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    In, the age of exploration, the Old World’s and the New World’s ideologies clashed. The Old World introduced their many advancements in technology with the indigenous nations. However, the explorers and settlers also introduced new weapons of mass destruction and many new diseases to the Natives. The Spanish and Portuguese were the first European powers to come to the New World. The Spanish came to modern day Central America and interacted with many of the indigenous tribes, including a tribe called

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    To what extent do you agree that The Tempest is a power struggle between the old and the new world? Shakespeare’s Plays II Assignment 1 Rocío Corral García 119042576 It is generally accepted that Shakespeare’s Play The Tempest is complex in many senses, but it cannot be denied that it is especially rich in terms of interpretation. A huge variety of critical analyses have been written about Shakespeare’s last play suggesting different possible approaches to it, such as human salvation, magic

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    In their short stories, both Gogol and Dostoyevsky give the reader a snapshot into the life of two different couples and in doing so, present marriage in a way that is perhaps peculiar and unflattering to a modern reader. To a contemporary reader, however, these short stories would have been much more relevant, as along with a large amount of other Russian literature at the time, these two short stories are taken from real-life experience, and therefore, anyone can relate to the characters; for example

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    Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old 1.Discuss critically the competitive advantages of New World wine producers and contrast these against their Old World competitors. The New World wine producers including Australia, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, and the United States have several strategic advantages over their Old World competitors. Most significant is how each of the wine producers in New World competitive economies are free to innovate, creating disruption and value creation that

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    a continental drift caused the Old and New worlds to split apart. It broke North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. This caused a lot of different evolutions of species such as the development of rattlesnakes on one side of the Atlantic and vipers on the other. Things were exchanged such as, plants, animals, and diseases between the new and old world. After 1492 when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean on a voyage he discovered the New world. In the old world there was wheat, barley, rice,

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    to other animals. Apes have a larger brain to body size ratio compared to monkeys. 7. Monkeys reside in South America and Apes live in Africa and Asia. 6. What is the difference between Old and New World monkeys? Old world monkeys live in Africa and Asia and New World Monkeys live in South America. New World Monkeys have flat

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    You are relaxing on a beautiful Island beach in the middle of the Caribbean. You’re reading your favorite book, and enjoying a nice fruity cocktail you bought from the bar. You set your drink down to turn the page, but when you reach back for another sip, your drink is mysteriously missing. Nobody else is in site, so where could it have gone? Then, you look towards the palm trees and in the distance you see a furry little critter scurrying on his hind legs indulging in your delicious cocktail. Now

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    detailed. I will do the best I can to be as detailed as I can be when designing this enclosure. First, to be able to design an enclosure, we must know a little about our species that will be in it. Well, the Mandrill is a type of primate of the Old World monkey family and are usually found in parts of South American, specifically Cameroon, Gabon, Guinea, and Congo (Wikipedia). The Mandrill is known for their colorful characteristics that vary in colors from blue to violet and also have a scarlet

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    Mandrill Morphology

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    Africa, (San Diego Balboa Zoo, Mandrill exhibit/plaques, 2018). The Mandrill Morphology: The mandrill has a distinct dental formula of 2:1:2:3, located on the maxilla and mandible, which categorizes this primate to be in the catarrhine parvorder. All Old World monkeys, apes, and humans share this very same 2.1.2.3 dental formula. They are well known for their enormous canine teeth, which can be over 2 inches, roughly 5 centimeters long. Each tooth is vital for the madrills survival, “the pointed canines

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    in the world today, with all of them being placed in two groups.They fall under either the new world primates who inhabit South and Central America, and the old world primates who populate Asia and Africa ( http://www.arkive.org/ ). The major difference between the two is that have tails of the new world primates can latch onto and clench tree branches and objects whereas the others cannot. Another difference is the opposable thumbs which the old world primates possess, and the new world monkeys

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