...throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper. While Jack was sleeping, the bean grows into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack wakes up to behold an enormous beanstalk. He climbs the monumental beanstalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a gigantic house, which is the home of a giant. He enters the immense castle and asks the giant's wife for food. She gives him food, but the giant returns and senses that a human is nearby. The giant says he smells the blood of an Englishman and would want to grind his bones to make bread. However, Jack is hidden in a closet by the giant's wife and from there tiny Jack heard the giant sit down at his monstrous table. His wife serves him from a huge bowl and he drank from his very big wine glass. Afterwards, the giant asks for his hen that lays golden eggs. The giant watched as it laid dozens of large admirable golden eggs before he sleeps off snoring. Jack steals the hen which lays big golden eggs. He is almost caught by the giant who follows him down the humongous beanstalk. Jack calls his mother for a large axe and cuts down the gigantic beanstalk down, killing the heavy giant. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new riches and the golden...
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...A lot of people have seen the exciting movie Ender’s Game (2013), but have they read the book? Although, the movie is an awesome science fiction action film, the book is much better. The movie is easier to follow. The book has far more detail and captures your attention. The book talks more about Ender’s relationship with his family which helps you to understand him better. The movie has scenes that entertain using special effects which are exciting to watch. Both the book and the movie have their strengths and their weaknesses. If you really want to be a part of the story, you should read the book. The most compelling reason to read the book is that the book puts more detail and story into its characters. There are differences in the characters in the way they are represented in the movie and the book. In the book, Bean is small but in the movie Bean is a lot bigger. During one of their battles Bean uses one of the biggest kids as a shield to take out the enemy forces. It is hard to see this in the movie, but the book explains it very well. In the book, Bean spends most of his time hiding in the air vents. This is evidence that Bean must have been small. But, in the movie Bean is nearly the size of Ender. The book also describes how Ender was rather mean to Bean. Eventually, they became great friends. The movie shows them as friends from the start, but never really shows much of how Ender treated Bean or shows why. They just one day become friends. Another thing is...
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...Anthony Fisher Mrs. Galavis English 12 March 4, 2015 History of the Mercury Motor Company Have you ever seen the movie “Rebel Without a Cause” starring James Dean and wonder what the cool car he drove was? It was a customized Mercury Eight, which was known for its performance, and its powerful engine, which was all made just for that movie. I didn’t even know about the movie or the Model Eight until I researched this project. I had the opportunity to watch the movie online, and it was very good. The name Mercury brings many things to mind because it’s an American icon, illustrated by its role in the American automobile history, its recognizable design, and it’s great reputation. In the 72 years that Mercury was in business, they made a lot of cars. Their smaller compact cars were some of the best- sellers because they were more economical and used less gas and oil than their full-sized counterparts during the oil crisis in the 70s. The Mercury Comet was Mercury’s first compact car and was in production for a total of eleven years. In those eleven years the company sold a lot of Mercury Comets because it was in between the more expensive Lincoln models but was nicer than the similar Ford models. The Mercury S-22 was not as popular as the Comet and was sold for only three years; it was not as big of a hit as Mercury had hoped. Then came the Mercury Lynx, Topaz and Tracer. They were all very popular cars, and the Topaz, and Tracer were Mercury’s longest production compact cars...
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...Camels Camels are herbivores; they eat desert vegetation, such as grasses, herbs, and leaves. How do camels adapt to their environment? Camels have many adaptations that allow them to live successfully in desert conditions. Deserts are hot and dry. Winds blow sand all around, so a camel has long eyelashes. It has nostrils that can open and close. Why do camels have long eyelashes? The long eyelashes keep sand out of the camel's eyes. Thick eyebrows shield the eyes from the desert sun. Why does a camel have nostrils which can close? A camels nostrils can close so it doesn't get sand up its nose. Other Adaptations: 1. A camel can go a week or more without water, and they can last for several months without food. They can drink up to 32 gallons (46 litres) of water at one drinking session! 2. Camels store fat in the hump, not water. The fat can be metabolised for energy. 3. Unlike most mammals, a healthy camel's body temperature fluctuates (changes) throughout the day from 34°C to 41.7°C (93°F-107°F.) This allows the camel to conserve water by not sweating as the environmental temperature rises. 4. Camels feet are wide so they can walk on sand more easily. Their huge feet help them to walk on sand without sinking into it. 5. Camels have thick lips so they can eat the prickly desert plants with out feeling pain. 6. The colour of their bodies helps them to blend into their environment. 7. Camel's ears are covered with hair, even on the inside. The hair helps keep...
