British Broadcasting CorporationBBC Accessibility links Skip to content Skip to local navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk search Accessibility Help History Ancient History British History World Wars Historic Figures Family History Hands on History History for Kids On This Day Ancient Egypt and the Modern World By Dr Joyce Tyldesley Last updated 2011-02-17 The Rosetta Stone There has long been
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Koko the gorilla was born on July fourth in 1971 at the San Francisco zoo. The film is interesting because you are able to see how Koko the gorilla is able to communicate with us humans. I was honestly quite surprised to see how intelligent a gorilla can be. It is fascinating that Koko not only knows sign language‚ but can understand English as well. Koko was taught sign language when she was young at around the age of one and she understands it perfectly. It was shocking to me that Koko
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In the short story‚ "The Lesson‚" Toni Bambara reveals the injustice in society in the United States through the eyes of young ghetto children. A field trip to an expensive toy store exposes the bitter truth of society; not everyone has an equal opportunity to make money. In the children’s view‚ everyone should have an equal standard of living. Toni Bambara effectively articulates the unfairness of economic inequality through the use of three short story elements: language‚ character‚ and theme.
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Tony Robbins introduces these chapters by continuing to talk about and develop in our minds the potential of compound interest. He gave some great examples that showcase how such a little amount of money can blossom into more money than you could have ever imagined. In the first chapter Tony Robbins really drive home the incredible value on committing to a percentage of money that you will set aside every time you receive a paycheck. He stressed the importance of setting this percentage aside
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Chemical bond From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A chemical bond is an attraction between atoms that allows the formation of chemical substances that contain two or more atoms. The bond is caused by the electrostatic force of attraction between opposite charges‚ either between electrons and nuclei‚ or as the result of a dipole attraction. The strength of chemical bonds varies considerably; there are "strong bonds" such ascovalent or ionic bonds and "weak bonds" such as dipole–dipole interactions
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First observation of tool use in wild Gorillas This article is about an observation of tool use in wild Gorillas (gorilla gorilla). The study took place in northern Congo where they found two adult female gorillas use branch and trunk to cross a swamp created by elephants during food processing. First observation was an adult female gorilla named Leah‚ used branch as walking stick to test out the water deepness to move forward in the swamp to get to her crying baby. At her first encounter with the
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Banking and Finance (Group 5) Name of members: | ABMF 3023 Commercial Banking Service | | Mobile Banking | What is mobile banking? Mobile banking is a system or a range of services that allows customers of a financial institution to conduct a number of financial transactions through a mobile device. Some of them may ask is there any different from mobile banking and the mobile payment? Actually they are different‚ because the mobile payment is involving the use of mobile
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------------------------------------------------- Image via Wikipedia . I read an article about Tony Fernandes‚ the CEO of AirAsia‚ in The Economist today that got me thinking. Thinking about the last few articles I’ve written about United Airlines‚ RyanAir and Southwest Airlines – on how they make money off their customers – what what works and what doesn’t. There’re a lot of airlines in the US and Europe can learn from Tony Fernandes and AirAsia (+ Azran and AirAsiaX). Here’s how the article in The Economist
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Honneur andso on as recognition to his contributions to the community in each country.I think Tony Fernandes possessed good leadership because he is able to react tochallenges and does not give up easily. From the material I got in the internet‚ it was a bigchallenge for him to start up because situation at that time was terrible and was widelyassumed that the low-cost model will fail. However‚ Tony Fernandes predicted that Asiawould face economy downturn and he could take this opportunity. The
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writer Toni Cade Bambara in the late 1970’s. Sylvia‚ the narrator of the story is a young African-American female who receives a lesson in class inequality. The setting story of begin the slums of Harlem‚ New York and is dated as “back in the days” which is described in the opening of the story. Throughout the story Sylvia‚ realizes its world outside of her neighborhood‚ not as similar has she once thought. I chose the article‚ “Sylvia and The Struggle against Class Consciousness in Toni Cade Bambara’s
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