impactful waves of immigration to the United States occurred as a result of the Irish Potato Famine. The famine occurred due to failure of Ireland’s potato crop in 1945 through 1949 (Mokyr 1). Although the famine lasted four years‚ its effects can still be seen in the United States. The influx of Irish immigrants served as the backbone of the industrializing United States and forever changed the nation. Despite the Irish Potato Famine’s impact on the United States‚ it could have been avoided if other nations
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Look again at ‘At a Potato Digging’ by Seamus Heaney and at ‘A Sheep Fair’ by Thomas Hardy‚ which both deal with the theme of the hardship of rural life. With close reference to the ways each poet uses language‚ compare and contrast what the speakers in the poems say about rural life. You should include relevant contextual material. Which poem do you find more interesting? Give your reasons. Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy both depict images of rural life as difficult and uncomfortable. In their
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Mass each bag. Put each bag into a beaker of distilled water and let stand for half and hour. After 30 minutes is up‚ remove each bag and determine its mass. Record all data in its appropriate table. Lab 1C - using the potato core borer‚ obtain 24 cylindrical slices of potato‚ four for each cup. Determine the mass of the four cylinders. Immerse four cylinders into each of the six beakers or cups. Let stand overnight. After time is up‚ remove the cores from the sucrose solutions and mass them
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Spiced Sweet Potato Flapjacks Ingredients: • 6 eggs‚ whisked • 2 sweet potatoes‚ roasted and peeled • 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder • 1 tablespoon raw honey • 1 teaspoon nutmeg • 2 tablespoons olive oil Directions: 1. Place the roasted sweet potatoes in a bowl and use a potato masher to mash the meat. 2. Mix in the eggs and honey. Season the batter with nutmeg and cinnamon powder then mix well. 3. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high flame. Pour 2 tablespoons of the batter into the pan and let
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Although a blight affected the potato crops of Ireland during the 1840’s‚ the mass starvation was the result of British governmental policy‚ that forced many Irish to immigrate to America. Their immigration had many positive and negative effects on the American people and the economy. Ireland was a country of poverty and nearly half of the families in rural areas were living in mud houses with no windows or furniture. According to the Constitutional Rights Foundation‚ Ireland was not an industrialized
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EVALUATION OF NEWLY RECOMMENDED SWEET POTATO VARIETIES UNDER COCONUT BY NELSIE MODINA FERNANDEZ Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield performance of different sweet potato varieties grown under coconut‚ and to determine which variety of sweet potato would perform best under coconut. Among the agronomic characteristics measured‚ only herbage yield differed significantly among sweet potato varieties and was lowest in PSB-Sp 16. Based on ocular observation‚ this might
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bless you! Cassien TWAGIRIMANA ABSTRACT The Irish potato is one of major food tuber crops grown in Rwanda. It plays a key role in food consumption‚ nutritional security and reduction of hunger. Potato plant like other tuber crops requires sufficient supply of several essential elements for proper growth and function. It is a gross feeder and exploiting greater volume of soil nutrients including nitrogen‚ phosphorous‚ potassium and water. Potato production has become very important in Rwanda in
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In this study‚ three general media will be used for the detection of microorganisms on the equipment‚ personnel‚ raw materials and the finished goods. These are Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA)‚ Plate Count Agar (PCA) and Violet Red Bile Agar (VRBA) under the Univar brand. The amount of each prepared medium or dehydrated medium depends on the number of samples to be tested. PDA is usually used for the presence of yeasts
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Effect of Temperature ( C ͦ) on Enzyme Catalase Activity in potato Aim: To investigate the Effect of temperature (10‚ 37‚ 60) Celsius (C ͦ) on enzyme catalase activity in potato using 2% of hydrogen peroxide (H202) as the substrate measuring the height (cm) of oxygen gas (bubbles) and calculating the volume of oxygen bubbles produced (cm3) Introduction: Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up metabolic reactions without being affected. They lower the activation energy needed to start
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Sweet Potato Pie Eugenia Collier From up here on the fourteenth floor‚ my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects. A deep feeling of love surges through me. Despite the distance‚ he seems to feel it‚ for he turns and scans the upper windows‚ but failing to find me‚ continues on his way. I watch him moving quickly—gingerly‚ it seems to me—down Fifth Avenue and around the corner to his shabby taxicab. In a moment he will be heading back uptown. I turn from the window
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