According to Dickens' novel, the Ghost of Christmas Present<span> appears to Scrooge as "a jolly giant" with dark brown curls. He wears a fur-lined green robe and on his head a holly wreath set with shining icicles. He carries a large torch, made to resemble a cornucopia, and appears accompanied by a great feast.</span>
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By Adriana Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences
Courageous, conflicted, cantankerous or just plain cute, the colorful characters brought to life in Japanese anime film and television can teach a great deal about the country’s culture, says Michael Arnold, incoming Japanese studies instructor at Washington State University.
Featuring vibrant, hand-drawn and computer-animated graphics, anime productions provide glimpses of Japanese life, values and social norms as well as everyday language and idiomatic expressions used in context, Arnold said.
Recognizing the great potential of anime as an educational tool, the School of Languages, Cultures, and Race (SLCR) at WSU invited Arnold to teach “Transnational Anime: Japanese Animation History and Theory” in the spring 2019 semester. It is among three new or returning courses added this academic year to the broader suite of Japanese language and culture study options.
<span>The answer is post and lintel. This is used on on windows, weight bearing supports trusses, over doors. This kind of construction is used to carry large heavy weight bearing loads of downward force. This is common in home basements where there are long beams and supporting posts beneath.</span>
In 1922, archaeologists discovered the tomb of a pharaoh known as King Tutankhaten (too-tan-KAH-tin), or King Tut.<span> Inside a small burial chamber, they found three coffins nested inside each other.</span><span> The smallest coffin was made of solid gold.</span><span> It held the king's mummy.</span><span> (A mummy is a body that has been preserved after death to keep it from decaying.</span>) On the mummy's head was a magnificent golden mask.<span> Jewelry and good luck charms lay on the mummy and in the wrappings that protected it.</span><span> Other rooms of the tomb were filled with statues, weapons, furniture, and even a chariot.</span>
The treasures in King Tut's tomb provided an amazing glimpse into ancient Egypt.Other pharaohs also left behind fabulous riches and artwork.<span> Many of these pharaohs had great monuments built to celebrate their lives and their accomplishments.</span><span> Like King Tut's tomb, these artifacts have much to teach us about this ancient civilization.</span>
