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    Strange Fruit

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    Strange Fruit Music has been very important part of people’s life since long time ago. Throughout the history‚ we could observe how people at those days used music as part of their lives. People became happy when they sing and listen to music. People were comforted by music when they were in deep sorrow. Furthermore‚ people sang music when they work‚ harvest‚ and worship god. We could see how our culture is closely interrelated with music. “Strange Fruit” is the music that was composed to reflect

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    Death Not Be Strange

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    Death Be Not Strange By: Peter A. Metcalf This article compares our Western burial traditions to the Berawan’s. The Berawan think that our ritual is evil and because we embalm our dead so they can be shown in coffins‚ they said that we trap our dead in a suspended condition between life and death. The Berawan see America as a land with the potential for millions of zombies. Metcalf’s comparison is so thoroughly describes the Berawan’s practices in but in my ethnocentric world‚ it is easy to

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    The Padaung Custom

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    The Padaung Custom In the wild mountainous regions of Burma (known as Myanmar there)‚ there lives a Padaung tribe‚ where the Padaung women are known by wearing brass rings around their necks for life. The name “Padaung” is derived from the Karen words pa‚ meaning to have round‚ and daung‚ meaning brass. The rings are added on every two to three years starting from a very young age until a certain age of twenty and above. The rings holds the neck stiffly that it restrict any movements of the

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    A strange situation

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    is helpful‚ educates the child in how to cope with the same problem in the future. Therefore‚ secure attachment can be seen as the most adaptive attachment style for learning and making use of resources in a non-threatening environment. According to some psychological researchers‚ a child becomes securely attached when the mother is available and able to meet the needs of the child in a responsive and appropriate manner. Others have pointed out that there are also other determinants of the child’s

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    Customs Broker

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    A BUSINESS PLAN AND ROLE OF A U.S. CUSTOMS BROKER TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I – BUSINESS PLAN: Executive Summary General Company Description Services Market Analysis Summary Management and Organization Financial Plan PART II – U.S. CUSTOMS BROKER ROLE: Role and Purpose of a Customs Broker Preparing for the Customs Broker License Exam Harmonized Tariff Schedule Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Importer Security Filing/10+2 Entry Process Automated Brokerage

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    Strange Reliquaries

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    This reading has to do with reliquaries and the artist that surrounded them as well as their sometimes strange shapes. When talking about reliquaries no one ever mentions how it actually came about. When reading this excerpt it mentions how patrons would usually make their own workshops for specific works of art and hire artist they thought would be good for the job. The patrons seemed to be very involved in the creation of these pieces of art even though they didn’t physically make them. It seems

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    Customs and Courtesies

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    Marine Corps customs and courtesies are very important to the way the Marine Corps works. They are intended to reinforce discipline and the chain of command‚ showing how Marines will treat their superiors. They also enhance esprit de corps and unity. This is what makes the Marine Corps the brotherhood that it has become. Military courtesies include correct forms of address like; Sir‚ and Ma’am‚ and when each should be used; the salute‚ and standing at attention‚ proper wear of military covers‚ and

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    customs and trade

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    Customs and Trade Much of the history of international relations and trade concerns efforts to promote free trade among nations. The 17th century saw the growth of restrictive policies that later came to be known as mercantilism. The mercantilists held that economic policy should be nationalistic and should aim at securing the wealth and power of the state. Governments were led to impose price and wage controls‚ promote exports of finished goods and imports of raw materials‚ and prohibit the exports

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    Strange Meeting

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    these dreams as inspiration for his poetry. One image plagued his dreams‚ which was the idea that war was a sort of "mouth of hell‚" and it was this image that inspired Owen’s poem Strange Meeting. Owen’s poem is also reminiscent of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam‚ which also depicts a journey through a strange land. Wilfred Owen’s main objective when writing his poetry is to shed light on the gruesome and horrific reality of being a soldier‚ which counters the nationalistic propaganda that

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    Funeral Customs

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    Funeral custom world wide Death: the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Death is a very painful and emotional time‚ yet one that may be filled with hope and mercy and is base off of the world ’s religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry. Belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has been a central aspect of most‚ if not all‚ religious traditions and as a result of that over time there has been different type of

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