India is a vast country; it contains multitudes.” India has an extraordinary‚ vast and diverse pool of cultural heritage and ancient monuments in the form of buildings and other archaeological sites and remains. The sheer number of these historic heritages is astounding. And the fact that these monuments are the reminiscence of the living witnesses of the golden historic era of over a thousand years and of the pre-independence battles‚ they carry a special and a well-deserved respect in the eyes
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Shetlar Mrs. Deggner Expository Writing 201 30 March 2012 Preserving the Past for the Present and Future Many people have little to no knowledge about human’s prehistoric past‚ especially that of humans in the Americas. As you cruise down east bound Interstate 70 and make it through St. Louis‚ you start to drive by one of North America’s largest prehistoric city structures‚ Cahokia. According to the Cahokia Mounds Historical Site‚ this city covered six square miles‚ had 120 mounds‚ and was
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¨Lava Beds National Monuments¨ stationed in north eastern California is a park filled with fun filling beauty‚ history‚ and scientific wonders. This would be a trip of a lifetime‚ but only if our principle would let us go. Lava Beds National Monuments has a humongous amount of beauty stretching all the way across the park. With the Lava running all over the place like a water runs in a stream. The park has beautiful figures like lava tubes‚ scenic trails‚ climb cumber cones‚ and beautiful desert
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fought to preserve slavery. For the most part‚ monuments are erected to glorify people and their achievements. In this case‚ what exactly are the achievements of these Confederate leaders and generals? The American Confederacy predominantly tried to achieve one thing‚ the preservation of the institution of slavery. The monuments that glorify people such as Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford also result in glorifying what they stood for. By leaving these monuments up in public places‚ it’s almost as if we
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The Washington monument is a memorial in Washington D.C. commemorated to our first president George Washington.Construction of this monument began in 1848 and took nearly a century of planning and building to finish.The Washington Monument was designed by architect Robert Mills.In 1854 however construction came to halt because of political conflicts and lack of money because of the civil war.This is also why the marble the monument is in two different colors because they
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Often‚ the story can better explain why a work looks the way it does than can any formal academic argument. The present work started as a Doctoral thesis. So here is its much abbreviated story. Choosing the topic I have been fascinated by what monuments mean to people ever since my Hamburg M.A. thesis of 1993‚ in which I investigated empirically the contemporaneous meanings of three selected megaliths and menhirs in Germany. Having come to Lampeter later the same year‚ I wrote a second M.A. thesis
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Presentation: Wall-E Is poor CSR of Buy N Large (or any corporation) to blame for the state of the earth as seen in WALL-E? Our movie choice is Wall-E The movie WALL-E is set many centuries in the future around a dystopian vision of Earth. The Earth is choked with poisonous gasses‚ deserted cities with crumbling buildings and obelisks of rubbish making up the skyline. The humans boarded a space cruiser‚ Axiom‚ and left the rapidly deteriorating environment of Earth in 2100. The plan was to return
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By: Arjun Bhandari Ways of preserving half drunk wine As a wine importer‚ educator and wine writer‚ I get asked time and again- “how long can I keep undrunk bottle of wine once it is opened?” and “what is best method for preserving half drunk wine?” Each and every time I have answered the questions to questionnaires‚ today I felt like writing about the ways of preserving half drunk wine that can remain fresh and drinkable for several days after opening the bottle. We often completely drink
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to the Past A monument is a piece of art that links the events from the past to our present and it is place to commemorate those famous and notable persons or events that shape a nation’s history. Some monuments are immortalized in massive stones‚ like Mount Rushmore‚ others in smaller pieces of metal‚ like the monument of Christopher Columbus in Pennsylvania‚ and others create them for religious purposes‚ like that of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. All these monuments were made with
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Hope Spots for Our Blue Heart And our planet desperately needs more protected marine areas. I first learned of the importance of protected marine areas from Dr. Sylvia Earle’s http://www.care2.com/care2blog/dr-sylvia-earle-will-be-honored-with-the-care2-impact-award-at-the-2013-women-in-green-forum.html TED Prize talk. In her speech‚ the brilliant oceanographer behind
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