the Cotton Gin ! ! ! Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin around 1763. At the time he invented the engine Whitney lived with Catherine Greene‚ a widowed plantation owner. While staying with Greene‚ Whitney learned a lot about the production of cotton. He learned it was a tedious‚ time consuming and labor intensive job. Whitney was a graduate of Yale and was talented in the field of mechanics and inventive engineering. Eli’s solution was simple‚ an engine that separated the cotton after
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Maya Lin was born on October 5‚ 1959 in Athens‚ Ohio. Her parents‚ both taught at Ohio University‚ her mom‚ Julia Lin‚ was a poet and her dad‚ Henry Lin‚ was a ceramist. They had fled China in 1949 right before the Communist Revolution. She also had an older brother Tan‚ who was also a poet. Growing up Lin enjoyed reading and building miniature towns‚ she also excelled in mathematics. She didn ’t have many friends‚ and enjoyed staying at home and studying over going out with friends. In high school
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As a teenager‚ Maya Angelou was driven to succeed in all aspects of her life which began with her move to San Francisco after winning a scholarship at San Francisco’s Labor School in 1942 (Wagner-Martin‚ 12). Later in her life at the age of 16‚ Angelou decided that she wanted to become a streetcar conductor. Determined to get the job Angelou visited Muni’s personnel department with the intention of placing an application--but was denied even receiving one. When asked by her mother why she did not
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Maya Angelou’s The Graduation Throughout life we go through many stepping stones‚ Maya Angelou’s autobiographical essay "Graduation"‚ was about more than just moving on to another grade. The unexpected events that occurred during the ceremony enabled her to graduate from the views of a child to the more experienced and sometimes disenchanting views of an adult. Upon reading the story there is an initial feeling of excitement and hope which was quickly tarnished with the awareness of human prejudices
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......... 7 2.2 Why cotton fibers & reactive dyes been used…...............................................7 2.3 Why time is necessary for dyeing cotton fabric with reactive dye....................7 2.4 Effect of time for dyeing cotton fabric with reactive dye………………..……7 2.5 What is organic cotton and how is it grown……………………………….......8 2.6 Why does the industry want to use organic cotton……………….……....……8 2.7 Characteristics of cotton……………………………………………...…….….8
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and Maya The rise of human civilizations did not occur in one place‚ but rather it happened in various locations throughout the world in various time eras. All civilizations have its own characteristics and life span according to their environment such as the geographic location‚ the weather or natural resources. Some civilizations‚ such as the ancient Egypt‚ developed and kept on growing‚ and the historic records still exist in present days‚ while some civilizations like the ancient Maya just
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story ‘Graduation”…Maya Angelou‚ a famous American author and poet‚ tells the story of her graduation. In this story she tells paints three very vivid parts of that memorable day‚ the morning when she woke up‚ the actual ceremony‚ and the celebration afterwards. In this essay I am going to compare her memory with memories of my own graduation day. The sounds feeling and emotions that arouse during one of her most memorable moments in her life. On the morning of her graduation‚ Maya was welcomed by
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The Benefits of the Cotton Gin The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney to clean cotton fibers from the seeds (cotton gin). It was an invention created to reduce work and make cotton production quicker (Cotton Gin). It caused great reduction in the time it took to clean cotton. The cotton gin could drastically reduce the time it took to clean the cotton fibers. “…the cotton gin was a machine that could clean the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in one day‚ whereas previously a laborer
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COTTON Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant . The fiber is most of the time spun into thread and used to make a soft but strong textile. Cotton is a valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processing. Once natural wax‚ protein‚ and other unnecessary things are removed‚ what’s left is a natural polymer of pure cellulose. Cellulose is the structural component of the cell walls of green plants‚ many forms of algae and the oomycetes. Some
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5 june 2011‚ Transgenic Bt Cotton CICR TECHNICAL BULLETIN NO: 22 TRANSGENIC Bt COTTON Dr CD Mayee Dr P Singh Dr AB Dongre Dr MRK Rao Dr Sheo Raj Central Institute for Cotton Research Nagpur Downloaded from www.cicr.org.in Technical Bulletin from CICR (www.cicr.org.in) 1 Transgenic Bt Cotton TRANSGENIC Bt COTTON 1. Introduction Cotton is one of the major fibre crops of global significance. It is cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of more than eighty countries
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