It was 1793‚ when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds. This allows for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. Eli Whitney was born on December 8‚ 1765 in Westborough‚ Massachusetts. He died on January 8‚ 1825. When he was a child‚ he loved working in his father’s workshop. He’d take things apart‚ then put them back together again. (For example‚ a clock.) He worked on a Georgian Plantation when he was
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Hemp through the Years Topic: Hemp from “billion dollar crop” to “illegal nightmare” Specific Purpose: Inform my audience of the history‚ usages‚ and laws surrounding hemp and the industries that could benefit from it. Thesis statement: Hemp provides the world with eco-friendly‚ efficient products such as fuel‚ clothing‚ and plastics. Introduction I. Marijuana is not Hemp! (Attention getter) II. Cultivating and harvesting hemp is illegal. III. Hemp provides the world with
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Sciences‚ India Website: www.bepls.com Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) in Sudan‚ Cultivation and Their Uses Bahaeldeen Babiker Mohamed1*‚ Abdelatif Ahmed Sulaiman2 and Abdelhafiz Adam Dahab3 1National Centre for Research (NCR)‚ Dept. of Crop Production and Biodiversity‚ Khartoum‚ Sudan. *Corresponding author E-mail: bbrr.2009@gmail.com 2Agricultural Research Corporation (A.R.C)‚ El Obeid Research Station‚ Sudan. 3National Centre for Research (NCR)‚ Env. & Natural Resources Research
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The Apparel Industry: Issues and Solutions 1 Please note: This report focuses on environmental impacts and solutions associated with apparel‚ a second report will present the equally complex social responsibility (SR) issues associated with this industry’s life cycle including fair trade‚ fair labor and animal well-being issues. Published by Labeling Ecologically Approved Fabrics (LEAF) Special thanks to: Coral Rose‚ Founder Eco-Innovations Sustainable Textile Strategies Dr. Gwendolyn Hustvedt-Professor
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medicine that goes back thousands of years in Egypt‚ Greece‚ Rome and China. Egyptian tomb illustrations from 2000 B.C. display Black Radishes; and the Greek historian‚ Herodotus (648-625 B.C.)‚ writes of the Radish as an important crop root and offering to Apollo. Root crops‚ as a group‚ have been a staple food for societies around the globe since ancient times. Radishes come in many colors and sizes‚ with white‚ red or red and white most common in the United States. The Black Radish is a dull black
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Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 27 December 2011 Received in revised form 7 May 2012 Accepted 3 July 2012 Available online 24 July 2012 Keywords: A. Polymer–matrix composites (PMCs) B. Mechanical properties Natural fibers 1. Introduction Green composites deriving from renewable resources bring very promising potential to provide benefits to companies‚ natural environment and end-customers due to dwindling petroleum resources. The shift to more sustainable constructions
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rate at in which they can be replenished for continued and future use. A plant with over 50‚000 functions and can lead us to a more sustainable system should be utilized then‚ right? Hemp can be this answer. Moreover‚ hemp could be the “ultimate green crop”--a low-input and low-impact yield that can play a significant role in our desperate struggle as we attempt to combat catastrophic environmental change. Today in the United States‚ there is still much controversy over legislation that prohibits
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over-worked and under-paid policy of the system of the past and present dispensations. This leads to the emasculation and demoralization of their ranks. This probably explains why the teaching profession is not attracting the best and the brightest from the crop of students anymore. Expectedly‚ this will correspondingly result to the vicious cycle of mediocrity in education. 4. Fly-by-night educational institutions . By any measure‚ the proliferation of fly-by-night educational institutions is counter-productive
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Hemp: Industrial Crop or Dangerous Drug In society today‚ the Government has always argued both the pros and cons to legalizing the use of medical marijuana and hemp as an industrial harvest to make rope‚ fibers‚ oils‚ clothing and medication. In the article “The Battle Over Hemp on an Indian Reservation‚” Virginia Heffernan argues that the Lakota family‚ The White Plumes‚ of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation‚ should be able to grow each and every plant that might help the tribe get through
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emotionally stable (Kratz‚ 2014). Heredity can play a role on the temporal lobes and the functions of the temporal lobes. One of the diseases that can affect the temporal lobes is temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) consists of a heterogeneous group of seizure disorders originating in the temporal lobe. TLE had been thought to develop as a result of acquired structural problems in the temporal lobe (Su-Kyeong Hwang‚ 2011). Another disease that effects the temporal lobes is a disease called pick ’s disease
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