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    For many students‚ middle school is challenging time due to identity issues‚ physical growth and strong emotions. At the same time‚ in middle-school is when students develop deep and close friendships forming their own rewarding social circles. However‚ students diagnosed with Autism do not have the same experience. Autism is a developmental disorder characterizes by difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication‚ which impacts a child’s ability to interact‚ communicate and

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    renaissance of sorts in the world‚ but it traces its history to biblical times. Extensive rain water harvesting apparatus existed 4000 years ago in the Palestine and Greece. In ancient Rome‚ residences were built with individual cisterns and paved courtyards to capture rain water to augment water from city’s aqueducts. As early as the third millennium BC‚ farming communities in Baluchistan and Kutch impounded rain water and used it for irrigation dams. WHY RAIN WATER HARVESTING : Rain water harvesting

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    Angkor Wat is the largest ancient temple in southwest Cambodia that was constructed by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as a religious center. It was made out of enormous amounts of sandstone‚ as much as Khafres pyramid in Egypt (over 5million tons) and It was made soon after King Suryavarman II came to the throne and was finished shortly after his death‚ no more than 40 years. Angkor Wat lies 5.5 km north of the modern town of Siem Riep‚ and a short distance south from the previous

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    husband and wife‚ had an angel fall into their yard. At first they were going to put the angel on a raft and free him from their chicken coop prison. Instead‚ they decided to charge admission to see the fallen angel that they held captive in their courtyard (6). They knew that people would come from everywhere to see this spectacle‚ and took advantage of the situation. By keeping this angel locked up in the chicken coop‚ they were profiting off of his misery. The people that came complained of their

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    These two David’s sculptures might look very different from each other at the first glance‚ but if you study them close‚ they actually have many similarities. One of Donatello’s best-known work portrays David after he defeated Goliath by striking him with a stone and cutting his head off with Goliath’s own sword. Donatello was the first artist that created a nude life-sized sculpture since antiquity. His bronze sculpture of David indicates that he completely mastered the classical tradition of art

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    too clear in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film‚ ‘Rear Window’. From the opening credits‚ we immediately get a sense of what this film is about. The slow uprising of the James Jeff’s (L.B. Jeffries a.k.a. Jeff) window blinds to reveal the setting‚ the courtyard and the apartment blocks we soon become all too familiar with is just perfect. This technique instantly puts a sense of surveillance and voyeurism into the forefront of the viewer’s minds. We then see that Jeff‚ who we realise is a photographer

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    the similarities and differences each story and its effects of tragedy. In the story‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”‚ Marquez tells the story of an angel-like man who falls from the sky into the courtyard of Pelayo and Elisenda. The angel-like man is seen when the couple is out in the courtyard disposing crabs. They believe the odor from the crabs is causing their newborn to become ill. Pelayo sees something from a distance and hear sounds of moaning. The author writes‚ “He had to go very lose

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    which is extremely important. School aged children are also taken to mosques by their fathers or older relatives in order to make them acquire the habit of going to prayers. So many people go to mosques that they do not fit inside or even in the courtyard. When this is the case‚ they take small carpets from home to mosques‚ put them in the streets near the mosque and join in with the service. The Imams give sermons as this is an opportunity to preach to so many people together. The dominant subject

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    Religion has been the beacon of hope that people have looked towards during times of distress‚ being one of the largest influences in the world. It also has been the moral compass for people worldwide. However‚ the mystery of religion has left people unsatisfied in the world today‚ frustrated that they can’t get the clear answers they seek. Because of the rising thirst for knowledge‚ people disregard their religion as merely a show and in turn leave their faith in exchange for sources that have more

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    Stenbock House is a prominent neo-classical building located on Toompea hill‚ Tallinn. It is the official seat of the Government of the Republic of Estonia.The history of the Stenbock house in Tallinn goes back to the 1780s‚ when the Russian Imperial administration of what was then the Governorate of Estonia launched a scheme to erect new buildings for administrative purposes. Originally‚ the building was intended as a courthouse.[1][2] Count Jakob Pontus Stenbock‚ a member of the local nobility

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