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    Rain Dance History

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    ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Indian Rain Dance A rain dance is a dancing ceremony performed by some Native American Indian tribes‚ asking their spirits or gods to send rain. It is more common among Southwest Native Americans‚ who live in drier regions. Time Frame * The rain dance normally takes place during the spring planting season and the summer months before crops are harvested. The dance asks the gods or spirits to send the appropriate amount of rain at the correct time to assure a plentiful

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    human they are able to multiply easily‚ which causes them to be at a great advantage and puts humans at a disadvantage. This helps them survive in the human body and causes a serious infection even with the arrival of a single protozoon. Infections caused by protozoa are contagious. Those protozoa that have inhabited the human intestine can be transmitted from one human to the other via the fecal-oral route‚ such as through sharing food the infected person has touched and through direct person to person

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    Review on Cat in The Rain of Ernest Hemingway A couple of Americans traveled in Italy. At the hotel‚ on a raining day‚ the wife found a cat crouched in the rain and wanted to take the cat and possess it. She went out and searched the cat in the rain‚ to find it had gone. Coming back‚ she told her husband her wish to change her hair style and was turned down by her husband. After her several other wishes were also turned down‚ a waitress of the hotel knocked the door‚ at the demand of the hotel owner

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    My Rain Memory

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    I awoke at midday afternoon to the sound of the piercing rain against the roof. It was that usual waking time‚ on days when I have all day to do the things I wanted and all the time to do it but not doing it anyway‚ except that it was raining very hard. Normally I would just shut my eyes back and spend the whole day sleeping. But not this time. I looked out the window momentarily and stared into the open space‚ then curled back to bed. I shifted towards the ceiling‚ paused‚ and before I knew it‚

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    made life in the Dust Bowl very burdensome. During the 1930’s‚ the Great Plains was plagued with a drought‚ a long period of dryness‚ which brought demise to many of the farmers in the region. This horrible drought started in 1930‚ a year that saw heavy rains in a very short time‚ which cause flooding in many areas of the Oklahoma Panhandle. The year continued to with horrible blizzards in the winter and a drought into the late summer. Many of the farms in the Great Plains‚ losing most of the crop

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    Released in 1951‚ Singin in the Rain was one of the last films to be produced during the profitable golden age of the studio system. It evokes the typical characteristics of the popular MGM Hollywood musical by relying on superstar names and infectious dance numbers. However‚ Singin in the Rain incorporates an additional level of parody into its nostalgic plot that focuses on the disruptive shift from silent movies to "talkies." The film showcases classical Hollywood musical numbers supplemented

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    Air pollution is caused by humans. Smog and ozone layer depletion are two major causes. They are both toxics in the air that humans create and toxics that effect humans as well. Smog is caused by so many different chemicals that ranges from things like automobile exhaust to hairspray. It affects humans mainly in the circulatory and respiratory systems which are both very important and crucial to survive. Ozone layer depletion is a very serious decline of gas in the ozone layer which is bad because

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    The BP Oil Disaster

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    largest providers of products and services to the energy industry‚” according to their website homepage. Transocean is an offshore drilling company helps companies such as BP find oil and natural gas reserves. Yet people call the oil spill the “BP oil disaster”. Due to the fact that BP was the company who was running operations‚ they are the ones to be ultimately responsible. Both BP and Transocean have taken responsibility for their actions‚ but Halliburton has denied any responsibility for this

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    Ms. Rain Symbolism

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    Ms. Rain played the symbol of a hero on Precious’s come back to society. Before Ms. Rain appeared in Precious’s life she was just a teen that was constantly beat up by her mom and raped by her father until they were satisfied. Everyone gave up on her and ignored her in school‚ she was invisible to society. When Precious stumbled upon Ms. Rain‚ she saw her as just another teacher who will brush her off the equation. Then‚ she started to realize that Ms. Rain really cared about her. Ms.Rain pushed

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    Amazon Rain Forest

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    Dear Coach Williams‚ i’m writing to you from the Amazon Rain Forest. It’s currently raining and a little humid‚ but the animals don’t seem to mind. There are thousands of species of Animals‚ as well as plants‚ in the Amazon. It does rain a lot and there aren’t really changes in seasons. The soil isn’t the greatest in the Amazon. There are surprisingly many different tribes Here. There are many things to talk about after being here in the Amazon. There are a variety of animals in rainforests

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