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    called observer.com, the author states that Samuel Zemurray found bananas in a train car and sold some bananas for a profit. He sold some bananas, so he had some money for him and his family to survive. He saved the rest if the bananas to make a banana farm. In addition, in the website called observer.com, Samuel Zemurray used the rest of his bananas to make a banana farm. Everyone knew about Samuel because he was so rich with his banana farm. Within 3 years, he has made over $100,000 in 3…

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    1. Surrounding Temperature At Trader Joe’s and Ralphs, both the apples and bananas were found at room temperature, whereas the broccoli was refrigerated at both locations. Temperature is the most important factor affecting respiration. Within a certain range, most respiration rates are directly related to temperature. As temperature increases, so do the respiration rates. Apples and bananas are not refrigerated because they display similar respiration rates when chilled as opposed to room…

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    It was my fourth attempt at making banana bread. The first attempt, it looked amazing, but crumbled into pieces as soon as I cut a slice. It was too dry because there was too much dry ingredients and less wet ingredients. The second attempt, it tasted like literal white bread. The texture was still dry but lacked sweetness because the bananas weren’t ripe enough and the sugar wasn’t enough. The third attempt, it looked like the flatbread sandwich from Panera. The sweetness was just right but…

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    Puerto Rico Importance

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    Clean all the banana leaves properly. You will need to divide the leaves into pieces of twelve and pieces of five by eight. On the table where you will be put together the pasteles, place one of the twelve pieces of banana leaf and then in the center of that place one of the pieces that measure five by eight. On top of it place four tablespoons of the banana mix and spread forming a rectangle making a thin layer out of the mix. Put two tablespoons of the cooked meat on top of the banana mix…

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    habichuelas, that are frequently used are the red and pink beans. They are prepared in a casserole with “sofrito”, tomato sauce and spices. In order to give the beans just a bit more flavor and texture; it is added stew pumpkins, potatoes and even banana balls into the casserole. For the most part it is served with beans, but when the beans are missing, the rice can be mixed with a broth of meat. Stewed rice, arroz guisado, is cooked in a stew consisting of “sofrito”, seasoning and tomato sauce.…

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    My Som Expo Experiment

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    I decided to include three slices of apple, four baby carrots, half a banana, and a tablespoon of chia seeds, with six tablespoons of flour for baking it. For the chia seeds, I used a drink called Mamma Chia. After all, I think that a little sugar would work, too, and I know that they liked the strawberry banana flavor. According to Kimberly Snyder’s website, all of these foods can give you energy. According to Caring Pets, they are all edible…

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    Chiquita Case Study

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    International Inc. is a multinational producer, distributer and marketer of bananas mainly and other fresh fruit products. The banana division only consists of 19,000 employees mainly working in more than 100 banana farms in countries throughout Latin America like Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador , Costa Rica , Panama and Colombia . It has always cared about their employees who were living in houses (owned by Chiquita) in the banana farms. The company used to provide potable water,…

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    What Is Race 4?

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    (Musa), the commercial banana has enjoyed international success as a popular dessert item in the modern developed world. Understandably, the advent of an uncontrolled banana blight would certainly have major repercussions on the world market; moreover, it would spell doom for the millions of subsistence farmers across the globe for whom bananas are still a staple food. This frightening scenario is not wholly unrealistic – in the 1890s, Gros Michel, the former predominant banana cultivar, was all…

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    United Fruit Imperialism

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    its pocket, controlling the local economy of the host countries, and harshly exploiting the plantation workers.” The success of the company led many to question how the company was able to act as such, especially with the money from the exports of banana to the United States the company was able to pay the few government’s officials, but not the actual field workers, since they outnumbered them. With the rules from both the government and United Fruit Company, people from Latin America had…

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    year, but tradewinds reduce the humidity near coastal areas. The dry season runs June through November, while the wet season runs December through May. Due to tropical weather, locals only grow certain fruits and vegetables. Fruits grown include bananas, mangoes, papayas, coconuts, oranges, and lemons. Vegetables such as cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, taro root, and plantains are widely produced and eaten. Grains such as rice and corn are also grown by the locals.…

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