century‚ population growth has exploded and outgrown food production in many parts of the world‚ posing a great threat to the human race. To solve the issue of world famine‚ humans beings has been redesigning life ever since the domestication of the first plants. One notable example was the Green Revolution; during the last century scientists genetically modified wheat varieties to increase crop yield in countries suffering from famine‚ such as India‚ Pakistan‚ Philippines and more. Although this movement
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The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a number used in mathematics‚ art‚ architecture‚ nature‚ and architecture. Also known as‚ the divine proportion‚ golden mean‚ or golden section it expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as is the larger is to the smaller. It is also a number often encountered when taking the ratios of differences in different geometric figures. Represented mathematically as approximately 1.618033989‚ and by the Greek letter Phi
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Book Report: The Golden Notebook Meg 1011325 The author Doris May Lessing is a British writer. Her novels include The Golden Notebook‚ The Golden Notebook‚ and five other novels collectively known as Canopus in Academy. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience‚ who with skepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". She was also the eleventh woman and the
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The Highway to socio-economic development– the Golden Quadrilateral The Golden Quadrilateral is a network of highways connecting India’s top four metropolitan cities‚ namely Delhi‚ Mumbai‚ Chennai and Kolkata‚chennak thereby‚ forming a quadrilateral. The principal objective of India’s most vaunted highway project is to connect most of the major agricultural industrial and cultural centers of India. Some of the more important centers being (Karnataka)‚ Chennai (Tamil Nadu)‚ Visakhapatnam (Andhra
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Goa the narrow stretch of land on the western coast of India has become the destination for a large number of nature lovers and solitude seekers in recent times. The magnificent golden beaches stretching over a hundred kilometres of coastline have been the main attraction. The soothing greenery of the state and the warm hospitality of the people make for a comfortable stay. Goa may be one of the tiniest states of the Union‚ but it can be termed as one of the most fascinating. Here‚ a multitude of
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No. 3. May 2013 Issue. Pp. 71 – 88 Performance Appraisal of Indian Public Sector Banks Parvesh Kumar Aspal * and Naresh Malhotra** The strength of economy of any country basically hinges on the strength and efficiency of financial system‚ which‚ in turn‚ depends upon a sound banking system. The regulators have recommended bank’s supervision through CAMEL rating model to assess the performance of banks‚ which is better than the earlier systems. The prime objective of CAMEL model of rating
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Golden Fruit Golden fruit is the essay to expose life from the fruit of Orange and comparing with life that what the different character that all the man we have in this world. A A. Milne tries to tell us that there is a different character‚ different manner of living in this human world. In short‚ by using an Orange little fruit‚ he tries to conveying that there is a number of what to live in in this world. Abraham Lincoln sent the letter to the headmaster of his son schooling‚ “teach him to
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During the late-1800’s after the civil war in western America‚ americans from the east settled in occupied Native American land‚ looking for new opportunities. The Americans moved west to mine for gold‚ silver‚ and copper‚ and wanted to farm. Many people have mixed opinions on whether or not this was a land of opportunity or not based on the many different outcomes from it. Although this time was not a good opportunity for the natives because many were killed or removed from their land and were
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1800s‚ women virtually had no control over their life as it pertained to their rights to vote‚ higher-education‚ and their rights within their own households. The first wave of feminism focused on suffrage – the right to vote. This movement began at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1849 which was the birthplace of feminism and the first ever women’s rights convention. Led and organized by middle-class Western white women‚ the suffrage movement gained traction with leaders Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth
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hall‚ the Diwan-i-Am. Shah Jahan had the famous Koh-i-noor diamond placed in this throne. The French jeweler Tavernier‚ who saw Delhi in 1665‚ described the throne as of the shape of a bed (a "takhteh" or platform)‚ 6 ft. by 4 ft.‚ supported by four golden feet‚ 20 to 25 in. high‚ from the bars above which rose twelve columns to support the canopy; the bars were decorated with crosses of rubies and emeralds‚ and also with diamonds and pearls. In all there were 108 large rubies on the throne‚ and 116
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