chemicals in it. It stains walls‚ windows‚ clothes‚ hair‚ and even your skin. It is very difficult to clean off. Last the ashtrays and ashes are disgusting‚ the ashtrays stink and look dirty no matter what you do. The ashes fly everywhere and make a mess. Flying ashes can also lead to the next problem. Cigarettes are a potential fire hazard for several reasons. First the ashes from the cigarette could fly off and land on dry grass or leaves and ignite a fire. Next the methods used for lighting a cigarette
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Coconut Shells as a Shoe Polish Science Investigatory Project Let us begin our adventure with our Abstract... The study focused in making a specialized shoe polish from burned dried coconut husk. It aimed to prove the affectivity of the product in terms of some parametric measurements based on the preferences made by respondents. The parameters were adapted from written reviews for top commercial products. Also‚ this was made to test if there are really no significant difference between the
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full‚ spirited style of living‚ she wants so much to escape the grey‚ dead land of the Valley of Ashes that she colours her life with any brightness she can find‚ be it broken glass or diamonds. Nick describes land she finds herself in as a wasteland‚ a desert‚ saying "this is the Valley of Ashes -- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens‚ where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally‚ with a transcendent effort‚ of
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a member of the tribe dies‚ their body is cremated‚ and the ashes and bones left over are then placed into a pot (2). After some time‚ the family members and relatives of the deceased person will mix the ashes and bones with cooked‚ mashed bananas and then eat it (2). They believed that by consuming the ashes (and in the ashes‚ the spirit) of their deceased relative‚ they were releasing his or her soul into freedom (2). If the ashes are not consumed‚ the Yanomami thought that the soul would forever
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even the gloomy Valley of Ashes. Death is hanging there and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Fitzgerald shows us that death is discretely around us all the time and can happen to anybody at any moment. The Valley of Ashes already sounds like a gloomy place full of despair and destruction; the name bringing forth images of a town that was engulfed in flames of a fire that consumed the land and left nothing but the ashes of life that once took place there. “Where ashes take the forms of houses”
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died on Good Friday‚ April 4‚ 1546. Except for giving the name Felipinas to the Philippines‚ the Villalobos expedition was a failure. The Saavedra Expedition The next expedition to the Far East was fitted to the East was lifted out in Mexico by Hernando Cortes on orders from the Spanish colonizer‚ King Charles I. Cortes‚ famous as the conqueror of the Aztec Empire in Mexico‚ was the viceroy of that Spanish colony.
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The great Spanish conqueror Hernando Cotes (1485-1547) invaded and conquered an Aztec empire populated by millions of natives that stretched out from Mexico all the way down South America. With a force of fewer than 1 thousand men supported by horses and cannons‚ never before had such a puny force conquered the most powerful native tribe of this earth‚ and gathered such a massive wealth. This conquest was not an easy one‚ problems involved where trying to convert natives to his side‚ so that he may
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Aztecs believed in many gods. Quetzacotl was one of the gods‚ and they believed that on Quetzacotl’s birthday‚ he would appear to Mesoamerica in the flesh. On Quetzacotl’s birthday‚ big boats (ships) arrived on shore. And out came “Quetzacotl” (Hernando Cortez) and his men. The Aztecs brought Quetzacotl (Spanish) gifts such as fruit‚ vegetables‚ jade and gold. Their god also bought newer things such as fruit‚ vegetables‚ cattle‚ armour‚ weapons and in the end‚ diseases.
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The Black Death 1347-1351 Symptoms and Causes There were three commonly seen forms of the Black Death. The bubonic plague‚ the pneumonic plague‚ and the septicemic plague. The bubonic plague was the most common; the symptoms included enlarged and inflamed lymph nodes (around arm pits‚ neck and groin)‚ vomiting‚ headaches‚ fevers of 101-105 degrees Fahrenheit‚ and nausea. These symptoms took from 1-7 days to appear. The two other plagues were less common‚ probably because victims often died before
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