in doing so‚ this caused them to be expelled from the garden and indirectly caused sin to enter the world. Satan’s origin‚ however‚ was as an angel in heaven serving under God. At this time‚ he was known as Lucifer. Lucifer grew jealous of humans‚ who are in God’s eyes‚ his most perfect creation. Lucifer‚ and a group of angels whom he persuaded‚ rebelled against God

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    Origin of disparities

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    Origin of disparities Gini coefficient Lorenz curve Disparities resulting from : - parental education - ethnicity - residence - income - employment - land ownership Gini coefficient is a measure of dispersion or inequality. It’s used to show inequality in wealth. (land distribution). It allows to analyze the changes in income inequality over time in individual countries and make comparisons between them. It ranges from 0 to 1. It is sometimes multiplied by hundred to give values from 0

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    The Origins of Theatre

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    The Origins of Theatre Theatre has been around for thousands of years dating back to the B.C.E era. There are many forms of theatre Ritual Theatre‚ uses theatrical techniques of song‚ dance‚ and characterization but is still firmly rooted in religion. Many scholars agree on two traits that distinguish theatre from rituals. First theatre must have an actor that plays a character‚ a person that takes on a role of a human‚ object‚ or animal. Second theatre usually has a story with conflict;

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    is continued in Islamic mathematics‚ whence it is adopted as a separate subject in the Latin West beginning in the Renaissance with Regiomontanus. The development of modern trigonometry then takes place in the western Age of Enlightenment‚ beginning with 17th century mathematics (Isaac Newton‚ James Stirling) and reaching its modern form with Leonhard Euler. The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians had known of theorems on the ratios of the sides of similar triangles for many centuries. But pre-Hellenic

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    Berlin Wall

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    The Berlin Wall was a huge part of the history of Germany because it was a contributing factor in the way that Germany was shaped from 1961 to 1989. There was no one reason for the building of the Wall it was a cluster of many events that took place. The west part of Germany was a very prosperous and profound area in the late 1950’ and early 1960’s and it was only going to get better. They had wanted to continue to grow their economy but East Germany was holding it back. East Germany was ‘behind

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    Berlin Wall

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    The Berlin wall caused much strife during its existence. It started with the conflict between the USSR and the Allies and quickly escalated from there. The long years it stood were full of separation and conflict. The story of the Berlin wall is not one easily forgotten. During WWII the Soviet army captured the German city of Berlin. The U.S.‚ Great Britain‚ France‚ and the Soviet Union all occupied a sector of Berlin. The United States‚ Britain‚ and France occupied sectors in West German and Berlin

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    Mending Wall

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    2011 An Analysis of Robert Frost ’s Mending Wall In his poem‚ “Mending Wall”‚ Robert Frost presents two gentlemen and their annual effort to repair a wall that separates their property. Frost uses the wall as a metaphor to portray the idea of barriers between people‚ and the repairing of the wall to demonstrate repairing a friendship and coming together. Frost uses metaphoric symbolism in the poem‚ using the process of repairing an actual wall‚ as a representation of the barriers that separate

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    The Origin of Terrorism

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    occurred throughout history. In the 20th cent. acts of terrorism have been associated with the Italian Red Brigades‚ the Irish Republican Army‚ the Palestine Liberation Organization‚ Peru ’s Shining Path‚ and the Weathermen among many groups. It is a modern tool of the alienated and its psychological impact on the public has increased because of extensive coverage by the media. Governments find terrorism difficult to prevent; international agreements to tighten borders or return terrorists for trial

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    Origin of Clothing

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    Origin of clothing Dr. Nidhi L Sharda‚ NIFT‚ Bangalore Clothing‚ need.. Clothing protects the vulnerable nude human body from the extremes of weather‚ other features of our environment‚ and for safety reasons. Every article of clothing also carries a cultural and social meaning. Human beings are the only creatures known to wear clothing Dr. Nidhi L Sharda‚ NIFT‚ Bangalore The first biblical reference to clothes appears in Genesis 3… Shortly after Adam and Eve ate the fruit

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