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    Why Is Urbanization Bad

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    There are some losses in property‚ but it is a necessary thing to do to improve the community. Urbanization helps the world to be more sufficient. It can help bring up the economy‚ spread cultures and ideas‚ and it is more convenient. In Nectar in a Sieve‚ the property Rukmani and Nathan’s house was bought out by the tannery. “Somehow I had always felt the tannery would eventually be our undoing.” (Markandaya 131). Sadly their land was taken for the tannery but it will help open up jobs and help

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    Summer Reading List

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    order them early. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines‚ by Thomas C. Foster (336 pages) USD 14.00 ISBN-10: 006000942X ISBN-13: 978-0060009427 AND Choose ONE of the following: Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (208 pages) ISBN-10: 0451528239 ISBN-13: 978-045152823 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (432 pages) ISBN-10: 159448385X ISBN-13: 978-1594483851 A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (311 pages) ISBN-10: 038549081X

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    plants and animals

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    Botany Lab Introduction to Microscope Circa 1000 AD. = the first vision aid was invented (inventor unknown) called a reading stone. Circa 1284= Italian‚ Salvino D’ Armante is credited inventing the first bearable eye glass. 1590= two dutch eye glass makers‚ Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Janssen experimented with multiple lenses. 1665= English Physicist‚ Robert Hooke looked at a silver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some “pores” or “cells”. 1674= Anton Van Leeuwenhoek built

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    him‚ but they owned him so to not give up what he knows would’ve been worst than giving it up he knew within his self (35 points) if he gave up‚ His masters win. 2. What do pieces such as “Marriage Is a Private Affair” and the excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve demonstrate about the influence of modern ideas and modern ways on traditional cultures? How are the characters in these works affected by the modernization of their respective societies? In Marriage is a Private Affair‚ It’s shows marriage

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    Changes in Rural Areas

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    Discuss the changes in rural areas and their impact on gender.  Is modernization and development the answer? Poverty is highly found in rural areas where there is a lack of education‚ healthcare‚ limits access of choices‚ and numerous challenges for its habitants. A major cause of poverty among India’s rural people is the lack of access to productive assets and financial resources as well as high levels of illiteracy. According to International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) women in

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    Diversity of Plants

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    I turned this paper in two days late‚ but the teacher was so impressed that I still got 100% Excellent; I couldn’ t have written a better paper myself. DIVERSITY OF PLANTS Plants evolved more than 430 million years ago from multicellular green algae. By 300 million years ago‚ trees had evolved and formed forests‚ within which the diversification of vertebrates‚ insects‚ and fungi occurred. Roughly 266‚000 species of plants are now living. The two major groups of plants are the bryophytes and the

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    Laboratory 1 Grain Size Distribution – Sieve Analysis Introduction The grain size distribution is a representation of the approximate distribution of soil grain sizes for a soil. The sieve analysis‚ also called mechanical method‚ measures the dry mass of soil retained on each sieve in a stack of sieves‚ where the sieve opening sizes vary from the largest to smallest going from the top to the bottom of the stack. All the soil particles retained on a particular sieve will have an ‘intermediate size’ or

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    Awam

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    described quantitatively according to different soil mass of particles sizes. Percentage of soil sizes can be defined as the mass of soil retained on each sieve divided by total mass of soil sample. The percentage for a certain sieve size is defined as 100% minus the total percentage of all soil retained on the sieve. The percentage graph vs. sieve size is drawn on the semi-logarithm to obtain the soil grading curve. From the particle distribution graph‚ particles size like D10‚ D30‚ and D60 can be

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    Abrasion Test

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    wear so found out it’s reported as Los Angeles abrasion value. APPARATUS 1. Los Angeles Abrasion Testing Machine 2. Balance: a balance having a capacity of at least 5500 g sensitive to 0.1 g or less. 3. Sieves: No. 4 and No. 12 woven wire sieves conforming to AASHTO M 92. These sieves should be at least 12 in. in diameter. PROCEDURE 1. Place the test specimen and abrasive charge in the Los Angeles Abrasive Testing Machine and close the opening with the dust-tight cover. 2. Start the

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    Guan Yim

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    Chinese Buddhism‚ Guan Yim/ Guan Yin/Kuan Yim/ Kuan Yin is synonymous with the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara‚ the pinnacle of mercy‚ compassion‚ kindness and love.(Bodhisattva- being of bodhi or enlightenment‚ one who has earned to leave the world of suffering and is destined to become a buddha‚ but has forgone the bliss of nirvana with a vow to save all children of god.Avalojkitesvara: The word ‘avalokita’ means "seeing or gazing down" and ‘Êvara’ means "lord" in Sanskrit).Among the Chinese‚ Avalokitesvara

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