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...Professor Gregory ANT 103 Final Essay Chapter 3, pg. 70 There have been numerous archeological hoax proposed throughout history, all over the world. I will focus on The Cardiff Giant: The Goliath of New York that was a proposed hoax in 1869 in America that attracted a lot of attention from the public. Like most hoax throughout history, the Cardiff Giant was done for money. The hoax was uncovered and put to rest soon after it started. Through this paper I want to address a few main points in order to answer some questions about the hoax and why its was popular. The main points that I want to address are who believed in the hoax and why they believed it, the people who were skeptical of the hoax, and the lessons in this story that are applicable to other instances of fraud. This information will help to breakdown the reasons why the hoax was so popular and why/ how it ended. The Cardiff Giant hoax was portrayed in 1869; at this time in America and other parts of the world many people were extremely vulnerable to believe in such hoax that were based on biblical references. Many people of the nineteenth century believed in the past existence of a race of giant human beings. Many believed the existence of giants because in the Bible there are numerous references and stories about giant people that inhabited the earth in ancient times. During this time majority of the people interpreted the Bible literally, it wasn’t just small groups of zealous fundamentalists. For most...
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...Niokolo-Koba National Park Ronald Thompson University of Phoenix In Senegal, the Niokolo-Koba National Park is the largest and oldest national park (Giant Eland Conservation, 2010). The park has around 200 meters of flat regions with lines of hills, where the remainder of the park is full of low plateaus. There are many languages that are spoken within the park. They are: Spanish, French, Russian, English, and Arabic. The Niokolo-Koba National Park was put on the World Heritage Danger List in 2007. The park is located in the western region of Africa near the Guinea-Bissau border in South Eastern Senegal (Absolute Astronomy 2010). It best known for its wildlife and it contains the most important natural habitat for biological diversity, including threatened species. Senegal is home to “2,500 different types of species and the Niokolo-Koba contain 1,500 of them” (Giant Eland Conservation, 2010). Currently 120 different species families occupy the park as well. The park is home to “80 different species of mammals, 330 birds, 38 reptiles, 20 amphibians, 60 different types of fish” (Giant Eland Conservation, 2010). The vegetation plays a strong role in this park as well. There are four types of soils that are found in the park in various locations. The soils include “tropical red soil, ferrolateritic crusts, alluvial, and hydromorphic” (Giant Eland Conservation, 2010). The vegetation in the park comes in many forms. The park includes grass, woody savannas, bushes, and many trees. A long...
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...protection of healthy panda populations. Nature reserves contain less than half (1 million hectares) of known panda habitat. That means more than half the world’s wild pandas aren’t protected. More than 300,000 people live within panda ranges, putting unprecedented pressure on the wild panda population. Climate change also threatens remaining panda habitat, bringing new weather patterns that could significantly affect future availability of shelter and food. Fragmented forest cover limits the panda’s range and could have a devastating impact on the overall population. The information in these pages has been taken from: Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, DC CI-Shanshui Center for Nature and Society, Beijing, China The Giant Panda in the Wild Species Report authored by Dr. Lu Zhi * Print * | * Email * | * Share * | * RSS * Digg * | * Delicious * | * Reddit * | * Stumbleupon * | * Facebook * | * Twitter | donate now Tell a friend Features & MediaArticlesVideosPhotosDownloadsYasushi Hibi: Playing Host to World Leaders at CBD COP 10...
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... Professor Ball Assignment 1 Identify the store and the day and time you made your observation- In order for me to make my observation on consumers buying merchandise I went to my local grocery store around the corner from me called Giant Eagle. Giant Eagle is a privately held corporation in Ohio, P.A, West Virginia and Maryland. Giant Eagle is the 49th largest retailer in the United States. Giant Eagle grocery store also has gas stations at some of their locations called GetGo. Giant Eagle in my neighborhood is very well known and a lot of people shop at Giant Eagle because they have great meats in their meat department their store is clean and organized, they have great deals on things like cereal, waffles, pop and juice. Giant Eagle also has a rewards card were if you spend 50-100$ then you will save .10 cents in fuel perks to redeem at their gas station to get .10 cents per gallon it’s a great deal especially with high gas prices these days. The two aisles I choose to observe was the cereal aisle and the juice/ drinks aisle in order to see how consumer behaviors tend to varies from different products. In addition I thought consumers might behave differently to the time of day it is as well so I went into Giant Eagle two separate days and different times. I went in the middle of the week on a Wednesday at 1:00 in the afternoon it was steady around this time tons of women and kids, and then when I got off work Friday at 6:00 in the afternoon tons of family’s...
