Foot binding originated in China during the reign of Emperor Yi Lu when one of his concubines with bound feet in the shape of a crescent moon danced for him on the points of her feet wearing lotus shoes. He was so enamored with her that she became his favorite concubine. The other women in his harem decided to follow suit‚ and the custom of foot binding was born (Foreman 1). The practice continued for dynasties to come and remained until the 1900’s (Lim 1). Eventually‚ the painful practice became
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In Australia 2007 160 pilots undertook the cross country challenge at the summit of Mt Bora. Among them was Ewa Wisnierska a member of the German team and the world’s leading paraglider who had narrowly escaped death‚ with just a fractured pelvis in Switzerland August 2006. Six months after she had fractured her pelvis‚ she was going after the world championships. Ewa had to work very hard with her physical strength to return to the top after being out for six months. After four years of flying she
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and difficult too. He informs Everett “...you must travel a road fraught with peril” (O…Thou). His message reflects the information Tiresias discusses with Odysseus. Meetings with the Lotus Eaters shows another example of similarities in the characters’ encounters with others. Sweet-tasting lotus-flowers from the Lotus Eaters attract some of Odysseus’s men‚ and the rest of the men must pull them back to ship. Sinners washing away their sins away in the river attract Pete and Delmar‚ who want to rid
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then prays to Poseidon who asks for chaos on Odysseus’ voyage home‚ and he would rather have him dead than return home hurt. Because of this‚ Odysseus faces many decisive tasks ahead of his embarkment back home. When he lands at the island of the Lotus-Eaters‚ he saves his men and he forces them to stay on the ship. He decides to tie himself to a pole because he wants to hear the sirens‚ but he doesn’t want his ship to go towards them. He decides between Scylla and Charybdis‚ and Odysseus makes a
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the epic poem "The Odyssey." He’s on a quest to get back home and to regain his throne‚ but a series of unfortunate events occur that makes his journey long and treacherous. In his various adventures like The Cyclops‚ The Land Of The Dead‚ and The Lotus-Eaters‚ Odysseus shows examples of his heroic characteristics. In Odysseus’s adventures‚ he comes across a cyclops named Polyphemus. When Odysseus was trapped in Polyphemus’s cave‚ he told him his name was "nhbdy." He also knew that he shouldn’t
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layers of Server Domino has multilevel security. The highest security level can be achieved when you work with Domino server‚ using Lotus Notes (‘thick’ client). IBM says about seven security levels the following: • Network – this level works with network side (physical possibility); • Authentication – the process for “trust” connection establishing between the server and the applier; • Domino Server Security - this level deals with server documents access rights; • Database
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also able to make use of informative Podcasts‚ and Activity Centric Computing which allows knowledge codifying to organize data and colleagues into the activities they are associated with. Finally‚ online meetings are accommodated through the IBM Lotus Sametime Web conference system IBM brings this all together in On-Demand Learning an effective knowledge transfer tool. Learning@IBM is a system which includes wikis‚ databases‚
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Dato’Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes (also known as Tony Fernandes) is a Malaysian Entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd.‚ who introduced the first budget no-frills airline‚ AirAsia‚ to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". 30 April 1964 1977 ~ 1983 1987 1987 ~ 1989 1989 ~ 1991 Born in Kuala Lumpur Educated at Epsom College (London) Graduated from the London School of Economics Work as Finance Controller in London Became the youngest-ever Managing Director of Warner
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is a sample parent letter‚ and the third is a sample recommedation for an award. * Please note that pseudonyms were used for all student names. Elise’s Learner Narrative: “I like reading‚ but I don’t like chatter.” School/Classroom/ Background Elise attends the fourth grade at Wallingford Elementary School‚ which is located in the Pennsylvania town of Wallingford‚ a predominantly upper-middle class community. According to the school’s website‚ “ ‘Just the facts’ does not cut it here. Students
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What is a Stereotype? It is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. A stereotype is a judgment made towards a person or group‚ it is also a particular image giving to a person. A thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts may and may not accurately reflect in reality. Self-categorization‚ people change their stereotypes of their in groups and out-groups to suit the context
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