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    Brooke Boll Boll 1 Ms. Huneke English 2A January 24th 2010 America’s All Time Low The United States of America has always been known as a very strong‚ free‚ wealthy country. People all over the world immigrated to the U.s for many reasons one of them being the freedom and the opportunity to choose their own living. After World War I the United States of America went through a wide economic expansion because of the new technology. The stock market benefited greatly to all this

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    The Nobel Prize is an annual international award. It is bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel‚ the inventor of dynamite‚ established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics‚ Chemistry‚ Physiology or Medicine‚ Literature‚ and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo‚ Norway‚ while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm‚ Sweden. The Nobel Prize

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    came to extracting the cotton from the seed itself. The process of doing this by hand was time consuming and resulted in relatively miniscule crop yield. Also‚ separating the seeds from the bolls with bare hands often times left

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    Another example to prove this is this statement‚”And then came the killer… Proud blossoms become empty shells‚ ravaged by the monster beasts… ‘Our crop lie worthless in the fields… We are all ruined‚”(Collins 100-101) This quote shows the destruction the Boll Weevil used and how it left everyone devastated. Furthermore‚ this quote demonstrates what they did in response to the predicament‚”The peanut

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    Great Migration‚ was the poor conditions in the south. An example is the boll weevil‚ the boll weevil came and ate most all the crops in the south‚ during the twentieth century. “After the American Civil War‚ slavery ended‚ not having any money or land african americans became sharecroppers”(Great Migration). Sharecroppers were people who agreed to maintain a person’s crops in return for food and shelter. As a result of the boll weevil eating the crops‚ african americans did not get the return of food

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    10 Economic Problems of the Philippines 1. Over-dependence on Global Economy The growth of the Philippines economy drastically slowed to just 3.6% in the first three quarters of 2011‚ which is significantly less than the 7%-8% growth targeted by administration’s Philippine Development Plan (PDP). Though the slowdown may have been due to the ongoing global crisis‚ it was markedly slower in comparison to other South-East Asian neighbors. Economic performance figures indicated a contraction

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    develop leadership skills and discover new fascinations about myself. UAM offers sports‚ clubs‚ and cultural possibilities‚ and orginizations.With regards to this‚ the four events I have participated in are Rock the Clock‚ Flag football games‚ UAM Boll Weevil football games‚ and Parent Appreciation Day. With that in mind‚ the one event that I enjoyed most was the Rock the Clock event. When moving onto the UAM campus‚ Rock the Clock was one of the many festivities hosted the first week of school

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    States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. The South became the cotton producing part of the country because Whitney’s cotton gin was able to successfully pull out the seeds from the cotton bolls. The cotton gin was a very simple invention. First‚ the cotton bolls were put into the top of the machine. Next‚ you turn the handle‚ which turns the cotton through the wire teeth that combs out the seeds. Then the cotton is pulled out of the wire teeth and out of the cotton gin

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    1. Plant breeders wanted to produce a better variety of tomato by selective breeding. Two plants‚ of the varieties Tangella and Piranto‚ were crossed. (a) Some flowers of each variety were covered with cellophane bags. The diagram shows a covered flower and a brush. (i) Explain why some flowers were covered with cellophane bags during the selective breeding. .......................................................................................................................... ........

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    Chapter 13 Creating the 46th State Timeline : 1890-1910 Phenomenal changes took place in the country’s heartland between the first land run in 1889 and statehood in 1907. Two Territories Indian and Oklahoma Referred to as Twin Territory’s Growth in the Territories Lots of activity happening in Indian Territory Oklahoma Territory Towns‚ Farms‚ businesses‚ and industries growing rapidly New settlers coming Five Tribes were trying to deal with their own lives Five Tribes lives

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