This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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after the cold days of winter? There are a number of reasons why your doors aren’t sliding like they should‚ so use this checklist to check two common causes of this problem. Frame Has Moved During Winter During the winter‚ your house exterior moves slightly as it expands and contracts with the cold. While your sliding door frame is designed to move with the house‚ over time it can twist to a point that your door can no longer slide freely along the track. This generally happens after a particular cold
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structure in San Francisco‚ California’s Golden Gate Park‚ and the oldest municipal wood and glass Victorian greenhouse in the U.S. William Hammond Hall‚ planner of Golden Gate Park‚ included the idea of a conservatory in his original concept for the design of the park. The elaborate building is 73 meters (240 feet) long and has a central dome that rises nearly 18 meters (60 feet) high. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1883 and rebuilt the following year. The Conservatory underwent partial structural
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Prelude Financial structure refers to the make-up of the right hand side of a company`s balance sheet‚ which includes all the ways it`s assets are financed‚ such as trade accounts payable and short-term borrowings as well as long-term debt and ownership equity. Each business will have a different mixture depending on its needs and expenses. This specific mixture of debt and equity that a company uses to finance all it`s operations directly affects the risk
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Concrete vs. Steel Structures: In the past‚ the world of construction of buildings was based on wood‚ adobe‚ thatch and cave dwellings as construction materials or units. Modern engineering has developed to use the steel‚ concrete as basic elements of construction. Nowadays‚ there is a worldwide debate about which material of those two does reign supreme in the world of development. Most importantly‚ concrete and steel have different mechanical properties which cause a different behavior under
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to be comparing two frames of references. A frame of reference is defined as a guideline of practice based on theory (Sladyk‚ & Ryan‚ 2015‚ p. 73). Occupational Therapy Practitioners use the frame of reference (FOR) to identify theories that are relevant to treatment‚ which then provides a guideline for therapists to use when assessing the patients and providing treatment. A theory is defined as ideas or beliefs that one assumes to be true. For one to choose the correct frame of reference‚ they must
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11‚000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that
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As stated within the first line of the poem‚ “How many times these low feet staggered-”. This line has an observant tone‚ asking how long a sick individual had been working. The last line of the first stanza‚ “Try- can you lift the hasps of steel!”‚ seems to further solidify that the person in the poem is sickly to the point of no longer being able to work. The second stanza confirms a death with the following statement: “Lift- it you care- the listless hair-”. Dead bodies are often described
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According to Cecilia Ridgeway (2011)‚ suggest that gender frame affects social relationships based on gender inequality. Ridgeway states”Comptemporary levels of gender inequality represent a dynamic‚ changing balance between forces that act to undermine gender as a principle of inequality”(189). Gender frame should be eliminated because it affects on how sex and gender are defined by cultural beliefs. Also‚ sex and gender are looked as inequality because of social relationships in work force and
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They simply had the good luck to live in a location where they were likely to receive advances. Another explanation lists the immediate factors that enabled Europeans to kill or conquer other people- especially European guns‚ infectious diseases‚ steel tools‚ and manufactured products (hints the title). These are the reasons Diamond has listed straight from his
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