Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen 2004 The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states‚ led by Agamemnon‚ and Troy‚ ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ fell in love with Helen‚ wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta‚ and took her back to Troy against the wishes of his brother‚ Hector‚ who‚ with his father‚ had been trying for years to make peace with Sparta and had finally gotten that peace. Agamemnon had recently
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Christopher Columbus’s exploration to the Americas‚ there were many things that Europe lacks and many things that the Native Americans lacked. There were no domesticated animals in America before the English came‚ they relied the transporting of goods on Llamas‚ as they were the biggest animals on the land. There were scarcely any mammals left in America after the ice age. The summer of 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sent Columbus on the biggest and most monumental exploration that discovered the Americas
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A person who has had a significant influence on me in my life would have to be my former foster mother‚ Miss Barbara Pratt. Ms. Pratt was a foster mother to many children before myself and she had had wonderful success with most of them. I had been in an extremely abusive relatives home before I had been placed in Ms. Pratt’s home. When it was discovered that I was in an abusive home I was first placed in a group home in Cincinnati. Social Services worked very hard to find me a home that would
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Worksheet 31 answers: 1. a) Nostril _ nasal cavity _ pharynx _ larynx _ trachea _ bronchi _ bronchioles b) The lungs are efficient for gaseous exchange because: • The lungs are made of numerous alveoli which provide a large surface area for gaseous exchange • The surfaces of the alveoli are moist for gases to dissolve • The alveolar wall is thin consisting of one layer of epithelial cells • Each alveolus is surrounded by numerous capillary network c) i) Because they have an anti-sticking
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The Roots of Inequality Have you ever wondered why people in America have it so much easier than people in places like Papua New Guinea? You may not believe this‚ but it was all based off of geological luck. Europeans had many advantages over other civilizations. They had a warm climate so they could grow nutritious crops. Since they had crops‚ they could use domestic animals to work for them. This led to the immunity to smallpox from being in close quarters with the animals. Europeans also had
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of that particular finch changed from eating insects to eating seeds‚ so it allowed the two finches to coexist in the same ecosystem. 4. The levels of ecological organization are: 1) Organism 2) species 3) population 4) community 5) ecosystem 6) biomes 7) biosphere 5. 1. Competition-Organisms struggle‚ fight or search for the same basic needs and becomes more intense when basic needs become limited. Normally‚ they will compete for shelter‚ nesting sites‚ food‚ sunlight‚ minerals‚ and breeding partners
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1. 2. carrying capacity the maximum number of a species or “load” that can be sustainably supported by given environment. k and r strategist reproduction K-Strategists (human)– species that are slow growing and produce few‚ large offspring that mature slowly R-Strategists (oyster)– species that grow and mature quickly and produce many small offspring R- and K- selection theory suggests that natural selection may favour individuals with a high reproductive rate and rapid development over
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individual habitats and ecosystems can be easily destroyed. This combination of specialisation and interdependence increases the overall fragility and vulnerability of this biome Fragile environments can be exploited in different ways‚ and for different reasons. For example the Amazon Rainforest‚ an equatorial tropical rainforest biome‚ has been significantly exploited for its agricultural potential and natural resources; cattle ranching‚ soya bean and palm oil plantations‚ mining and timber. The most
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square miles (137‚760 km²) spanning 118 countries and territories.[1][2] The word is used in at least three senses: (1) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage ormangal‚[3][page needed] for which the terms mangrove forest biome‚ mangrove swampand mangrove forest are also used‚ (2) to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangrove swamp‚ and (3) narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants‚ theRhizophoraceae‚ or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the
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G1‚ G2 & G3 // 5.1‚ 5.2‚ 5.3 5.1.1 Define species‚ habitat‚ population‚ community‚ ecosystem and ecology Species: A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile‚ viable offspring Habitat: The environment in which a species normally lives or the location of a living organism Population: A group of organisms of the same species who live in the same area at the same time Community: A group of populations living and interacting with each other in an area Ecosystem: A community
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