Questions to answer from video Four Corners: Global Dimming • How does the film start? The film starts by talking about the green house effect and the natural disasters and also the terrorist attacks aftermath. • Who was Gerald Stanhill? – What was his occupation? – Why was he measuring solar radiation in the 1950s? – In which country did he take his measurements? – What did he find 20 years later? – Did anyone believe him? He is
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A cassowary is the name for a large‚ flightless‚ and strange looking bird that lives in the tropical forests of Australia and New Guinea. Cassowaries come from the ratite group‚ and there are three species: Southern Cassowary/Double-wattled cassowary of Australia and New Guinea‚ Dwarf Cassowary of New Guinea and New Britain‚ and the Northern Cassowary of New Guinea. The genus and species of the cassowary is Casuarius casuarius. The order the cassowary is from is the Struthioniformes order.
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have originated in Southeast Asia and Malaysia‚ and cultivation could have started as early as 8000 BCE. The professionals believe that bananas were the first fruit cultivated by humans and the first domestication took place in the highlands of Papua New Guinea‚ but China was the first country to cultivate the fruit in an organized production method. The banana did not hit the market in the United States until 1870 after two men realized it’s potential. Lorenzo Dow Baker was a ship c... ... middle
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I was very excited‚ I was going to get a new guinea pig. My old one had died of old age‚ and the new one I was getting was just a few months old. I had bought him a few days ago at the York Fair‚ but had to wait until the fair was over. My dad drove me to the fair‚ and we went in to get him. We soon found the building where the guinea pigs and rabbits were being kept. The guinea pig I chose was a multicolored one. He was mostly black‚ but had brown on his head‚ mostly on the left side of his
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look at a culture‚ there are some general characteristics that are similar to your own culture. These kin ties make their lineage stronger; show how they bond with each other and one’s specific roles in their family lineage. In The Trobrianders of Papua New Guniea by Annette B. Weiner‚ she describes that their society is structured as a matrilineage. There are many exchanges that occur in this society between “owners” and “workers” of this lineage. As well as‚ everyone plays their own part when one
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higher power through various forms of art such as sculptures or drawings. Each artifact has a very specific use and helps connect them to the spiritual world. Through the work of the Tot Isu and Korwar I will explore how the people of Northwest New Guinea and the Solomon Islands use images to connect to the spiritual world. Toto Isu is an example of an image to facilitate the spiritual connections. Also called as Musu Musu and Nguzu Nguzu‚ is the traditional figurehead sculpture which was placed
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creatures I now am raising. They are now a part of my life and they mean everything to me. I get to live my life with a curious hamster and now two wild guinea pigs who scream like banshees when a bag crinkles. Just the thought of having them run around my room for a long time makes me smile in delight. Were in the car driving to go pick up my new guinea pigs. But we have seemed to stop. are we here I shoot straight up and look around‚ cars fill the space and are close together. Traffic. We sat there
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Guinea Pigs are not in fact as the name suggests‚ pigs‚ they are members of the rodent family more specifically hystricomorphic rodents‚ related to porcupines and chinchillas. Guinea Pigs or Cavia Porcellus originated in the South American Andes and it is suggested that they are the domesticated descendants of closely related Cavy‚ Cavia apera‚ Cavia fulgidia and Cavia Tschudii. Wild guinea pigs tend to be smaller in statue than their domesticated cousin‚ generally though they have short round legs
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Guinea pigs have been used in many experiments. Female guinea pigs start showing sexual behavior when they are forty-five days old. They become restless and show greater activity. Over a period of eight hours the female mounts herself on other female guinea pigs to show the male that she is ready to have intercourse. The male is then excited and approaches the female. After they have intercourse she runs away and stays far away from all the males (Hauser 82). A male guinea pig always gets
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HIDDEN BEAUTY OF INDONESIA Located off the northwest tip of Bird’s Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea‚ Raja Ampat‚ or the Four Kings‚ is an archipelago comprising over 1‚500 small islands‚ cays and shoals surrounding the 4 main islands of Misool‚ Salawati‚ Batanta and Waigeo. It is a part of the newly named West Papua province of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya. Raja Ampat scuba diving is the bees knees in the world of scuba. According to theConservation International Rapid Assessment
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