1) Irish Potato Famine. 1845-1849. Called the Great Famine. In the early 19th century‚ Ireland’s tenant farmers struggled to provide for themselves and to supply the British market with cereal crops. By the early 1840s half the Irish population‚ mostly the rural poor‚ became to depend almost exclusively on the potato for their diet. The rest of the population also consumed it in large quantities. A heavy reliance on just one or two high-yielding types of potato greatly reduced the
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Lab 1: Effect of pH on sodium benzoate‚ a food preservative Sheikh M Zakaria Person no. 36295651 TA: Synthia Gratia Date of Submission: 05/29/13 Abstract Sodium Benzoate is a common food preservative used in food products such as jams and jellies‚ soft drinks‚ pickles‚ condiments etc and in tinned products in the market. This experiment aimed to determine whether benzoic acid is formed from it’s superior soluble form sodium benzoate in stomach acid‚ which is simulated by HCl (pH=2). It has been
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Autocratic‚ Democratic‚ and Optimal Government: A Sketch W. A. Niskanen In his paper Niskanen provides valuable analysis of the effects of the voting rule‚ the progressivity of the tax structure‚ and the length of the fiscal horizon in democratic governments and interesting insights of the effect of alternative regimes on policies‚ such as war and immigration‚ that affect the number of people subject to the regime. His article follows Mancur Olson’s work called “Autocracy‚ Democracy‚ and Prosperity”
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The Irish Potato Famine was a great famine that took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. The famine was caused by a potato disease‚ also called a potato blight. This was a huge problem especially considering that much of Ireland’s population was heavily reliant on potato crops. The famine itself killed around one million people. The question of genocide comes in when the British are taken into account. Ireland was dependent to Britain‚ much like how today countries like Puerto Rico are dependent
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Autonomy is a concept found in moral‚ political‚ and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts‚ it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed‚ un-coerced decision. Beneficence is action that is done for the benefit of others. Beneficent actions can be taken to help prevent or remove harms or to simply improve the situation of others. Non-maleficence means to “do no harm.” Physicians must refrain from providing ineffective treatments or acting with malice toward patients
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HANOI UNIVERSITY OF INDUSTRY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ---------- FINAL ASSIGNMENT THE COUNTRY OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA By: Le Thi Thu Phuong Student ID: 0641070576 Group: KT7 – Intake 6 SUPERVISOR Nguyen Minh Hanh‚ MA Ha Noi‚ December‚ 2013 Comments and Marking …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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brand name for a number of potato chip varieties as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in 1932. Lay ’s chips has been marketed as a division of Frito-Lay‚ a company owned by PepsiCo since 1965. Other brands in the Frito-Lay group include Fritos‚ Doritos‚ Ruffles‚ Cheetos‚ Rold Gold pretzels‚ and Sun Chips. History In 1932‚ salesman Herman Lay opened a snack food operation in Dorset‚ Ohio and‚ in 1938‚ he purchased the Atlanta‚ Georgia potato chip manufacturer "Barrett Food
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Biodegradable plastic from cornstarch ABSTRACT The study aims to produce biodegradable plastic using cassava starch as its main component. Cassava starch was mixed with water‚ cornstarch and cooking oil INTRODUCTION There is an increasing demand for plastic‚ from the highly technological fields of electronics‚ fiber optics‚ and pharmaceuticals to the basic necessities such as sandwich wrappers and garbage bags. This high demand for plastics‚ however‚ has been a major contributor to
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Investigating the Osmosis Effect in Potato Cores Aim The aim of this experiment is to investigate the osmosis effect in potato cores while they are submerged in different concentrations of sucrose solution. Osmosis will take place while the potatoes are fully submerged in the sucrose solution. Apparatus æ Scalpel (1) æ Tile (1) æ Pr. Tweezers (1) æ 250ml Beakers (2) æ 100ml Water (Per Beaker) æ 100ml Sucrose Solution o 0.2M o 0.4M o 0.6M o 0.8M o 1.0M æ Measuring
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BUSINESS ETHICS: REFLECTION PAPER 1 HELP THE RICH‚ HURT THE POOR The controversy regarding the SEZs in India has turned the issue into what is commonly known as a “hot potato”. The heated debate today is whether these SEZs are good for India or a hotbed for disaster that is going to spell long term doom for the nation. Like many things that go wrong in a nation like India‚ the SEZs too failed in the implementation phase. Arable land has been used to set up industries‚ farmers have been displaced
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