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Midterm Exam 1. The leaf cutter ant community is a large amazing system that contains many different species that interact with each other on many different levels. Although many things take place during this extraordinary symbiosis, there are a few keystone mutualists within this leaf-cutter ant community that without them, the results would be almost catastrophic. For one, fungi are extremely important to the ants. Specifically, the fungus Lepiotaceae . The ants cultivate this fungus and…

someone else about the P.N.L. and how they plan to destroy this earth along with everyone on it in one year, so they tried to kill me, but I escaped to this island.” Explained Tim. “What is P.N.L. anyway? Asked Yehonatan. “It stands for Project New Leaf, it was a project that erased all of our memories of everything except language and they erased all proof of anyone before the P.N.L. started they also had no choice but to kill off some other humans to prevent overpopulation.” “I have no idea…

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “A New Leaf” for the Saturday Evening Post in 1931 it is unclear if he knew the impact it would have on the literary world almost a century later. His short story is set in Paris, France and incorporates three characters: the beautiful heiress Julia Ross, the scholarly lawyer Phil Hoffman and the handsome playboy Dick Ragland and tells the tale of their incipient love triangle. In a time when drinking was more than a pastime but rather a way of life and showed…

story writer back in the 18-1900’s. His stories were known for the surprise endings. Recently I was assigned an unusual but very interesting assignment in my English class: to take a look at 2 of his short stories ‘The Gift Of The Magi’, and ‘The Last Leaf’, and do a compare and contrast essay also using 3 literary devices. Professor taught us to be very careful with how you write this essay, so after spending hours reading the short stories over, I’ve come up with 3 literary devices that I can…

Normalised Difference Vegetation Index and usually derived from satellite data, for landsat data this is usually thirty metres above the ground, to classify land cover change over a continental scale (DeFries and Townshend, 1994). When light hits a leaf part of the light spectrum is reflected back to the observer (Peñuelas and Filella, 1998:1) and the NDVI is calculated using two variables from this light spectrum, the amount of red and near infrared reflection (NIR), as NDVI= NIR-red/NIR+red…

ANALYSIS OF STEEL LEAF SPRING ________________________________________________________________ The aim of this analysis is to study the multi-leaf steel leaf spring under loading conditions and verify those results within the allowable limits. ANSYS software is used to analyze the stresses and strains by performing static analysis for the given leaf spring specifications and modal analysis is performed to determine the natural frequencies and mode shapes to asses the behavior of the leaf spring…

based on the individual person. For a person who is studying to become a teacher, this book gives mixed messaged for our day and age. Given that Monro Leaf is an amazing author and the “Can Be Fun…” books are very informative and helpful for young children. This book “Being an American Can Be Fun” can be viewed as offensive in the time we live in now. Leaf had covered many topics in his book ranging from democracy to values of an American to how to act as an American. Throughout the book, the…

well aware that not all games are created equal and that some games are in fact more important than others. With this in mind, there is one particular matchup that can trump all others, which is undoubtedly one against a rival. The Toronto Maple Leafs-Montreal Canadiens rivalry is well known to be the longest and most…

For example, the Toronto Maple Leafs had 28 wins during the 2015-2016 season. So, by taking the total wins (28) and diving it by the total games (82), the winning percentage will be 34.15%. There are other factors that could affect a team’s winning percentage as well. I have decided to…

stories express the importance of experiencing hardship. For without hardship, there is no victory. Readers learn of this essential lesson through three short stories, “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry. In these short stories, readers witness as Gwilan, the washerwoman, and Behrman surmount their individual battles. None of these characters obtain much in life. However, each of their stories illuminates how to live life well,…