What are trans fatty acids‚ and where do they come from? We’re used to hearing about saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids - which come from animal fats (meat‚ lard‚ dairy products) as well as tropical oils such as coconut and palm oils - raise the levels of LDL cholesterol. Unsaturated fats - which come from vegetable oils - in general‚ do not increase cholesterol levels‚ and may reduce them. Because saturated fatty acids were found to be bad for you a couple decades ago
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People in power often dictate recordings of history‚ but the Atlantic slave trade found an exception to this pattern. Documents from both enslavers and enslaved of this time regarding management of captives provide an insight on the treatment of slaves in the middle passage. Data from both parties clearly illustrates slave trading as a massive industry‚ and one where enslavers valued efficiency over the well-being of captives to garner the maximum possible profit. Conditions illustrated in these
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(a) Compare and contrast the challenges experienced in fulfilling customer requirements in Trans-European Plastics and New Supply Chain strategies at old M&S (20 marks) (b) Discuss possible solutions with regards to analysis of performance factors such as cost‚ quality‚ speed‚ dependability and flexibility and ‘order winners and qualifiers’. (30 marks) 4. (a) elaborate on the following: Trans-European Plastics: Issues with dependability‚ distribution issues‚ storage space‚ implications
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Africa’s slave trade. He finds that the slave trade‚ which occurred over a period of more than 400 years‚ had a significant negative effect on long-term economic development. Although the paper arguably identifies a negative causal relationship between the slave trade and income today‚ the analysis is unable to pin down the exact causal mechanisms underlying the reduced form relationship documented in the paper. In this paper‚ we examine one of the channels through which the slave trade may affect
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HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA Overview The history of West Africa is the long history of human movements‚ incursions‚ displacements‚ intermixtures of peoples‚ and of the impact of these on the beliefs‚ attitudes‚ social and political organization to the peoples West Africa. The history of West Africa can be divided into three major periods: first‚ its prehistory‚ second‚ colonial period‚ in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the whole of the region and the post-independence era‚ in
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Sub-Saharan Africa: The Causes of Postcolonial State Failure On the vast continent of Africa‚ there are fifty-three countries; of these only six are not located below the Sahara Desert. This
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What effects did the slave trade have on African society? The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history. It developed after Europeans began exploring and establishing trading posts on the Atlantic (west) coast of Africa in the mid-15th century. The first major group of European traders in West Africa was the Portuguese‚ followed by the British and the French. In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ these European colonial powers began to pursue plantation
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• Political Control by the west led to systemic difference between east and west‚ a conscious process of the creation of an architectonic of international capitalism by the colonial powers and trade networks throughout their settler colonies. Economic domination and political domination go hand in hand. One builds on the other‚ the merchants and the ruling class in collusion. Mere increase in quantity of economic goods and their variety doesn’t tell the full story‚ there has to be an analysis of
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Unit Assessment Exploration Changes the World‚ Part 2 1. (12 points) The native population of the Spanish colonies declined by as much as 90 percent between 1519 and 1605. Why did the native population decline so dramatically? Include at least three reasons in your explanation. How did the Spanish government respond to the dramatic decline? THE SYSTEM WAS CRUEL AND THE INDIANS HAD TO WORK FROM MORNING TO NIGHTFALL THE NATIVED WERE TREATED TERRIBLY FROM SAVAGE BEATINGS TO NEVER-ENDING LABOR AND
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INTL721 - 101 Assignment Type: Trans Pacific Partnership Submitted By: JASPREET SAINI Student Id: 300728019 Submitted To: Prof. Nadia Jones Submission Date August 12‚ 2013. Trans Pacific Partnership: The trans pacific partnership (TPP) was initiated by United states which was signed between 12 different nations in order to initiate free trade and corporate rights deal between the undersigned nations. The 12 nations which were included in the trans pacific partnership agreement
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