...continental drift. Wegener used landorms, climate, and fossils to support his theory of continental drift. He said that when it came to landforms all the continents seemed to fit like a “jigsaw puzzle”. Even went as as far to say the mountain ranges seemed to line up as well. Wegener said that the same fossils and rock from one continent would end up on a different continent. For instance a fossil found in Africa would also be found in South America. When it came to climate, Wegener said that some fossils did not match the climate. For instance, there a glacier scratches in South Africa. 2. Years later, the continental drift theory reemerged as plate tectonic theory, with two additional pieces of evidence. [pic] [pic] Refer to the images above. Discuss in detail the two pieces of additional evidence that supported Wegener’s theory, now known as the theory of plate tectonics. The first image shows the ages of the banded rocks on the mid-atlantic range. By looking at the image you can see the the middle (yellow streak) is the youngest while the rock on the outer edges are the oldest showing that the seafloor has ben spreading over time. The second image shows surface motion and how all the points on the same plate are mostly moving in the same direction...
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...Convener Peter Tunstall ... Chief Game Warden Andrew Dibb ... Computer Operator Shimane Mpepela ... Man on Bike Paddy O'Byrne ... Narrator (voice) Summary: The film is split into four stories: * Xixo trying to find his lost children * Two elephant poachers traveling in a truck on which Xixo's children are stuck * A man and a woman are stuck in the desert * Two soldiers fighting each other The story starts with two elephant poachers crossing the area in which Xixo's tribe lives. Curious about their vehicle, Xixo's son Xiri and daughter Xisa climb into the water tank trailer and are subsequently taken for an involuntary ride as the poachers continue. Xixo follows the truck on foot, determined to retrieve his children. A young lawyer named Ann Taylor arrives at a bush clinic to participate in a lecture. Since she has some spare time, she accepts the invitation by a young man to take a joy ride in his two-seat, twin engined ultralight aircraft. They go to see scientist Dr. Stephen Marshall, who exchanges places with the other pilot so he and Ann can continue on, but the plane crashes, stranding them both in the middle of the Kalahari desert. In addition, war is brewing, personified by a lost Cuban soldier (Mateo) and his Angolan enemy (Timi), who repeatedly attempt to take each other prisoner. In the course of the movie, all these people cross paths with Xixo and/or his children. Finally, the plot culminates in...
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...Sorzal is an importer and distributor of artifacts mainly from South America and South Africa, and of jewelry/pottery mainly from South-western India. The company has developed a reputation of being one of the most respected importers of these rare and authentic items. The company’s annual sales are twelve million and have been increasing at a constant rate of twenty percent per year over the last ten years. However, due to high levels of increased competition, profits have been deteriorating. Distribution is limited, as most of it is done by Sorzal itself in the form of firm-sponsored showings, and some specialty shops and exclusive department stores. Sorzal acts as a middle man, importing from suppliers and distributes to dealers. Dealers are starting to change their purchasing strategy and have begun buying directly from suppliers, eliminating Sorzal from the picture. Sorzal has been offered a contract by a mass-merchandise department store that obligates Sorzal to triple replica production, but would obtain an estimated one million in sales. The decision is whether to accept the offer, considering external competitive factors in the market and any potential negative effect on Sorzal’s reputation. Sorzal’s strengths lie within their products, as the company prides itself in providing its customers with authentic artifacts and replicas that are produced scrupulously in order to ensure that only an expert buyer, such as a collector, would be able to recognize that they are replicas...
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...My family and I pack into the van and get ready for the long ride ahead. It was in the middle of July of 2012. The heat was almost unbearable. At Least to me, I have never been in one hundred degree weather before. Nothing compares to the heat in the middle of Africa. My dad drives while my mom sits in the front seat. My sister and brother in law sit in the middle and my brother and I get stuck sitting in the back. We leave the gate and on our way to the orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan. After about an hour of driving on paved roads and going through the heavily trafficked city of Gulu, we reached the dirt road. It was the bumpiest and most brutal road I have ever been on. The potholes were ten feet deep and filled with water. Cars and trucks were stranded and broken down along the road. Semis have been turned over on their side. We finally reached the border of South Sudan after a long six hours on the bumpy and treacherous road. We continued on our way to the orphanage, and in about thirty minutes, we made it to the small town of Nimule. The town was made out of tattered shacks and slums. There were no big houses or apartments like you would see if you lived in the United States. The road was not even paved, it was...
