Rhino Poaching facts: A total of 158 rhino have been poached since the beginning of the year. In the Kruger National Park‚ 116 rhino had been poached‚ the department of environmental affairs said in a statement. Thirteen were poached in North West‚ 12 in KwaZulu-Natal‚ nine in Mpumalanga and eight in Limpopo. Sixty-one people had been arrested: 38 of them alleged poachers and three alleged couriers‚ the department said. In the past week‚ two poachers were arrested in the KNP. Nine people had
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Summary of Week 1 A look back at the week‚ in which Dr David Robinson‚ Senior Lecturer in Biological Science at The Open University‚ discusses what you have learned so far in this course and then introduces some of the ideas and examples explored in week 2. There are different ways that an ecosystem can be defined and you discussed this with other learners‚ to reach a working definition of an ecosystem. You examined the core concept of an ecosystem through the example of a rock pool. Guidance
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ALLOCATION OF UNIFORM MARKS IN GCSE (APPLICABLE FROM JUNE 2010) What is a UMS? The Uniform Mark Scale (UMS) is used in unitised specifications as a device for reporting‚ recording and aggregating candidates’ unit test performances. Why do we need the UMS? In a unitised specification candidates may take units at different stages during the course and may retake units before certification. Each exam paper is unique‚ and so the difficulty of exams may vary slightly from year to year. Senior
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Hudson v. Michigan‚ 547 U.S. 586 (2006) Facts- Detroit police obtained a warrant authorizing a search for drugs and firearms at the home of Booker Hudson. When police arrived to execute the warrant‚ they announced their presence but waited “three to five seconds” before turning the knob of the unlocked front door and entering Hudson’s home. Police discovered large quantities of drugs‚ including cocaine rocks in Hudson’s pocket and a loaded gun placed in between the cushion and armrest of a chair
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Dear Diary‚ February 16th‚ 1778 I’m writing to you from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Life here is horrible. There’s a lot shortages of everything from food to clothing to medicine. My men are sick from disease‚ hunger‚ and exposure. Right now‚ were camped in crude log cabins and have endured cold conditions while the Redcoats warmed themselves in colonial homes. Naked and starving as they are we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery. My men
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Bartolome de Las Casas‚ The Tears of the Indians A particularly eloquent defender of the Amerindians was Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566)‚ who spent most of his long life in Spanish America. In The Tears of the Indians‚ also published as A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Las Casas described in graphic detail the atrocities inflicted on the Amerindians. His account greatly exaggerated the number of Amerindians killed by the Spaniards; disease‚ for which the Amerindians had
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FOREWORD: The world as we know it has changed drastically over the years. With the advent of technological and industrial advancement‚ life has become much easier‚ however‚ not without its share of negative consequences. One such consequence is that the quality of the air we breathe has deteriorated considerably- mainly as a result of human activity. Is this an acceptable price to pay for development? INTRODUCTION: This report seeks to identify the main industrial sources of air pollution in
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completely opposite both of them made huge changes in the segregation of the United States of America‚ the names Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois will never be forgotten‚ As a consequence the rivalry between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois is one well known to scholars and historians of the African American community. This paper compares and contrasts the ideals of Washington and Du Bois and identifies the difference between the two dealing with discrimination. In the early twentieth
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George Washington: American Hero Matthew Chauvin AP US History Maxwell Suitt September 17‚ 2012 When Charles Willson Peale was on the battlefield of Princeton‚ fighting for the independence of America‚ he probably wasn’t thinking that he would paint his commander-in-chief as such an honored hero of the revolutionary era. Neither did he know that he would paint America’s first president‚ a beloved man to this day‚ being named the founding
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Running head: WASHINGTON MUTUAL’S BANK FAILURE Washington Mutual’s Bank Failure Rodney Hightower University of Phoenix Washington Mutual’s Bank Failure Having spent the early part of my professional working career as a Vice-President with Western Savings & Loan enabled me to experience firsthand the recent collapse of Washington Mutual through different lenses. (According to Dr. Housing)‚ the story begins in the 1920s. Back then‚ houses typically cost $5‚000. Sure doesn’t sound like
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