Samantha Hass Cultural Snapshot Thursday May 3‚ 2012 Kayapo: Out of the Forest The documentary Kayapo: Out of the Forest is about Kayapo tribes in Brazil. These tribes come together to unite against an architectural project that may take place on the Xingu River. This architectural project is the building of a dam. The Kayapo are very much against the project because the dam will end up flooding their land. In order to protest the dam‚ the Kayapo come out of the forest and go to Altamira to protest
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Over time we see the things we did to help our civilization move forward was actually a step back or a step towards our end. Deforestation is one of those thing. In this essay I will talk about how deforestation was a big part in Brazil moving forward and how it also may have done great damage to the rest of us. Brazil is not the only one to blame. I am using their situation as an example. Deforestation is the removal of trees in a forest. Deforestation was protected for many reasons‚ but like most
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Bibliography: Amazon.com. (2012‚ March 19). Amazon Kindle Product Page. Retrieved March 19‚ 2012‚ from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051QVESA/ref=sv_kstore_0 Catan‚ T.‚ & Trachtenberg‚ J. A. (2012‚ March 9). Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 13‚ 2012‚ from wsj.com: http://online
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Inc. The Amazon River Voyage Executive Summary Exotic Adventures Inc. is a company dedicated to provide customers with expedition style voyages. Their primary products are trips to the Polar Regions but because these are done just in the summer time‚ they also offer trips to the Amazon River during other times of the year. Voyages go from Brazil to Peru and are done during high water season. Suggestions from naturalists plus extensive research made them include trips to the Amazon during the
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I. Physical Features Electric eels are not really eels‚ they are actually ostariophysians‚ but have a strong physical resemblance to true eels. . An electric eel is mostly tail. The internal organs are compressed into the anterior (front) 1/5th of the body‚ and the rest of the fish consists of the long‚ electricity-producing tail. The tail contains the electric organs: Sachs’ organ‚ Hunter’s organ‚ and main organ. Extending down the entire tail region is an elongated anal fin. There are no dorsal
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The trees of the Amazon forest should not be cut down for any reason because this would create many problems for Rubber Tappers. In this research paper‚ the reasons to not cut down the trees will be explained. Some of those reasons are because for one the Rubber tappers make a living working in the forest‚ also the seeds of the trees where the rubber tappers get the sap from was stolen by a nefarious Englishman and made the rubber tappers that work in the Brazil industry collapse so the rubber tappers
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Brazilwood trees and they started to call Brazil‚ Brazil. There are many interesting features in Brazil‚ like the Amazon river is the world’s largest river in volume. Also in brazil there are many climates‚ they have a tropical‚ warm‚ rainy‚ and humid climates. Brazil’s land is very pretty. Brazil has many different landforms that are really pretty. If you were in Brazil you would see the Amazon river. You would hear the noise of the river moving. If you were walking you could feel the grass on your
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impact on the students learning through digital text books versus traditional textbooks and also eText books are cost effective and easy to carry. There are various different sources for e-text book Sony eReader‚ Amazon Kindle‚ iPad‚ Laptop... Etc. But the popular among them are Amazon kindle and iPad. Both iPad and Kindle has its own advantages and disadvantages Advantages of iPad: • iPad has a larger screen of 9.7 inches diagonally while kindle fire has 8.9 inch diagonally • iPad has are
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Cited: Adam‚ Nabil R. Digital Libraries: Research and Technology Advances : ADL ’95 Forum‚ McLean‚ Virginia‚ USA‚ May 15-17‚ 1995 : Selected Papers. Berlin: Springer‚ 1996. Print. "Amazon: The Walmart of the Web." The Economist [San Francisco] 1 Oct. 2011: 57-58. Print. "Archiving the Web: Born Digital." The Economist 23 Oct. 2010: 67. Print. Auletta‚ Ken. "The IPad‚ the Kindle‚ and the Future of Books." The New Yorker. 26 Apr. 2010
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forests. Biodiversity in tropical rain forests is vital since the large amount of species found there are so significant. Biodiversity helps maintain the ecological balance between species in the rain forests. Tropical rain forests such as the Amazon and the Congo Basin‚ are home to some 500 million people. These people are some of the least privileged groups in our international society. The locals depend on the forests for many important products and environmental services. The native and
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