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of Chocolate: The earliest record of chocolate was over fifteen hundred years ago in the Central and South American rain forests, where the tropical mix of high rain fall combined with high temperatures and humidity provide the ideal climate for cultivation of the plant from which chocolate is derived, the Cacao Tree. The first people known to have made chocolate were the ancient cultures of Mexico and Central America. These people, including the Maya and Aztec, mixed the cacao seeds with

Bill Gates. The Road Ahead Chapter 1. The First Part of the Road. I wrote my first program for a computer when I was thirteen years old. A program tells a computer to do something. My program told the computer to play a game. This computer was very big and very slow. It didn't even have a computer screen. But I thought it was wonderful. I was just a kid, but the computer did everything I told it to do. And even today, that's what I love about computers. When I write a good program, it

These are the novel illustrations that were included in volume 1 * Front cover * Back cover * * * * * * * Page 043 * Page 057 * Page 092 * Page 124 * Page 132 * Page 145 * Page 197 * Page 242 * Page 299 * Page 319 A huge castle made of stone and steel floating in an endless sky. That was all this world was. It took a varied group of craftsmen one month to survey the place; the…

Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz * * * Anonymous has kept up its monthly protest, including this one from October 13, 2011, outside the Church of Scientology headquarters in downtown San Francisco. (Editor’s Note: Any decent coverage of Anonymous is going to verge on some NSFW material at points. There will be questionable language and strange imagery.) Last week the net and the media were ablaze with the news that Anonymous might be taking on the Zeta drug…

ATENTE-SE PARA A ORDEM DAS PALAVRAS: Em Português: Países Industrializados Em Inglês: Industrialized Countries Em Português: Um Jornal Diário Em Inglês: A Daily Paper NOMINAL GROUPS UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION ORGANIZAÇÃO DAS NAÇÕES UNIDAS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANIZAÇÃO MUNDIAL DE SAÚDE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND FUNDO MONETÁRIO INTERNACIONAL FAÇA OS EXERCÍCIOS DO ÍTEM 1.5 - NOMINAL GROUP TEXT ORGANIZATION OBSERVE OS COMPONENTES DA ORGANIZAÇAO TEXTUAL:…

AMERICAN LITERATURE II TOPIC 3 – ACTIVITY 3 (MANDATORY) The scene from the film “Crash”, by director Paul Haggis, shows a reality that still exists all over the world, in this case, in The United States, where the problem regarding racism is seen everyday in many different places. In the scene, we can notice that the woman, even without knowing better the man who was fixing the door of her house, refused to have the work done by him as soon as she knew that he was an…

a particular way: George became King at the age of 54. Vocabulary : Employee: countable someone who is paid to work for someone else [= worker]:a government employee Employer: countable a person, company, or organization that employs people: The shoe factory is the largest employer in this area. Employment: uncountable the condition of having a paid job: She was offered employment in the sales office. Meeting: countable an event at which people meet to discuss and decide…

Prostitution can be defined as the conscious exchange of sexual favors for interest’s not sentimental or emotional pleasure. Although prostitution often consists in an exchange relationship between sex and money, this is not a rule. You can trade sex for favors professional, material possessions (including money), for information, etc. Prostitution is practiced more commonly by women, but there are a large number of cases of male prostitution in various locations around the world.…

SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS The immediate trigger of the 2008 financial crisis that started on the United States was the bursting of the US housing bubble, which saw its peak from the years of 2005-2006. Incredibly high default rates on “subprime” and on “adjustable rate mortgages” began to increase immediately after. From 2004-2007, lenders began originating big amounts of high risk mortgages. A long term trend of housing prices and an increase in incentives such as easy initial terms…

aims to discuss the main causes of the contemporary conflict also identified as ‘new wars’ having as reference a region of choice. Having that in consideration, characteristics and consequences will be analysed and for a better understanding it will brought into light an overview over a case study, Rwanda. Contemporary conflicts or ‘new wars’, emerged as internal conflicts and not States wars more significantly since the end of the Cold War. It is estimated that one third of the…