I. Region 2- Cagayan Valley Most of the region lies in a large valley in northeastern Luzon‚ between the Cordilleras and the Sierra Madre mountain ranges. The Cagayan River‚ the country’s longest‚ runs through its center and flows out to Luzon Strait in the north‚ in the town of Aparri‚ Cagayan. The Babuyan and Batanes island groups that lie in the Luzon Strait belong to the region. Cagayan Valley is the second largest region of the Philippines in terms of land area. Ibanag‚ Itawes and Ilocano
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Period: 5 Squash the Underrated Crop Origins The word squash comes from the word askutasquash‚ used by the Narragansett Native Americans meaning: eaten uncooked. Squash is one of the oldest known crop‚ with evidence of seeds found in Ecuadorian caves from up to 12‚000 years ago. Squash was referred as one of the 3 sister crops by Iroquois Native Americans‚ where the other two “sister” crops were maize‚ and beans. They were referred as sister crops because maize created a
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When Old Technologies Were New Carolyn Marvin Ch 2: community and class order p62 two narratives: electric promise vs electric threat ’electrician’s: the IT professionals of the 90s hype: Telephones make life easier and better. electricity as transformative agent of social possibility electricity: a natural force under control p64 electrical communication makes interaction ‘strange’ p68 protected areas of family life...secrets laid open... listening in on secrets (via switchboard..) boundaries
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was the most important factors of Colonial New England Economy? In seventeenth century‚ after Columbus discovered the New world------United State‚ the Europe was beginning a period of great change. With the help of the navigation improvement‚ a mass of European emigrated to United State for variety of reasons. From then on‚ the history of colonial New England went into a new chapter. One of the great impacts was the economy‚ and eventually the New England was regarded as the birthplace of American
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Slavery was used widely in the 1700s. Mainly the Americans‚ the French and the British used it‚ but other countries and empires also used it. Most of the time‚ black people were used as slaves‚ but there were exceptions. At the time‚ America‚ Britain and France were mainly white countries‚ so racism was huge at the time. Names were used to insult and discriminate each other and violence was used a lot. But when slavery was first introduced‚ white people saw them as the equivalent of animals and they
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The Pilgrims came to New England because they wanted more land and religious freedom. They came from the country of England. They called this land New Plimouth because it was already named Plimouth and it was a new land to them so they named it New Plimouth. On November 11‚1620 the Pilgrims landed in North America. The ship the Pilgrims came over on was called the Mayflower. Two interesting facts that I learned while visiting the MAyflower’s replica was that CHristopher Jones was the captain and
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Mercosur The EU is currently negotiating a trade agreement with Mercosur as part of the overall negotiation for a bi-regional Association Agreement which also cover a political and a cooperation pillar. These negotiations with Mercosur were officially relaunched at the EU-Mercosur summit in Madrid on 17 May 2010. The objective is to negotiate a comprehensive trade agreement‚ covering not only trade in industrial and agricultural goods but also services‚ improvement of rules on government procurement
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Ilocos Region ∙ Geography of Ilocos The Ilocos region or Region I (Ilokano: Rehion ti Ilocos‚ or Deppaar ti Ilocos ; Pangasinan: Rihiyon na Sagor na Baybay na Luzon (Region at the Northwest Coast of Luzon)) is a Region of the Philippines and is located in the northwest of Luzon. It borders to the east the regions of the Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley and to the south the region of Central Luzon. To the northwest is the West Philippine Sea. The region is composed of four provinces
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cutting singing or scraping away cords associated with the brain that engage emotional response and it was viewed as a means of also cutting out mental illness. (Jansson‚ 1998) It aimed at treating Schizophrenia‚ depression and bipolar disorder. Origins of the Lobotomy are derived from the 19th century exploration into modifications of the brain. It was particularly prevalent through the 1940’s to the 1950’s and it was transformed into an everyday procedure. Originally‚ Lobotomies involved cutting
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In America there were many reasons that colonists on both sides of the issue of taxation had for whether taxes on the American people were necessary and justified. In the reading about the colonist’s responses to the stamp act of 1765‚ both sides were represented. The people who were in favor of the stamp act felt that America had created a burden on the British government and that they needed to help lessen that burden on England. They also felt that since the government had protected the colonists
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