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- 14031: Mummification
- ... liquefied. If it was liquefied they would turn the body face down so that the brain would spill out of the nostrils. The reason the Egyptians were so rough with the brain because they didn’t think that the brain had a lot of importance in the persons body. They thought that it was just there to produce snot. Instead of the Egyptians thinking that the brain was where everyone got ... the coffin. After the soft body parts were removed one of the embalmers would make an incision in the left side above the abdomen. Although this was needed to remove the organs, the Egyptians didn’t like to do this incision because they thought that it was sinful to damage a corpse. By making this incision they took out the stomach, intestines, liver, and lungs. After they were taken out the ... called baking soda. In the Old Kingdom after they were dried, the embalmers would put the organs in a four-chambered box made of wood, clay, or stone.This box was stored in the mummy’s tomb. Then in the Middle Kingdom, the embalmers put each organ in a separate container called a canopic jar. The stoppers of the jars were carved o look like the face of the dead ...
- 14032: The Role Of Cooperation In Anc
- Worlds of History by Kevin Reilly Response to: From Hominids to Human Beings, From Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Women and the Agricultural Revolution, From Hammurabi’s Code, From the Upanishads: Karma and Reincarnation, and From the Upanishads: Brahman and Atman Societies of today are very different from the first civilizations. Pre-historic cultures depended on the cooperation of its people to ... is withheld in the next windfall. Nisa, from From Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, feels extremely jealous of her newborn brother, Kumsa, and often makes him cry. Nisa felt she wasn’t being paid enough attention to and deprived her brother of milk by nursing. Nisa leaves to live with her grandmother after being berated several times for stealing. She thought that was what her mother wanted, but when she returned her parents told her they wanted her to be with them. “Yes, even your mother wanted you and missed you.” (Shostak, pg 28). Later in the story, Nisa’s father arranges a marriage. At that time women were married when they were still young girls. As a result, they were often scared of their husbands and a woman would sleep between the newly ...
- 14033: Term African Slave Trade
- ... at best. There have been many scholars debate just this subject alone. As you will see, many well known scholars have problems justifying their own estimations or guesses. A quick study of Philip D. Curtin’s work: From Guesses to Calculations: Shows his writings are a compilation of bits-n-pieces of information from previously thought of unimportant publishing’s. His sole purpose was to try to determine a more accurate account of the number of people brought over from what parts of Africa and to what final location. He goes on to make it ... it may have caused [is] possible to believe or advocate any particular set or range of figures becomes and act of faith rather than an epistemologically sound decision. David Henige Many specialists believe that Curtin’s original estimate has to be revised upward…. It seems probable that the ultimate figure is unlikely to be less than 12 million or more than 20 million. Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman ...
- 14034: Censorship
- ... in many different ways, it affects the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the books we read, and many other aspects of our everyday lives. Even though many might argue that censorship doesn’t really have a place in a society that emphases freedom of speech and the freedom to express oneself, but censorship is an essential and needed part of our growing society, it’s needed in the television industry, the Internet, and the music industry. Censorship helps to make our world a better place because it creates a better environment for us to live in. Censorship is an important ... viewers because censorship helps to filter out the appearances of nudity, real life violence, the use of profanity and other obscene gestures during the youth viewing hours. However, during the prime time viewing hours it’s a different story. The method the television stations use is a mere waste of time and money because a little symbol in the corner of the screen is not going to prevent a child ...
- 14035: The Telescope
- ... help you see if you had a problem with it. It could also be used for other things: hunting, war, and making new discoveries. What would the world be like without the telescope? I don’t know what the world would be like, but I some very good reasons why it was good that the telescope was created. Before there was the telescope people had to make discoveries by judgment. They ... unsuspected phenomena in the heaves and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional astronomy, the cosmos, and those who favored the naked eye. It was the first extension of man’s senses and demonstrated that ordinary observers could see things that Aristotle had not dreamed of. It therefore helped shift authority in the observation of nature from men to instruments. In short, it was the prototype of modern scientific instruments. But the telescope was not the invention of scientists; rather, it was the product of craftsmen. For that reason, much of it’s origin is inaccessible to us since craftsmen were by large illiterate and therefore historically often invisible. Although the magnifying and diminishing properties of the convex and concave transparent objects was known in Antiquity, lenses, ...
