Why Do Crickets Chirp? The cricket’s call‚ a sound familiar to almost everyone across the globe‚ can vary from isolated clicks to repetitive chirps to long trills. While the females are mute‚ most male crickets can be loud musicians‚ producing species-specific songs up to 100 decibels‚ about the same volume as a motorcycle or a power drill. They create their songs by a method that is very different from human vocalization. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/science/31obox.html?_r=0 Cricket Wings
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Chinese Dynasties The Xia Dynasty‚ 2070-1600 BC‚ was an important dynasty for the Chinese civilization and their history. It brought an end to the Primitive Society and brought up a new trend‚ the slave society. Towards the end of the Xia Dynasty‚ social conflicts grew and they were forced to go to war. The people were tired of dealing with all of with all the things they were forced to do for their leader so they fled in large numbers and were soon ruled by the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty
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Spring Festival Chinese New Year holds the most significant position among all Chinese festivals and holidays. The Chinese New Year is accompanied by a belief in good future. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival (1). Putting the spring festival scrolls up‚ hanging the lanterns‚ having reunion meals‚ having dumplings‚ sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all Spring Festival’s customs. (2) Spring Festival is the day for family reunions
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Chinese Pottery China has one of the world’s oldest continuous cilvilizations-despite invasions and occasional foreign rule. A country as vast as China with so long-lasting a civilization has a complex social and visual history‚ within which pottery and porcelain play a major role. 尽管有着侵略者和偶尔的别国制约，中国依然有着世界上最古老的文明传承。中国这样的庞大的并且有着复杂的社会和可考证的历史的漫长文明的国家，其中其制陶业和制瓷业有着重要的地位。 The function and status of ceramics in China varied from dynasty to dynasty‚ so they may be utilitarian‚ burial‚ trade‚ collectors’
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Topic: Is Cricket Killing Other Sports in India? (In favour of the topic) It is a fact that people in India eat‚ live‚ sleep‚ talk and walk cricket. Some feel that Cricket in India is becoming an obstacle in the progress of other sports. M.S Gill‚ the sports minister of the country painstakingly said‚ “Television‚ commercialization and the advertising world have promoted cricket to an extent that it has become a Mount Everest‚ which is badly affecting other sports in the country.” Cricket has become
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Chinese Women Traditional Chinese society was patriarchal‚ patrilineal‚ and patrilocal. In this male dominated society‚ sons were preferred to daughters‚ and women were expected to be subordinate to their fathers‚ husbands‚ and sons. Because marriages were arranged‚ young women and men had virtually no voice in the decisions on their marriage partner‚ resulting in loveless marriages. Once married‚ it was the woman who left her family and community and went to live with her husband’s family‚ where
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Adam Kvederis Chinese Contributions to the Modern World H. Stansbury HUM111 6/3/13 The ancient Chinese have made many invaluable contributions to both technology and culture. Originally‚ a tribe of stone tool using hunter-gatherers‚ this civilization evolved into a sophisticated people who harnessed the command of gunpowder‚ medicine‚ and the arts among other things (Sayre‚ 2012‚ pg 208). Although little remains from China’s early history‚ the luxurious items carefully buried with royalty
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republican ideals. After the Chinese Civil War during the Communist era‚ China ’s government‚ under Mao Zedong ’s leadership‚ from 1949 to 1978‚ worked to unify China under one single social class. Finally‚ from 1978 to the present‚ a movement opening China to the world and international markets has provoked a new educational policy preparing the Chinese students to the modern world the complexity of Chinese society in 2012. Despite the reforms implemented by the Chinese government during the past
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“Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”. In this long handscroll painting‚ Huang Gongwang painted the landscape in the area around the Fuchun River. As a main topic of this painting‚ I would like to talk about how this painting depicts the basic elements of Chinese painting: its balance or contrast and its subject matter or theme of the painting. First‚ the idea of balance or contrast in this painting by Huang Gongwang is depicted by his drawings of hills and mountains. As they scroll follows the riverbank
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Mainland China is rooted in more than 4‚000 years of rich Chinese cultures and history. It’s known for their lives‚ travel‚ history‚ business and food‚ their people and customs. Traditional Kung Fu is as much of the culture of china according to statistics. The Chinese people have shared a common culture longer than any other groups on earth. China is one of the cradles of the human race. For thousands of years the culture of china has attract and moved many people from all over the world‚ being
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