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    Needed Flip chart and stand and marker pens Pen/Pencil and paper for each participant Instructions Here are 6 word to help re focus individuals during a workshop. PUZZLE 1 Write the following sentence on the flip chart: ’Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.’ QUESTION What is so unusual about the sentence on the flip-chart? (Aside from the fact that it doesn’t make a lot of sense.) ANSWER It is the shortest sentence in the English language that includes every letter of the alphabet

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    Analysis of Wedding Dance

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    “True love doesn’t have a happy ending because true love never ends.” The story “Wedding Dance”‚ written by Amador Daguio‚ tells us how a human normally acts in dealing with the beliefs and traditions that evolved in the society. Cultural norms have always been used as an excuse to control the behavior of people. They can be constricting and opressive though it was probably not initially the intention of the practices. The tribe’s culture permits man to leave his wife and take another woman hoping

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    Greek Theatre

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    Greek and Roman Art Grinning masks‚ padded fat suites‚ and enlarged genitals all have something in common. They were part of a comedy in the classical Greek theater. The theater originated around 400 B.C. and different types of plays were common. The comedy and tragedy is what I will focus on along with the theater itself and some terms from the theater. The theater itself was held outside in an amphitheater. The auditorium originally had seat made of wood‚ but later stone was used.

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    You have to know that russian wedding traditions are different from what people are used to in the United States of America‚ Canada‚ Mexico or Europe. There are no rehearsals‚ bridesmaids‚ and flower girls. The best man and the maid of honor are called “witnesses” or in Russian “svideteli”. The wedding celebration usually lasts for two days and requires preparation of about 1 to 6 months. The registration of marriage takes place at the department of public services or in Russian - “ZAGS”. Nowadays

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    Elizabethan Weddings “The Elizabethan times were in the 1600’s”. In the Elizabethan times women and men had no choice of who they would marry. Also‚ buys could marry at age 14 and girls at age 12. Most marriages in the Elizabethan times were of older people getting married that didn’t choose who they would marry. Women and Men had no choice of who they would marry in the Elizabethan times. “The major difference between Elizabethan wedding customs‚ to a modern day western marriage is that the women

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    Accepting Fat In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” author Mary Ray Worley advocates that happiness can be found regardless of weight. Worley claims that it is possible to be happy with one’s body even if it they are overweight. In her article‚ Worley discusses how she attended the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance annual convention. She describes how overweight people at the convention began to feel comfortable with their size. According to Worley‚ the convention

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    Big Fish

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    and often‚ these lines can become blurred. As was the case in the movie “Big Fish”‚ despite the initial problems in the relationship between father and son caused by exaggerated stories told by the father‚ the stories inevitably brought them closer in the end. In the midst of a difficult times in Will Blooms life caused by his father’s embellished stories‚ Will learns that eventually. The running theme of the entire movie “Big Fish” was stories; the stories told by Edward at every occasion‚ the story

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    Greek Architecture

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    Greek Architecture Thesis;In my point of view‚ Functionality is based on the foundation of Greek architecture ‚ like the architecture style in the some cities such as Ephesus‚ Millet and Assos. Greek architecture is based on the houses called “Megaron”.The Megaron houses‚ which has four corners and an entrance‚ has some pillars around.In fact they are temples and for this reason the people musn’t enter in it.Only they pray out of temple.The outside of it is much more

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    Before Barack Obama became The President of The United States‚ they had at health care system that could make you sick! Even if you had an insurance‚ you sometimes could not get help when needed. If you went to the wrong hospital‚ If you were to fat‚ to slim‚ to young or to old‚ the insurance would not pay for you treatment! Because in USA you health care is private‚ and you have to pay yourself. They even treated the Al-Qaeda on the Guantanamo base in Cuba‚ better then they treated their hero’s

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    Mythology: Egyptian vs. Greek No matter what culture you’re in there will always be things that can’t be explained. In the ancient Egyptian and Greek cultures‚ they used myths about gods to explain them. During these times‚ there wasn’t lots of technology and scientific reason. Many people had sort of awkward questions such as “Who created the world? What will be its demise? Who were the first people on earth? Where do souls go after death?” () To justify an existing social system and account for

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