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    respect. The kola nut is highly valued due to the fact that most Nigerian tribes believe that the kola nut tree was the first tree on the earth (Barron 1).The kola nut is used to welcome guests into one’s home. The kola nut is mainly grown in Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Brazil (Onyioha 2). When guests come over to one’s home, the host is to present anywhere from two to sixteen kola nuts (Widjaja 3). If no kola nuts are present then the host has to explain why and apologize (Widjaja 2).…

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    trials and joys of love in all its forms. Shyam Selvadurai himself is a homosexual Sri Lankan Canadian novelist born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Sinhalese mother and a Tamil father. In 1983, the family emigrated to Canada due to ethnic riots that were severely damaging the country. Essentially, the novel recounts his childhood experiences, growing up with the troubles of self-discovery as a homosexual, Tamil boy in Sri Lanka. Considering the family as a conservative project, Arjie’s family works…

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    For Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India, the countries where most lives were lost, it should be remembered that life in all of these areas is essentially sea dependent and the homes are concentrated close to the water and, therefore, in low lying areas. This is why destruction…

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    Among the main reasons that lead to poaching, there are the elevated request for wildlife products, poverty, scarcity and unemployment, the improper advantage given to local communities limited by conservation activities, population pressure (OIPA, 2014), and insufficient funds for conservation, corruption and lake of political will. Different strategies can be implemented have been suggested in the NEAP to fight against elephant poaching in Malawi. Firstly, the NEAP stipulates monitoring the…

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    infection is confirmed as the Pearl River Delta. The Chinese government had prior knowledge about it, but to what extent it is not known. Now a situation report. It is not good. The infection has figured out a way to cross the strait. It wasn’t the Sri Lanka trick. This wasn't a bridge over the water. The air sweeps would’ve spotted them. The regional director was killed when the old anti air missiles were fired and aimed at the com towers and the command structure. I don’t know why or how that…

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    Not Enough In The Kosmos

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    The basis of discovery began in ancient Greece when philosophers started to separate the creation of the world from cultural myths and the gods. Because of this separation, chaos started to become Kosmos, and cosmology, the study of the makeup of the world. The author of the Kosmos text gives a detailed description of the ocean and the inhabitant world as he knew it. He accounts how the Atlantic Ocean surrounds the inhabitant world and the seas throughout the inhabitant world. However, the…

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    Religion of Japanese culture In Japan, the two major religions are Shinto and Buddhism. Shinto means “the way of Kami.” Buddha is known as the “awakened one.” Shinto was introduced into the world in the 6th century. Shinto does not have any founder. According to the “Religion Library of Shinto” their are no scripts, no texts, and no official doctrine. People use this religion to develop a specific japanese consciousness. Religion may not play a big role in this country, but as a Shinto…

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    In the law of delict there are five elements that should be considered before someone is held liable for an act that caused damage. These elements include the nature of the act, the wrongfulness/unlawfulness of the act, the damage caused by the act, that causal link and lastly the fault. If the evidence obtained from the act and matched against the element is adequate and proves that the act caused the damage then it can be concluded that the act did indeed cause the act and someone or an…

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    Paragraph On Diwali

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    go live in the forest for fourteen years; Lakshman, Ram’s brother, had also joined them. Ravan was king of Sri Lanka and the ten headed demon who kidnapped Sita. Ravan kidnapped her because he thought Sita was a prize and wanted her all to himself. Ram and Lakshman, and the god of wind whos is called Hanuman went searching for Sita. After they destroy the warriors of the kingdom in Sri Lanka and Ravan they rescued Sita and brought her back to Ayodhya. The people of Ayodhya help them guide them…

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    overseen the recycling of 300,000 pounds of e-waste. He's successfully lobbied the Rhode Island state legislature to ban the dumping of electronics. He's used refurbished computers to create media centers in developing countries like Cameroon and Sri Lanka to foster computer literacy.” These organizations wouldn’t be started or have teen help without these…

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