Titles: Episode 1: Out of Eden Our thesis is based on Jared Diamond’s book ‘Guns, germs and steel’. Modern history is a product of conquests of European “explorers” and the Conquistadors, who led the way. The local population was utterly decimated by the few who came to the New World. With the aid of Guns, germs and steel, they were successful in taking over those lands. Ever since, people of European origin have dominated the globe, with the same combination of military power, lethal microbes
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Summer hangs, and summer lulls. Lay in the park, smoke in the dark, as the song goes. Its lush grass and leaves and flowers and cushioning warmth brings with it particular sluggishness, a wading. The days are slower, the sun is hotter, and the air is thick and saccharine like molasses, slowing down the traffic of our thoughts and of our discourse. The season’s circular shoegaze marks for us a lens of the mind with which we are familiar; in our youth and not, between chores and shifts, our minds hang
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of General Tso, where she visited General Tso’s family in China in an attempt to understand how this became the ultimate Chinese-American dish. It also explains the differences between Chinese food in China vs. Chinese food in America. The Bean Sprout People are in the Same Boat We Are, on how fortune cookies became industrialized Ch7 Until the spring of 1989, there was one – and only one – farm in the entire country that produced kosher ducks: Moriches Duck Farm, on the East of Long Island
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alcohol each day so that your blood levels of warfarin remain stable. Vegetables Anchovies, fillets Asparagus, cooked Asparagus, raw Beans, green, cooked Beets, cooked, sliced Broccoli, cooked, chopped Broccoli, raw, chopped Brussels sprouts, cooked Brussels sprouts, raw Cabbage, Chinese, raw, shredded Cabbage, napa, raw, shredded Cabbage, red, raw, shredded
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1. Activity Title Cycle of the pumpkin 2. Curriculum are/Development Domain Science / Cognitive 3. Number of Children/Age and number of adults The whole class to one teacher and one teacher assistant / Three to five years old 4. Material Needed A poster, photocopies of the cycle pumpkin pictures and a video related to it 5. Location and setup of activity Sitting on the carpet during the circle time 6. Preparation Investigate the basics cycle of the pumpkin Create a poster board with the pictures
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chemicals that can be perilous to living life forms in the water. Compost and pesticide keep running off from substantial ranches may have started blasts of marine green growth which may disturb the sea's biological community by creating monstrous sprouts in marine waters (Schwartz, 2005). Winds cause nitrogen and different supplements from the ocean bottom to surface, which advance the development of green growth called phytoplankton. Phytoplankton is a primary wellspring of nourishment for some living
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Music is an important and extremely useful tool in the way we learn and to deny its power is a waste of a truly wonderful resource” (Kristian David Olson). Though some would look at music as a small footnote in the progression of humanity, it is in fact a much greater force; for some, it defines their very existence. The fact is, music is a driving force in society; it has been present since the dawn of man. The average person spends several hours a day listening to music, whether they see it as
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Growing Vegetables & Useful UAE Climate Information Compiled by: Saqer Bin Zayed Al Nehayyan Growing Vegetables & UAE Climate Information 2007 Index Temperature conversion chart ................................................................ 4 Average Temperature Conditions........................................................... 4 UAE Vegetables Growing Calendar ........................................................ 5 Measurement and Conversions ........................
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High Fiber Diet and Diabetes: effect of soluble and insoluble fiber on plasma glucose levels. Introduction Obesity associated with low physical activity is a leading cause of type II diabetes mellitus. (Montonen J et al. 2002) Diet and eating habits are major contributing factors in the development of obesity, thus diet is one of the modifiable risk factors that can ultimately lead to or prevent the development of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. (Ventura E. et al 2009) Strong
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1. What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? The foodborne illness that I chose is Salmonella. Salmonella is one of the most common types of foodborne illnesses in America. It’s been around for 100 of years and was discovered by an American Scientist by the name of Dr. Daniel Salmon. These foodborne illnesses are also known simply as “food poisoning.” Salmonella is caused by the pathogen, bacteria. The Scientific name for this particular infectious agent is
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