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    paper. To make up the paste‚ just pour some white flour in a bowl‚ and add water gradually until you have a consistency that will work well. (Use a small kitchen mixer so you don’t have any lumps). How thick should you make your paste? It’s actually up to you. Experiment with thick pastes that resemble hotcake batter‚ and thin pastes that are runny and watery. You get to decide which ones you prefer. Keep in mind that it is the flour‚ and not the water‚ that gives strength to your paper mache sculpture

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    use of gods for reason‚ philosophy uses cosmogony‚ which makes use of rational reason based on observations. One famous philosopher‚ Xenophanes‚ addressed some of these theological and philosophical questions and denied traditional views about Olympian gods. His theory repudiated the existence of many gods‚ dismissed any conjured images of gods‚ and proposed the presence of only “One god” that was all-powerful. In this paper we will discuss and summarize Xenophanes’ rejection of Greek myth and images

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    and this is how society views me…..” words from a very intellectual woman on campus named Imazdi Davis‚ and Davis is right. Society views her physically‚ not intelligently. Society sees that physical differences between male and female‚ but not notice that her IQ is not the same number as her waist size‚ or that “she” is capable in anything and everything that “he” is capable of professionally. With this part of my Glass Ceiling series I wanted to speak on the topic of women in business

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    Throughout history women have been undermined by the patriarchy. There is no difference when it comes to rock and roll. Since the late 1950s when women first began to make their entry into rock and roll until now‚ women have been making great strides in the industry. However‚ as James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome state in their 1966 single‚ “this is a man’s world”. Women have constantly been cheated out of credit and money. They have also not been taken seriously as musicians. They have been

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    Do Women Lust? I think that all women lust because every female has a hormone that comes out when they see a hot guy. They begin to start thinking about the guy and what he looks like with his clothes off. Some women even go as far as telling their friend that’s around them what they would do to the dude. Most people don’t really realize or notice when a lady lust after something. Most females don’t show there expressions on their face but on the inside her mind is running wild about the person

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    GodWomen‚ Antigone and Pai There are people that are alike‚ but there leaders and followers witch separates those two types of people. Same actions could mean many different things like good or even bad actions. Nicki Caro directed the film Whale Rider. The Whale Rider is a movie about a child who experiences rough childhood and the lose of her brother. She grows up with her grandpa’s hate to her‚ but she still becomes the leader of her people. Author Sophocles wrote the play Antigone.

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    Eris Greek mythology is a vast subject with a seemingly infinite number of members. Consequently‚ only the chief individuals such as‚ Zeus‚ Hera‚ Athena and Ares‚ are well-known. Often forgotten are the so-called minor goddesses‚ the goddesses who lurk behind the curtains. Surprisingly‚ such a “negligible” goddess caused the greatest dispute in all of Greek mythology. The Greek Word ‘Eris’ means strife. Although Strife is an abstract idea‚ Eris is referred to as a goddess (Blackwell 72). Although

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    The Portrayal of Women to Men in the Book of Genesis For the past two-thousand years‚ the Book of Genesis has served as work of literature to the western civilization. Whether people believed in the Bible or not‚ the Book of Genesis tell stories they talk about having good morals‚ teaching live-learned lessons and overall it gives a glimpse of how the first human being acted when the world was developing and how they handle problems and situations. However‚ even though the book of Genesis shows

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    The Diné bahane’ can be called a human-centered myth because of the human-centric attributes of all of the “peoples” in this story‚ and because of the conflicts that arise throughout the explanation of these five worlds. For example‚ in the first world there were “bee people” and “wasp people”‚ these bees and wasps‚ although they were “mist people” and not how we think of bees and wasps today‚ were still called “people” in the story. Men‚ animals and insects were all formed from the mist people

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    Yet Do I Marvel Myths

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    The Myths of My Life A myth is a narrative the embodies and sometimes helps explain the religious‚ philosophical‚ moral‚ and political values of a culture‚ (610). The poem‚ “Yet Do I Marvel” is myth about angering the Greek gods and the toils and tribulations they make you face to seek redemption to gain their favor. Myths are relevant to today’s society because they give represent what the society feels morally‚ politically‚ religiously‚ and philosophically. “Yet Do I Marvel” was written almost

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