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    Colonial Whip

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    BY-LAWS OF FEDERATED SYSTEMS GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC. ARTICLE I SUBSCRIPTION‚ ISSUANCE AND TRANSFER OF SHARES Section 1. Subscriptions. - Subscribers to the capital stock of the Corporation shall pay the value of the stock in accordance with the terms and conditions prescribed by the Board of Directors. Unpaid subscriptions shall not earn interest unless determined by the Board of Directors. Section 2. Certificate. - The stockholder shall be entitled to one or more certificates

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    Colonial Values

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    All the colonies that were founded in the seventeenth century contributed to the values of perennial America. The three colonies that made the most significant contributions were the colonies of Virginia‚ Pennsylvania‚ and Connecticut. These colonies displayed the democratic government that we are ruled under today‚ their educational opportunities were strong and sound‚ and the religious toleration of these colonies was strong and many religions shared the colonies in peace. Their social plurality

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    Disagreeing on Slavery

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    at the time viewed simply as property rather than as human beings‚ had these rights completely deprived of them by being kept in slavery on southern farms and plantations. Slaves on these plantations did various work and tasks but mostly harsh manual labor farming in the fields for their masters. Slavery had been an established institution in the country since colonial times and while there had always been several opinions on the issue‚ it had been basically accepted or at least acknowledged as part

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    Into Thin Air‚ is an autobiography written by Jon Krakauer about an Everest disaster that he experienced first-hand while climbing the mountain in May of 1996. One theme that the author incorporates throughout the book is that climbing costs everything. He explains that climbing Mount Everest costs a lot of money. For some people‚ mountaineering costs their lives‚ limbs‚ and their family to pursue this passion. Krakauer uses a chronological text structure to describe the events of the fateful hike

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    Patterns of Evolution

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    Patterns of Evolution Humans alter our environment to suit our needs rather than adapt to our environment based on environmental stressors. Due to this fact‚ we are unlikely to be affected by the pressures of natural selection. We will not likely be affected by further evolution. In convergent evolution‚ unrelated species living in the similar environments become more and more alike in appearance as they adapt to the same kind of environment. Dolphins and sharks are examples of convergent

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    Colonial Salutary Neglect

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    throughout the colonial period‚ the colonies were a land of rapid growth and change. The British policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of colonial society. This will be shown through developments in colonial legislative assemblies‚ commerce‚ and religion. Britain’s lack of involvement in the colonies due to various events led the colonies towards developing self-governments. The colonies’ independent streak involving self-government began to show itself early on in colonial history with

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    Ecology and Evolution

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    Ecology and Evolution Crystal Dillon-Reeves BIO/315 April 1‚ 2013 Howard Rubin‚ Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution Beren Robinson performed remarkable field study of threespine sticklebacks. These fish closely relate to ecology and evolution. The researchers original findings are different than that of Robinson’s field study. His hypothesis states that the threespine sticklebacks varied phenotypes are the handiwork of natural selection supporting the discrepancy in the population. Diet and the

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    History: Slavery

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    early immigrants were indentured servants‚ people who sold their labor in exchange for passage to the New World and housing on their arrival. Initially‚ most laws passed concerned indentured servants‚ but around the middle of the seventeenth century‚ colonial laws began to reflect differences between indentured servants and slaves. Now that they actually started thinking twice between slaves and what they stand for. Soon the laws began to differentiate between races: the association of “servitude for

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    PART 1: Question 1 Describe the differences between divergent evolution‚ convergent evolution and parallel evolution and provide an example for each type of evolution. Divergent evolution occurs when change from a common ancestral species increases as time passes‚ leading to a speciation event; that is‚ the evolution of two new species. Convergent evolution on the other hand differs from divergent evolution because it is the development of similar features separately in unrelated groups of organisms

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    theory of evolution

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    land. This change is called evolution. Who founded the theory; what is it and why it happens will all be explained in the following paragraphs. Charles Darwin is the man who is most famously associated with the theory of evolution. In 1859 he published a book a called ‘the Origin of Species’ which explained his theories on evolution. Darwin received lots of criticism and his theories caused much debate when he first mentioned it. This is because his theory of evolution did not match up with religious

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