Write a 450 words essay on Holi festival Holi is known as a festival of colours‚ fun and frolic. It is a festival of the Hindus. It usually comes in March. It is celebrated with gaiety in North India. Of late the South is also catching up with the North in celebrating this festival of colours. There are different stories about the importance of the festival. It is said that at one stage a demon by name Tarakasura conquered all ’Lokas or worlds’ including heaven and was teasing the ’Devas’.
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About ICD Dadri • An intermodal terminal directly connected by road and rail to the seaports. • Facilities for storage and consolidation of goods‚ maintenance for cargo carriers and custom clearance services. • Export functions: o Receipt of cargo o In-house customs examination o Cargo aggregation and storage o Cargo stuffing under customs supervision • Import functions: o Movement of containers from the port o De-stuffing of LCL (Less Container Load) and FCL (Full Container Load) containers
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White sand rolls into the bluish green water‚ creating the peaceful and calming atmosphere that this beach is known for. During the day‚ the sky is a beautiful blue‚ the sun shining through‚ it’s rays beaming down on everyone soaking up it’s environment‚ and the sun’s persistence making it impossible to forget it is there. Not a cloud in the sky‚ the light blue illuminates the sun in the most perfect way‚ reflecting it off the water to bring together the best of both worlds. Standing on that beach
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Brittany Hewing Art of the Renaissance 222-01 11/10/2014 In this essay I shall discuss two paintings I observed at the Art Institute of Chicago and compare the two as well. During our field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago even though we did not have enough time to properly view the pieces along with a large portion of the museum with pre-renaissance pieces in them were closed off to the public. Two pieces that really stuck out to me during the trip were: “Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)”
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to threaten all moral values‚ Pope Leo I remained strong and resolute as ever while defending the Church and the people of Rome. His courage and devotion to the faith earned him title of “the Great” only held by one other Pope‚ Pope Gregory I. The Church further honored Leo by granting him the title of Doctor due to his Christian Doctrine which is still used today in the lessons of the Catholic breviary. These achievements are only a few of the many accomplished by Pope Leo I‚ rendering him considerably
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historians now take a pluralist‚ “interdisciplinary”‚ approach when determining the reasons for the First Crusade. These reasons are highlighted in Pope Urban II’s powerful speech‚ Speech at Clermont. His speech‚ in itself‚ is complex through its masterful call to arms. Scholars have generally agreed that the primary catalyst to the First Crusade was Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont. In the late nineteenth century‚ scholars overplayed the role of Peter the Hermit as the
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as a whole including not only Catholicism but also the various branching denominations and heresies of Christianity’s rich history. Throughout the year‚ the topic of Pope Francis has come up many a time as he is the current Pope and is solidly involved within many notable world events beginning from his unexpected pontification. Pope Francis is famous for his distinct style when compared to his predecessors. This distinct style comes from Francis’ qualities of simplicity‚ humility‚ and innovation
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In the long-awaited 184-page environmental treatise‚ titled Laudato Si’‚ or Praise Be to You‚ published by Vatican Press in June 2015‚ Pope Francis described how apathy and the reckless pursuit of profits‚ excessive faith in technology and political shortsightedness‚ along with the relentless exploitation and destruction of the environment‚ are to blame. Encyclicals are letters to the clergy and laity of the church that are considered authoritative. The document was sent to the world’s 5‚000 Catholic
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It was the summer season. We were free from school. We were a party of four friends. We decided to go to Mussourie— a fine health resort in the Himalayas. We went to Dehradun by train. From there we decided to go to Mussourie on foot. A bus could also take us there‚ but we just wanted to have a novel experience of hiking. We reached Rajpur. It is just at the foot of the hills. It was from here that we set out for Mussourie on foot. We hired two coolies at Rajpur to carry outr luggage. Our route
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In my lifetime I lived in to two areas which made a major impact on me. First I lived in Erie at the Franklin Terrace then I moved to girard in about second grade. This town girard is smaller than other areas but it is unique in its own way. First it has an area with a grocery store fast food places like dairy queen‚ when you continue down on Main street on that road there is a basketball court and a few other places like a bar‚ faulkner’s‚ and a bank. They’re not the best you will see throughout
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