teacher volunteers from schools such as UC-Berkeley‚ Stanford and San Francisco State. They go through three security checks to get into the prison. And then they hold classes in a nondescript trailer overlooking the prison’s baseball field Phillip Senegal and valedictorian Felix Lucero earned associate of arts degrees in 2009 at a ceremony in San Quentin state prison‚ where they are inmates. The college program is an extension of Patten University in Oakland‚ Calif. The program started in 1996 with
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Full Length Research Paper Nutritional potential of two leafy vegetables: Moringa oleifera and Ipomoea batatas leaves Ibok Oduro‚ W. O. Ellis and Deborah Owusu* Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology‚ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology‚ Kumasi- Ghana. Accepted 30 January‚ 2008 Levels of some nutrients in Moringa oleifera leaves as well as seven varieties of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) leaves were determined using standard analytical methods. Crude protein ranged from
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The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world. The Organization was established upon a decision of the historical summit which took
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tree and the drummer would be helped by the clapping of the dancers to keep the beat. It would be a collaborative work that brought the members of the community closer (http://www.drummagazine.com/hand-drum/post/sabar-drumming-puzzling-rhythms-from-senegal/P3/). The specialty of these rhythms is that‚ although they are not written down‚ the way they are played is unique. Western music has always been document using the traditional western notation for music and‚ as long as it is written down‚ anyone
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colonization and the growth of industry in the new world‚ which created a great demand for labour. Consequently‚ the Europeans expanded the slave trade within Africa and across the Atlantic removing innumerable amounts of persons from the region of the Senegal River to Congo in West Africa. Slave trading in West Africa could be likened to “a tidal wave [which] tossed people caught its turbulence in its wildly swirly currents of [social]‚ economic and political change” (Ciment‚13). The disadvantages of the
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Today I will be talking about the contribution of African American culture to the United States. One of the largest emigrants to arrive in the United States in the colonial time is the West and Central Africans. You could find African’s spread out around American colonies from Maine to Florida ‚ and Mexico to Canada. In the 1830s there where 2.3 million Africans out of the 12.8 million people in the United States. The way Americans eat in New Orleans is influenced by African’s. The popular foods
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Raft of the Medusa Theodore Gericault‚Raft of the Medusa‚ 1818-1819 [oil on canvas]491X716cm The Raft of the Medusa was created by Theodore Gericault in the years 1818 and 1819 during the French Romantic period. This oil painting‚ which stands at a massive 491x716cm‚ was created to capture the tragedy of the Medusa.This essay discusses what the Raft of the Medusa was‚ the reasons behind why Theodore Gericault made this painting and the political impacts it had at the time it was made. The ‘Medusa’
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outsiders because the Europeans wanted to profit from this knowledge. On the map it is shown that West Africa consists of the Niger Delta‚ which is made up of the Southern half of Mali‚ Niger‚ Nigeria‚ Benin‚ and Togo‚ and Senegambia‚ which is made up of Senegal‚ Gambia‚ Guinea‚ Sierra Leon‚ and the Ivory Coast. The Niger Delta and the Senegambia areas were prime tropical
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The ever widening gap between rich and poor can not be bridged. Why do some nations become rich while others remain poor? Traditional mainstream economic growth theory has done little to answer this question—during most of the twentieth century the theory focused on models that assumed growth was a simple function of labor‚ capital‚ and technology. Economic inequality is growing in the world’s richest countries‚ and the gap between rich and poor has widened over the last 20 years in nearly
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK In this chapter presents the review of related literature and studies‚ the theoretical framework‚ conceptual frame work‚ and the definition of terms used. Related Literature Malunggay The “malunggay” in the Philippines‚ is “saji” in Indian Subcontinent is a popular tree. Many Asians use the leaves of Malunggay (Sajina) like spinach and also the fruits it produces as a vegetable‚ like asparagus. Both the leaves and the fruits are very nutritious‚ which contains
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