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Ziziphus mauritiana and the Muzarabani community. Wild fruits are widely managed and utilised in different parts of the world. In semi-arid region the dependence on the fruits vary from region to region. In semi-arid regions which are prone to natural hazards like Muzarabani have for years relied on wild fruits’ like Ziziphus mauritiana despite, the reliance of the people of the muzarabani community on Ziziphus mauritiana , serious academic considerations of Ziziphus mauritiana as is an…

contract is in your best interest.  Length of Contract Our initial goal for you was to get a 2-year contract. It became clear that ReVana wanted a longer contract agreement. The company was talking about a 4 or 5-year deal. They were choosing to barter the length of the contract with the signing bonus. If we agreed to a 4-year contract we would get an $850 dollar signing bonus, if we signed a 5-year contract we would receive an $1,000 dollar signing bonus if she met the requirement. If we…

The First Voyage Christopher Columbus was the first European to sail against the cultural winds and maneuver his ships west in an attempt to find a faster route to India. “I should not go by lands eastward, as had been customary, but I shall go by way of the west.” He relied on his experience as a sailor watching ships sail as a young boy sailed the Mediterranean Sea, he read books about about the sea and would make notations in the margins. He had a showed a passion for exploration early on…

Everybody leaves behind a legacy. Some big, some small; some good and others bad. Great leaders leave behind the greatest legacies. Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, left behind a legacy controversial to many. In spite of the fact that many Americans view Fidel Castro with a reprobative attitude, once he came into power he made many laws that gave his people great benefits and opportunities that still continue today. Fidel Castro, a Havana lawyer, ran for the Cuban congress, but it…

1) England’s Imperial Strings a) In 1600, North America was still not explored, but contained some Europeans already i) 1610 – Spanish initiated Santa Fe ii) 1608 – French initiated Quebec iii) 1607 – English initiated Jamestown, Virginia b) English to competes with the Spanish Empire i) In 1530s, King Henry VII conflict with Roman Catholic Church led to religious disputes, causing the English Protestant Reformation ii) Power was unbalanced until Protestant Elizabeth took power and…

After the Civil War the Southern economy which relied on slavery was destroyed. New South boosters came in during the industrial era and worked to improve the South by building railroads and factories. Southerners also began shipping out raw materials such and timber and coal. Just as before the war a majority of the South was poor. In books such as Rick Bragg’s Ava’s Man and Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls by Victoria Byerly the lives of the working class poor in the New South were described in…

The Piano (1993) by Jane Campion How vulnerable can a woman be when indulging in her passions? In life, as in nature, it is not possible to see beyond the horizon. When, followed by her young daughter Flora, Ada McGrath, a strong-willed and self-sufficient Scottish widow, mute for having willed herself not to speak, arrives in New Zealand as an imported bride for an arranged marriage to a land-grabber named Alisdair Stewart; she certainly could never have imagined what the final outcome would be…

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and nowadays Russia Introduction According to Horvath & Robert (2005), USSR, that is currently Russia has been a communist nation since the 19th century. The Soviet Union has been a socialist federation containing many institutions of the country and other non-governmental organizations. In the past, many human and civil rights were limited prompting the formation of some civil rights organizations. The political dispensations were so limited, and this…

‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ Slavery is one of the most important and controversial topics in United States history. A decade after Jamestown’s settlement, slaves appeared in British North America and the landscape of the U.S. would never be the same. Enslaved African-Americans were denied any sort of rights or ownership and were sentenced to a lifetime of labor under a slave master. This prolonged suffering led to Northern Abolitionists campaigning for the freedom of slaves during the years before…

contradicted the economic system of the time, mercantilism. Money does have an important function, though, and Bastiat wants to make clear to the reader what money is, and what it is not. Without money, to facilitate exchange people would need to barter, or directly trade goods for other goods or services for other services. While this system can work well, it also creates high transaction costs. For example, if a carpenter needed bread, he would need to find a baker who needed carpentry done.…