community. To encourage others to do the same‚ I became the president of National Honor Society by providing different volunteer opportunities to different people. Finding out my best friend was suffering from leukemia transformed me from an oblivious caterpillar into an attentive butterfly. It made me stronger morally‚ and developed in me an awareness of others’ situations. Most importantly‚ it led me to determine how I want to make a change in the world: by providing proper healthcare‚ provide clean water
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that we had planted and anxiously awaited their growth were gone. The old plum tree that always had such an excess of plums that they’d fall and turn our driveway a shade of purple was gone. The thick bushes with inedible berries that attracted caterpillars every year was also gone. Instead of these plants that helped to mark the beginning of new seasons‚ there was boring grass and a plastic swing set that would be thrown out after a few years. Also‚ the drive way that used to be shades of purple
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business is that a manufacturing business changes basic inputs into products that are sold to individual customers and a service business provides services rather than products to customers. 3. Why are most large companies like Microsoft‚ PepsiCo‚ Caterpillar‚ and AutoZone organized as corporations? These companies are organized as corporations because ownership is divided into shares of stocks and they can obtain large amounts of resources
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level has a small number of organisms and the remaining levels follow the same pattern as in pyramid A 17. The oak tree is the same‚ but the caterpillars eat only the oak tree leaves 18. The producers in Pyramid A are two oak trees‚ but the actual trophic source on these two producers is tens of thousands of leaves. Only the leaves are eaten by the caterpillars‚ so the number of leaves is much more relevant than the number of trees 19. 11‚000 g/m 20. 40g/m 21. The biomass decreases steadily 22. No
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Gram-positive‚ soil dwelling bacterium of the genus Bacillus. Additionally‚ B. thuringiensis also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars of various types of moths and butterflies‚ as well as on the dark surface of plants. B. thuringiensis was discovered 1901 in Japan by Ishiwata and 1911 in Germany by Ernst Berliner‚ who discovered a disease called Schlaffsucht in flour moth caterpillars. B. thuringiensis is closely related to B. cereus‚ a soil bacterium‚ and B. anthracis‚ the cause of anthrax: the three
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Silk Road DBQ The Silk Road in World History (Suggested writing time – 40 minutes) You should spend at least 10 minutes reading‚ analyzing‚ and grouping the sources. Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-6. (The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.) Write your answer on the lined pages of the Section II free-response booklet. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Write an essay
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Women of the 18 century and Today Rodney Pittman Grantham University Women of the 18 century and Today The Scientific Revolution which occurred in the years 1550 to 1700‚ introduced the idea that the universe and everything in it worked accordingly to the laws of nature which were discovered by means of reason. The reasoning was straying away from previous thinking which entailed that God was the creator of the universe and had complete control over individual lives. Women have always
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the first sensitive period in the early phase of development. He noted that the Porthesia Butterfly laid its eggs on the bark of a tree. From these eggs emerged tiny caterpillars with an innate desire to feed. The mouth parts were so small that they could only manage to eat the softest and most tender leaves. As the caterpillars had no experience in choosing food‚ they held an inherent instinct to crawl towards light and by doing this; they found themselves on the
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land. The Gura people of Central Australia believe the Todd River was formed by a giant caterpillar: Lherre Mpwarntwe. that old Todd River. He is a backbone‚ lying there. This is his body‚ right here in Alice Springs. The river is his backbone‚ and that good soil on both sides‚ that is his back muscles‚ that is his flanks. His legs stretch down.... this is the good country. This is all the Yeperenye Caterpillar Dreaming country. (Kimber‚ 2002. p.6). While white
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David J. Burton‚ AICP‚ is a native of Columbia‚ SC. and is the Founder and CEO of the Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance (DMSCA) and the DMSCA Supplier Development Foundation. Burton obtained his B.S. from the Morgan State College and a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania in City Planning and Regional Science. Burton is a former Adjunct Professor in Planning at Howard University and a decorated Vietnam Veteran. Burton is active in Small Business Advocacy and Educational Civil Rights
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