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    a rich mulatto. Economic • Pattern of Landownership changed - before sugar and slavery there were many farmers owning small plots of land on which they grew tobacco and other cash crops. This pattern changed to a few landowners owning large estates on which they cultivated sugar cane to be manufactured into raw muscavado sugar for export to the Mother colony. • Price of land increased • Capitals were invested in the sugar industry. Most of the capital however came from the Mother Country itself

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    Tobacco cultivation in Pakistan Tobacco belongs to family Solonaceae and genus Nicotiana. It has four species but only two of them are cultivated around the globe. These include Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica. Cultivated species of tobacco contains 36 or 48 chromosomes while 24 chromosomes are found in wilds species. It has terminal raceme inflorescence which may contain 150 flowers. Its seed is very small 2000-5000 seeds per 2-valved capsule. It is an annual plant with tap root system

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    The last of the thirteen colonies‚ and named after King George II‚ Colonial Georgia served as a safe haven and as a means to protect South Carolina. Colonial Georgia was established in 1733‚ fifty years after the original twelve by General James Oglethorpe. He and a trusted group of colonists intended to create the colony as a safe haven for persecuted Protestant sects‚ less wealthy Europeans and debtors wanting to re-esablish themselves. Georgia’s economy was deeply imbedded in agriculture‚

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    Sugar Trade Essay

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    Sugar has become such a naturally common thing in our day to day lives‚ more specifically cane sugar. It’s used in our day to day lives‚ from our coffee’s and Kool Aid’s. To our cereals and pastries‚ but how did this sweet substance get into our pantries? The reason this substance got into our everyday homes is because of the sugar trade. What is the sugar trade? The sugar trade was the global trading of sugars from the West Indies to Britain‚ France and Brazil. Now the real question we should have

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    History[edit] Concern about health effects of tobacco has a long history. Gideon Lincecum‚ an American naturalist and practitioner of botanical medicine‚ wrote in the early 19th century on tobacco: "This poisonous plant has been used a great deal as a medicine by the old school faculty‚ and thousands have been slain by it. ... It is a very dangerous article‚ and use it as you will‚ it always diminishes the vital energies in exact proportion to the quantity used - it may be slowly‚ but it is very

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    BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO 10 +11) Tobacco Growing Tobacco thrives in poorer soils‚ providing farmers with a welcome alternative crop. In many cases‚ it provides a higher income than any other smallholder crop. It integrates well into environmentally friendly crop rotations‚ benefiting subsequent crops like maize. This excludes the USA‚ where the crop is mechanically harvested‚ the farmer will typically harvest by hand over two to four months‚ taking off between two and four leaves per plant

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    Tobacco laws and policies have changed in concerns to the use and promotion of products in NSW since 1995 in a lot of ways! The packaging of a cigarettes box was just the smoke brand‚ advertising at sporting events was allowed and you could smoke anywhere back then but now the look of the smoke box is being questioned by parliament‚ promoting smoking is not permitted by law and you can only smoke in a handful of public venues. Packaging Back in the 90’s the cigarette box used to just have the logo

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    A.R.E so this is what I haved learned in D.A.R.E. I telling you about health effects of tobacco and alcohol. THis is about tobacco. Nicotine in cigarettes and chewing tobacco reduces the amount of blood that flows to the brain. This interferes with the way your brain works. Smoking causes heart diseases. Smokers have more colds and upper respiratory problems. Smoking can also causes lung cancer. Chewing tobacco can cause mouth cancer‚ tooth loss‚ and other health problems. Smoking can yellow up your

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    Colonial Education

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    Colonial Education • Schoolroom was located at the edge of town and teacher would live in it • Every child from the town would go to the same school. • Classroom was heated with a fireplace • Students used a quill pen and ink. • Students normally had slate boards which were little boards that the students could hold and wipe off • Students also had hornbooks which were wooden paddles with a paper with numbers‚ the alphabet‚ a sentence‚ or a Bible verse or prayer attached

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    Downloaded from tobaccocontrol.bmj.com on February 26‚ 2013 - Published by group.bmj.com ii88 R ESEARCH PAPER Breaking and re-entering: British American Tobacco in China 1979–2000 K Lee‚ A B Gilmore‚ J Collin ............................................................................................................................... Tobacco Control 2004;13(Suppl II):ii88–ii95. doi: 10.1136/tc.2004.009258 See end of article for authors’ affiliations ....................... Correspondence

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