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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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    The Not-So-Wonderful-World of Euro-Disney Q# 1‚3-4‚6. 1- What contributed to the poor performance and the losses of Euro Disney at its first year are: The European families thought that Euro Disney is over-rated and it is like they were promoting American style and culture. Advertising was not well communicated and European people did not get what Disney was trying to convey. They thought that they were emphasizing the size of the park and not the rides. Mickey’s character and his friends

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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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    Strange Experience

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    First Strange Experience at Boot Camp Boot camp can be a scary and interesting experience. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was go to boot camp. I was so afraid of being around so many new people‚ but I decided that I should experience new things and see the world. I also thought it would be good mentally and help me succeed in Life. What I didn’t expect was that it would make me a secure person. New people always make me kind of shy and my first day was no exception. It was around

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    A strange situation

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    A child who is securely attached to its mother will explore and play freely while the caregiver is present‚ using her as a ’safe base’ from which to explore. The child will engage with the stranger when the caregiver is present‚ and will be visibly upset when the caregiver departs but happy to see the caregiver on his or her return. The child feels confident that the caregiver is available‚ and will be responsive to their attachment needs and communications. Securely attached children are best

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    Strange Place

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    Alayna Grant Dr. Bellah English 1301-015 February 15‚ 2013 Strange Place On July 11th it will be twelve years since I discovered the magical world of yuccas and mesquite trees. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I remember driving all the way down the road that seemed like miles and miles of nothing but wilderness. We seemed to have driven for forever. There were no houses or mobile homes or much of anything. Then we came to a dirt road‚ and I said “Daddy I hope we are not going

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    Strange Fruit

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    Insert heading here… Here… And here… “Strange Fruit”- An overview of lynching in America By: Tameka Bradley Hobbs Throughout time‚ slavery made a near-permanent mark on America. With that mark came the marks of brutal beatings and even to the extreme of impressions of nooses left around lynching victims necks. The practice of lynching began in South Carolina in the late 1760s as the country’s first notable move toward vigilantism. By the 1800’s lynching became known as the

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    Strange Meeting

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    Strange Meeting It was mid morning when I was sitting in the park‚ as I looked across the way I saw an object that resembled a wallet. I walked over just to see what it was‚ and sure enough it was a woman’s wallet. Popping the latch open‚ I examined to see if there was any sort of identification that could lead to the real owner. Sure enough there was a Colorado drivers license. The wallet belonged to an eighteen year old‚ red haired‚ brown eyed‚ Jessica Sheldon. Jessica seemed like your average

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    the strange situation

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    Strange Situation’ What was the research looking at? The research was looking at investigating the differences shown in attachments between infants and their primary caregivers (parents/ guardians etc.). How was the experiment carried out? Who was involved? The experiment involved using a toddler‚ the child’s guardian and a stranger to see the child’s reaction to the different situations using the following stages: Results from experiment: Three different

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    Strange Cloud

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    Strange Clouds By: Amanda Oliver 02/03/13 Professor Sherry Queen Pad 17F Have you ever looked up into the sky and wondered why the clouds vary from shapes of dinosaurs‚ birds‚ a puff of cotton candy‚ or your neighbor’s face? Clouds take all kinds of different shapes‚ and as they roll across the sky they change. In meteorology‚ a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body

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