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- 12311: Tropical Africa: Food Production and the Inquiry Model
- ... Africa pose another problem. They are unlike the soils of temperate areas. Soils are largely products of their climates, and tropical soils are different from temperate soils because the climate is different. Because of the great heat of the tropics tends to bake the soils, while on the other hand, the rainfall leaches them. The combined heat and moisture tend to produce very deep soils because the surface rock is rapidly ...
- 12312: Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
- ... computer. New types of careers (programmer, analyst, and computer systems expert) and the entire software industry began with second-generation computers. Though transistors were clearly an improvement over the vacuum tube, they still generated a great deal of heat, which damaged the computer's sensitive internal parts. The quartz rock eliminated this problem. Jack Kilby, an engineer with Texas Instruments, developed the integrated circuit (IC) in 1958. The IC combined three ...
- 12313: The Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrims
- ... Prologue as a stereotypical ordinary woman for that day in age. He only gives a brief description of physical appearance and a possible glimmer of a strong minded female. "In making cloth she showed so great a bent / She bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent. /
Bold was her face, handsome, and red in hue. / A worthy woman all her life
(31)" These passages depict a woman who has a normal ...
- 12314: Causes Of Civil War
- ... were out for the people to know about. Third, Foreign Policy dealt with U.S. policies over foreign countries. After the American Revolution, the Americans were still allies with France. In 1793, France declared on Great Britain and wanted aid from the United States, considering the French helped the Americans defeat the British. Americans stayed neutral, but the British closed French ports to neutral ships. As a result, the Americans signed ...
- 12315: Jamaica: "Jammin," Life in Jamaica
- ... In any business, you need land, and that is one thing that is extremely lacking. The Jamaican Government is a Parliamentary democracy that was founded on August 6, 1962, the day Jamaica broke free from Great Britain and finalized there own constitution. Like the United States, it has three branches, the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative. They all have there own job and al can veto bills from the other two branches ...
- 12316: King Arthur 3
- ... ensure that no one knight would have obvious authority over another. An earlier addition to the story adds that the original table was part of Guinevere's dowry when she was married to Arthur. The Great Hall at Winchester castle actually contains a round table, this one constructed around the fourteenth century, and thought to have been built for Arthurian tournaments held by King Edward III. The first mention of the ...
- 12317: King Henry Viiii
- ... throne in 1509, and soon thereafter he married Arthur's young widow, Catherine of Aragon. During the first 20 years of his reign he left the shaping of policies largely in the hands of his great counselor, Cardinal Wolsey (See Wolsey, Cardinal). By 1527 Henry had made up his mind to get rid of his wife. The only one of Catherine's six children who survived infancy was a sickly girl ...
- 12318: Fiesta the Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
- ... Jake can never be Bretts lover, they are forced to create a new relationship for themselves, perhaps one far more dangerous than that of mere lovers - they have become best friends. This presents a great difficulty for Jake, because Bretts presence is both pleasurable and agonizing for him. Brett constantly reminds him of his handicap and thus Jake is challenged as a man in the deepest, most personal sense ...
- 12319: Laura Secord
- ... not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness. On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had already left to fight in the ...
- 12320: Lines - William Wordsworth
- ... He also sees little birds hopping and playing. He cannot understand what they are thinking. He does not understand why the birds like to hop and play, and why their simple motions give them such great happiness. But on the other hand, the birds may even be thinking about how man s children hop and play, and they might not understand what man is thinking and why that gives them pleasure ...
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