application during the Tang Dynasty. Some argue that without guns there would be no violence and without gun powder there would be no guns I have to disagree. Guns are only used for violence when they end up in the wrong people’s hand. Guns can be used for hunting which feeds hunters and their families. Guns are used as part of recreation and games as well, and who doesn’t love any type of competition. Lastly, gun powder is used on fireworks and fire crackers. What person cannot think back in their childhood
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Chordates are animals with backbones. Animal groups in the chordate phylum include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Animals with backbones are the most highly evolved groups of animals, the most complex and complicated. While mammals represent the smallest group in terms of the number of species, they are a very unique group which includes marsupials and monotremes. Chordates have four defining features. These features can be found during embryonic development.in some chordates. One
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had the main duties of bearing children and running the household. Since very few women knew how to read or write, most of our information about history are filtered through men, which is ultimately biased. Aristotle once said that a man is by nature superior to the female and so the man should rule and the woman should be ruled, and that is how some societies in ancient Greece trailed. During this time, women had arranged marriages and were then ruled by their husbands because women were seen as
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can directly influence an economy with out being noticed. Therefore, we will look at evolution of the economy, and how it can influence who we are as individuals. First and foremost, we must know that an economy provides a society with the means to live the lives that we want to live. The economy accounts for all the goods being sold, the regulation of those goods, and the means of how the goods are produced. In other words, the economic system accounts for production and provisioning. We take stuff
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information The Cross River gorilla, Gorilla gorilla diehli (Matschie, 1904), a subspecies of the western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla, is found in contiguous forest patches bordering South-Southern Nigeria and South-Western Cameroon, an area recognized as a biodiversity hotspot characterized by species diversity and endemism (Edet, 2011). The subspecies is one of the most critically endangered primates of Africa (Oates et al., 2008; IUCN, 2013). The
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In this 21st century, we have already entered into the era of post modernity and post industrialism. Today’s World is witnessing the unprecedented and unforeseen changes in every walk of life, thereby presenting a scenario of chaotic and bizarre changes. Changes in different sectors of society ranging from economy, society, politics, family and culture are so multi-directional that at the surface level, it becomes very difficult to decipher a meaningful and coherent picture from this jungle of changes
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have been around for a long time. These fascinating creatures have caught the eye and imagination of so many people as well as me. There are many things I want to cover over today just to give a better understanding and idea of sharks. Sharks are very smart creatures so its no surprise to learn they have plenty of ways in effective forms of communication. Eventhough sharks are generally loners, so they aren’t in groups. This makes it harder for scientist to observe how they actually communicate with
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This view is hard to reconcile with a wealth of evidence amassed by modern psychology. Tversky and Kahneman (and many others) have demonstrated the failures of reasoning in decision making. Johnson-Laird and Evans (and, again, many others) have shown how fallible reasoning can be. Others have shown that sometimes reasoning too much can make us worse off: it can unduly increase self-confidence, allow us to maintain erroneous beliefs, create distorted, polarized beliefs and enable us to violate our own
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free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed”. So how do I go about interpreting this? Some believe that it only means that the people of the military should be allowed to carry firearms, where some believe it means every citizen has the right to bear arms. Right at this moment someone around the world is being part of a violent crime whether it is the aggressor or the victim. How do we as citizens protect ourselves? Should we all be allowed to carry guns for self-defense
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Many people argue that cheerleading is not a sport. It has been a very controversial topic for quite some time now. According to Dictionary.com, “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical progress and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling,boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.” Cheerleading fulfills that definition easily and I will tell you how. If you want to compare it to another sport, you can with gymnastics. Gymnastics consist of gymnast tumbling
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