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    person to actually write about coffee’s medicinal benefits, which he calls bunchum. Avicenna wrote ‘it fortifies the members, it cleans the skin and dries up the humidities that are under it and give an excellent to all the body’. 1100 Arab traders return to Yemen with coffee from Ethiopia. The Arabs cultivate the plant on plantations for the very first time. They crush and boil the green coffee beans to make a beverage known as qahwa (which means ‘that which prevents sleep’). After a…

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    The society and culture of Ancient Rome is what helped set up the society and culture of the United States today, especially in politics. There are many similarities between Ancient Rome and the United States when it comes to society, culture, and politics. Even though Ancient Rome was under a Roman Republic hundreds of years ago with a different society and culture, modern day politics in the United States still functions in similar ways as it did in Ancient Rome. The culture of Ancient…

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    In order to exchange or trade one would go through Ghana and Ghana became the route for trading in the world of the salt-gold trade. Ghana represented power and wealth through their trading with Arabians. Ghana would tax traders on what they came and left with. Ghana’s wealth would strike jealousy among the states weakening the gold trade. The transportation through camels during the trans-Saharan trade helped multiply the amount of product they could carry…

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    By the year 2030, 50 percent of the United States population is expected to be obese (Trotter 2016). Obesity is determined using a BMI scale, or body mass index; this tool is a formula that calculates a number to represent an individual’s height to weight ratio. If a person has a BMI of 30 or above they are considered to be obese, while a person with a BMI of over 40, is considered morbidly obese (Berrios L.A. 2016). America is known for having an obese and overweight population; many…

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    Islam was brought to West Africa by Muslim traders rather than Arabic invaders. It was a peaceful and voluntary influx of acceptance unlike India’s experience of integration to Islam. Many Africans still followed usual African religion even though their rulers who governed them practiced Islam. A…

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    Atlantic World and one of the most important slave-trading ports in England, where their status as scions of an elite slave-trading family of Old Calabar proved to be their salvation” pg. 91. Thus, Little Ephraim wrote to Thomas Jones, a veteran slave trader who was affiliated with Old Town and Grandy King George. After a few letters, Jones finally responds to the Robin Johns’ and enters a court case which was important in legal history of slavery in England. However, they got arrested and wrote…

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    How to Keep bargaining simple and focused on the essential issues. Many negotiators overload their proposals in the hope that they can be used as “traders” for movement on wages and benefits (or on other items they see as important). In reality, overloading the plate with issues that are at best a medium or low priority simply muddies the water, and makes real change harder. This is an environment when real and focused time can be brought to bear on workplace issues that have great value to…

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    governments of different countries. This effects the countries ' environments, cultures, political systems, and economies. The slave trade is an example of globalization, because it connected the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The earliest slave traders were the Muslims during the medieval times. They took Africans from Sub-Sahara Africa and made them work in their land near the…

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    and/or money to other participants, sex traders were reported to have less education and higher rates of incarceration in the previous year (El-Bassel, Simoni, Cooper, & Gilbert, 2001). El-Bassel and associates confirm the current regular crack/cocaine, alcohol use, STDs, childhood sexual abuse, and partner abuse (El-Bassel, Simoni, Cooper, & Gilbert, 2001). Moreover, the BSI score of those who traded sex also had a substantially higher scores than non-sex traders (El-Bassel, Simoni, Cooper, &…

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    agriculture. However, the New England colonies relied on smaller scale agriculture and trade in port cities, which required much less land. Due to lesser need for land and desire for participating in the fur trade established by French and Dutch traders, relations with the natives would have been more peaceful. In an even more extreme version of this, French settlers in modern-day Canada engaged in a form of “mutual dependency” with their native allies as the French desired fur pelts to sell in…

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