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561: Van Gennep's "Rites of Passage", Durkheim and Turner's Theory of Communitas: ... level. The Mescaleros associate each cardinal direction with their Grandfathers (p. 243). While the Mescaleros also consider the east to be the primary direction, they associate the east with the First Grandfather, the moon and stars. The west is associated with animals. The sky-as well as wind, rain and mountains-lies in the south. Man is in the north, held up by the other three directions. This can be viewed ...

562: Greek Literature: ... Roman poet Virgil was strongly influenced by the 'Argonautica' in writing his 'Aeneid' . Lesser 3rd-century poets include Aratus of Soli and Herodas. Aratus wrote the 'Phaenomena', a poetic version of a treatise on the stars by Eudoxus of Cnidos, who had lived in the 4th century. Herodas wrote mimes reminiscent of those of Theocritus. His works give a hint of the popular entertainment of the times. Mime and pantomime were ...

563: Lord Byron's "Darkness": The Faithful but Fated Dog: ... is created and heightened all the more by its contrast with the initial feeling. From this point forward, darkness and fear reign supreme. Such words as "wander", "rayless", and "pathless" are used to describe the stars and create a sense of despair and hopelessness. The word "extinguished" is used multiple times in describing both the sun and later for the loss of fire. Men first give "selfish prayer" and later cast ...

564: Superman and Batman: The Greatest Superheros of All Time: ... didn't have enough time to build rockets for the whole family. He only built one for his son, Kal-El, who he sent to earth just as the planet exploded. The rocket soared past stars and through galaxies for three years. In the rocket was a holographic device that would display messages and visions from his home planet. The rocket finally crashed in a field in Smallville, Kansas. Luckily, at ...

565: Trigonometry: Trigonometry Trigonometry is based on the study of right-angled triangles. This is a form of geometry that developed out of the study of the stars. It is also concerned with the relationships that exist between the sides and angles of triangles, and their measurement. Trigonometry comes in two forms, spherical and plane. Spherical is the study of curved triangles lying ...

566: The Ironies of Education: ... When the educator responded: "Let’s say for the sake of argument, that all the men on earth were to die, but that the earth itself remained, together with trees, birds, animals, rivers, seas, the stars. . . wouldn’t all this be a world? "Oh no," the peasant replied emphatically. "There would be no one to say: "This is a world." (Freire 69). As illustrated above, it is the author’s perception ...

567: How to Start a Billiard Club Business: ... past few years, the expansion has been fueled by greater media coverage from movies, television commercials using a billiard setting; coverage of the Ladies Pro Tour on cable television; interviews and articles with professional billiards stars, and the rapid growth of the upscale billiards parlors. By replacing the old billiard hall with a new one, located in better urban and suburban areas, it will attract upscale clientele, families, recreational sports fans ...

568: Modern American Marketing Techniques: ... is really about. The green-eyed monster has turned sport into a ruthless money hungry business. Corporations use marketing techniques to trick young people into buying their products by modeling their products around famous sporting stars even though the product has nothing to do with the sporting star and using false statements e.g. McDonlands released a burger called the MJ burger and used the slogan 'I wanna be like Mike ...

569: The Use of Merit Pay and Incentives: ... all ten, it is easier to just rate the person as average and not have to provide so much documentation. According to Dressler(1994), some supervisors grade more stringently than others, some truly have mostly stars (SUPERVISORS OR EMPLOYEES?? WHO IS SOME?), and others are subject to the traditional rating errors. There is also the problem that if there is very little difference in ratings, then superior performers are not receiving ...

570: Colgate Palmolive: ... for the investor through dividends. Although this may cause unemployment, it does help the economy. Bibliography: Financial World-June 20,1995 p 58 "Top Dog-How Hills Pet Nutrition became one of the all-time stars in the Colgate stable" Colgate-Palmolive via Internet Money Online via Internet Chicago Tribune-Feb. 14, 1992

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