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    INDONESIA - The Bali Spirit festival of 2017 came to a close on the 26 March after a week of concerts, yoga and much more. The Festival was held in Ubud, a small town in Bali, Indonesia. During the day, you could expect a variety of activities, seminars, health workshops, and more. Some activates on the day were yoga classes, meditation, dance, and martial arts with instructors coming from all over the world. “It was a life changing transformation and amazingly fun experience,’ says Allie…

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    Mabon Research Paper

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    Mabon, or the Fall Equinox, is another harvest festival. It is celebrated on September 21st in the Northern Hemisphere and on March 19th is the Southern Hemisphere. However, depending on how Mabon falls, it can also be on either the 22nd or the 23rd of September in the Northern Hemisphere. Just like Ostara, Mabon is a time when dark and light are balanced, but mostly the darkness sets in and we go from warm weather to cold weather. We harvest what is left in our gardens before the freezing cold…

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    is whom we are when no one is watching. Teaching children moral qualities such as leadership, courage, honesty, having respect for others, or even having respect for themselves is an important aspect of life. Ms. Jessica Lahey, who works for the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, is a strong adherent of character education in schools. In her article “The Benefits of Character Education: What I Learned from Teaching at a “Core Virtues” School, she gives her logic as to why such a program should be…

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    Did reduced recruitment contribute to the collapse of Atlantic cod? There survey results from six stocks of Atlantic cod do not support the hypothesis that the cod collapse off eastern Canada resulted from poor recruitment (Table. 1). Survey results of different cod stock in various regions, as depicted in Table 1, showed that the recruitment from the previous year classes that would have comprised most of the spawners during the year of the collapse was not significantly different from…

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    Essay On Free School Food

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    all of the factors that contribute to academic success factor in as well? Providing every student with free school meals diminishes school distractions such as shame and bullying, eases financial hardships on parents, which improves a child’s mental state and boosts academic performance. Peer acceptance is important to students who so easily conform to…

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    In an article called “Sunken Millions: The Hidden Cost of Overfishing to Commercial Fishermen by Federal Ocean Policy,” they found how much they have been losing. “In 2009, commercial fishermen in the New England, South Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico regions that targeted depleted ocean fish population lost $164.2 million and realized just 2 percent of potential revenues because decades of overfishing.” They go on and explain how “this additional income could have been earned…

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    Every part of the process was undeniably violent. In Africa, salves were captured “in wars and raids conducted by African polities” (Empires 157). The voyage was notoriously deadly, as was the fated that awaited the salves on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The renowned Dutch East India trading company (VOC) used slaves to grow spices into the eighteenth century (Empires 160). The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, published in 1751, reported that the VOC “makes peace and war at…

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    In the current pages I will be discussing the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade and its effects on the New World. While the undesirable characteristics of slavery and the slave trade are written down and spoken about there were also some positive effects and outcomes from slavery as well. The Atlantic slave trade refers to the moving of Africans or The Middle Passage from their homeland to the New World. I will also be discussing how In the American Revolution, achieving freedom was the…

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    The Atlantic Rim System

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    As of 1450, after the Great Convergence of the world that took place in the wake of the Columbian Crossings, a new system was developed- The Atlantic Rim. It all started when the European sailors explored the Eastern Atlantic to fulfill their profit-seeking objectives. These European sailors sailed to look for islands or African coastal points where they might trade, raid, fish or even settle. Their main objective was to make maximum profit out of the African territories and use their…

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    Topic: Did the Atlantic plantation complex create slavery, or was it the other way around? The Atlantic plantation complex was crucial to the Americas’ inclusion in the international economy. Slavery was a key component to the success of the New World, as it laid the basis for market trade between the New World and the rest of the globe. The existence of slavery throughout centuries prior to the growth of the Atlantic plantation complex was distinct to the use of slavery in the New World, the…

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