Banana Peels Get a Second Life as Water Purifier Mar. 10‚ 2011 — To the surprisingly inventive uses for banana peels -- which include polishing silverware‚ leather shoes‚ and the leaves of house plants -- scientists have added purification of drinking water contaminated with potentially toxic metals. Their report‚ which concludes that minced banana peel performs better than an array of other purification materials‚ appears in ACS’s journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Gustavo
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including but not limited to‚ the EU’s new policies. In the new regime the European Union enacted quotas on bananas that favored the former island colonies of European countries to the detriment of bananas originating in Central and South America‚ the source for most of Chiquita ’s bananas. The company‚ which previously held 40% of the European banana market‚ saw its sales in Europe cut in half. Bananas that were turned away from Europe then flooded the U.S. market‚ driving prices down and delivering another
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Bananas Beaches and Bases The fourth chapter of the book “Base Women” elucidates how women have been exploited for the endurance of the military bases in the country or overseas. How women as girlfriends‚ wives‚ prostitutes assisted militia keep serving the army. States kept wives contented in order to offer constancy to the family of the soldier by bringing wife alongside out of the country assignments and state itself talking care of the needs of the wives by giving them exceptional privileges
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Summer is the Best Season (possible topic sentences with suggestions for details) o The four seasons of the year all have their appeal‚ but summer is by far my favorite. [Give examples of wrong is wrong with the other seasons and what they don’t offer that summer does.] o One aspect of summer that makes it so attractive involves clothing. [Give examples of why doing laundry is easier‚ what kinds of summer clothing you enjoy wearing‚ and why clothing in other seasons is less
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SUMMER AND WINTER: TWO SEASONS WITH BIG DEFFERENCES When it comes to a question of the time of the year people prefer most‚ a majority answer based on two seasons‚ summer and winter. Summer and winter are two of the four seasons of the year‚ which have very vast differences and a few similarities. The first and most relevant difference is the change in weather‚ with summer having hot temperatures and winter with cold temperatures‚ which is seen from the metrological point of view. Using the
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GUIDELINES FOR SUMMER PLACEMENT (SUMMER INTERNSHIP) Summer placement (summer internship programme‚ i.e.‚ now popularly known as SIP)‚ is an integral part of the academic curriculum of MBA. For the successful completion of the MBA programme‚ the students are required to complete the SIP. After completion of the 1st year of the programme‚ i.e.‚ after the 2nd semester and before the commencement of the second year of the programme‚ the students are required to work with an organisation for hands on
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Sample Essay – My Summer Vacation I had a fantastic summer vacation! My family and I spent a lot of time at the beach. We also went on a trip to Disney World. We ended our summer by traveling to southern California for a soccer tournament. It was nice to be able to spend so much time with my family this summer. In the beginning of the summer‚ I went to the beach with my kids at least once a week. We were so lucky because every time we were at the beach I saw the dolphins splashing playfully
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Extracting DNA from Bananas In the Lab: Extracting DNA from Bananas‚ DNA was removed from bananas that had been blended with water in order to examine how DNA is seen from the naked eye. DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid‚ which is a nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose. DNA is made up of a series of monomers called nucleotides. Each nucleotide has three parts: a deoxyribose molecule‚ a phosphate group‚ and a nitrogenous base. In addition‚ there are four kinds of nitrogenous
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Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. During the summer of 1964‚ thousands of civil rights activists‚ many of them white college students from the North‚ descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to end the long-time political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the region. Although black men had won the right to vote in 1870‚ thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment‚ for the next 100 years many were
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Ahmed Juhar Ms. Churchill English 2‚ Period 4 08/22/2014 My summer vacation This summer was the best summer ever‚ I had the happiest time of my life. I just moved from Ethiopia which was really awesome‚ after I came here I went to the boardwalk in Santa Cruz and at last I went to raging water which was the coolest water park ever. Traveling from Ethiopia to the US was really boarding‚ all you do in the plane is just watch
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