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Contributions to world civilization
- You've probably seen Star Wars, ET, Home Alone, Casablanca,
and Snow White. If you're under forty, add Blazing Saddles,Terminator, Jaws, and 2001; otherwise, add Gone with the Wind, A
Night at the Opera, Psycho, and Citizen Kane.
- You know the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elvis,
Michael Jackson, Simon&Garfunkel.
- You count on excellent medical treatment. You know you're not
going to die of cholera or other Third World diseases. You expectvery strong measures to be taken to save very ill babies or people
in their eighties. You think dying at 65 would be a tragedy.
- Your country has never been conquered by a foreign
nation.
- You're used to a wide variety of choices for almost anything
you buy.
- You still measure things in feet, pounds, and gallons.
- You are not a farmer.
- The people who appear on the most popular talk shows are
mostly entertainers, politicians, or rather strange individuals.Certainly not, say, authors.
- You drive on the right side of the road. You stop at red
lights even if nobody's around. If you're a pedestrian and cars arestopped at a red light, you will fearlessly cross the street in
front of them.
- You think of Canada as a pleasant, peaceful, but rather dull
country.
- You consider the Volkswagen Beetle to be a small car.
- The police are armed, but not with submachine guns.
- If a woman is plumper than the average, it doesn't improve
her looks.
- The biggest meal of the day is in the evening.
- There's parts of the city you definitely want to avoid at
night.
- You feel that your kind of people aren't being listened to
enough in Washington.
- You wouldn't expect both inflation and unemployment to be
very high (say, over 15%) at the same time.
- You don't care very much what family someone comes
from.
- The normal thing, when a couple dies, is for their estate to
be divided equally among their children.
- You think of opera and ballet as rather elite entertainments.
It's likely you don't see that many plays, either.
- Christmas is in the winter. You spend it with your family,
give presents, and putup a tree.
- You may think the church is too powerful, or the state is;
but you are used to not having a state church and don't think thatit would be a good idea.
- You'd be hard pressed to name the capitals or the leaders of
all the nations of Europe.
- Taxis are generally operated by foreigners, who are often
ignorant about the city.
- You are distrustful of welfare and unemployment payments--
you think people should earn a living and not take handouts. Butyou would not be in favor of eliminating Social Security and
Medicare.
- If you want to be a doctor, you need to get a bachelor's
first.
- There sure are a lot of lawyers.
Space and time
- If you have an appointment, you'll mutter an excuse if you're
five minutes late, and apologize profusely if it's ten minutes. Anhour late is almost inexcusable.
- If you're talking to someone, you get uncomfortable if they
approach closer than about two feet.
- About the only things you expect to bargain for are houses,
cars, and antiques.
- Once you're past college, you very rarely simply show up at
someone's place. People have to invite each other over-- especiallyif a meal is involved.
- When you negotiate, you are polite, of course, but it's only
good business to 'play hardball'. Some foreigners pay excessiveattention to status, or don't say what they mean, and that's
exasperating.
- If you have a business appointment or interview with someone,
you expect to have that person to yourself, and the businessshouldn't take more than an hour or so.
Questions & Answers
the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environments
AI-Robot
HOW CAN MAN ORGAN FUNCTION
the diagram of the digestive system
allimentary cannel
Ogenrwot
They formed in two ways first when one sperm and one egg are splited by mitosis or two sperm and two eggs join together
Oluwatobi
Genetics is the study of heredity
Misack
how does twins formed?
Misack
discuss biological phenomenon and provide pieces of evidence to show that it was responsible for the formation of eukaryotic organelles
the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environment.
Wine
discuss the biological phenomenon and provide pieces of evidence to show that it was responsible for the formation of eukaryotic organelles in an essay form
list any five characteristics of the blood cells
Shaker
lack electricity and its more savely than electronic microscope because its naturally by using of light
advantage of electronic microscope is easily and clearly while disadvantage is dangerous because its electronic. advantage of light microscope is savely and naturally by sun while disadvantage is not easily,means its not sharp and not clear
Abdullahi
cell theory state that every organisms composed of one or more cell,cell is the basic unit of life
Abdullahi
is like gone fail us
DENG
cells is the basic structure and functions of all living things
Ramadan
is organisms that are similar into groups called tara
Yamosa
in what situation (s) would be the use of a scanning electron microscope be ideal and why?
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is ideal for situations requiring high-resolution imaging of surfaces. It is commonly used in materials science, biology, and geology to examine the topography and composition of samples at a nanoscale level. SEM is particularly useful for studying fine details,
Hilary
cell is the building block of life.
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OpenStax, Cultural studies. OpenStax CNX. Jul 13, 2006 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10365/1.1
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