Mardi Gras The feast before the fast | | "Mardi Gras" means "Fat Tuesday." Traditionally‚ it is the last day for Catholics to indulge—and often overindulge—before Ash Wednesday starts the sober weeks of fasting that come with Lent. Formally known as Shrove Tuesday‚ Mardi gras has long been a time of extravagant fun for European Christians. In the United States‚ Mardi gras draws millions of fun-seekers to New Orleans every year. Mardi gras has been celebrated in New Orleans on a grand scale
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Pennsylvania. Pencey is Holden’s fourth school; he has already failed out of three others. At Pencey‚ he has failed four out of five of his classes and has received notice that he is being expelled‚ but he is not scheduled to return home to Manhattan until Wednesday. He visits his elderly history teacher‚ Spencer‚ to say goodbye‚ but when Spencer tries to reprimand him for his poor academic performance‚ Holden becomes annoyed. Back in the dormitory‚ Holden is further irritated by his unclean neighbor‚ Ackley
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Throughout history‚ places around the world have traditionally participated in a cycle of ritualized events and festivals. Historically‚ European life consisted of festivals like Carnival and Mardi Gras‚ along with common‚ daily rituals like charivari‚ or riding the stang. Some festivals kept people happy and allowed them to unwind while others provided order and punishment. Different religious beliefs resulted in different opinions on certain festivals and rituals. Additionally‚ rituals and festivals
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Text analysis Assessment Task: Novel study Chocolat Stage 1 English Words: 693 The Role of Religion The Story of Chocolat begins on Shrove Tuesday where Harris describes the journey of a young traveller‚ Vianne and her daughter Anouk; they are brought to the town of lansquenet by “the wind.” (pg. 16) The story is planned very much during lent and communicates ideas of religion throughout the story. Religion plays a major role in Harris’ book Chocolat. The town of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes
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phenomenon known as bushfires. First of all‚ the most devastating effect of bushfires in communities is the loss of lives. In the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire‚ more than 150 people died. This is more than the number of people killed in the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfire‚ with 75 deaths. Those who stayed to defend the areas affected were injured‚ killed‚ or were separated from their loved ones. Some children will never grow and will never make their own memories. Moreover‚ the people are left with health
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Natural Hazards – Bushfires A natural hazard is a natural event that has a significantly negative effect on people or the environment. Many natural hazards are related. For example drought can lead to famine and earthquakes can form tsunamis and landslides. Australia’s most common natural hazards are storms‚ cyclones‚ floods‚ droughts‚ heatwaves and bushfires. Natural Hazards have a major impact on Australian communities including loss of life‚ property damage‚ environmental destruction‚ and a
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Black Saturday Black Saturday was a series of bushfires that ignited and burnt in Victoria from Saturday‚ 7th February 2009 - 14 March 2009. As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February. Following the events of 7 February 2009 and its aftermath‚ that day has become widely referred to as Black Saturday. The majority of the fires were said to be started by fallen or clashing power lines‚ lightning‚ cigarette butts‚ and sparks from a power tools. They burnt over 4‚500 km² of land. Background
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By Mike Richardson. Saturday‚ 7th February 2009 was one of the darkest days to dawn upon the whole of Australia. But mostly towards the people of Victoria‚ it is now known as Black Saturday. Black Saturday was a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across Victoria during extreme bushfire-weather conditions‚ resulting in Australia ’s highest ever loss of life from a bushfire. Conditions: Majority of the fires ignited and spread on a day of some of the worst bushfire conditions ever
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Experiment ANALYSIS OF SODA ASH The CCLI Initiative Computers in Chemistry Laboratory Instruction LEARNING OBJECTIVES The objectives of this experiment are to . . . • understand the titration curve for a diprotic base. • use the titration curve to calculate the percent of Na2 CO3 in an unknown sample of soda ash. BACKGROUND Sodium carbonate is an important industrial chemical. It is used in the manufacture of soap‚ glass‚ paper and as a source of alkalinity‚ that is‚ as a
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McDonald’s Commercial JDZG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmrTDZy3f2M In this advertisement‚ we see LeBron James coming with a McDonald’s bag to the basketball court. Dwight Howard‚ who is already playing basketball‚ asks him what’s in the bag. Dwight tells him he has a big mac and fries. Dwight asks LeBron to bet his lunch and he agrees to have a slam dunk competition. Dwight won but suddenly Larry Bird appears and takes the McDonald’s bag. This advertisement’s target audience is young
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