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    Presbytis Virus

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    The primate species that will be addressed for this paper is Presbytis (Semnopithecus) entellus, commonly known as the Hanuman gray langur. Despite being classified under “Least Concerned” on IUCN Red List, a population in Karnataka, India has decreased by a drastic 38% in 45 years and more attention needs to be paid to issues threatening conservation of Hanuman langurs [IUCN, 2008; Kumara et al., 2010]. Being primarily folivorous, habitat loss due to deforestation and intense agriculture are…

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    While reading Mary Water’s Black identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities, I was intrigued by her findings on West Indian Immigrants idenidity in Ameirca. The main theme I noted throughout the book was development of the West Indians racial and ethnic Identity in America. Water’s gave a general introduction that she was raised in Brooklyn, NY. Water’s introduced her story by sharing her witness the neighborhood transform; the familiar faces she grew up with gradually began…

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    “Serving Time in Virginia” endeavors seeks to explainshow the importance of perspective and point of view in the reading and writing of history. A historian has to determine ask the question of whether a source’s claims and explanations are biased by the author, even if not done so on purpose. The author explains, through an investigation into the downfall of Virginia Colony, how a historian must remove this layer of perspective from the information to discover history’s secrets. First, the…

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    English Imperial System Name: Institutional Affiliation: English Imperial System The mention of the terms imperialism and colonization cannot be used in the current society without inciting some political pasts. Even so, some people such as the Europeans believe that the terms do not have adverse connotations and has resulted to most of them claiming that their imperial reach brought forth economic progress in their colonies. However, some human activists have maintained that the…

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    Case Study: Satisfactory

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    The TE rated the project’s outcome effectiveness as “Satisfactory”, and this TER downgrades the rating for effectiveness to Moderately Satisfactory. According to the TE, “Effectiveness varied somewhat across the projects, but all made satisfactory progress in building health system resilience to climate variability.” (TE, p.56). Concerning the Project Development Objective and the project’s 4 expected outcomes, none of them have been reached in a full degree. But various activities have been…

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    Abigail Williams rushes into the woods. She’s angry and knows just what to do about it. Tituba set up the large cauldron and pours in a gallon of thick, dark red blood. Abigail dips a cup into the cauldron and brings it to her lips thinking “Elizabeth Proctor will be dead by morning, and I’ll have John all to myself.” She drinks. Abigail’s faults are quite obvious, but does she deserve the blame of the outcome of the play, The Crucible? Abigail is the one who started the whole paranoid…

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    Arthur Miller, the playwright of The Crucible, once said, “I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.” This quote relates to The Crucible because John Proctor, a man who was accused of being a witch, and many others had lost their dignity after being accused. Also during the Red Scare, many people lost their dignity after being accused. The Crucible…

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    Rebecca Goetz in her book The Baptism of Early Virginia examines how Virginia planters manipulated their Christianity to create an idea of race. This new ideology “effectively re-imagined what it meant to be Christian, but they also invented an entirely new concept- what it meant to be white.”(Goetz, 2) Skin color became the prominent factor in what Goetz calls “hereditary heathenism,” which she defines as the permanent incompatibility of Africans and Native Americans with Christianity. This…

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    1. Marco Polo He is an Italian adventurer who returned to Europe in 1295 after a 20 year journey to what is thought to be China. He stimulated European desires for a cheaper route to the treasures of the East (11). 2. Montezuma (Moctezuma) is the leader of the Aztecs in their capital Tenochtitlán, but lost to Hernán Cortés on August 13, 1521 (20-21). 3. Christopher Columbus Is a skilled Italian seafarer who persuaded the Spanish monarchs to give him three small ships (La Pinta, La Niña & La…

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    During his professional career, Bailey impacted the industry in a variety of concentrations. With his passion for agriculture and education, Bailey worked to promote his knowledge through different crowd personalities in hopes to spread the important information with all people of any social group. While talking about the importance of education, especially higher education, Bailey once said, “We must say to every man that our first love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is…

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