appreciated as a beautiful and useful street tree. A fast-growing‚ graceful‚ straight-trunked‚ semi-deciduous tree growing to 30-70ft. Most trees‚ particularly planted street trees grow to 30-40ft. It looses its leaves just as new leafs sprout‚ so while deciduous‚ the tree is not without leaves for long. Tiny flowers are followed by four to five"‚ woody fruits that burst open to expel the seeds. Mahogany is a valuable hardwood and this tree was once extensively harvested for its wood. Batac City‚ Ilocos
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"Eats Shoots & Leaves‚" by Lynne Truss‚ is a small book containing both humor and the rules of English punctuation. The title of this book comes from a joke about a wildlife manual with poor punctuation that said a giant panda "eats‚ shoots & leaves‚" which is a verb‚ verb‚ and verb. The way it should have been written is "eats shoots and leaves‚" which is a verb‚ noun‚ and noun. The different punctuation changes the meaning of the phrase. Truss divides the book into a several chapters to emphasize
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Background of the Study Tea is created by using the leaves of a plant known as Camellis sinensis. This plant is native to mainland China‚ South and Southeast Asia‚ but it is today cultivated across the world in tropical and subtropical regions. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below 2 m (6.6 ft) when cultivated for its leaves. It has a strong taproot. The flowers are yellow-white‚ 2.5-4cm (0.98-1.6 in) in diameter‚ with 7 to 8 petals. Tea-drinking can be traced back
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STUDIES ON DEHYDRATION OF CURRY LEAVES B. K. Sakhale‚ A.S. Nandane A.R. Tapre and R.C. Ranveer ABSTRACT The curry leaves (Murraya koenigii)‚ one of green leafy vegetable was obtained from local vegetable market of Aurangabad city. These curry leaves were washed and blanched in hot water containing 0.1 per cent magnesium oxide. The treated leaves were then dried in different drying conditions like direct sun drying‚ shade drying and tray drying. The dried leaves were analyzed for their nutritional
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Academic essay - Business Ethics Abstract In 1956‚ the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation‚ or MCC‚ made a small start in Basque region of Spain‚ at the initiative of five young engineers‚ inspired by a Catholic priest by the name of Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta. Today it has emerged as a truly multi-billion dollar international enterprise with a highly integrated network of 100 MCC cooperative enterprises and competes quite successfully with conventional capitalist corporations both locally and
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For a century family medical leave has been an issue in the United States of America (). Many are faced with conflicts between their work duties and family responsibilities in the current work society. It is difficult enough for employees to take time off when they themselves are ill‚ but employees are than burdened with the responsibility to find suitable arrangements for their children‚ elderly parents and other obligations. There has been a long history of unfair labor practices concerning family
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knowing who one parent is in the first place may be pressed with difficulties in their life. In “Leave Practices of Parents after the Birth or Adoption of Young Children” it is explained‚ “Children whose mothers did not report taking any leave (10% of the total) were more likely to be from a lone-parent family.” I was raised by a single mother and when I was born my mother did not take any leave from work or school. She had me on the weekend and was back on a Tuesday. I was raised mostly by my grandmother
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Native American cultures throughout this childhood‚ and he appreciated the land‚ language‚ and oral traditions of American Indians. Momaday drew on this familiarity while writing the book‚ the title of which comes from a Navajo religious ceremony song‚ "House Made of Dawn." In House Made of Dawn‚ Momaday explores complex ideas about American Indian identity‚ language‚ landscape‚ and cultural conflict in a lyrical‚ stream-of-consciousness style. His sometimes fractured and circular narrative includes
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The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993‚ or FMLA‚ as it is usually called is thought to be one of the most important pieces of legislation by President Clinton. Housed in the Wage and Hour Division’s section on the Department of Labor’s website‚ along with guidance about break time for nursing mothers‚ and special rules for returning reservists‚ FMLA is in good company with other policies composed to ensure one overall theme‚ that families are supported no matter the circumstance. Whether it is
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The United States was trying to force the Cherokee to leave their land‚ when they should not be forced to leave at all. They were given two options to either stay or leave‚ but they did not know what to do. People think the Cherokee need to leave because their land was blocking the path for them to expand‚ but they did risk death if they did leave. The Cherokee should stay and fight for their land because it was given to them from their forefathers as a gift. The Cherokee should be able to
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