Coast of Mexico in the present-day state of Veracruz‚ were the first to cultivate vanilla. According to Totonac mythology‚ the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat‚ forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal‚ fled to the forest with her lover. The lovers were captured and beheaded. Where their blood touched the ground‚ the vine of the tropical orchid grew.[3] Drawing of Vanilla from the Florentine Codex (circa 1580) and description of its use and properties written in the Nahuatl
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Name Class Date Ecosystems and Communities Chapter Test A (removed questions on Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems) Multiple Choice Write the letter that best answers the question or completes the statement on the line provided. _____ 1. How does an area’s weather differ from the area’s climate? a. Weather involves temperature and preciapitation and climate involves only temperature. b. An area’s weather depends on where it is located on Earth and the area’s climate does
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Eric Perinotti Professor Sachdev Writing and Thinking The Woman Warrior Argumentative Essay Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior is a series of narrations‚ vividly recalling stories she has heard throughout her life. These stories clearly depict the oppression of woman in Chinese society. Even though women in Chinese Society traditionally might be considered subservient to men‚ Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men‚ both strong and
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past exhibits previously displayed such as: Western Cultures‚ Soil‚ Orchids (2008 & 2011)‚ Rastafari‚ Coral Reef Crochet‚ and Cyprus. I personally enjoyed the displays related to Western Cultures and how it developed. It gave a lot of insight and figurative pictures about the western culture. Also‚ the Coral Reef Crochet was beautiful. I never knew that something so hidden could be so intriguing; simply a hidden treasure! The Orchids display was kind of irregular to the museum setting per my personal
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used all throughout the film. In the meeting scene Gnomeo and Juliet are mucking around with each other as they both want the flower. As Juliet gets the flower from Gnomeo she states‚ “Who’s your Gnomeo now?” This used for when Juliet steals the Orchid from Gnomeo as they are play around with
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Yiheli Tesfu | Homework I | ECON 545: Business Economics | Sir‚ Edward Melton | Jan. 5‚ 2013 | S2 S2 S1 S1 D2 D2 D1 D1 8. Using the figures above‚ answer the following questions: a. On the Demand panel: ■ Show an increase in demand and label it D1. ■ Show a decrease in demand and label it D2. ■ Show an increase in quantity demanded. ■ Show a decrease in quantity demanded. ■ What causes demand to change? Answer: Changes in demand comes from various factors. Changes
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The Importance of a Family’s Heritage Many parents want their children to take their heritage into consideration and respect it. African-Americans deal with their culture very strongly due to their traditional backgrounds. The short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker includes a mother and her daughters Dee and Maggie who share their own thoughts about the meaning of heritage. The mother is referred as Mama and she waits outside in the yard with her younger daughter Maggie for Dee’s arrival. Mama
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. The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest issues in psychology. The debate centers on the relative contributions ofgenetic inheritance and environmental factors to human development. Some philosophers such as Plato and Descartes suggested that certain things are inborn‚ or that they simply occur naturally regardless of environmental influences. Other well-known thinkers such as John Locke believed in what is known as tabula rasa‚ which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate
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the new price. 15. Input the price of an apple bought at a store and its rate of discount and then output the amount of discount and the net price. 16. A flower shop sells roses for P50 each‚ orchids for P80 each‚ and tulips for P90 each. Write a Java program that would input the number of roses‚ orchids‚ and tulips a customer bought and output the total cost. Java PROBLEMS:
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He saves Blue Orchid from her condition by changing "himself into the exact image of" her and "waiting for the monster to return" (150). Following this‚ a fight ensues‚ which ends with Pigsy joining the trek to India. Here again‚ Monkey achieves his goal of freeing Blue Orchid through deceiving Pigsy of his true identity. However‚ Monkey’s intentions are no longer of greed but rather of assisting
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