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    Family Stone

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    Sly and the Family Stone | Sly and the Family Stone in 1969. Clockwise from top: Larry Graham‚ Freddie Stone‚ Gregg Errico‚ Sly Stone‚ Rose Stone‚ Cynthia Robinson‚ and Jerry Martini. A similar photograph was used as the cover of Rolling Stone #54 (March 19‚ 1970). | Background information | Origin | San Francisco‚ California‚ United States | Genres | Funk‚ soul‚ rock‚ psychedelic soul | Years active | 1966–1975‚ 1976–1983‚ 2010-present | Labels | Epic‚ Warner Bros. | Associated acts

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    King Philip's War

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    King Philip’s War King Philip’s War lasted from 1675 to 1676. It was the bloodiest conflict between American colonists and Indians in the 17th century New England. By 1600‚ colonial settlers no longer depended on the Indians for survival; therefore they pushed into Indian Territory in Massachusetts‚ Connecticut and Rhode Island. To protect their lands‚ the Wampanoag chief‚ King Philip‚ also known as Metacom organized a federation of tribes‚ which in 1675 destroyed several frontier

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    constantly evolving to offer precision braking facility in modern cars. The two prime braking technologies developed over the course of time are drum brakes and disc brakes. In the following essay I am going to describe the two different types and point out the advantages and disadvantages of drum and disc brakes. Before we make a distinction between discs and drums‚ let me explain the basic working principle of any braking system installed in cars. When brakes are applied‚ vehicles come to a halt through

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    Yoruba (more specifically‚ the rhythm is associated with the god Obatala)‚ and in other musical traditions across West Africa. At the beginning the Cumbia dance was only practiced among the African slave population and was mainly performed with just drums and claves‚ but as time went by its original form was influenced by other forms of music. The African natives got acquainted with some of the local ethnic groups such as the Kogui‚ the Kuna and the Amerindians‚ and their music gradually got incorporated

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    League‚ or Iroquois Confederacy as it later became known in 1722 with the addition of the Tuscarora‚ was one the most dominate Indian presences in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. It originally consisted of the Five Nations of the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga and Seneca. The confederacy referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee‚ or the People of the Longhouse with each tribe playing an important role in controlling and protecting Iroquois land. They were viewed as a warring

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    Kindship SystemIdentify and describe the kinship system of one of the cultures listed below. These cultures are found in Chapters 3 and 4 of your text. Code to work APH 6Q4YWJP8 Briefly describe the culture: Iroquois (Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee) 1. Between 200 and 500 million people still cultivate using horticultural methods (The Encyclopedia of Earth‚ 2006). In this chapter‚ we discuss 2. the following food-producing cultures: Iroquois‚ Yanomamö‚ Btsisi’‚ and Enga. 3. Among the Iroquois (Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee)

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    Indians sided with Britain because if they won it will start the flow of western expansion. In the beginning most Indian tribes stood neutral in the war except for the Cherokees who joined the British in 1776. Joseph Brant‚ a literate and educated Mohawk Indian leader sides with the

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    common historical landscape they inhabited and highlight the similar pressures they confronted and the paths they chose. In chapter 4‚ Richter reproduces Indian texts from New England Indians’ conversion narratives and the political speech of a Mohawk Iroquois orator as represented in the Albany meeting of 1679 between the Iroquois and British colonial leaders. Richter finds Indians asking their European counterparts to unite across the cultural barrier using the power of the spoken word to articulate

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    The Road Warrior (1981‚ dir. George Miller) begins with Max (Mel Gibson) and his dog getting tailed in what appears to be some kind of apocalyptic future.This can be seen through what they drive‚ the styling of the two guys on the bike (mohawks and strange outfits...even for the eighties) and the harsh look of the climate. Max is obviously worried about being tailed and so is his dog‚ which is why the puppy keeps looking back while Max tries to speed up. There’s threatening music too. They then encounter

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    There is an excellent diversity in dark male haircuts. Dark colored folks have the most different mane texture on earth: kinky‚ wild and curly. Their hair can be shape-shifted like no person you might have ever seen. The grade of their scalp has a whole lot regarding their ancestry and weather these black men are born in‚ which is why the hairstyle of every region of black men differs from each other. Thickness and coarseness of these hairs are because of the harshness of the surroundings black men

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