indicates the bowl in which offerings are placed. As the story of Mulien recorded in the Hungry ghost sutra represents‚ the festival synthesizes elements of Indian Buddhism into the indigenous concepts of China. Stephen F Teiser essentially captures this quality when he descirbes it as “China was made more Buddhist and Buddhism was made more Chinese.” Because the Yu lan pen jing is a key text in the development of the Buddhist rites in the ghost festival that is held in the seventh month
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East India Company The East India Company was an English joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent. Shares of the company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats. The government owned no shares and had only indirect control. The Company operated its own large army with which it controlled major portions of India. The East India Company traded mainly in cotton‚ silk‚ indigo dye‚ salt ‚ saltpetre‚ tea
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Project 1: My Physical Geography My name is Thomas and I Study Journalism at Uconn. What makes me unique is that I play the didgeridoo. What I would like to get out of taking this class is a better understanding of what the world is made of and how people live in there part of the globe. I am from Bedford‚ New York. Bedford is about an hour north of New York City. 2. Weather and Climate: Bedford New York is located in North Eastern United States. The average temperature there is around
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Film Authorship Ricciotto Canudo (1828) pointed out‚ “Cinema is the seventh art”. Any artists in each type of art have its own artistic style‚ even it is a film. Mise-en-scène is a good example to distinguish these artists. Every time we watch a film‚ we can find some period or some shots that we can identify the unique style. In film‚ we call autheurism. Although every film have its own story‚ different setting and different contents‚ we still find something whatever in comedy or tragedy that they
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understand their importance to the discussion of the Art of Ancient Near East: Citadel Hammurabi Sargon Ziggurat Cuneiform Cylinder seal Mesopotamia Hierarchical scale Stele Glyptic art 2. List two important Neolithic sites in the ancient Near East: a. b. 2. What might be the meaning of the animals represented on the Lyre sound box (fig. 2.14a)? 3. The land known as Mesopotamia lay between what two rivers? 4. The Ishtar Gate built in Babylon was (fig. 2.30) was created
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and they also knew Afghanistan and its mountains better than the Soviets. So‚ by the end of the war the Mujahedeen ran 75% of Afghanistan by 1982. Some of the Russian soldiers even deserted their groups to join the Mujahedeen. The reason that the This Soviet War lasted for 9 years. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russia_invasion_afghanistan.htm http://voices.yahoo.com/soviet-invasion-afghanistan-rise-the-367600.html
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Compared to the original form of Hip-Hop it became well known and recognised for the positive some-times being afro centric and realistic lyrics that often had some depth of meaning into what was currently going on in the “people’s lives”. East Coast Hip-Hop combined various genres of music and sounds one of the largest example’s being Jamaican dancehall toasting where DJ’s played the rhythm and artist such as Sister Nancy‚ Yellow Man and Dennis Alcapone blessed the music with their voice
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Middle East Water Shortage Due to geography and population growth‚ the Middle East nations are faced with a growing demand for a shrinking water supply. Throughout most of the Middle East region rainfall is irregular and the rainy season is very short. The World Bank reports that this area (including North Africa) has 5% of the world’s population‚ but only 1% of the world’s water. Droughts have been occurring more frequently and lasting longer‚ warning of a bleaker future. Man himself has
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Introduction East African Rift Valley is one of the most extensive rifts on the Earth ’s surface; the valley is about 6‚400 kilometers long‚ averages 48 to 64 kilometers wide and has a depth from a few hundred to several thousand meters. The huge‚ brittle tectonic plates that make up Earth ’s crust normally move only a few centimeters per year‚ not fast enough to be noticeable in a human lifetime. However‚ in the East African Rift Valley‚ this tectonic motion is happening with remarkable speed
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Imperialism A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Imperialism impacted the south east followed by economic transformation from global trade. And industrialization led to a completely different form of imperial power. The government seeks to everyone goes to their own path way and their own country. Or so when they went the saying when rome controlled the majority of europe 2000 years ago. People had a lot of power and they did anything
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