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As the field of solid waste management becomes more developed and specialized, the categories into which solid waste is sorted and managed become more numerous. Yard waste—often called vegetative waste—includes leaves, gras...
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Mary Alexander Yard (born ca. 1912) was a feminist, a political organizer, and a social activist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), 1987-1991. Mary Alexander Yard, who preferred to be called Molly, was b...
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The backbone of the rock band The Yardbirds consisted of vocalist Keith Relf, rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith, and drummer Jim McCarty. However, they were most famous for their succession of luminary lead guitarist...
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Yasser Arafat (born 1929) was elected chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. Though originally an advocate of all-out guerrilla war, from 1974 on he and the PLO sometimes seemed to be seeking a negotiated resolu...
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Nakasone Yasuhiro (born 1918) was a Japanese politician who helped rebuild pride in the nation and in Japan's world role. He was active in the Liberal Democratic Party for over 30 years before becoming prime minister in 1982. He served an ...
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Minoru Yasui (1917-1987) was a lawyer who fought for the civil rights of Japanese Americans during World War II, most notably he argued about the unconstitutionality of the internment camps. During the early 1900s, many Japanese people mov...
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Often called the most "Japanese" of Japanese directors, Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) created films about middle-class Japanese life and familial relationships with simplicity and austerity. Known for keeping the camera three feet off the groun...
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Yasukuni Shrine is a major Shinto shrine in Japan honoring the dead of the Imperial Japanese Army from the Sino-Japanese War (1899) to World War II. Established in 1869 in Kudanshita in Tokyo, the shrine encompasses gardens, a shrine, and ...
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Japanese mathematician who pioneered new computer methods for calculating the value of π to unprecedented levels of precision. Prior to Kanada's work,π had been calculated to 2,037 places using computers while, calcula...
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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899, into a cultured family, his...
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Yasuoka Shotaro was born 30 May 1920 in Kochi City on the island of Shikoku. Family tradition held, however, that he had been born a month or so earlier, and although Kochi continues to be identified as his hometown, Yasuoka has never spen...
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As a cosmopolitan man of letters, Inoue Yasushi established a reputation as a poet, journalist, and fiction writer, although he is best known as a novelist. He was a major introducer and interpreter of the Silk Road phenomenon in Japan, an...
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J. Michael Yates is one of Canada's most prolific and most determinedly experimental writers. He has written in many forms and has been active in publishing, broadcasting, editing, photography, reviewing, and translation. He has traveled w...
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The fiction of Chinese American poet and art critic John Yau is best understood as the transformation of a personal dilemma into a formal imperative; that is, his experience of feeling outside both his own ancestry and the American culture...
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Peyo Yavorov is generally considered one of the finest poetic talents of the turn of the century in Bulgaria. Although a prominent member of the Misul group, an intellectual circle of writers and thinkers gathered about Krustyo Krustev's j...
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The yawn reflex (pandiculation) is not a classical neural reflex arc, but rather a coordinated neural and muscular arousal reflex mediated by the brain stem. A yawn is a sequence of events that begins with a deep inspiration of air and end...
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Yaws is a chronic illness that first affects the skin, and later the bones. Yaws tends to strike children, particularly between the ages of two and five. It is common in areas where poverty and overcrowding interfere with good hygiene. It ...
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The Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE to 300 CE) saw the introduction of a full-scale agricultural economy into the islands of Japan. This economy was initially associated with immigration from the Korean Peninsula. Population growth among early Ya...
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YAZATAS. The term yazata occurs in the Avesta, the collection of sacred books of Zoroastrianism, as an attribute or designation of divine beings. From this term is derived the Middle Persian yazd ("god"; pl., yazdān). ...
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Astronomers define a planet's sidereal year as the time the planet requires to make a complete orbit around the Sun. A definition more relevant to humans is the time required for the seasons to complete one cycle, that is, the time ...
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The millennium bug refers to the existence in many computer software packages of a six-digit date rather than an eight-digit date. Computers speak the language of mathematics. Every question posed to a computer program is answered either &...
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Writing to some can be a daunting and foreboding challenge that highlights their inadequacies and stops them before they even start. To others writing can be a pleasurable escape, a vacation into a reality that they can shape and create as ...
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The word alphabet can be defined as a set of letters or symbols that was created for written language. There are two main characteristics of an alphabet. The first characteristic is letters. "Letter is a mark or character used as the repres...
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Cognition is the process of knowing. It encompasses all experiences of consciousness by which knowledge is acquired, as distinguished from experiences of feeling or willing. These experiences include the processes of perceiving, recognizin...
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All Apologies was part of Nirvana's 1993 album In Utero, which was the last album the group recorded as a band. Nirvana introduced the world to the dense, abrasive sound called grunge while adding their own hooks and melodic felicity of ...
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Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua...
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Jody, in The Yearling, learns that maturity means accepting difficult choices and facing reality through losing his best friend, his pet fawn, and running away from home. The first challenge Jody Baxter faced was the death of his best fri...
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Introduction This first part of this module, Effective classroom focus on instruction design. I have learnt various methods to plan, resource, implement, analyze and evaluate teaching. I also recognize the importance of planning in classr...
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