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    Wine and Old World Wines

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    zeani.com/newworldwine_oldworldwine/index.htm Old world wines include the wines of Europe.  Countries producing old world wines are: 1.  France 2.  Italy 3.  Spain 4.  Portugal 5.  Germany  On the other hand‚ new world wines would include everybody else. Some of the most popular new world regions are: 1.  The USA‚ especially California 2.   Australia 3.   Chile 4.   Argentina 5.   New Zealand 6.   Canada 7.   South Africa In the old world‚ fruit is subjected to higher levels of humidity

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    Glasses or Contacts

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    Glasses or Contacts Many people have visual aids. This usually means their vision is not twenty-twenty. They wear contacts or glasses; you can choose one or both and get the same clear vision. The cost of glasses or contacts can be expensive especially when you get both‚ and depending on your prescription it can cost even more. However‚ contacts and glasses are quite different from each other. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the differences between contacts and glasses. The

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    Language Contact

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    Language Borrowing and the Indices of Adaptability and Receptivity Bates L. Hoffer Trinity University Introduction One of the most easily observable results of intercultural contact and communication is the set of loanwords that is imported into the vocabulary of each language involved. The field of cultures and languages in contact (Weinreich 1953) has grown a great deal over the past fifty years. From the early studies‚ a ’Scale ’ or ’Index of Receptivity ’ has been posited for languages which more

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    New World Beginnings

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    Chapter 1 – New World Beginnings‚ 33‚00B.C – A.D. 1769 New World Beginnings – the human history of the new world began during the ice-age when‚ because of lower sea levels‚ Asiatic tribes were able to cross the Bering Strait and populate the Americas. Eventually‚ these peoples migrated and dispersed to form tribes and some advanced civilizations on almost every corner of these two continents. Bering Strait – a land bridge connecting modern-day Alaska and Russia. During the Ice Age‚ low ocean

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    Contact Sports

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    Week 8 Final Draft Contact Sports ENG 112 June 21‚ 2012 Contact sports have been a part of school age children’s life for a long time in America. Whether it be football‚ soccer‚ lacrosse‚ wrestling‚ or the recent addition to American sports‚ rugby. Millions of children in middle school or high school have worked hard and enjoyed playing. In recent news articles contact sports have been deemed bad for children. Doctors have been studying the statistics and have come to the conclusion that

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    brave new world

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    SETTING Setting plays a particularly important role in Brave New World. Huxley’s novel is a novel of Utopia‚ and a science-fiction novel. In both kinds of books the portrayal of individual characters tends to take a back seat to the portrayal of the society they live in. In some ways‚ the brave new world itself becomes the book’s main character. The story opens in London some 600 years in the future- 632 A. F. (After Ford) in the calendar of the era. Centuries before‚ civilization as we know

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    Baboon Old World Monkeys

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    There are many types of species of primates throughout the world‚ ranging from Prosimians‚ Old World Monkeys‚ New World Monkeys‚ and various number of apes. The species in which catches my interest the most would be the Baboon‚ a Old World Monkey that belongs to the genus Papio. Old World Monkeys in particular live in the area of South and East Asia‚ the Middle East‚ Africa‚ and even Gibraltar which is in the southern tip of Spain. Baboons are most founded in Africa and parts of Arabia. Surprisingly

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    Media‚ News‚ Paranoia‚ and the Consequences of Y2K As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his first inaugural speech‚”…The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Though the speech delivers a passionate affect towards the American public for years‚ it seems like it lost meaning 60 years later. The 1990’s era is one of the most significant decades of the early modern era where the general public begins to fixative their lives with technology. Upon as early as 1998‚ various individuals begin to ponder

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    What are the consequences of cutting down trees? There are many consequences for the environment of cutting down trees. Known as deforestation it has huge effects on the environment. It one very big effect is the loss of biodiversity which is a direct effect of cutting down trees. There are many reasons of which humans act out deforestation. For example is so that we can set up cattle farms. Also grow crops of which can then be sold to people. Another reason is for urbanisation and for the building

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    Brave new world

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    Dystopia in Aldous Huxley ’s Brave New Worl It ’s hard to imagine yet somehow so extremely close to us is the possibility of a world of ideal perfection where there is no room or acceptance of individuality. Yet‚ as we strive towards the growth of technology and improvement of our daily living we come closer to closing the gap between the freedom of emotions‚ self understanding‚ and of speech and the devastation of a dystopia. A utopia‚ or perfect world‚ gone awry is displayed in Aldous Huxley

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