Who were the Iroquois tribes? There were five tribes in the original Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk‚ Seneca‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ and Cayuga tribes. Later a sixth nation‚ the Tuscarora tribe‚ joined the confederation. - How was the Iroquois Confederacy organized? The Iroquois Confederacy‚ also known as the Iroquois League‚ was governed by the Iroquois Great Council. Each Iroquois nation sent between eight and fourteen leaders to the Great Council‚ where they agreed on political decisions
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Quote 1 They’ve learned their lesson after Gogol. They’ve learned that schools in America will ignore parents’ instructions and register a child under his pet name. The only way to avoid such confusion‚ they have concluded‚ is to do away with the pet name altogether‚ as many of their Bengali friends have done. (3.56) Poor Gogol. As the first born‚ he’s the guinea pig for Ashoke and Ashima. The lessons they learn from raising him prepare them for the challenges of raising their second child‚ who
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bitter grin. The train thought it was going somewhere. But sooner or later it would be pulled right back to where it had started. Just like her life. But‚ she wasn’t interested in retracing every step she had taken. She only wanted to purge them away‚ to sear them off her memory‚ her skin. She held a reproach in her heart like a brimful of stagnant water‚ and she wanted to swallow it just like she had always done‚ but her throat felt too solid and tiny. The wind stormed down the sidewalks like
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To walk away or not to walk away‚ that is the question. Those who walk away from Omelas obviously disagree on moral values (on some level) with those who stay in Omelas. Those who walk away disagree with the price the town pays for happiness. They do not want to destroy the town’s utopia but at the same time they do not want to be a part of that system. Those who walk away from Omelas are not Ethical Relativists because they disagree with the town’s (that culture’s) moral philosophy. Ethical Relativists
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your branches. Water droplets from your dewy leaves‚ fall on their wonderful‚ white‚ wings. You can hear them singing. Singing songs all day. It is only when dusk comes‚ and the sky becomes a deep blue with flickers of orange and pink‚ that they fly away. Together. But you know they’ll come back tomorrow. In fact‚ they’ll be back every day. So you don’t have to worry. Oh‚ how I wish to be a bird. But how I wish to be many things other than me. I wonder. If I had leaves‚ would I be loved? If I was
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Cast Away Report In the movie Castaway‚ directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film focuses on the character Chuck Noland. Hard working‚ strict‚ a perfectionist and workaholic. He values organization‚ timing & the committed staff very highly and always wants to have better improvements for the consumers for example the orders arriving earlier than the approximate or given timeframe and supporting his team through encouragement & praise. However‚ usually he has trouble balancing his values with
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Myriam ENG 101 Section 16 12/03/2013 Pratt Striping Away Humanity The Pianist is a phenomenal movie that successfully put the audience into the life of Wladyslaw Sziplman‚ a fugitive trying to survive World War II in Poland. The cinematography of the movie overall looked carefully crafted together with just the right amount of contrast‚ symbolism‚ and depth. He was not remembered as a hero‚ but as a man who was lucky enough to survive through such a tragedy. Roman Polanski efficiently
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Exercise 2.1 Assets‚ liabilities and owner’s equity Item | Classification | a Stock of supplies | | b Mortgage | | c Cash at bank | | d Debtors Control | | e Loan | | f Creditors Control | | g Equipment | | h Bank (overdraft) | | i Vehicle | | j Capital | | Exercise 2.2 Accounting equation a Calculation | | Owner’s Equity | $ | b Calculation | | Owner’s Equity | $ | c Calculation |
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Statement of Intention: ‘Our sense of reality is never the same as others’ suggests the nature of developed psychological mindsets that people build through the course of life‚ and the factors that influence this mindset to alter one persons perception of reality. This expository essay aims to inform and explain‚ using three different points of evidence that link back to the contending argument. The intended audience are Students and Adults that are assumed to be educated that would be reading a
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It was a scorching day where the heat pierced through my skin and I found myself at home with my pet bird Fluffy‚ in wait for the arrival of my newborn brother. Fluffy is a grey cockatiel with yellow and red patches throughout her face‚ she enjoys her apples and coriander. She was really close to me until my younger brother came. I knew my life was going to drastically change having a younger sibling but I didn’t realise what it meant to have a sibling in the first place. I became fond of my baby
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