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    which Ireland was considered a free state. As and introduction to Heaney poems‚ I will use a poem of Yeats‚ who is the poet that starts to talk about postcolonial themes. Maybe Yeats was one the most important figures in the reconstruction of the Irish identity. He represents the relationship between Ireland and Britain in his poem "Leda and the Swan". The first publication of this poem was in the radical magazine "To-morrow" in 1923. Some years later it was republished in the newspaper "The Tower"

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    Osmosis in Potato Chips

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    Biology: Osmosis in a Potato Aim To investigate the effect of placing a piece of potato in a given strength of sugar solution. Prediction I predict that‚ as the solution becomes more concentrated the more the cell will shrink‚ as the water‚ of higher concentration inside the potato cells‚ flows down a concentration gradient into the solution‚ which has a lower concentration of water molecules. If we say that the percentage change when the potato is placed in the 1M solution is x%. I predict that

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    Potato Osmosis Lab

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    water either into the potato cells or out of the potato cells. In the 0.400M solution‚ the potato decreased in mass‚ this was due to the reason that the solution was hypertonic. There was a higher concentration of solute and lower concentration of water in the solution than there was in the potato cells. This led the water to travel down its concentration gradient‚ which was from a higher concentration (in the cell) to a lower concentration (in the solution)‚ which meant the potato cells lost water‚

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    Irish Migration to America

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    The Great Migration from Ireland to America 1800-1900 The Irish were among the many people who migrated to the United States of America. The wave of Irish migration happened in the mid – 18th century and started around the early 1840s. Many of the Irish moved to the United States of America and Canada because they wanted to be able to live freely. The majority of Irish people post 1000 A.D were Catholic. In Ireland‚ there were laws enforced by the British government that removed power form the

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    Irish Law

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    1. Outline the sources of Irish Law * History sources of law * Common Law * Equity Example of the many maxims: i. Those who seek equity must do equity. ii. Equity looks the intent rather than the form. iii. Those who come to equity must come with clean hands. iv. Equality is equity. * Legal sources of Law: There are five legal sources: a. Legislation (Statute Law) b. Subordinate Legislation c. The Irish Constitution 1937 (Bunreacht na hÉireann)

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    Scottish-Irish immigrants came to America broke but were culturally competent with literacy unlike many of the poor Irish Catholic immigrants that arrived in America due to the potato famine in Ireland. The change over time for the Scots-Irish immigrants began with a culturally diverse and economically inferior populous during the eighteen century facing social and religious stigmas connected to Protestantism which differed from most other Irish immigrants. However‚ once the Scots-Irish integrated

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    Afro-American Famine

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    As famine led to civil turmoil in central and western Afro-Eurasia‚ bands of pastoral nomads from the Inner Eurasian plains increasingly endangered the societies of the riverine cities. Transhumant herders advanced on the cities seeking provisions for themselves and their herds. The ability of nomads and transhumant herders to adapt more quickly to the changing environmental conditions became the facilitator for the rise of new territorial states‚ which would adopt new skills that allowed them to

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    particular group that I was interested in learning about was my ancestors the Irish-Americans. They faced a lot of segregation just for the fact that they were Irish and they were not born in the United States. But it was not just the fact that they were not born here because even the Irish-Americans who were born here were discriminated against just because of where their parents or grandparents came from. The Irish after the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King held the same type

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    The Irish emigrated from Ireland to America at two separate times‚ during the 1700’s and again in the 1800’s. During the 1700’s the Irish that emigrated were the Ulster Irish‚ these were mostly Protestant and mostly from the northern part of Ireland. This group of Irish was originally from Scotland which was under English rule. In 1533 when Henry VIII separated from the Catholic Church‚ he enacted penal laws - laws directed against Catholics. Catholic owned land was seized and given to the English

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    Osmosis in Potato Tissue

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    Aim: My objective is to plan and conduct an experiment from which I should be able to draw a firm conclusion that will either prove or disprove any predictions I make. This essay aims to assess and investigate the effect of various solution concentrations on the activity of osmosis in plant tissue. Background scientific theory: Plants exchange gases (CO2 and O2) in maintaining vital respiratory processes and in carrying out photosynthesis; they absorb certain minerals and sugars

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