1. - (Hieroglyphic) Glyphs. Mayan writing. 2.-In what countries of the actuality did the civilization have its place Mayan? Southern Mexico to much of central America. Heart of their highlands of Guatemala and the plains of the Yucatan. 3. - Mention at least three of five Mayan cities to which one alludes in the documentary. Tikal‚ Copan‚ Palenque. 4.-What happened with the Mayan writing system after the arrival of the Spanish? It disappeared because the Diego de Landa believed that the Mayan
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Traffic is terrific on roads Be it a weekend or a weekday‚ traffic is terrible on roads in India. The number of vehicles on Indian roads is simply alarming and in populous cities like Mumbai‚ Calcutta and Delhi‚ there is no space for pedestrians on the roads. In Delhi‚ it is just not the number of moving vehicles that create traffic on roads; a huge number of stationary vehicles parked along the roads are also responsible for traffic congestion. Since cars and motorbikes are parked on roads‚ the
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Traffic congestion is one of the main problems in big cities like London‚ New York‚ Copenhagen‚ and Delhi. The primary causes of it are high population and movement of people. With progress in engineering‚ humanity invents many initiatives to solve this problem. One of the that is public transport area‚ particularly Metro. The Metro is an underground railway system of the city. According to Business Traveler (2012) the oldest subway was built in London in 1836 and to date the London Metro is the
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LIGHT EMITTING DIODES Light Emitting Diodes are electronic components that use the flow of electrons to excite materials into emitting photons of light. A diode is a basic electronic component that allows electricity to flow one way only. The discovery of "light emitting" diodes we believe was an accident sometime around 1907 when a diode in an early radio transmitter was noticed to glow when in use. Incandescent bulbs use resistance in a filament to impede the flow of electricity‚ heating
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CRUISE CONTROL DEVICE INTRODUCTION Everyday the media brings us horrible news on road accidents. Once a report said that the damaged property and other costs may equal 3 % of the world’s gross domestic product. The concept of assisting driver in longitudinal vehicle control to avoid collisions has been a major focal point of research at many automobile companies and research organizations. The idea of driver assistance was started with the ‘cruise control devices’ first appeared in 1970’s
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with other businesses rather than the end user. There are many different types of industry‚ but most of them can be placed into two categories Light and Heavy industry. These two industries are very similar in some respects and very different in other ways‚ however they both have a common purpose of producing and manufacturing goods. Opposite to light are heavy industries‚ which refer to large-scale industries. The industries that are categorised as heavy include manufactures of mass transport
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ABSTRACT In the project design and development of footsteps based energy for street lights consists of pressure transducer‚ relay‚ comparator‚ battery‚ Real Time Clock(RTC)‚ micro controller‚ street light. The main aim of this project is to generate the energy through the pressure generated by footsteps.This micro controller setup is placed at foot path when a person walking along the foot path the footsteps of the person generates some pressure and that pressure generated by the person is noted
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will mention on the following paragraphs. Firstly‚ one possible way to solve this problem would be to increase the amount of fines. Obviously‚ if governments increase the penalties on breaking traffic laws‚ then people might prevent themselves from breaking rules. As a result‚ the number of traffic accidents would be reduced. This is just one solution. Another problem of road accidents is lack of special roads‚ especially roads for schoolchildren in my view. An alternative way to avoid road
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Traffic exists everywhere around us. Our city of Corpus Christi’s population is expanding at a rapid rate. As a result‚ this is one of the strengths because it brings in extra profit for businesses and the city. According to the United Census Bureau‚ the last population count in 2014 came out to 320‚434. That is 15‚219 additional people added to our community in 4 years since the last count in 2010. However‚ even though additional people can be beneficial‚ it produces more issues with traffic. This
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TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF BUTUAN CITY A Policy Analysis Prepared by: VICTOR PLAZA JOSEPH IAN B. SABADO PA 505A – Public Policy Issues and Analysis DR. VICTOR EMMANUEL OZARRAGA Graduate Studies Program Father Saturnino Urios University Butuan City August 24‚ 2013 Executive Summary In most developing cities‚ magnitude volume of the traffic requires suitable legislative enactment where different modes of transportation traverses within the City. In the case of Butuan
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