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    New Guinea Research Paper

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    Europeans continues to develop more than the New Guineans because they have greater access to resources. The New Guineans have always been disadvantaged because the Europeans have mastered the method of animal domestication and gathering. It is hard for New Guineans to develop animal domestication because pigs are the only animals they can access. The Europeans developed because of the Middle East. 13,000 years ago the middle east had lots of food supply and humid. There were more forests,…

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    The Kite Runner The book The Kite Runner, is written by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner takes place mostly in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the time period 1963-1981 and Fremont, California, during the time period 2001. In the book The Kite Runner, there is a wide variety of characters, which will be discussed in depth later on. The narrator and protagonist in the story is Amir. Amir struggles throughout the book feeling bad and trying to redeem himself for betraying his half brother, Hassan. The…

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    In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Frankenstein and the Monster explore a relationship of anger. Frankenstein desires to show his extreme anger to the Monster. However, the method used by Frankenstein appears to achieve the opposite. This is as it initially appears that Frankenstein’s expression of anger is conveyed through solidifying the Monster’s intellect. Upon closer examination, it is shown that this is not the true expression of anger. Rather, in order to show the greatest possible…

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    There are five different themes of Geography. Each help geographers in their own way. The first theme is location. It has two aspects of it that geographers use, first absolute location and the other relative location. The second theme is place. There are two different characteristics, one human and the other physical. Another theme is human/environment interaction. It has three significant aspects, the first is dependence, another is adaptation, and the last is modification. The next theme is…

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    Latin America Geography

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    Latin America has one of the most geographical variations of any location in the world. You can travel across Latin America and be close to the Pacific Ocean, a top of the Andes Mountain ranges, or be in the middle of the Atacama Desert. These variations of geography have a major impact on one of the most densely populated regions in the world. “Geography has strong and pervasive effects on economic and social development.” Most of the population in Latin America lives near the coast. Over 490…

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    world. It also tells us where cyclonic activity would be found with is at the Polar front , due to the fact that that is where air rises over the polar front and then the cold polar easterly winds meet the warm westerly winds thus resulting in Mid-latitude cyclones. The tricellular model also shows us where frontal rainfall occurs. Frontal rainfall occurs when cold air meets warm air and the warm air is forced above the cold air , then it cools and condenses resulting in…

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    The framers recognized that including a modicum of ambiguity in the Constitution would provide each branch the latitude to compete for broader jurisdiction and powers, as none of the branches would be strictly limited by inflexible boundaries. Such latitude achieves Madison 's ideal of a government that pits ambition against ambition by providing each branch with both different avenues of operation and different incentives as well…

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    the equator (-40 or -30 latitude) have darker tones. B. The more UV light that skin is obtaining, the darker the skin tone, while the less UV light that the skin is obtaining, the lighter the skin tone. C. These findings closely match the predictions of my hypothesis because these findings give statistical information on how people with lighter tones live farther away from the equator and people with darker tones live closer to the equator. For example, the latitude (-20 degrees (Africa))…

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    The Kansas-Nebraska Act which is also known as the “bleeding Kansas” took place in 1854-1861. The Kansas- Nebraska act was introduced in 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska act repeals the Missouri compromise’s use of latitude as a boundary between free and slave states. The latitude dividing line is called the 3630. This act will allow people in the Kansas or Nebraska territory to decide if their territory will be slave state or a free state. The Kansas- Nebraska act is worse than the Missouri compromise…

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    Vitamin D Essay

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    UVB’s 1. The sun shines on the skin. 2. The UVB light interfaces with a form of cholesterol in the skin called 97-dehydrocholesterol. 3. This is synthesized into pre-vitamin D3, which is immediately converted into vitamin D3. 30 minutes of midday sun in a bathing suit, and you’ve absorbed up to 20,000 IU of vitamin D. Whether you spend half an hour in the midday sun or take 2 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 in tablets, it’s then transported to the liver where it’s turned into D25 for storage. These…

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