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...are transmitted from generation to generation. Values are things that are important to you; the most deeply felt beliefs shared by a cultural group. They reflect a shared perception of what ought to be and not what is. (Martin & Nakayama) The relationship between values and behaviors of a culture is that they are intertwined. Ones values and behavior is influenced by their culture in some way if not all. The culture also influences your communication in which determines how you communicate what values are important to you. I would identify myself as a part of the African American culture within the dirty south. I say dirty south because through a bit a traveling, I have found that African Americans in the north, east, or west parts of America are a little different than me. Within my culture as an African American, I identify as a woman, minority, Christian, middle class, a democrat, and a single parent. I wouldn’t say that I fit into the mainstream culture because when I think of mainstream I think of what’s popular and I consider myself mutual because I can always see or find a way to agree with someone else side of the story or point of view. Personally I value family, friendship, and respect of others and individuals. Some values that I might share with the mainstream society are education, determination, and security. I say this because although receiving and using your education throughout life has always been a norm for me in my family it is now a part of the mainstream...
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...Global Economics January 2012 The World in 2050 From the Top 30 to the Top 100 A new economic world order is emerging at extraordinary speed. This publication broadens our list of the world’s top 30 economies to the top 100. The underlying theme is that the economies we currently call “emerging” are going to power global growth over the next four decades. Our update tells the story of the emergence of parts of Africa, the rise of some of the central Asian republics, as well as some startling advances for countries such as the Philippines and Peru. By Karen Ward Disclosures and Disclaimer This report must be read with the disclosures and analyst certifications in the Disclosure appendix, and with the Disclaimer, which forms part of it Economics Global 11 January 2012 abc From the Top 30 to the Top 100 Attention will increasingly turn to the ‘new emergers’ as the world economy undergoes a seismic shift Demographics to play a crucial role, helping parts of Africa finally emerge from economic obscurity When we published ‘The World in 2050’ a year ago (4 January 2011), we gave a projection for the Top 30 economies by size in 2050 from a pool of the largest 40 economies today. This update casts a wider net and seeks to identify the Top 100 economies by size. A larger universe increases competition for the Top 30 and allows us to consider the ‘new emergers’ in the coming decades. Our ranking is based on an economy’s current level of development and...
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...based in Dearborn, Michigan, manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 164,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company’s automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asian Pacific, and the Middle East) The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. Ford is also focused on accelerating the development of new products that customers want and value. From fun-to-drive, fuel-efficient cars all the way to versatile, capable utility vehicles and tough, durable trucks that work harder and last longer, Ford offers a full line of high-quality products with global appeal. The price of a new Ford vehicle is all over the place, with the lowest base model price is about $13,500, the Ford Focus, and the most expensive base model price is about $95,000, Ford GT. Those prices are without any discounts, grants, or taxes. They also do not include any special features; the price is set on the base model. Ford was founded in June 16, 1903 by Henry Ford. Their mission statement is “to deliver great products, create a strong business and make the world a better place.” For has been around for 109 years, they have stuck to their mission statement and they have stuck to their core values, which are as followed; Integrity- “We conduct our business with fairness, honesty and transparency so that we can at all times stand public scrutiny. We will never undermine the heritage of trust that...
