mile island the land gleans with lush foliage, rippling blue waters, majestic mountains and native animals. All of these attributes contribute to Add-a-Lands unique surroundings. Add-a-Land, is located near the equator. This tropical rain forest is sunny, hot and humid year round. The temperature never drops below 80 degrees. However, since it is so hot and there is high humidity Add-a-Land does receive mass amounts of rain during its rainy season. The rainy season begins in early December
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Social entrepreneurship through forest bio residue briquetting Contents 1. The social problem and the opportunity 4 2. Mission, vision and values 7 3. Our solution (strategy and business model) 9 4. The entrepreneurial team 15 5. Human resources 16 6. Context 18 7. Scaling strategy 20 8. Impact measurement 22 9. Risks 25 10. Financial Plan 28 Bibliography 29 Figure 1. Exposure of the population to natural disasters 4 Figure 2. Lean canvas 8 Figure 3
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Internet Assignment 1 New Zealand Forest Resources New Zealand is a widely diverse ecoregion which is made up of 7 contiguous ecoregions. These regions are spread over 170,000 sq. km (or, 65,500 sq. miles). With only 5 major temperate rainforests in the world, the temperate forests of the South Island of New Zealand are some of the largest areas of native vegetation in the country. The New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) belongs to the ancient conifer family, Araucariaceae, one of the largest
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The information presented so far in Thomas M. Kostigen’s You Are Here has been informative and eye opening. Before we started the book my assumption was that it was going to be “mostly exaggerated propaganda” but the book has yet to read that way. Kostigen delivers the information in a “reasonably and objective way” that the book is an entertaining read while being informative and educational as well. He achieves that through the use of describing his personal experiences, evidence based facts, quotes
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Paper Outline Abstract: In “The art of not being governed”, James Scott uses the example of the hill people living in the mountain region of Zomia and argued that instead of being primitive form of living, barbarians, or human beings leftover from pre-state era, these hill people deliberately move to inaccessible region to avoid state control. Scott states that the inaccessibility of the hills make them natural escape routes that can be used to avoid the sovereignty of state government. Scott
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102 October 9th, 2012 Hills Like White Elephants Research Paper Despite the multiple critques of "Hills like White Elephants" I will briefly touch on a few. Several reviews elude the imagery and symbolism of the tale. Instead of list each critique in some haphazard bullet list we'll review the three points that were repeated and most obvious. The while elephant is the most prolific revolving theme of the story. Jig tells her boyfriend the hills look like white elepants
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vegetation of a forest, as I realised the changes Kent Ridge forest had undergone due to man’s actions. Kent Ridge was originally a lowland evergreen rainforest, specifically a coastal hill dipterocarp forest. (H.T.W. Tan et al.). Such forests were the most common in areas with year-long moisture and well-drained soils, as found in Singapore. (R.J Morley). Such forests are dense, and lack ground plant growth. They also have a higher diversity of flora and fauna as compared to other forest types. Due to
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The artwork I chose to analyze is Young Corn by Grant Wood. I really like how serene it looks. The rolling hills bring about a sense of calmness. The subject of this work seems to be farming and the rolling hills. You can tell it has to do with farming because of what looks like crops are planted and that the three people may be picking crops. Wood uses many forms of visual elements in this painting. One element is the use of lines. Lines are used to create boundaries between each piece of land
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Venezuela’s past. However, The rich center of the city is surrounded by both economic and personal despair. Picture D illustrates a mature squatter settlement on the hills surrounding the city. The poor have settled here informally and illegally, forming their own economic and support system, on the less-desired land in the hills surrounding the city. These squatter settlements are so dangerous that they have resulted in Caracas’s standing as the murder capital of the world, with the highest per
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will be faced with many tasks more than we can bear; challenges like working to support ourselves, raising children in addition to the course workloads may be very daunting and impossible and many may give up their dreams. But always remember the hills ahead are never as steep as they seem and with faith in our hearts and believe in ourselves we can climb until we reach our dreams. I remembered when my husband was preparing for pharmacy school he was a fulltime student, working for 12 hours a
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