- 14036: Holocaust
- ... negative connotation? What about the association it had with the holocaust, would it then be considered negative? Did the Nazis use the role of propaganda overtly? Propaganda played an extremely crucial part in the Nazi’s rise of power, the brainwashing of the Germans to hating and ultimately killing the Jews. What is being discussed is the power of persuasion and how it is used through various forms of media to ... was the use of propaganda to rid Germany and the rest of the world of Jews and what they represented. They would take any measure to execute this task. To execute this task, the Nazi’s used new forms of publicity to receive the recognition that they thought would be beneficial. The Nazi’s held Mass meetings usually associated with brainwashing the Germans of anti-Semitic views. They distributed various visual aids such as flyers, posters, and eventually the use of radio and cinema would be used as ...
- 14037: Concretions
- Dating back to the 18th century concretions have been known as geologic curiosity’s due to the various sizes, shapes and compositions. Concretions have also been thought to be dinosaur eggs, extra-terrestrial debris, human artifacts and animal and plant fossils. Due to these curiosity’s I will try and enlighten you more on these in the following by explaining the process in which they are formed and explaining some locations where they can be found in large outcrops. “The word ... nut. The loose powder in the middle can be explaind by the iron oxide has bee drawn away from the middle and towards the outside contributing to the hard iron oxide shell. If there isn’t any powder inside the concretion and the center is hollow it means that cracks in it have allowed the powder to escape. If when you pick up the concretion and shake you here a ...
- 14038: The Chihuahua
- The Chihuahua Thousands of breeds of dogs exist in the world. From the Rottweiler to the poodle, each have their own unique characteristics. Some people may like grand, strong K-9's, while others may pick dainty, petite dogs as their passion. There is even a breed of dogs for people who love tacos: the Chihuahua. The demand is growing for this cuddly creature. The Chihuahua is ... personality combine to make it the special pet that is so popular today. The origins of the chi are not certain, but a few theories give a good idea. Many believe that the Toltec culture's "Techichi," a small dog whose existence is present in the ninth century, is the ancestor of the Chihuahua. Carvings have been found from the Mayan civilization that show drawings of the Techichi that resemble the Chihuahua of today. They were also found in the Monastery of Huejotzingo. These, too, give evidence of the chi's ancestry. Located on the highway between Mexico City and Pueblo, monks who used stones from the Toltec civilization built the Monastery. The stones give a full head view of the dog that closely resembles ...
- 14039: The Quinault Indian Tribe
- The Quinault Indian Tribe Most people don’t know anything about the Indians in the Northwest today. That is the exact reason that I am writing this paper. To help inform more people about the Indian tribes of the northwest more specifically the ... site of their principal village. They remained fairly isolated until the quinault River Treaty of 1855 and the establishment of their reservation. They probably numbered over 1,000 at the time of Lewis and Clark’s arrival in 1805. That population had deminshed to a report of 196 in 1907 the population grew to 1293 in 1945 and 1623 in 1984. As you read these and more facts will become known ... and occupation. The first reservation boundary was set in 1873. In 1889 Persident Grant Issued an exectutive order setting the present day boundary. The Quinault Indian Reservation is located on the Olympic Peninsula in Gray's Harbor and Jefferson County in western Washington. It consists of 189,061 acres, 4,414 of, which are tribal, owned. Second, The Quinault Indians live in longhouses. They build longhouses made of red and ...
- 14040: Carbon Dioxide Poisoning
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Imagine that it is the first really cold night of the winter season. You begin to feel a chill in the house so you decide it's time to turn on the furnace. So you get up out of your chair and adjust the thermometer. After a while you notice that it has not really warmed up much in the house. So ... to feel weak and nauseous. You think that it is just a case of the flu coming on but it could be something much worse. Without even knowing it a silent killer has made it's way into your home. This killer shows no remorse. It strikes men, women, and children. It does not care what color you are, nor does it care what nationality you are. The killer is carbon ... an alarm when a certain level of carbon monoxide is present. Despite the danger of possible CO contamination in homes, carbon monoxide detectors are in place in only a small portion (about 7%) of U.S. homes (Marable 97). According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the reason that carbon monoxide detectors are not in more homes is that the technology is still relatively new. The first CO detectors came ...
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