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...to go in and buy bagels. As we continued to walk down the isle where the bagels were, one green slime monster jumped out and started talking to me and he was distracting me while some others killed Gabe. Once I realized what happened, the others tried to attack me and as I was running away, I saw my friend Christopher so I ran up to him and tried to have him help me escape and as I started talking, he turned into a slime monster and shot a gun and right before the bullet hit me, I woke up. Dream: During my dream I was walking through a grocery store in South Africa and my dad dropped from the ceiling and I was scared because I didn’t know who it was. That’s the only part of my dream I could remember. Dream: My dream was very random last night. I dreamt that my friends dad thought I was a hamster and that he called me a filthily animal and so I wasn’t allowed at their house anymore and after that we went to South Africa and when we got there the bus driver called me an animal and told me I looked like a hamster and then I walked into Joe’s bedroom and there was a hamster sitting on the bed, just like everyone had said. Then I turned...
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... | African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as many call it is a parasitic disease that can be contracted by either human or animals. The disease is transmitted by the tsetse fly which can be found all over Africa but the ones contaminated with the disease are found in region of sub-Saharan Africa. The disease has been said to have been in Africa since way back in the 14th century and one of the first epidemics that was recorded happened in 1901 in which a "devastating epidemic had erupted in Uganda, killing more than 250,000 people, about two-thirds of the population in the affected lake-shore areas" (CDC). According to the World Health Organization the disease covers 36 countries and 60 million people. The majority of the affected population live in remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa with little access to health care clinics which is why in these rural area the disease often goes untreated and misdiagnosed. The distribution of African trypanosomiasis is related to where the Tsetse fly lives which happens to be many parts of Africa. Not all species of Tsetse flies transmit the disease and there is no explanation of why...
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...the drivers of Turkey’s long-run prospects (World Bank, 2010). Turkey’s high degree of integration with the world economy, through both trade and financial channels, resulted in the country becoming vulnerable to the impact of the global recession, with the economy contracting by 4.7% in 2009. That being said, the economy has now recovered to pre-crisis levels with growth reaching 7% in 2010, shown to be a larger growth than almost all European counterparts. Despite the economic and political expansion in the last 10 years, Turkey’s battle with corruption, unemployment, income inequalities, and the Kurdish problem have been risk factors for any business that considers investing. According to corruption rankings, Turkey was ranked below South Africa, and tied for a spot with Cuba (Transparency International, 2010). Sociopolitical Structure Turkey is a parliamentary democracy with a free market economy. Since legal reforms instituted in 1926, Turkey's judicial system has been based on the Swiss Civil Code, the Italian Penal Code, and the Neuchâtel (Swiss) Code of Civil Procedure. The 1982 Constitution guarantees judicial independence, and prohibits any government agency or individual from interfering with the operations of the courts and judges (Country Studies, 2010). The presence and the systematic implementation of these laws create an open path for Foreign Direct Investments; the intellectual property rights are also in favor of the proprietor. Despite a volatile past that...
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...Global Employment Trends 2012 Preventing a deeper jobs crisis INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE • GENEVA Copyright © International Labour Organization 2012 First published 2012 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condition that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation, application should be made to ILO Publications (Rights and Permissions), International Labour Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, or by email: pubdroit@ilo.org. The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. Libraries, institutions and other users registered with reproduction rights organizations may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. Visit www.ifrro.org to find the reproduction rights organization in your country. Global Employment Trends 2012 / International Labour Office – Geneva: ILO, 2012 1 v. ISBN 978-92-2-124924-5 (print) ISBN 978-92-2-124925-2 (web pdf) International Labour Office employment / unemployment / labour force participation / economic recession / developed countries / developing countries 13.01.3 Also available in French, Tendances mondiales de l’emploi 2012 (978-92-2-224924-4), Geneva, 2012, and Spanish, Tendencias Mundiales del Empleo 2012 (978-92-2-324924-3), Geneva, 2012. ILO Cataloguing in Publication Data The designations employed...
