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    Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris (1915–1959) was an African American jazz singer and songwriter.  Her singing style‚ strongly inspired by jazz musicians‚ lead to a new way of using word choice and rhythm. A critic named John Bush once wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She only co-wrote a few songs‚ but a number of them have become jazz standards that many musicians strive to live up to. Some of these standards were set by songs of hers such as "God Bless the

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    Heuristic Evaluation of HolidayInn.com.cn Holiday Inn Hotel Booking Site for Chinese Speaking Users Completed by Team CBR: Yufei Duan Yina Li Ying Li Qianying Liu Niven Sellars Michael Somer February 7‚ 2008 Table of Contents Heuristic Evaluation Overview for www.holidayinn.com.cn 3 Introduction 3 Purpose 3 Methodology 3 Heuristic Evaluation Findings 4 1. Visibility of System Status 4 2. Match Between System and the Real World 6 3. Consistency and Standards 13 4. Error Prevention 19 5

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    The story‚ "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about tradition. A word usually tied to happy events like anniversaries‚ family vacations‚ and holidays‚ Jackson presents the concept in a much more sinister light. While there are hints of what is to come‚ the events portrayed are similar to what one would expect to find in a small village’s long standing custom. The first‚ misleading bit of evidence lies in the very first paragraph. The day is described as "clear and sunny"‚ with "flowers

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    Rwanda there’s three languages spoken Kinyarwanda‚ French and English. There is only one ethnic group and those are the banyarwanda. In Rwanda‚ there are elven national holidays. In addition‚ with the week after the genocide which is on April 7th. The last Saturday of each month is umuganda‚ a national day of community service‚ during which most normal services close down. Music and dance. Music and dance are an important part of Rwandan ceremonies‚ festivals‚ and storytelling. The most famous

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    Holidays. There are 365 days in each given year‚ although some years might be different from the rest‚ there are days that are extremely special to me‚ those days are Holidays. The word holiday derived from the notion of "Holy Day"‚ and gradually evolved to its current form. The word holiday comes from the Old English word hāligdæg. The word originally referred only to special religious days. To me Holidays are the perfect time of year regarding Tradition‚ Reunion and last but not least the amazing

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    Bathing in the Ganges is a religious tradition that is an integral part of daily life in India. It represents a purification of the soul‚ as Stille states‚ “…[A] river that‚ because of its divine origin‚ is pure and purifies all those faithful who immerse themselves in her‚” (598). However‚ presently‚ there exists a dilemma that threatens the survival of this tradition: the poor condition of the river. The river is polluted with “raw sewage‚ human and industrial waste‚ the charred remains of bodies

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    where the writer sets as the place that the protagonist of the story spent his childhood in. The main theme of this story is the distinction between traditional habits and ceremonies and modish patterns and behavior. In the story‚ Chinese tradition as praying to the ancestor and the dead has been mentioned as an important element. From the description of the writer‚ we know that the protagonist‚ Mr. Li’s mother values the importance of this traditional practice. This can be proved by paragraph

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    traditional clothes

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    Introduction: Good afternoon‚ everyone. I’m (Aaesha‚ and my Colleagues are zainab and sara). This afternoon we’re going to be talking to you about one of important things in our culture‚ which is (traditional clothes). So‚ we’ll begin by examining women’s clothes and then we’ll go on to talk about men’s clothing. Please keep all of your questions till the end of the presentation. Women: First of all‚ I am going to tell you about the traditional Emirati clothing for a women. One of the famous clothes

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    accurate portrayal of the traditional Japanese culture but also that of the western world which is making its way to the small Japanese island in which the books plot unfolds. Mishima manages to show the reader of the importance of keeping with tradition and the past through the older generation that lives on the island as well as the protagonist Shinji‚ however the other members of Shinji’s generation that have gotten a taste of the outside world have brought back their newly adopted westernized

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    Gale Research Inc.‚ 1990. 5: 415-416 In a critique titled "Patches: Quilt and Community in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’" (Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers‚ 1990)‚ the authors reveal that tradition and the explanation of holiness were key elements throughout the story. The writers began the analysis by discussing the significance of a quilt; a quilt is a complete piece of artwork that is essentially made up of fragments. These patchwork quilts

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