crossed through Beringia which is a huge subcontinent that used to exist 70‚000 to 10‚000 years ago due to the glaciers locking up massive amounts of water‚ which allowed for a lush treeless‚ grassland easily passable but separated by the Bering Straits today. Although Acosta’s theory is the most acknowledged today due to archeology‚ physical anthropology‚ DNA analysis‚ and linguistics other theories arose. The Beringia Theory or commonly called the Land Bridge Theory was mostly composed of the
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INTRODUCTION I. (Attention Grabber) George Strait emerged in the early 80’s and is still winning awards to this day. Just last week he won album of the year and single of the year. II. (Central Idea)It’s unbelievable how many years this man can keep making number one hit albums and songs over a course of three generations. George has had 50 number one hits while his albums consistently go platinum and gold. He hasn’t changed the sound of his music since the beginning of his career‚ which seems
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different idea of the word struggle than people today. The Solutrean hypothesis is an alternative theory about the settlement of America. It contradicts the more widely accepted theory that Native Americans first came from Asia by crossing the Bering Strait. The Solutrean hypothesis suggests that the Solutrean culture migrated from Europe to North America during the last Ice Age. The documentary takes place 17‚000 years ago‚ and starts off by showing that North America was a vast frozen land uninhabited
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internal email last Wednesday‚ Dec 12. The Singapore Red Cross and Health Sciences Authority announced in a joint statement two days later on Dec 14 that they had received sufficient blood for ME2 Chee’s surgeries. According to a report in The Straits Times‚ Mr Chee had been carrying out a routine check on RSS Endeavour’s quarterdeck when he got caught between a motorised winch -- nearly as tall as a man at 1.5m -- and one of the berthing ropes. He lost both his legs‚ his left arm‚ and his right
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of migration to the Americas was thought to be a land bridge of the Bering Strait called Beringia. Beringia connected North America and Asia‚ it was a natural bridge made by the dropping of sea level. People migrated in pursuit of animals - it was the only food When it’s the only food source - you follow it. It was believed that people hunted mammoths‚ saber tooth cats ‚ and muskox. The Columbian Exchange was the trade of new plants‚animals‚foods and diseases
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Santiago’s shack each night‚ hauling his fishing gear‚ preparing food‚ talking about American baseball and his favorite player Joe DiMaggio. Santiago tells Manolin that on the next day‚ he will go far out into the Gulf Stream‚ north of Cuba in the Straits of Florida to fish‚ confident that his unlucky streak is near its end..On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak‚ Santiago does as promised‚ sailing his skiff far beyond the island’s shallow coastal waters and venturing into the Gulf Stream. He
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Our presentation was on the case study of the NKF financial scandal‚ which took place in 2005. It all began when journalist‚ Susan Long‚ from The Straits Times published an article on the lack of transparency and accountability in NKF’s usage of the donated funds This led to the former CEO of NKF‚ T. T. Durai‚ suing Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for defamation. The trial disclosed how Durai misused the donated funds and the financial mismanagement at NKF‚ greatly affecting NKF’s reputation. After
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Was Magellan Worth Saving? Magellan was not worth saving because his men did not respect him as a leader‚ he did not care for nor show a decent level of respect to his men‚ and he lost sight of the task of bringing spices back to Spain. In the late Middle Ages the craving for foreign spices grew in Europeans. The ‘spice islands’ where all of the desired spices were cultivated was in distant Asia‚ making them hard to get for the eastern continent of Europe (BE). Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480
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or monarch of a new found land‚ only a few were noted as the most important. Henry Hudson was one of the famous explorers who decided to search for the Northwest Passage as it is known today. Along the way he discovered the Hudson river‚ the Hudson strait and Hudson bay. These waterways have significantly helped trade within North America. Hudson also has a number of bridges and cities named after him. Another bay‚ known today as the Chesapeake Bay‚ was discovered by Christopher Newport. He led the
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are two distinct Indigenous Australian cultural groups‚ they obtain definite rights as Australia’s First Inhabitants. This is demonstrated in international law. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have preserved a powerful connection to their cultural identity‚ language and traditional lands. They have historically lived on mainland Australia. Australian aborigines have inhabited Australia for over 40‚000 years before European settlement. The Europeans first
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