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    Controlled Burns Controlled burning is helpful and can be used for many reasons that are beneficial to the forest or burnt area. Controlled burns can; prevent further naturally started fires by burning out all the leftover dry material‚ get rid of dead plants to make room for new vegetation to grow which in turn creates new homes for animals‚ and can even help the soil gain nutrients.  Some believe that controlled burning isn’t necessary and that the chance for the fire to go out of control is too

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    Parallel Brides A berdel‚ or double marriage‚ is the marriage of a brother and a sister to another brother and sister. It is a very elaborate matchmaking process which involves two families essentially swapping daughters to marry each others sons. It requires several meetings of both families to discuss many marriage details like when and where the daughters shall meet to switch families and be brought back to their new homes to be wed. It is a very intricate and stressful procedure and if not

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    Candle Burning Lab

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    the combustion of a candle? The purpose of this lab was to find out the properties and characteristics of a candle. Also the purpose was to find the remnants that the combustion of a candle leaves behind as gas. I learned that the candle that is burning releases a certain gas into the air. I also learned that limewater has a chemical reaction when exposed to that gas and turns red. Hypothesis: For this Lab‚ my hypothesis was that the candles are going from solid to gas because of a high and quick

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    Bucher‚ A. (n.d.). Child Brides - Five Days in Niger . NOW | PBS. PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved April 19‚ 2012‚ from http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/341/niger-journal.html This is a journal written my Amy Boucher who is a member of UNICEF and she was sent to Niger to explore on the topic of child brides. This source was relevant to my research as it provided me with an insight of the country. Also‚ some of

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    THE PRINCESS BRIDE The Princess Bride‚ a story of love‚ revenge and adventure. Amongst all the revenge and adventure this story brings it still manages to maintain the sweet romance between farm boy‚ Wesley (Carl Elwes) and dazzling princess‚ Buttercup (Robin Wright). Robert Reiner‚ director of this not so ordinary love tale has done and extraordinary job in capturing some of the truly hilarious personalities of many characters

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    Asian Mail Order Brides

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    Asian mail order brides are too popular these days because they are sweet‚ appealing‚ beautiful‚ and traditional. Every year‚ there are thousands of Asian-American men or other Asian-Western men get married with these brides in Asia and bring them back to the new nation. You know what‚ most of these brides are very selected girls whose men chose to marry. They are very attractive physically and they have the inner beauty‚ traditionally. Asian mail order brides began with the Internet online dating

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    PUNTLAND CHARCOAL BURNING

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    “Charcoal burning has degraded Puntland’s environment” _________________________________________ CHARCOAL BURNING HAS DEGRADED PUNTLAND’S ENVIRONMENT “ARTICLE” _______________________________________ “This Article about Puntland’s Environmental degradation which have always been challenges in the management of the natural resources‚ have accelerated during the last two decades due to an increasing number of causes as well as their combined effects and how charcoal burning has degraded Puntland’s

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    this little bride & groom are e e cummings criticises marriage in his poem this little bride & groom are through the descriptions of a wedding cake. Cummings tries to convey the message that marriages are like wedding cakes; thin rings‚ which appear unstable‚ on top of a very sturdy foundation but is trapped inside a layer of cellulose in order to preserve something that doesn’t exist. The first two stanzas of the poem described the bride and groom’s clothes. The groom was “dressed/in black

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    Burning Man Festival

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    Burning Man Burning Man Festival Analysis • How would you identify the philosophical background or the intellectual/esthetical/artistic streams that impact the foundation and the organisation of this festival ? • How would you describe its success ? • What is your subjective assessment of events such as this one? • How could this event be introduced to your country - provide a brief outline of a marketing strategy. Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in

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    Mississippi Burning Essay

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    This quote from Abraham Joshua Heschel sums up how inconsiderate and cruel people can be‚ without processing how evil their actions and words are. Few of us seem to realise how crooked‚ how universal and how evil racism is. In the film ‘Mississippi Burning’ directed by Alan Parker we see the idea of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’‚ through racism‚ fear and corruption. Parker helps us understand the thoughtlessness and evilness of this idea‚ with the use of verbal and visual techniques such as dialogue‚ camera

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