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    If you visit Qinling Mountain and walk through the forests‚ you may see some golden figure swinging from trees to trees. They are golden snub-nosed monkeys‚ which I think are the most beautiful kind of primates in the world. Golden snub-nosed monkeys are famous for their golden hair and pale blue faces. Another obvious characteristic of this kind of monkeys is that there are no bones in their noses. With these features‚ you can easily recognize them. Golden snub-nosed monkeys are about 66-76cm

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    Police Encounter Matthew A Loos Kaplan University CJ227: Criminal Procedure Unit 2 Assignment July 15‚ 2013 Officer Smith‚ in my opinion‚ had reasonable suspicion to conduct a traffic stop on the female driver the night in question. According to (Lasker‚ 2012)‚ “In People v. Hackett‚ 2012 IL 111781‚ a unanimous supreme court overturned the appellate and trial court decisions and remanded the case for a trial based on evidence stemming from what the court held to be a justified "investigatory

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    1. The unification of India came about when the Persian emperor Darius crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and conquered portions of northwestern India; there he established the kingdom of Gandhara in present-day Punjab. Achaemenid authority in India shed light on Persian techniques of administration to local rulers. A few centuries later‚ Alexander of Macedon crossed the Indus River and destroyed the states he found. Although his campaign had an effect on politics and history in India‚ he created a

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    A.  The author describes his experience in postcolonial Kenya.                         1.  discovery of reluctance to teach Africans English                         2.  colonial concern to maintain distance between whites and blacks                                     a.  was a central feature of many colonial societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries             B.  The British‚ French‚ Germans‚ Italians‚ Belgians‚ Portuguese‚ Russians‚ and Americans all had colonies.                        

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    Green revolution: intro of scientifically bred or selected varieties of grain that can greatly increase crop yields. 2. Things that cause seasons on earth: earth tilted on axis‚ sun distribution 3. Large scale hydroelectric projects around the world: 3 gorges dam‚ dams going on in india 4. Age distribution diagrams: ZPG=looks like a building that doesn’t change‚ bottom same as top. Slow growth=base a bit longer than top but not quite a pyramid. Rapid growth=WIDE base‚ narrow top‚ like a pyramid

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    Article 12 Skarlicki‚ D. P.‚ van Jaarsveld‚ D. D.‚ & Walker‚ D. D. (2008). Getting even for customer mistreatment: the role of moral identity in the relationship between customer interpersonal injustice and employee sabotage. Journal of Applied Psychology‚ 93:6‚ 1335-1347. Question 1: What is this study all about? Question 2: How do Skarlicki et al (2008) justify their theoretical predictions? Question 3: What are the findings of this study? Question 4: What are the managerial implications of this

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    Question:•What challenge in the global industry structure and competitive dynamics led France to lose market share to challengers from Australia and other New World countries?Global wine market has undergone great changes during recent years. Besides declining consumption pattern that saw a 25% drop in 1976 to 1990 here has been other impacts why world wine market share pie has been redivided. Let me introduce you to my understanding of past and present of existing situation. France wine industry has been

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    In the novel Encounters with the Archdruid‚ author John McPhee sets out to portray environmental conservationist David Brower in three different environments with a different adversary in each. In preparation for writing this novel‚ McPhee shadowed Brower over the course of a year. McPhee also strategically paired Brower with people whose opinions differed greatly from Brower’s in order to extract Brower’s argument and to recognize the changes in his argument. David Brower‚ head of the Sierra Club

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    the story and that she was probably not sick and had actually gone to the game instead of coming to work. In this scenario‚ I believe that my boss‚ Kevin‚ is making a fundamental attribution error. In the book Interpersonal Communication Everyday Encounters‚ the author‚ Wood‚ says that one part of the fundamental attribution error is when we “tend to overestimate the internal causes of others’ undesirable behaviors and underestimate the external causes” (Wood‚ 2014‚ pg. 83). This is saying that if

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    political power. The majority of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe because they were very poor. They were just lucky that they got a spot on the ship. They also belonged to religious groups that didn’t have a lot of power. In the new world no one owned large amounts of land because they still haven’t explored and everyone has to be cramped together. Major companies in Europe needed to find people willing to make the very dangerous journey across the ocean to the the new country‚ so they

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