Dhanteras usually falls eighteen days after Dussehra.[4] In the Gregorian calendar‚ Diwali falls between mid-October and mid-November. Diwali is an official holiday in India‚[5] Nepal‚ Sri Lanka‚ Myanmar‚ Mauritius‚ Guyana‚ Trinidad & Tobago‚ Suriname‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore and Fiji. For Hindus‚ Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. For Jains‚ Diwali marks the attainment of moksha or nirvana by Mahavira in
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Historical overview After more than 300 years under Portuguese rule‚ Brazil gained its independency in 1822. From this time were maintaining a monarchical system of government until the abolition of slavery and the subsequent proclamation of a republic by the military in 1889. Although a republic was proclaimed‚ Brazil was ruled by military dictatorships. This period ended with a military coup that placed Getulio Vargas‚ a civilian in 1930. Until 1961 Brazil had democratically elected governments
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The United States have a long history of intervening in other country’s affairs. Among those countries are the people of the Central American population. The United States faced a huge threat during the 1980s. The Soviet Union was trying to install communism in Central America. The foreign policy at the time was to stop the penetration of communism in Central America. At the time‚ President Jimmy Carter was accused of “failing to adequately defend the government of U.S. allies against internal
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How successful can the management of fragile environments be‚ given the constant and increasing demand for their exploitation? A fragile environment is an area where the flora and fauna have adapted to a specific climate and evolved to occupy many different niches due to extremely high competition for resources. Furthermore due to the constant abiotic conditions‚ specialisation and symbiotic relationships have occurred to such a degree that even the slightest ecological or environmental disruption
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History of the soft drink Fanta There are some who claim that Fanta‚ a popular soft drink produced and distributed by the Coca-Cola company‚ was actually invented by Nazis during the Third Reich. Others go so far as the say that Coca-Cola produced this product themselves to sell in Nazi Germany when they feared the backlash that might come if they marketed Coca-Cola to both Allied and Axis powers at the same time. Is there any truth to these accusations? Coca-Cola was a tremendously popular beverage
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ultural Bound Syndromes Culture-bound syndrome The term culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000) which also includes a list of the most common culture-bound conditions (DSM-IV: Appendix I). Included in DSM-IV-TR (4th.ed) the term cultural-bound syndrome denotes recurrent‚ locality-specific patterns of abnormal behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked
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heroes in each novel as well as the same themes used in each books. Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the author of The Scarlet Letter‚ was born on July 4th 1804‚ in Salem‚ Massachusetts. He was the second child of a U.S Navy Captain who died of yellow fever in Suriname in 1808. Since he was only four years old‚ Nathaniel was raised by his older sibling and his mom. As he got older‚ he grew this insane love for writing. He wrote and published his first piece of literature‚ The Spectator‚ in the August of year 1820
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Portuguese and Spanish Slavery Thus when Portugal and Spain established the first American colonies‚ they first introduced Africans as a labor source in the New World. Both encountered difficulties turning the native American people into a slave labor force. The Spanish were more successful as they encountered the settled agraian societies of the Andes and central Mexico. The Spanish engaged in a debate concerning the humanity of the Native Americans. The Native Americans were in the end turned into
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THE FEASIBILITY STUDY OF OKRA AND ALOE VERA AS A HOMEMADE SHAMPOO ABSTRACT Nowadays‚ there are many artificial and cosmetic things that is in the market. One of the most popular is shampoo. We think that we will produce a shampoo in a natural way. So that’s how we come up with okra and aloe vera to help replace other artificial products into an environmental one. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement ………………………………………………………. 1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………... 2-3 Review
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CARIBBEAN STUDIES UNIT ONE TERRITORIAL UNITS IN THE CARIBBEAN • WHAT IS THE CARIBBEAN Greenwood and Hamber (2003) defines the Caribbean as‚ “all the countries in and around the Caribbean sea that lie within an area that stretches from Grand Bahama Island in the north to Curacao in the south and from French Guiana in the east to Belize in the West. The Wikipedia Encyclopedia defines the Caribbean as‚ “a region of the Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea‚ its islands (most of which enclose
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