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...The Panda Have you ever wanted to become something or to achieve a goal, but no one ever believed in you or said that’s a bad idea? Well you would find out and learn how the character “Po,” from Kung Fu Panda overcame this challenged he faced. It is also a very interesting film to inspire the young children and adults that are also facing a similar scenario. Po was a big fat panda that was helping his father at a noodle shop. Po’s father always wanted his son to become famous for making the special noodle soup and to run and carry on his business. Po had different goals and plans in mind; he wanted to become the “Dragon Warrior.” He always saw himself as a failure and cannot achieve what he wanted in the beginning, but he started to believe in himself when Master Ogway talked to him. Po was chosen to defeat Tai Lang if he came to destroy the village. He wanted to leave the Jade Palace after he found out that he had to fight Tai Lang. He started to train harder and to try and prove that he can defeat the evil Tai Lang that escaped from jail. When Po was picked by Master Ogway to become the “Dragon Warrior,” many people saw him as a disgrace that he was chosen instead of Crane, Mantis, Tigeres, Monkey, or Snake. He found strength from his father telling him that there is no secret ingredient in the soup which explained the “Dragon Scroll” he had. Tai Lang also looked at the “Dragon Scroll,” but he did not realize why it was blank, but Po figured out the meeting. But he gained...
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...Evidence of False Thumb Evolution Roughly 75% of all the types of mammals that have ever lived are now extinct. We tend to think of extant organisms as all there is. We know dinosaurs once lived and are now extinct. An article explored the routes of diversification taken by early mammals, only those lineages in the far right based on figure 1, in Cenozoic Era have survived to the modern day. Each era group showed how common it was in various time period. The multituberculates were very common until the early Paleocene. In history, they were the dominant group of mammals, existing in the largest numbers for the longest time and are now extinct. Their generations, the spalacotheriods and eutriconodonts, were successful in the Early Creataceous but its population declined by the end of that Period. At the root of the tree showed (figure 1) the groups of mammaliaforms, not true mammals, but have some similarities. This group first appeared in the Jurassic era and didn’t survive the Cretaceous era. The Cretaceous ended with a global extinction that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, and several stem-mammals suffered the same fate. Others lingered into the Paleocene Epoch only to become extinct, possibly outcompeted in the rapid radiation of the therians. We tend to think of extinct groups as more “primitive” than extant groups, but the mammals radiated rapidly and many niches occupied today were occupied by now-extinct forms in the past. In the phylogentic tree some show niches available...
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...simulation Study Pilkington Library Main Issuing Desk Abstract: This paper investigates the activity of the main issuing desk at the 3rd floor of Pilkington Library during weekdays between 5 and 6pm. The aim is to find ways of minimizing queuing times and respond to flexibility in demand. Two sets of data have been analysed and transposed into a simulation study using the Simul8 software package. The results of the simulation are presented in support of our optimization proposals. Introduction With more than 370,000 books issued last year, serving almost 15,000 users which made up to 600,000 enquires, the Pilkington Library is definitely one of the busiest place on campus especially when it gets near the examination period. One of the library objective is: "To support and facilitate the research, learning, teaching and administrative activities of the University, by organising, maintaining and providing access to appropriate literature and information resources in such a way as to provide optimum benefit for Library users." (Loughborough Library) Of course, the library is a complex facility providing a range of services which far exceeds our simulation capabilities requiring the support of over 80 staff and use of specialised computer packages to track all items, users, requests and staff resources ensuring the functionality of the whole system. The scope of our research therefore will be limited to the long-loan counter at the 3rd floor of the library which is the main contact...
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...Task: Write a fictional narrative with one scene The grass beneath his paws was cold, as it was always this time of year. Autumn's refreshing draft of cool air filled the valley, kissing the river in front of the Husky. The shades of orange, red, and brown around him were typical of course, but there was no harm in hoping these colors would not accompany the fall season this year. The feeling of vibrant energy with dull decay had always struck a chord in his chest. "Is this really necessary Jack?" he shouted further down the river bank, glaring down a red fox pawing softly at the river's current. "Calm down pup, this'll only take a minute if I can just lay a paw on a single fish," Jack shot back quickly with obvious frustration stemming from his voice. His fur was already drenched at his previous attempts, but this did not stray him from his persistence. The Husky had already begun lying down on the bank's shore, paying little attention to Jack's assurance of success. He let out a sigh and licked his front paws. He'll never learn, why does my closest friend have to be the only fox around who can't even catch the smallest of fish? The sound of a splash rang out down the bank. He rolled his eyes knowing this couldn't possibly be the sound of a fish having been caught, but the sound of Jack slipping into the stream. Frustrated at the sound of Jack's obvious failure, he stood to his paws once again, bitter his rest was interrupted so soon. The pack had ordered them...
