the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about the fruit. For the technology company‚ see Apple Inc.. For the apple genus‚ see Malus. For other uses‚ see Apple (disambiguation). "Apple tree" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Apple tree (disambiguation). Apple A typical apple Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked):
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The Walnut Tree In my grandparent’s backyard‚ there is a huge walnut tree containing two trunks at its base—I have never understood whether it was only one tree or two‚ planted right next to each other. It is as if someone has cut the tree into two unequal pieces with a huge sword. If I wrap my arms around the thicker half of the tree‚ my hands barely touch each other. Some of the branches that are grown out of the thinner trunk crossed over to the neighbor’s house‚ who is always complaining about
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Trees for Life - Grow a Tree (Fourth Project) Region: China Author: Zhou Yun‚ Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences Consortium Member: Green Earth Volunteers (China) Status: Funded and Ongoing Budget: $1430 Collected: $1430 Needs: $0 Result: To continue this education and reforestation project‚ in response to increasing interest from new schools in the Beijing and Xinjiang areas. Donors: Ron Blum‚ Massachusetts [September 2002]; Lydia Thompson and the 6th floor MADEP‚ Massachusetts
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The Tree of Knowledge It is important for society to find a reliable source of knowledge‚ as it is a powerful factor which helps society to attain success. As a good example of the significance of knowledge for society‚ the Tree of Knowledge from the Garden of Eden represents‚ not just a source of absolute knowledge‚ but how desperately human nature seeks that perfect source. However‚ the Tree of Knowledge does not exist in the real world. Thus‚ society is facing a problem of finding the most effective
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MANGO TREE Once a child threw the stone haphazardly on the ground after eating a mango. It got buried under the ground. As it remained in the soil‚ a sapping sprouted out of the stone. That was many years ago. An old man saw the newly sprouted sapping. He knew that it was the one of a mango of good quality. He took it to a garden and cultivated it there. There it grew into a plant and then into a big tree as I am today. My leaves are green and thick. They protect those who sit under me from the
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critically analyse the social construction of poverty by underlining the issues. In this essay I will attempt to explore how a social problem is ‘constructed’ and how poverty has been constructed into such a problem. It will explore how poverty is defined and how it has been considered as a deviation from the norm by discussing the distribution of power and how it influences the construction of a social problem‚ how cultural values play a part in the social construction process and finally I will look
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An investigation on social construction. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this work is to describe‚ analyse and understand what an anthropological understanding of social construction is and how it works. In order to do this‚ I’ll start by giving a general explanation of what a social construct is‚ after that I’ll bring three different concepts which I understand as social constructions. Specifically the three concepts will be gender‚ death and language using. To explain gender “Rites of Manhood:
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The San Andreas Fault is a major fracture of the Earth’s crust on the western coast of North America. The fault trends northwestward for more than 800 miles from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California‚ passing seaward into the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of San Francisco. Tectonic movement along the fault has been associated with occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along its path‚ including a disastrous quake in San Francisco in 1906‚ a less
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Family Tree Exercise My grandparents from my mother’s side of the family were both born in China and resided in a small town their entire life. My grandmother—Po Po‚ goes by the name of Ling Tan; and my grandfather—Gung Gung‚ is called Chau Yi Chen. Both of them lived in the same village and were tied together through arrange marriage which is a very popular tradition in China. Due to China’s one child policy‚ my grandfather grew up with no siblings because it was illegal to give birth to more
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“The fault‚ dear Brutus‚ is not in our stars‚ / But in ourselves‚ that we are underlings.” (Act 1. Scene 2. Julius Caesar.) This pensive line was the inspiration behind the title of John Green’s work of fiction‚ The Fault in Our Stars. The novel follows young Hazel Grace Lancaster‚ a stage 4 thyroid cancer patient‚ who makes the acquaintance of Augustus Waters one fateful day at Support Group. Throughout the novel‚ Hazel Grace takes not only a physical journey but an emotional one. The ups and downs
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