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Used Birth Stones
819 wordsFrom prehistoric shamans to modern consumerism birth stones have been a part of human life. Beginning as magical talismans, they have been used for thousands of years to cure the sick, strengthen the weak, and decorate the rich. Birth stones are a modern fad powered by the wisdom of history. In prehistoric times, every village had a shaman, or witch. The shaman would cast spells to do all sorts of things within the village. After time, shamans discovered that different rocks and minerals did dif...
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Head Of Buddha
359 wordsHead of Buddha At the Los Angeles Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art there is a permanent collection of Ancient Islamic art. From that collection, the Head of Buddha will be discussed in a visual critical analysis. The analysis will include the object's physical condition, content, composition, and the time period of the piece. Space and technique will be examined as well. The Head of Buddha is composed of volcanic stone. It is the only medium used. This three dimensional sculpture appears to...
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Stonehenge And Its Purpose
716 wordsStonehenge Medieval Mathematics Math in Medieval times was evident at Stonehenge. Stonehenge and its purpose remains an mystery even now, more than 4,000 years after it was first constructed. It could have been a temple, an astronomical calendar, or guide to the heavens. Despite the fact that we don't know its purpose for certain, Stonehenge acts as a prehistoric timepiece, allowing us to theorize what it would have been like during the Neolithic Period, and who could have built this ancient won...
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Elegy For Thelonious Damn The Snow
504 wordsElegy for Thelonious Damn the snow. Its senseless beauty pours a hard light through the hemlock. Thelonious is dead. Winter drifts in the hourglass; notes pour from the brain cup. damn the alley cat wailing a muted dirge off Lenox Ave. Thelonious is dead. Tonight's a lazy rhapsody of shadows swaying to blue vertigo & metaphysical funk. Black trees in the wind. Crepuscule with Nellie plays inside the bowed head. "Dig the Man Ray of piano!" O Satisfaction, hot fingers blur on those white rib keys....
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Sioux Indian Tribe Food The Sioux
1,659 wordsThe Sioux Indian Tribe Food The Sioux would hunt most of their food. Mainly they ate deer because the lived in the Dakota areas and Minnesota, they also hunted buffalo when they were pushed more into the west by their rival tribes. But usually lived on small game, deer, and wild rice. They like to eat berries such as black berry and vegetables such as spinach leaves, and peas. They ate nuts that grew on pine trees called pinion nuts. But like most indians they used every thing from the food. The...
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Tessie Hutchinson
748 wordsA. 1) The tone, mood or atmosphere in the story begins with that of happiness and euphoria, by setting us up with a wonderful day that most everyone would enjoy. (Quote: "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day... ". [pg 147]) However, later on in the story, it takes a different tone, and by the very end the tone is that of panic, disdain and fear. (Quote: " 'It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her". [...
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Poem As Stone
7,732 wordsMary Ann Wehler Ruth Stone was forty-four when she published her first book, In an Iridescent Time, in 1959. In fact, Norman Friedman states in his essay, "The Poetry of Ruth Stone" (46) that Stone had mastered the elegant formal conventions of that era. Soon after, Harvey Gross deems in his article, "On the Poetry of Ruth Stone", that Stone was versed in "balanced pentameters, ballad stanzas, sonnets" and other forms. He recognized that her prosodies in Topography, 1970 were more flexible; and ...
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Nellcte For Rolling Stone
807 wordsStoned on the Riviera Mick Jagger and Keith Richards by Dominique Tarl Exile Dominique TarlGenesis Publications 245, pp 248 Early 1971 found the Rolling Stones still sucking on the sour, sticky end of the Sixties. Following the abdication of the Beatles, they were now rock's reigning monarchs, but after the death of Brian Jones (and those of Joplin and Hendrix), and in the aftermath of their personal Apocalypse Now at Altamont, the fancies of the previous decade looked suddenly remote and naive....
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Back To The Rest Of The Boys
1,912 wordsSIEGE I open the door to my unmarked patrol car. Its a ninety-four black Pontiac Grand Prix. I climb into the drivers seat, close the door, buckle up, and start the car. The powerful V 8 rumbles as the electronic starter ignites the gasoline and drives the pistons up and down. I rev the engine just because I like to hear that puppy purr. As the car warms up, my electronic equipment comes to life. There is a radar gun in the middle of my dash, a small on-board computer, and my radio. I pick up th...
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Afraid Said Gandalf
5,837 wordsJ.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings. (3/4) Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring Part 2: The Two Towers Part 3: The Return of the King THE RETURN OF THE KING Book V Chapter 1 Minas Tirith Chapter 2 The Passing of the Grey Company Chapter 3 The Muster of Rohan Chapter 4 The Siege of Gondor Chapter 5 The Ride of the Rohirrim Chapter 6 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields Chapter 7 The Pyre of Denethor Chapter 8 The Houses of Healing Chapter 9 The Last Debate Chapter 10 The Black Gate Opens Book VI Ch...
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Corundum Formation
870 words"They brought me rubies from the mine, and held them to the sun; I said, 'They are the drops of frozen wine' From Eden's vats that run. ' I look'd again - I thought them hearts of friends, to friends unknown; Tides that should warm each neighboring life are lock'd in sparkling stone. But fire to thaw that ruddy snow, to break enchanted ice, and give love's scarlet tides to flow, - When shall that sun arise?" Ralph Waldo Emerson Precious stones differ greatly from metals and industrial minerals. ...