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...Text Necks It’s no secret that having good posture is a key attribute to maintaining your health. In today’s world, it is too common to see people slumping over a tiny screened, smart phone for hours on end. According to the author of a newly published study, “Text neck,” is becoming an epidemic in the American society. In the articles “Keep Your Head Up: “Text Neck’ Takes a Toll on the Spine” by Laura Sullivan and “OMG You’re Texting Your Way to Back Pain” written by Jessica Firger, both explain reasons why people experience spinal pain linked to improper posture, how gravity plays a role, and how the hours spent in certain angles can also impact your health. Spinal pain can be linked to a lot of different areas, but the most common way is through improper posture. Posture, is used to describe how your body is positioned when you're sitting, standing and lying down. In an intrusive definition, researchers cited in “Keep Your Head Up; “Text Next’ Takes a Toll on the Spine, good posture is “ears aligned with the shoulders and the ‘angel wings,’ or the shoulder blades, retracted.” (Sullivan 9). While poor posture, quoted from Dr. Hansraj, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, actually adds pressure to the spine. The increased weight makes “the cranium become heaver the more you bend your neck.” (Firger 3). Essentially, unnatural positioning of your neck puts you at a higher risk of spinal injury. Millions of people spend hours on their...
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...Case Study #2: Non-tariff Barriers to International Trade ------------------------------------------------- Bear on the move Located in Guangdong, China’s richest province, Xianda Co. is a toy company that has been manufacturing toys since the onset of Guangdong’s economic boom in the early 1990s. While Xianda Co. is now a major manufacturer for a number of multinational toy companies, it began by designing and manufacturing its own line of dolls, teddy bears, puppets and building blocks based on its trademark character “Xia the Panda Bear”. Xia’s popularity was initially limited mostly to China’s mainland until late 2002; a year after China joined the WTO. In 2002, Xianda Co. saw a surge in demands for Xia products start in France, spread throughout Europe and North America, and move into South America. Today, Brazil is Xianda Co.’s biggest export market for Xia goods, and Xia’s popularity in Brazil alone accounts for 19 percent of worldwide Xia sales and 2 percent of Xianda Co.’s manufacturing output. Since 2003, Xia the Panda Bear has become the most popular toy in Brazilian history. A bear market A media frenzy of confirmed cases and unconfirmed speculation pertaining to China’s use of hazardous materials (for example, lead paint and potentially carcinogenic plastic and rubbers) to manufacture toys cheaply, sparked consumer panic around the globe. In response, the Brazilian government ordered all Xia goods pulled from store shelves and banned further toy imports...
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...The Pittsburgh Zoo is a great place for anyone of all ages to enjoy. They opened the zoo in June 1898, therefore people could enjoy the many different species that the Pittsburgh Zoo provides. As well as, as the years went on they now have conservation projects, tons of info on all the different animals such as, how they survive in certain climates and environments wild vs. zoo. The zoo had many different species when they first open and now there is over one hundred species of animals from all over the world. The Pittsburgh Zoo has a variety of different exhibits for the different types of animals, such as The Tropical Forest, The African Savanna, The Asian Forest, The Kids Kingdom, The Water's Edge, The PPG Aquarium: Open Ocean, Coral Reefs, The Tropical Freshwater, The Worlds of Discovery, and The Islands soon too come. The Tropical Forest has lemurs, monkeys, bornean orangutans, and western lowland gorillas. Next, in the African Savanna there is such a variety of different animals and species, such as the flamingo, black rhino, african lion, springbok, dama gazelle,ostrich, african elephant, masai giraffe, grant’s zebra, and the cheetah. The Asian Forest has snow leopards, amur tiger, red panda, komodo dragon, amur leopard, and a safari amphitheater. The Kids Kingdom has such a variety of animals that the kids can have fun looking at such as, california sea lion, hornbill,white-tailed deer, river otter, beaver, barn owl, kangaroo, llama, mini donkey, and sheep/ goat yard...
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