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Sri Lanka Rainy Season
2,012 wordsGliricidia was first used in Mexico to provide shade for cacao plantations. It is from this use that the Aztecs labeled the tree "Madre de Cacao" (Mother of cacao). Later, in the 18 th Century, Gliricidia was brought to Sri Lanka to provide shade for coffee plantations. Today, the tree's long leafy branches are used to shade vanilla and tea crops as well. The tree is also known in Spanish as "Palo de Hierrro" (Tree of Iron) which eludes to Gliricidia's hard, heavy wood. This makes it ideal for f...
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Appearance Of The Bark Explain The Appearance Trees
893 wordsAfter reading this poem, I believe that it can be divided into three specific parts. The scientific explanation for the appearance of birches, Frost's boyhood fantasy about their appearance, and his present day interpretation of their appearance. In the first section, Frost explains the birches appearances scientifically. He imply's that natural phenomenons make the branches of the birch trees sway. He explains that ice storms, which is a characteristic of New England weather, can accumulate on ...
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Deer Hunting Public Land
1,170 wordsImagine yourself perched twenty feet up in a tree at six oclock in the morning in the middle of December. Completely exhausted from the mile hike to your stand, you start to feel the effects of the freezing weather as your body begins to cool down. Your fingers and toes feel like they are going to break off as you wiggle them, desperately trying to regain feeling. Does this seem like an enjoyable leisure sport? Whitetail deer hunting is a very popular winter sport in the south and in many other ...
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Native Americans Town Square
757 wordsLocation and Background The early English traders gave the Creek native Americans their name because they usually built their villages on or near creeks or rivers. If they were to still have their villages it would include areas of Northern Florida and Eastern Louisiana and Southern Tennessee. The majority of the villages were located along the banks of the Coosa, Tallaposa, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee rivers. The native word for the most powerful band of Creeks was the Muskogees. The Cre...
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League Of The Iroquois Iroquois Indians Tribes
1,262 wordsBefore the white man the story of Iroquois Indians began long before the white explorers, traders, and settlers reached the shores of the New World. The Iroquois originally lived in some unknown part of the North America. According to legend, these Indians were instructed by the Great Spirit to move into the Northeast. There they carved a territory for themselves in the middle of a rival group of Indians, the Algonquins. The Iroquois settled in beautiful and rich lands of northern New York State...
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Galapagos Islands Natural Selection
481 wordsNatural selection, or survival of the fittest, is an evolutionary shift in a species. It occurs when member or members of a species possess specific genetic traits (natural or a mutation) that are beneficial to their survival in a particular environment. Those that survive because of that trait are obviously the only left to reproduce and the trait carries over to their offspring, and becomes common to that species. This theory was observed by Darwin, and presented in his book Origin of Species ...
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United States Department York New York
1,742 wordsIn this century of rapid scientific discovery, there still exist natural phenomena with the power to inspire wonder and mystery. The cicada, an insect known since ancient times, is one such phenomenon. Because scientific knowledge of the cicada contains many gaps, these mysterious insects can still stimulate our imagination or lead us into confusion. At the present time, the cicada is many things to many people: it is a curiosity that should be approached scientifically; it is a source of supers...
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Pd On The Other Hand Pd And Kd Retriever
645 wordsOur family has many pets, and among them are two dogs. One is a Dachshund and the other is a Golden Retriever. The Dachshund is a male and it s name is PD. The Golden Retriever is a female and it s name is KD. There are many differences between these two dogs, in breed and in the way these two animals respond to their environment. The bodies of these two breeds are very different. PD s hair is very short and reddish. This is fine in the summer, but sometimes he shivers on cold winter nights. KD....
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Man Kind Reading Books
866 wordsFahrenheit 451: Books A Part of Our Past One of the biggest issues raised in this book was the idea that people are starting to forget more about books and what they mean. People have started to take books for granted, instead of reading books they watch a movie or a program on the television. People do not realize that books, scrolls, manuscripts are a big part of our past. Since the beginning of time, people have been recording things they saw, did and took part in on birch bark and later very...
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Rocky Mountains Biological Diversity
1,164 wordsFire Fire And Ecosystems Introduction Fire is an important part of many ecosystems, affecting wildlife populations in various ways, such as by changing habitat, affecting food supply or quality, or by altering interactions of species. Fire suppression has allowed forested areas to achieve a climax state, which provides less forage for wildlife. While terrestrial wildlife is benefited by fire, large fires through the increase in sediment flow negatively impact aquatic ecosystems. Fire is essentia...