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...Sickle cell anemia is a disease in which the body’s red blood cells become misshapen. The red blood cells, which are normally round with a small indentation in the middle, become hard and crescent-shaped. They can’t fit through the small blood vessels and get stuck in the capillaries and block the blood flow. Oxygenated blood cannot get to the tissues, and this causes severe pain and in some cases, death of the tissues. Prolonged oxygen deprivation can even cause death, depending on the tissue affected, and many victims of sickle cell anemia have a shorter lifespan than people with normal blood cells. Although sickle cell anemia as many symptoms, the most common sign of the disease is severe pain. The pain can be anywhere in the body but is often present in the back and stomach and occurs in episodes. These episodes are called sickling crises. To people who aren’t familiar with sickle cell anemia, the pain of the disease can be confused with ordinary stomach aches or back pain. Normal blood cells live about 120 days, or four months, but since the sickle cells are weak and fragile, they die after only ten or twenty days. This leads to a chronic deficiency in red blood cells. The hands and feet of a sickle cell anemia victim may become swollen due to sickled cells blocking blood flow out of them. Although less common, other symptoms of sickle cell anemia include frequent infections, vision problems, and delayed growth. More severe symptoms may include temporary or permanent...
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...was killing people in the millions. The green revolution changed agriculture everywhere and hybrid seeds introduced new way to cultivate faster growing food putting those who can afford the hybrid seeds in an advantage. GMOs also have the potential to help humanity eradicate hunger and famine by helping decrease the cost of production of crops. Hunger and famine are usually caused by combination of natural and physical conditions, but, primarily it is due to drought. There are some other causes of famine and hunger connected to politics and government apprehending’s farmers yields to distribute within the country, but it is mainly due to drought. So, the spatial distribution of famine would be third world countries like sub Saharan Africa or middle east, who have difficulty growing food due to natural phenomenon like droughts. These countries exist in an environment that has difficulty growing crops and securing food so natural phenomenon like a drought would have huge consequences and decrease the already minimal food available. These countries who are not able to grow their own food would get assistance from other countries and help them get through their difficult time. One of the things that made the green revolution possible were hybrid seeds which resemble GM crops but, are different in many ways. The main difference between hybrid seeds and GMOs is how they are produced and what they contain. Hybrids seeds are made though natural cases while GMO are made in a lab using...
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...Even their most ardent supporters now concede that growth has been below expectations in Latin America (and the “transition crisis” deeper and more sustained than expected in former socialist economies). “is that there is no unique universal set of rules…. [W]e need to get away from formulae and the search for elusive ‘best practices’….” (p. xiii).4 The record - RESULTS Here is how Learning from Reform summarizes the surprises of the 1990s. First, there was an unexpectedly deep and prolonged collapse in output in countries making the transition from communism to market economies. More than a decade into the transition, many countries had still not caught up to their 1990 levels of output. Second, Sub-Saharan Africa failed to take off, despite significant policy reform, improvements in the political and external environments, and continued foreign aid. The successes were few—with Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique the most commonly cited instances—and remained fragile more than a decade later. Third, there were frequent and painful financial crises in Latin America, East Asia, Russia, and Turkey. Most had remained unpredicted by financial markets and economists until capital flows started to reverse very suddenly. Fourth, the Latin American recovery in the first half of the 1990s proved short-lived. The 1990s as a whole saw less growth in Latin America in per-capita GDP than in 1950-80, despite the dismantling of the state-led, populist, and protectionist policy regimes...
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...the shift away from branded food and beverages towards cheap non-branded foods and beverages. Nevertheless, the introduction of non-brand own labelled products such as Food Lion offers only makes sense in a large scale in order to achieve economies of scale. As a result of increasing non-brand cheap products offered by rivals, Nestle find itself in an even more embattled market and needs to develop a new strategy either away from branding or towards a higher degree of international market penetration. Since Nestle stands for high quality and has distinctive competencies in producing higher quality food, it would not make sense to change the strategic group, because it would most likely get stuck in the middle. The right strategy is to expand into new markets such as Asia, Eastern Europe and South America. Logically, in these markets the consumer behaviour, macroeconomic environment and cultural habits are different in contrast to western economies....
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