Cacao trees need a unique environment to grow. ... The cacao trees, which grow under the canopy of larger trees, must mature to five years old to produce the cacao fruit. ... However, all fermenting methods depend on removing the beans from the pods by splitting them with machetes, hammers or by hitting the pod against a tree, exposing a white, sugary pulp. ... Depending on the variety of the cacao bean, of which there are several, fermentation times vary from two to three days to five to seven days, depending on the type of Cacao tree the beans were harvested from. ... There are three species...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bean of the Environmental Defense Fund. ... Congress never appropriated enough to let the Fish and Wildlife Service make more than a small dent in what was supposed to be done', Bean says." ... One of the methods of evaluating public policy is to use a decision tree to make a cost/benefit analysis when the outcome of the act is unclear. ...

• Word Count: 1755
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Much of the cocoa beans harvested for -------- come from the rich soils of farms from Ivory Coast, Africa. ... Likewise, "[a]s president, Nkrumah took over the cocoa marketing board from the British and soon after attempted to create a cartel through which cocoa producers could collectively fix the price of the bean...the -------- archive reveals some of what the company did to crush the nascent African movement when it reared its head in the early 1960's"(Off 99). ...

• Word Count: 2438
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Human sacrifice was practiced to some extent by all of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica. Most historians believe that before the era of the Aztec empire in 1427, other cultural natives in Tenochtitlan practiced it, but only on a minor scale. The Aztecs were a culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sadly, many of the Aztecs didn't survive after the arrival of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, however, during the earlier years, the Aztec culture thrived because they became one of the most advanced civilizations due to their religi...

• Word Count: 2214
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This vegetation was altered by the Indians in other ways such as tree promotion and demotion, the creation and maintenance of prairies, and the creation of open- park- land or a mixture of forest and grassland caused by burning for agriculture by the Indians. ... They spread cultigens (squash corn, and beans), which opened fields around their villages, and later led to erosion. ...

• Word Count: 1623
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, I remember when I used to work as a construction worker back in Haiti, I used to observe some of my co-workers eat a bowl of rice with beans at 12p.m. and work an entire day and never be hungry. ...

• Word Count: 2389
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate