By the nineteenth century, the transfer of exotic plants and the search for wild plants that might be domesticated were activities that were becoming rationalized and organized and put at the service of industrial capitalism. ... Its applications multiplied and the exploitation of many wild rubber-bearing plants, including some that were soon discovered in Asia and Africa, was much intensified. ... No source of rubber comparable to the Hevea tree has been found in any other part of the world, although most of the world's rubber now comes from a variety of Hevea which is much more pro...

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Philoctetes, "the wild man", cut off from civilisation on Lemnos proves, paradoxically, to be, arguably, the most civilised: he is the recipient of the theophany, who alone sees the god and to whom the god's words are addressed. ... Philocetetes says as they are trying to drive him onto the ship, "are you going to herd me like a wild animal?... Heaney creates his own version: "oh ahhhhhhh8" and even refers to himself as being like an animal, "I know I look like a wild animal, don't let me scare you9". ... The polytopic hero is defined by animal im...

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Mistry counters the question by asking "Is it a gift? ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ... Another question arises when considering the two novels: does the expose of political corruption and tyranny during Indira Gandhi's tenure still hold that much interest? ...

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Mistry counters the question by asking "Is it a gift? ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ... Another question arises when considering the two novels: does the expose of political corruption and tyranny during Indira Gandhi's tenure still hold that much interest? ...

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The heated debate of democracy includes the differing views concerning the definition of democracy, controversy over the suitable form of democracy since there are different forms, lack of relevant cases where total democracy was implemented and there are questions on who sets down the agreed levels and standards of democracy as the yardstick which takes precedence over other forms of regimes. ... In his argument, he started with what he called the best regime which is aristocracy to the worst which is tyranny. ... Therefore this shows that there is nothing like teaching an old dog, new tricks...

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The countries in debt crises mainly used these credits, with the condition that they would carry out packet programs, which is called as stability or with more popular terms; structural adjustment. ... One of the studies covers the subject wholly is that of Racodi , who calls four basic capital types for coping with the overwhelming financial burden. ... Reducing or eliminating consumption items such as new clothes or 'luxury' food and drink, reducing the number of (cooked) meals per day and purchasing poorer quality or less food, buying cheaper and second-hand clothes, withdrawing ...

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Sowing the reader that he understands the contrast between the permanence of the bird song and the impermanence of human life, Keats then, with very abrupt change of mood and meaning, returns to his daily consciousness with questions that he directs at his reader. ... In Ode to a Nightingale, Keats is called back from the contemplation of his central image to recognise issues of time and transience in a mundane reality. ... To this extent, Keats's imagination runs wild; but his thoughts unrelentingly compel him to retract from his imagined ecstasy. ... This experience, which is both inten...

• Word Count: 2837
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The reality and the true face of globalisation Globalisation has spread like wild fire around the world since the 1990s and despite the so called benefits of globalisation that are mentioned by the advocates and promoters of globalisation, it is quite apparent that in reality globalisation is not working for everyone. ...

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This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. ... This equality of men by Nature, the judicious Hooker looks upon as so evident in itself, and beyond all question, that he makes it the foundation of that obligation to mutual love amongst men on which he builds the duties they owe one another, and from whence he derives the great maxims of justice and charity. ... But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence; though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not l...

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In the early 20th century, the Soviet Union began to experience a sweeping proletarian revolution, as well as rapid industrialization. This transition began reshaping the preceding social structure and firmly held beliefs of Russian culture as communism began to take root. Along with a transformatio...

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John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems is geared towards major questions about political philosophy. ... The reclamation of the Pontine marshes was imperative to the fascist party in Italy because one of the central symbols of the regime was to convert wild nature into productive nature. ... The New Dealers, as Garraty calls them in New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for their political beliefs and widened the influence of underprivileged elements in society. ...

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Capitalism leads to high unemployment, separation (what Marx's called alienation), and poverty. ... Although the industrial revolution leaves us with many questions, one can say it accomplished nothing less than a structural change in the economic organization of English and European society. ...

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The World Health Organization recommends this procedure, also called sharp curettage, only when MVA is unavailable. ... IDX is sometimes called "partial-birth abortion," which has been federally banned in the United States. ... For example, the question of a link between induced abortion and breast cancer has been investigated extensively. ...

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A master orator, not only was Hitler a charismatic speaker, but his public speaking was so passionate and dynamic that the crowds would be driven wild with enthusiasm of the ideas he preached. ... This exasperation meant that many people were more willing to listen to extremist party's who called for its over throw. ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...

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This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Here the...

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But now, instead of becoming a synonym for economic growth, development is seen more in rounded terms – which brings into consideration questions of distributive justice, human fulfillment and cultural identity. ...

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Said, using to his advantage the era of political-correctness, calls on scholars and authors from The Orient to demand equal influence for self-representation instead of continuing the cycle of an unbalanced dominance of Western-lead second-representation. ... There is no doubt that Loti presented Morocco as an extremely exotic, mysterious, wild country, and Loti even almost apologized in the story for his overuse of the adjective, ˜old', but said that it was justified since everything in Fez was just that. ... Continuing our focus on the interaction between France and Morocco, w...

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The post-war welfare state was a social construction that resulted from the complex, contested and fragile set of arrangements called "settlements" - the political, economic, social and organisational settlements. ... In the 1980s fifty pieces of legislation aimed at curtailing powers and responsibilities of local authorities were passed (Wilding, 1992, quoted in Lewis, 1998). ... Williams, F. (1996) "Postmodernism, feminism and the question of difference" in Parton, N. ...

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Finally, the environment of the nightclub in itself contributed to the "hip " feel of the production, both because it was not a traditional theatre space, and because the very nature of sitting in a club with hip hop music playing, and wild club-like lighting felt familiar to the young adults in attendance. ...

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