making. 1 = Most important 15 = Least important No equal rankings 1. Sextant (a device used for celestial navigation) 13 2. Shaving Mirror 1 3. Five gallon can of water 2 4. Mosquito netting 15 5. One case of army rations 3 6. Maps of the Pacific Ocean 14 7. Seat cushion (flotation device approved by the Coast Guard) 6 8. Two gallon can of oil/petrol mixture 10 9. Small transistor radio (receives radio stations only – not a transmitter) 12 10. Shark repellent 9 11. 20 square feet of opaque
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Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by protists (a type of microorganism) of the genus Plasmodium. It begins with a bite from an infected female Anopheles mosquito‚ which introduces the protists through saliva into the circulatory system. In the blood‚ the protists travel to the liver to mature and reproduce. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever and headache‚ which in severe cases can progress to coma or death. The disease is widespread
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took‚ where Tony noticed that the tribes living on the coast or near Lake Victoria had a higher frequency of sickle-cell carriers than those tribes that lived in the highlands or Central Kenya. These founding’s puzzled Tony‚ until he had a sudden realization. Lake Victoria and the coast are in low-lying areas‚ where there are high levels of malaria‚ whereas the highlands and Central Kenya were at higher elevations where there are fewer mosquitos. This realization led Tony to make connections
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Malaria with them. Although this was a good thing for those colonists‚ it turned out fatal to the rest of the continent. Once bitten‚ the Malaria could be transferred to the mosquito from the human‚ “it would only take one such carrier to arrive at Jamestown and get bitten by one of the mosquito species that inhabit the East Coast to establish malaria in the entire continent” (Mann 6). By stating this‚ Mann persuasively states how detrimental one Englishman can become to an entire continent of people
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By 1870’s the transcontinental railroad connected its east and west coasts‚ but the land travel still time-consuming and difficult. As sea travel between the coasts involved a trip about 13‚000 miles around the tip of South America. (If a canal could be dug across a narrow section of Central America‚ the coast-to-coast journey would be cut in half) The US had been thinking about such a project since the early 19th century: In the 1880s‚ a French
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Introduction Jamaican Maroons date back to the English conquest of Jamaica in 1655. At that time‚ the retreating Spanish freed their African slaves. They armed them and encouraged them to fight a guerrilla war against the new British Colonies. The released and runaway slaves‚ aided by Jamaica’s mountainous terrain; evaded capture‚ formed fighting bands and eventually split into two powerful communities. It is from these remote communities that the Jamaican Maroons raided British settlements and
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Hispaniola. All of this was done in his first voyage. Over his lifetime‚ Columbus made four voyages to what he considered the continent of America. In his other voyages‚ Columbus arrived at Jamaica‚ Trinidad‚ Gomera (modern day Canary Islands)‚ and Mosquito Coast (modern day Nicaragua). After reading the material on the website‚ I received a better understanding of exactly what Christopher Columbus did. He may not have discovered the continent of America‚ but he did discover many other countries
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promote public safety and aware other about the virus and how it can be contracted‚ the researchers decided to focus our intervention towards first year students living on campus. The researchers started off the project by contacting Florida Gulf Coast University Student housing and Residence life. The plans for a Zika Virus intervention were shared with the administrator of Eagle Hall in South Lake Village which is an on campus‚ first year housing for students who attend the university. On September
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Jurassic park’s setting is on the fake island Isla Nublar placed near Costa Rica’s Coast‚ where a billionaire and a small group of genetic scientists have created an amusement park of different cloned dinosaurs. However all goes bad when the power goes out and all the dinosaurs escape wrecking havoc on the scientist and workers at the amusement park. Later to make things even worse the extra DNA that the geneticist put in to fill in the missing holes mutated allowing for the dinosaurs to change sex
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food to be found. Captain Clark described the huge mountains they were to climb: “The hills or mountains were not like those I had seen but like the side of a tree Streight up.” The winter of 1805-1806 at Fort Clatsop‚ near the Pacific coast‚ had to be the most miserable winter the men ever experienced. It rained every day but 12 of the 106 days they were there. Their clothes rotted off their backs and basic comforts were scarce. Grizzly bears were the most dangerous animal confronted
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