Fixed plants are held in place by their roots which grow in the water-bed. The Water Lily and Lotus are such plants. Their stems are long‚ hollow and light. These stems reach the surface of the water. The leaves and flowers‚ which grow from the top end of the stems‚ float upon the water. The leaves are broad with stomata on the top surface so that the water does not block them. Lotus The roots of lotus are planted in the soil of the pond or river bottom‚ while the leaves float on top of the water
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Coastal Erosion Coastal erosion is a naturally occurring phenomenon resulting from the continuous action of wind and water. Both act to remove small pieces of land from one location and deposit them elsewhere. Weather events such as hurricanes and nor’easters speed the erosion process‚ as do tidal waves. Currently‚ rising sea levels resulting from melting polar ice decrease available land as well. While erosion has always been a factor of coastal living‚ increasing populations along the worlds
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Vishnu and his avataras. Durga‚ often referred to as Durga Maa (‘Maa’ meaning mother)‚ is associated with many things. Her vehicle is a tiger‚ she is extremely beautiful‚ and she carries weapons in each of her hand except one in which she holds a lotus. The weapons and her vehicle refer to her creation. Durga was created by the Gods when they were overthrown by a demon that could not be killed by them. Since a woman could only kill this demon‚ the gods put their angry energies together and from each
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Abu Mena (Egypt) By: Porsha Lee. Instructor: Dr. Greta Bolin Date: 11/10/2013 Abu Mena was the name of a soldier who was an officer in the Diocletian army. Once Menas army won the war‚ he refused to kill any Christians‚ he declared his Christianity which made a tremendous motive for other Christians to bear the suffering and abuse from the Diocletian’s army ("Abu Mena-Unesco World Heritage Centre"
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Moral Courage EMMA WALSKY PRE-AP CHALLENGE ENGLISH 9 MRS. PEARSON 2 MARCH 2013 “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” (Mark Twain) Courage is the mental or moral strength to venture‚ persevere‚ and withstand danger‚ fear‚ or difficulty. Aragorn‚ from The Lord of the Rings‚ Odysseus from The Iliad and The Odyssey‚ and Katniss from The Hunger Games all demonstrate jarring courage throughout their journey to heroism. As Aragorn leads
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Developing a Buddhist practice in taiko drumming The Odaiko Daimoku work brings the life of a votary of the Lotus Sutra to Japanese taiko drumming. The piece is set in taiko’s most dramatic‚ strenuous‚ thunderous format: the Odaiko Solo. The theme is Nam Myoho Renge Kyo‚ called Daimoku‚ which means ‘title’ [of the Lotus Sutra]. Perspective Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism‚ (my faith)‚ is the theoretical perspective in which Odaiko Daimoku is set. This requires no more faith of the critic than any
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why “compulsive gamblers” and “compulsive eaters” are not considered compulsive according to the definition of DSM-IV. Illustrate with an example. Compulsive eaters‚ and compulsive gamblers are not considered compulsive because they seek eating or gambling as way to fulfill their need for it. A person with OCD do the things they do because they feel they have to‚ and wouldn’t do these things if they didn’t have to. A person may be a compulsive eater because they get stressed or mad and their
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imagery‚ and rhyme in his songs to almost make them come alive in your mind. The first literary device that i will be going over is Metaphor ( a metaphor is someone say one is something that they are not) Wale uses metaphor in Lotus Flower bomb by saying that a girl is a lotus flower. he is saying that the girl is a flower because of how beautiful she is to him. He uses metaphor in the FriendsnStrangers by saying “am I wrong for barking” this is a metaphor because he says he is barking when he is
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Ah Xian (1960-) Throughout April 1989‚ large numbers of students gathered in Tian’anmen Square‚ in front of the Forbidden Palace in the centre of Beijing in China. They were demonstrating against political corruption and economic instability. As the crowds continued to grow‚ so did the displeasure of the government of the People’s Republic of China. By the beginning of June‚ armed soldiers were sent in to suppress the protest. This they did‚ violently‚ leaving between 400 and 7000 people dead
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Based on our calculations between the simple three-month moving average and the three period weighted moving average‚ the method that produced the best forecast was the weighted moving average. The reason why the weighted moving average is a better method is essentially because it does not assume that there will be equal weights for each period. Since the goal is to forecast future tire consumption‚ it makes more sense to assign heavier weights to more recent demand because the older demands become
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