As you may know‚ the bees are vanishing. Most people may say‚ “ehh bees aren’t important‚ they just make honey”. Which is not true‚ bees play a huge role in our daily life. Did you know that bees pollinate one third of out diet? Without bees there wouldn’t be apples‚ oranges‚ melons or broccoli. Most people just don’t understand the seriousness of this problem! There has been a lot of misunderstanding and confusion when it comes to the reasoning of this bee problem. Up to this day there still
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How did Amaterasu come into being? What role‚ according to legend‚ did she play in Japanese history? Per the earliest Japanese “mythohistories” (Kitagawa)‚ Kojiki (records of ancient matters‚ compiled in 712) and Nihongi (chronicles of Japan‚ complied in 720)‚ the origins of the empire date back to 660 BCE‚ a date calculated from a cyclical formula introduced from China during the fifth or sixth century CE (Kirkland 111); none of the persons or events mentioned can be firmly established in historical
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The Role of Women in Creation Stories Men tend to be the dominant figure in many modern societies; this could have something to do with the role women play in creation stories believed by a particular society. In some of the creation stories studied‚ women are portrayed as inferior to men even though they possess great strengths or the ability to manipulate men. The creation stories of Genesis‚ Enuma Elish‚ and The Creation of Pandora from Works and Days all have feminine characters that are portrayed
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6th Oct - 19 Oct‚ 2008 Volume 4‚ Issue 12 A Fortnightly publication from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor PS Opens Phase II of the Arts Complex he Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education‚ Prof. Karega Mutahi o ff i c i a l l y o p e n e d K e n y a t t a University Phase II of the Arts Complex on September 26th‚ 2008. The Phase II of the Arts Complex constructed at the cost of Ksh. 39 million has 69 offices to be used by Deans‚ Chairmen and Lecturers from various schools‚ one lecture
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There is no doubt that education and the learning process has changed since the introduction of computers. The search for information has become easier and amusing‚ and connectivity has expedited the data availability. Though expert systems have made computers more intelligent‚ they have not yet become a substitute of the human interaction in the learning process. In my opinion; what can be expected‚ is a change of the teachers’ role but not their disappearance from the classroom. Nobody can argue
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During a visit to India in March President Clinton watched a woman enter a village health centre‚ call up a web page on the computer‚ and get information on how to care for her baby.1 It is possible that this baby will have better health because of the availability of information on the internet. However‚ this possibility is underpinned by several assumptions‚ and the potential of information and communication technologies still has not been harnessed systematically to bring about important improvements
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What is Global Warming? Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter‚ disasters like hurricanes‚ droughts and floods are getting more frequent. Over the last 100 years‚ the average temperature of the air near the Earth´s surface has risen a little less than 1° Celsius (0.74 ± 0.18°C‚ or 1.3 ± 0.32° Fahrenheit). Does not seem all that much? It is responsible for the conspicuous increase in storms‚ floods and raging forest fires
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What is Global Warming? What is Global Warming? Lesson Objectives: • To understand what is meant by ‘global warming’ • To know what we think causes global warming. • To begin to understand how our activities can cause climate change. The sun sends out energy as heat and light. This energy comes to our earth during the day time. Some of the sun’s rays get ‘trapped’ in the atmosphere. Some of them get reflected back into space. The ones which get through the atmosphere warm the earth up. All
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Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel and other Jews survived‚ but many others did not. One of the key components to the Jews’ survival was faith along with hope. According to Hebrews 11:1‚ “Faith is the substance of things hoped for‚ the evidence of things not seen.” Many of the Jews found themselves questioning their faith as they witnessed and endured the horrors of the Holocaust. Although they hoped to survive the German’s cruelty and leave the concentration camps‚ they saw
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Islamic Faith By definition Islamic faith is a monotheistic religion characterized by the acceptance of the doctrine of submission to God and to Muhammad as the chief and last prophet of God. Muslims are the people who practice this faith. There are five basic pillars of Islam. These pillars are said to be the framework of the Muslim life. These are the principles which they follow: the declaration of faith‚ Prayers‚ Zakah‚ which means purity‚ fasting during the month of Ramadan‚ and Hajj (Pilgrimage
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