------------------------------------------------- UWC Enactus entrepreneurs develop prize-winning mobile purchasing system The national Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) Enactus Challenge is a competition designed to recognise and reward entrepreneurial student teams in South Africa who created and delivered projects aligned with the goals of the USLP. After making it to the quarter- and then semi-finals of the challenge, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) Enactus team – Hakundwi
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Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, is a mountain in the middle of the Australian Continent. This mountain is located in the center of an extensive plain and is considered to be a wonder of Australia. People have been fascinated by its size, color, and unique shape. Almost every aspect of geography can be studied about this impressive rock formation, from its longitude and latitude to how it was formed and is being eroded. Uluru, or Ayers Rock (formerly), is a geological feature
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Kazakhstan pertained to the Soviet Union at the moment of my conception. My father was a Cuban exchange student finishing Geology, and my mother, a Russian-Greek descendant graduated from metallurgical engineering. Around eighteen months old, I visited Cuba to meet my parental family. After returning to Kazakhstan and living there for almost four years, I went back to Cuba and never saw my country of origin again; however, for the first time, we lived all together as a real family. After Soviet Union’s
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Azerbaijan State Oil Academy The rise of what became ASOA tied to the rise of the petroleum industry in the Baku region. By 1887 the preparatory technical school that would become Baku Polytechnicum was established in Baku and by 1910 it had integrated a curriculum related to the growing oil industry. However, the ratio of Azeris to non-Azeris was so skewed that of the 494 students studying at the school in 1916, only 20 were Azeri. On November 14, 1920, after the invasion of the Red Army and the
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Reed Traynor Geology Professor Hilton November 16, 2015 Agricultural Environmental Impacts With modern advances in technology and medicine the world’s population is at an all time high. With the spike in the human population, modern technology is trying to catch up in order to efficiently feed all of those people, while also struggling with trying to reduce the environmental footprint that it may leave behind. The earth can simply not sustain the human population if the birth rate continues to
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Adam Weaver Bio280 Ecosystems and Economics 08/04/13 The Human impact on any ecosystem is usually a negative impact. When I think about the situations that surround our influence on ecosystems the most poignant example that comes to mind is that of the strip mining industry. In this industry we see the largest amount of economic gain go head to head with the worst ecologic destruction. I grew up in West Virginia where mining was a way of life and the local economies still bend to whims of
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geological changes we view today can be accredited to global activities demonstrated through the youth of the ocean floor, plate boundaries, and volcanic eruptions. These phenomenon’s play a significant role in the plate tectonic effects in all fields of geology. Contributions and methods began through geologist Alfred Wegener who proposed that 250 millions years ago the supercontinent Pangaea existed, but broke apart through continental drift. Researchers were quick to deny but through Wegener’s remarkable
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A Biology Major can improve the lives of seniors in assisted living facilities are knowing how they respond to specific treatments given to them for medicinal purposes, assisted gadgets in the home, and personal living assistants. There could be some reasons why a senior citizen may not respond to a medicine the same way. Biology studies what we are composed of as a whole. Scientists help communities, survive from harmful environmental health factors such as heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and
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definition to develop his emphasis. Ethos is also the main context for “The Right to Arms” by Edward Abbey. Multiple strategies of example, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and persuasion were used in this short but powerful essay. “Genesis vs. Geology” by Stephen Gouldsep and “Why Don’t We Complain?” by William F. Buckley, Jr. were both developed with pathos being the primary context. Gouldsep wanted to convince his readers to a way of thinking, and Buckley wanted to convince his readers to an
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English for Academic Study New edition Writing Course Book Anne Pallant Book map Unit 1 Introductiontoacademic writing No source text Unitessay (Reflective questionnaire) Skillsand languagefocus ■ Reflecting on the process of academic writing 2 Sustainableenergy 2a Using waste, Swedish city cuts its fossil fuel use (1) 2b Using waste, Swedish city cuts its fossil fuel use (2) How can alternative sources of energy be harnessed effectively? Getting
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