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    deserts to forest. Each tribe fed off the land and survived in numerous ways. Of the indigenous people‚ there lived three different lifestyles. Non-sedemtary people were hunters and gathers. Semisedentary people who depended on farming in forest. Full sedentary people who build empires and depended more on society structures. Non-sedemtary indigenous people learn to adapted and survive living in difficulties environments such as deserts of Brazil. They roamed the lands and plains hunting and gathering

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    The Arab civilization is Saudi Arabia in 650 was mainly nomadic herders thriving off of scarce resources. The rise of Islam in Saudi Arabia grew until1600. Both pre-Islamic and post-Islamic civilizations were egalitarian‚ this is because in nomadic societies there isn’t much one could do to be distinguishable and in Islamic societies it is believed that Allah does not call for distinguished social classes; also in both societies the Qur’an was looked to for life relations in pre-Islamic society‚

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    “How bad are things in Darfur? Ask the villagers who saw their neighbors trussed with chains and burned alive. Ask the 1.2 million people who have been terrorized into fleeing the embers of their homes” (Sudan Can’t Wait). According to the Gale encyclopedia‚ Genocide is the intent to destroy a national‚ ethic‚ racial or religious group. The perpetrator does this by killing‚ removing civilians from their homes or doing serious mental or bodily harm to someone (Rothenburg). In Darfur‚ Sudan a civil

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    nomads were considered to be barbarians‚ however over time Romans began to develop nomadic customs which were no longer considered barbaric but civilized. To the Romans a ‘barbarian’ was anyone who was an outsider of their land‚ and in that case nomads were considered to be barbaric. Nomads are known as a small group of people that don’t have a permanent settlement‚ and travel and migrate from place to place. Nomadic people also had a different type of lifestyle from the Romans‚ for example the nomads

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    traditions of their homeland that they have internalized‚ experiencing these as “home‚” and the new environment that they move to where the culture is vastly different calls into question what “home” really is‚ and what citizenship means. In her book Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship‚ May Joseph explores the issues of migrancy and displacement among modern peoples. She contends that citizenship “is not organic but must be acquired through public and psychic participation‚” and that the

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    the eastern hemisphere since the beginning of time. The nomadic people and their incursions had affected China and Egypt both‚ however there impact varied greatly from region to region. China and Egypt both share that the nomads brought chariots to either region‚ but they differ in the fact that in Egypt most people were forced to become nomadic and driven out of their homes‚ while China did not. In both China and Egypt the nomadic people brought new culture to each society. Mainly they

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    The underlying causes of sedentary behavior is variable‚ but studies have been done to investigate possible risk factors with a sitting lifestyle. In order to understand health behaviors‚ several models were developed. This study used a Stages of Change model which focused on the process of change to provide structure for intervention of specific health behaviors such as physical activity. This model has five stages of change: precontemplation; contemplation; preparation; action and maintenance.

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    EFFECTS OF SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE ON STUDENTS Following a sedentary lifestyle is more dangerous for your health than smoking‚ says a new study reported in the South China Morning Post‚ and carried out by the University of Hong Kong and the Department of Health. In the study‚ researchers looked at the level of physical activity in people who died and were able to correlate their level of physical activity with their risk of dying. The results are fascinating: 20% of all deaths of people 35 and older

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    more opportunities for healthy combination of physical and screen-based sedentary activity during childcare in all around of countries.

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    shows that the larger amount of time i am sedentary‚ the less calories i burn. the correlation coefficient is -0.1485 meaning as calories decreased‚ minuets sedentary increased also a weak relationship. The coefficient of determination is 0.022 meaning the least squares regression line that was fitted to the data is not a good fit. The y-intercept is 1133.38 meaning when x=0 y=1133.38‚ which means when calories burned= 0 then the amount of time sedentary= 1133.38 minutes. the slope is -0.1205‚ because

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