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    Languages and human social interaction in the medium of languages‚ to a large extent lead to the development of unique authenticity. According to Thiongo (1986: pp 26)‚ living languages grow like living things and English is far from a dead language. All European countries examples American‚ Canadian‚ West Indian add their own uniqueness and culture to the English language. African cultures are also shown in English today by reflecting their own ideas‚ thinking and philosophy. Our forefathers believes

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    Types of Societies

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    sustenance‚ meaning they were nomadic. These societies were common until several hundred years ago‚ but today only a few hundred remain in existence‚ such as indigenous Australian tribes sometimes referred to as “aborigines‚” or the Bambuti‚ a group of pygmy hunter-gatherers residing in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hunter-gatherer groups are quickly disappearing as the world’s population explodes. ------------------------------------------------- Pastoral Changing conditions and

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    Central Congo Basin Moist Forests “The Congo Basin makes up one of the most important wilderness areas left on Earth. At 500 million acres‚ it is larger than the state of Alaska and stands as the world’s second largest tropical forest” (Congo Basin). The Amazon is the only moist tropical forest that is bigger than the Congo Basin moist forest. The Congo Basin moist forest is four times the size of France and contains about one fourth of the closed canopy forest left on Earth (Managing Congo Basin

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    Africa and Western Sahara) and Black Africa. Your inter tropical localization presents the climates equatorial‚ deserts‚ savanna‚ sahel and steppe. The ethnicities are diverse such as Arabian‚ Egyptian‚ Berber‚ Jewish‚ Sudanese‚ Bantu‚ Nilotic‚ Pygmy and Swahili. There is also a diversity of religions such as‚ Christianity‚ Islamism‚ Hinduism‚ Animism‚ and a lot of politest tribes. The most spoken languages are Arabian‚ English‚ French Portuguese‚ Spanish and Afrikaner. 2 Agricultural Technology

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    ANIMAL SMUGGLING Imagine walking through a American airport and you notice a woman’s skirt flapping up and down. At first thought you think nothing of it‚ but at second glance you you see feathers falling to the floor and two beautiful toucan parrots trying to make a last chance escape from the airport. One would think this never happens‚ but in all actuality these toucan parrots were drugged with dangerous tranquilizers and are a long ways from home. These birds are just a fraction of the ten billion

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    Making a Living

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    MAKING A LIVING Anthropology: Chapter 16 Cultural Anthropology: Chapter 8 Physical Anthropology and Archaeology: Not Present CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know what an adaptive strategy is. In addition you should know how Cohen uses adaptive strategies to classify different societies. 2. Understand what foraging entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly found in foraging societies. 3. Understand what horticulture entails and what social and cultural traits are commonly

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    Why do whales beach themselves? By Anda November 8 2009 Environmental Science Instructor: Why do whales beach themselves? The Scientific American article “Why do whales beach themselves?” published on June 1‚ 2009‚ bring the polemic and controversial reasons about the phenomenon observed in the last years when more than Fifty-five false killer whales were stranded on a South African beach over the weekend. The scientists still do not fully understand why mass stranding happen‚ and if

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    Manas Wildlife Sanctuary

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    Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Nakiya Reese Axia College of University of Phoenix Final Manas Wildlife Sanctuary‚ also known as Manas National Park‚ is nestled in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains. In the Wildlife Sanctuary which is approximately 360 square kilometers‚ is rich in grasslands and tropical forests. Not only is the scenery beautiful‚ but this is a home to not only plants‚ but many endangered animals. Manas Wildlife Sanctuary is home to many species such as: tigers‚ wild

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    ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF THE BANTU Bantu is used as a general label for the 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak the Bantu languages‚ distributed from Cameroon east across central Africa and eastern Africa to Southern Africa. The bantu family is fragmented into hundreds of individual groups‚ none of them larger than a few million people (the largest being the Zulu with some 10 million).The bantu language-Swahili with its 5-10 million speakers is of super-regional importance as tens of millions

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    Animals in Danger

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    Green Turtle | Grey Seal | Grey Wolf | Humpback Whale | Indian Elephant | Leatherback Turtle | Mallee Fowl | Manatee | Mountain Zebra | Northern Leopard Frog | Orangutan | Pardel Lynx | Peary Caribou | Polar Bear | Pronghorn Antelope | Pygmy Hippopotamus | Red Panda | Sea Otter | Siberian Tiger | Snow Leopard | Southern Right Whale | Spectacled Bear | Spotted Tree Frog | Spur Thighed Tortoise | Stellar Sea Lion | Three Toe Sloth | Walrus | Wandering Albatross | White Tailed

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