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Balsam Woolly Adelgis Begins Laying Eggs Tree
1,105 wordsBALSAM Forest Insects FOREST INSECTS BALSAM WOOLLY ADELGID (Adelgis Piece) Todays forests are under a continuous compound of physical stresses. In North America examples of this are evident in all regions, whether it be the subjection of Great Lakes woodlands to acid precipitation, the submission of hundreds of thousands of forested acres out west to fire of the catastrophic level, or annual gypsy moth defoliation of entire mountain sides in north central Pennsylvania. These dangers are out ther...
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Boston Bedford Books Affirmative Action
1,498 wordsPrejudice is a terrible thing. As long as people still roam the Earth, prejudice will never cease. How ever long that we the people stay here on Earth, that is how long prejudice will last. We have tried to abolish prejudice, but it always comes back full force. People take into consideration peoples race and ethnicity, and if it is different from theirs, then that person probably is prejudice towards them in some way, shape, or form. Prejudice has been with Mankind since the beginning of time. ...
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Pineal Gland Herbal Medicines
1,654 wordsHerbal Extracts and Hormones Herbs are found everywhere, and hormones are a natural product of everyones body. The production of hormones increases and decreases with the age and development of the individual. Due to the nature of hormones and the ongoing research still being done, this article will investigate only two hormones that are in common use by the everyday person. Herbs, on the other hand, can be found from California to China and as far as consumers are concerned, they are now mainst...
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Discovery Of Quinine Gave The World Indians
1,209 wordsStories of Native Americans contributions to the advancement of health and medicine traces were discovered in a small town in Name, Africa. The very first onset of the beggining of modern pharmacology is the substance called quinine. This is the substance that came from a bark of a tree that grew in high elevations. The Indians has been using this substance to cure malaria, cramps, chills, hear-rythm disorders and many other ailments. Prior to the discovery of quinine, the old world suffers enor...
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Ancient Greeks Living Organism
2,533 wordsThe Gaia Hypothesis The Gaia Hypothesis is a hypothesis that was developed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the late 1970 s. James Lovelock is a British scientist, an atmospheric chemist, and also an inventor with an education in human physiology. Lynn Margulis was a microbiologist during the 1970 s at Boston University. She also originated the theory of the eukaryotic cell arising as a result of endo symbiotic cell capture. This theory is the one that gave her the credibility to advance t...
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Red Blood Cells Mg Kg
850 wordsMalaria is a Malaria Malaria Malaria is a disease that can be cured. It is also fatal if not quickly detected and treated. Luck also helps too. A person who gets malaria contracts it from a bite from female Anopheles mosquitoes. (Anopheles any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to human beings) The mosquitoes themselves get the parasites from other humans who have the parasites in their bloodstream. The parasites are 1 cell...
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U Ma Cha Yosemite Valley Lived
554 wordsHistory Final Miwok's set many standards for themselves and the tribe. They were usually very hard workers, working harsh numbers of hours a day to keep the tribe alive. There were hunters, fishers, and many other jobs for people. A non-nomadic people, the Miwok's settled in the Yosemite Valley. My report is on the Miwoks Social Life. Games, customs, jobs, and many other things about the Miwoks Indians will all be covered in this. The way they lived, what they ate, and what they farmed. They all...
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Back And Forth Rocking Chair
1,477 wordsBack forth back forth she sits in her creaky rocking chair pleasantly reminiscing about her lost childhood as she crochets a warm fuzzy quilt for her granddaughter. Out of nowhere her desire to finish the quilt before noon fades and she find her attention drifting towards the window and looking at a giant maple tree bejeweled in sparkling frost. The tree is old and withered, it has aged immensely; it is somewhat like the old woman even the texture of the bark is likened to the wrinkles on her fa...
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Evil Spirits Middle Ages
1,268 wordsOur World In Medicine One of the most important factors about peoples lives is the information of, the use of, and the growing knowledge of medicine. Medicine is a science that nations all over the world use. It is a science because it is based on knowledge gained through careful study and experimentation. Medicine is also an art form because it depends on how skillfully doctors and other medical workers apply their knowledge when dealing with patients. 1 Medicine is one of the most respected pr...
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Mark Honigsbaum Fascinating Story Cinchona
447 wordsBark for the bite The Fever Trail Mark Honigsbaum Macmillan? 18. 99, pp 333 Beware and take care of the Bight of Benin Theres one that comes out for forty goes in. Thus begins a nineteenth-century sailors refrain, inspired by the deaths of thousands of servicemen from a disease that has blighted Britain throughout history: malaria. It helped kill Cromwell, destroyed most of our forces during the War of Jenkins Ear (1739 - 1741), and by the Victorian Age was wrecking our colonial aspirations in A...
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