I. The Shaping of North America • All of the world’s dry land was one huge continent and eventually broke off into seven • North America was created with The Canadian Shield being the first part to shape • About 2 million years ago‚ most of the land was covered in ice during the Ice Age • 10‚000 years ago melting of Ice – lakes II. Peopling the Americas • Ice Age caused sea level to drop creating a land bridge that connected North America with Eurasia bringing Asian
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Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Today’s motion is fast food restaurants do more harm than good. As a definition‚ fast food restaurants mean restaurants that sell fast food‚ which can be prepared and served quickly by using preheated or precooked ingredients. The clash of today’s debate is whether the harm brought by fast food restaurants can outweigh the good. Our side strongly believes it can. Our side believes that fast food restaurants harm us in three aspects: physically‚ socially
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More than just the disease Choose a novel or short story which deals with an important human issue: for example‚ poverty‚ war‚ family conflict‚ injustice‚ or any other issue you regard as important More Than Just the Disease by Bernard MacLaverty is a short story which deals with the themes of class distinction‚ rights of passage and a person suffering mentally which effects the characters in the short story. There is conflict between the two main characters Neil and his mum. This short story
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Is Latin America a more democratic place today than it was in 1945? Given the word and time restrictions‚ an in depth analysis of each Latin American country’s democratic progression across the time period would simply not be feasible. Instead I will attempt to look at Latin America’s progression as a whole and will provide examples of specific countries situations where relevant‚ in particular Venezuela. Firstly it is important to distinguish between two ideas. One is democracy. For democracy
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to migrate to North America. English settlers came as servants‚ who gave up their freedom to make it to America. Puritans also chose to leave their home because they saw the land of America as the freedom of liberty. The main reason these settlers traveled was because of the poor economic conditions in England and liberty. The wages fell dramatically‚ leading to the citizens searching for a new job. Therefore‚ because of economic reasons‚ English chose to emigrate to North America. They were looking
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Many cultures in all parts of the world have totally different ways of celebrating and doing things‚ then North America does‚ but these societies are slowly changing and beginning to have some of the same customs. Cultural globalization is the diffusion of ideas and values around the world to strengthen social relations. Food is a major part of globalization as one can get Asian or “Chinese food” almost anywhere in the world and not just in China. While the food is Americanized it is still a Chinese
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Large ungulates roamed western North America up until about 7000 years ago. The herds included woolly mammoths‚ oxen‚ bison‚ horses‚ burros and camels. As the landscape of western North America evolved‚ animal species coevolved to take advantage of the rangeland vegetation. When the first people came to this part of the world‚ woolly mammoths‚ bison and other grazers still roamed. Evidence shows Native Americans hunted the large ungulates‚ as well as the saber tooth cat and other carnivores. These
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by the British. While you would think that the U.S. Industry would not be affected‚ but it was. Imports and exports were blocked from ports‚ which made the industry slower and weaker‚ but more advanced. The U.S. industry could not trade overseas‚ and were limited in materials‚ and not in advances. The blockades closed off mostly northern ports at the beginning of the war‚ and all of the eastern ports at the end of the war. While the supplies were limited due to the blockades‚ the North was advancing
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More Human than Human is the first episode of the BBC series entitled How Art Made the World. This documentary discusses on how people in the past rarely use realistic human images. From little figurines‚ to cave paintings and murals‚ and up to towering statues‚ Dr. Nigel Spivey investigates on how this has become so. The relics discovered were observed to have some body parts that were exaggerated while others were completely ignored. These exaggerated parts are said to have certain significance
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The British enlightenment was one of the most important enlightenments that paved the foundation of the modern world we live in today. Often overlooked‚ the British enlightenment set the stage for others and brought new ideas to a new age that were revolutionary to say the least. Some of these reasons as to why the British enlightenment paved the way for the modern world are the fact that British enlightenment thinkers brought in new ideas that changed the way we view the world and how it affects
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