The primary age group for the city is fairly young. ... Closely related are the immigration issues facing the city. Seattle is considered by many to be the best place to live in the western United States, and since the year 2000 there has been an increase of 40.2% in the immigrant population of 1990, which compared with an increase of 4.4% in the foreign-born population that includes children born to immigrants over the same period of time. ... However we must live in the real world, not a fairy tale and must deal with the conflicts of urban life. ... The city of Seattle has struggled more tha...

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Honey serves as a primary food source for the bees. ... A famed cave painting in Valencia, Spain depicts two men climbing a ladder or series of knotted ropes up a tree with a baskets made of gourds to hold and collect honey combs. ... (The Tale of Sinuhe, Middle Kingdom)4 In this period of antiquity, sugar was still an unknown, so honey's otherworldly sweetness was held in glory anywhere it was tasted. ... Some of the most ancient tales of the creation of man contain passages with bees and honey as crucial elements. ... In the Amazon, the native peoples of Brazil tell a tale of how th...

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Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... I just don't recognize this dismal, dreary city. ... Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ru...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... I just don't recognize this dismal, dreary city. ... Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ru...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His grandfather, Bernardino Merisi, had a modest, two story home on a small piece of land in northeast Caravaggio, where he lived and worked. ... From his second marriage came Ludorcio, Drancesco, Giaconco, and Caterina and in 1563 he married for a third time, resulting in two more daughters; Caterina and Margarita. ... Caravaggio became known for his remarkable speed (often completing a painting in just two weeks). ... In 1570 there was a great famine, with very little food and the death rate skyrocketed, many dying amongst the famished. ... This period of artistic style was very exaggerate...

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Based on a short-time study of Little Saigons, a Vietnamese ethnic enclave, and Paris by Night, a musical cultural variety show, this paper examines the social, cultural, and emotional significance of such culture preservation in the lives of immigrants. ... After a period of time living with their sponsors, many Vietnamese refugees began to relocate to different regions throughout the United States, and California was a primary choice for the majority of them with its warm climate, abundance of unskilled jobs, and most importantly, the existence of Vietnamese communities (Do 42). ... Little S...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. ...

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By 216 BC the number of fights given on a single occasion had risen to twenty two.(Wilkinson p.16) In 105 BC the two consuls of the year made gladiatorial games official. ... During this time persecution fell heavily on their faith, many won immortal fame as martyrs. ... For the period of his engagement, he had become no more than a slave. ... Gladiators were called hordearii, barley men, because of the amount of barley that they ate, a muscle building food. ...

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At least two people were killed in addition to himself and wounding 29. ... By November 6, 2003 Confidence in Russian markets had dropped with share prices reflecting this, at a time when the Russian government has been trying to attract foreign investment. ... Norms are commonly broken down into two categories know as folkways and mores. ... Abortion has been the primary method of birth control in Russia for some time. ... The big variety of Russia's peoples, stretching from the Baltic coast to Siberia, contributed countless tales comprising a shared folk heritage. ...

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The name was then passed down to his son Vlad Dracula (being the diminutive of Dracul "the little dragon") Dracula's father was the authority of every German city of the region and defended Transylvania from the wrath of the Turks. ... Vlad, in a cowardly attempt to save his own life, left in his place his two sons: Vlad (Dracula) and Radu. ... He studied and learned the Turkish language and spent most of his time in the Sultan's harem. ... In two words unorthodox and horrific. ... Dracula was often present at the time of punishment. ...

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Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but cities such as Ife and Benin, among others, had been standing at their present sites for at least five hundred years before the European arrival. ... Ife was the first of all Yoruba cities. Ado-Ekiti, Oyo and Benin came later and grew and expanded as a consequence of their strategic locations at a time when trading became prosperous. ... But though it remained a city-state it had paramount importance to Yoruba's as the original sacred city and the dispenser of basic religiou...

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Starbucks was founded in 1971 by three academics who had become enamored of the Berkeley, California food scene. ... They picked a two-tailed siren for the logo, a creature of strength and power, common in medieval adventure tales. ... In addition to its 1,006 retail locations, Starbucks has a national direct response business and a specialty sales group, which serves fine dining, food services, travel and hotel accounts. ... Develop enthusiastically satisfied customers all of the time. ...

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More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. ... Drug dollars poured into Colombia, building cities. ... If two drug dealers have a dispute, they have no legal way for it to be settled. ... Many drug users say that the first drugs they ever used were the two socially sanctioned drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ... The DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: "In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we common...

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Drug dollars poured into Colombia, building cities. ... If two drug dealers have a dispute, they have no legal way for it to be settled. ... At this time, the Parent's Movement is focusing its attentions on marijuana and children. ... Many drug users say that the first drugs they ever used were the two socially sanctioned drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ... The DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: "In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. ...

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(p 11) This paper will try to analyze Marlow's change, as caused by his exposure to a radically different culture, untamed nature and the imperialistic character of the historical period. ... Marlow starts his tale at sunset, and as his story gets gloomier, so the evening grows gradually darker. ... The city of Brussels itself reminds Marlow of a "whited sepulchre-(p 14) which in the Bible, in Matthew's Gospel, is described as a pure and white fazade hiding death and decay. Then there's the story of Marlow's predecessor Fresleven, a gentle, quiet man who goes on a wild r...

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The third of the great Greek historians, Xenophon, was more devoted to the purely storytelling aspects of history. 5 The influence of Thucydides was early in the ascendant, and the two important Greek historians of the Roman period, Polybius and Dio Cassius, more or less modeled themselves on that master. The Roman historian Livy was more of a teller of tales, and he invoked the intervention of the gods to explain cause and effect. ... Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Augustine's City of God; it was outstandingly illustrated by Paulus Orosius and conti...

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