South Carolina’s very first openly gay legislature comes from the most improbable of homes‚ where a conservative part of the state has the Christian Fundamentalist School Bob Jones University. The republican representative‚ Jason Elliot‚ the first openly gay divorce attorney in south Carolina says his sexual orientation is unimportant in the role he plays working at the statehouse. He says his focus will be set on improving education‚ increasing jobs‚ and repairing and up keeping the states derelict
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grow in the hopes of giving birth to a woolly mammoth. If the Woolly Mammoth was brought back from extinction‚ it wouldn’t have much habitat left for the Woolly Mammoth to call home The Woolly Mammoth existed around the times the predecessors to homo sapiens existed and may have been
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such as Homo habilis (1.8 and 2.5 million years ago) and Homo erectus (1.8 million to 350 000 years ago) are possible direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens‚ and lived in Kenya in the Pre-neolithic epoch. During excavations at Lake Turkana in 1984‚ paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey assisted by Kamoya Kimeu discovered the Turkana boy‚ a 1.6-million-year-old fossil belonging to Homo erectus. Homo erectus means the upright man and was believed to have a bigger brain (775-1250cc) than homo habilis
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Contents 1. What is OLED? 2. History of OLED 3. Construction 4. Working Principle 5. Meterial Technologies 6. Device Architectures 7. Advantages 8. Disadvantages 9. Manufacturers and commercial uses 10. References What is OLED Led: A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. When a light-emitting diode is forward biased (switched on)‚ electrons are able to recombine with electron holes within the device‚ releasing energy in the form of photons. This effect is called electroluminescence and
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War has been a constantly occurring event throughout history‚ from the strife between Homo sapien tribes to terrorists in modern society. However‚ what if there was some way to achieve the same ending without contentions of war? This is what who can be assumed as brothers and pacifists‚ James and Christopher Collier‚ are trying to tell us through their novel‚ My Brother Sam is Dead. The example they use is the American Revolution. So many people‚ innocent or evil‚ were killed. “My Brother Sam is
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factor of necessity implies that the origin of most creative ways of making life easy began as supported by realization that man needed them to survive in the changing life experiences. Firstly‚ the prehistoric era events included the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens‚ the man with an enhanced brain activity able to support different high-level primate intelligence chores such as tool making‚ cultivation of crops‚ and domestication of animals. In summary‚ civilization of Europe and Asia contribute
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Culture‚ which is a word that is very difficult to define‚ is very much engrained in the African people. The culture and art of African people expresses values‚ attitudes‚ and thoughts which help to represent the products of their past experiences and it also provides a way of learning about their history. Throughout this paper‚ you will learn about the culture and art of Africa and its people. As we begin to think about Africa and its‚ we must also consider how Western perceptions of "race" and
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There is a theory that humans descended from an earlier‚ lower form of life. There is an assortment of evidence that shows that all living creatures on Earth descended from a common ancestry. Evolution doesnt discriminate against humans. It is believed that we too are a product of an earlier predecessor. The similarities in all life are evident if you consider that every form of life builds from the same building blocks--20 essential amino acids‚ four nitrogen bases‚ and simple sugars. Each of Earths
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In Janet E. Halley’s chapter titled‚ “The Construction of Heterosexuality‚” Halley makes three arguments regarding how heterosexuality is constructed (especially through the courts)‚ the implications for the different definitions of homosexuality‚ and how we need to change the way we think about sexuality. In the first section‚ Halley outlines what she calls the “deviant definition” of homosexuality. This definition is characterized by sexual acts‚ rather than a sexual identity. Here‚ the heterosexual
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The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75‚000 years ago‚ or with earlier hominids including Homo erectusfrom about 500‚000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilisation‚ which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India‚ was the first major civilisation in South Asia. A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period
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