Essays Tagged: "Domestication"

Title: Evolution of wheat Author: Alan Platner

The Domestication of WheatTen thousand years ago as the gigantic glaciers of the last ice age (Pleistoce ... just by itself. This refining of the plant continued over thousands of years, ever improving it.The domestication of wheat and other plants help form civilization as we know it. It provoked advancemen ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

The Cult of True Womanhood

n. Women were also expected to have four main cardinal virtues - piety, purity, submissiveness, and domestication. Piety is, basically, grace. Women were to expected to always be dainty and lovely. Pu ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

World Domestication.

s domesticating them and finally discovering the long and arduous road to domesticating himself.The domestication of land led to the rise of agriculture. People began farming and breeding animals inst ... of private property.The domestiction of land and animals certainly led to the begining of man's own domestication, but it took man's realization of his potential for him to attempt to finally domestic ...

(3 pages) 45 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Agricultural Revoltion.

Early Effects of the Agricultural Revolution.During the beginning stages of domestication humans had just begun to understand the process of cultivating plants and the domestic ... fe during the stage of Diversification in my opinion was a natural evolution from what the stage of domestication had started. In this new stage humans developed irrigation and food storage capabiliti ... of the agricultural revolution led to the stage that we are currently in, and it all came from the domestication of animals and the cultivation of crops.

(2 pages) 93 1 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

To foreignize or to domesticate

as possible,and moves the author towards him" (Venuti, 1995: 19-20).The terms "foreignization" and "domestication" may be new to the Chinese,but the concepts they carry have been at least for a centur ... of translation. To sum up, intranslation practice, there is no foreignization without some degree ofdomestication, by the same token, there is no domestication without somedegree of foreignization.Ref ...

(13 pages) 93 0 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Examine the ways in which Shakespeare presents issues connected with marriage and male/female relationships in the play The Taming of the Shrew.

rca 1593). Shakespeare presents contemporary issues pertaining to those issues by utilising themes (domestication), centralising the importance of marriage to create tension, depicting marriage as a f ... icting marriage as a financial institution and using symbolism to convey abstract ideas.The idea of domestication or 'taming' is evident right through the play, beginning with the title. Katherine is ...

(3 pages) 43 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

History of Ostriches and The Australian Industry

d to ostriches becoming an endangered and in 1870 people began to turn to a new way of saving them, domestication. The first ostrich farms had been established in South Africa in 1863 and a few decade ...

(4 pages) 46 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Comparison and contrast of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley

.The economy of Mesopotamia was mainly agricultural, but also included wool, hair, and leather. The domestication of animals, painting of pottery, and most importantly, agriculture spread to Greece fr ...

(6 pages) 63 1 3.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Was the Neolithic Revolution inevitable?

extinct, or not evolved into what we are today. An important change during this revolution was the domestication of plants and animals. Without this vital factor of life if homo-sapiens still existed ... olithic Revolution was inevitable as it was required for the survival of our ancestors. Without the domestication of food and animals our species would've been lucky to survive for the next hundred ye ...

(1 pages) 37 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

The growth of the West Legon Boulevard and its effect on the provision of services.

Later, two major technological changes turned the nomads into sedentary farmers. The first was the domestication of livestock (sheep, goats, and cattle). And the second was the cultivation of cereals ...

(7 pages) 26 0 4.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies

The GMO Debate: Controversies Surrounding Recombinant Gene Technology and Attitudes of the British Public.

estock has a longstanding history. Genetic modification of plants and animals was practiced through domestication and controlled breeding long before the heritability of traits and the role of DNA was ...

(15 pages) 122 0 2.5 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Describe the representation of women within a serial televisual text. What are the implications for feminist discourse?

Soaps often portray women through the construction of specific gendered identities revolving around domestication and objectification or, in opposition, social liberation and economic independence. Ho ...

(6 pages) 73 0 3.3 Jun/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Beef: Cooking And Handling

Beef The domestication of cattle for food dates to about 6500 B.C. in the Middle East. Cattle were not native ...

(6 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

World History

, sheep, and horses; all very useful domesticated animals, which aided advancements in agricultural domestication. America could not expand as quickly because they only had llamas, Chihuahuas, and tur ... eet their protein needs.>>> Eurasia expanded and grew, because they had leisure time since domestication was quick, and they used the extra time to work on other skills such as black smiting, ...

(1 pages) 42 3 2.4 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Global 1 and 2 Review

that would effect what type of food the people eat, the cultivation of certain types of vegetation, domestication of what animals, the trading with which locations, influence of water transport, and m ... t is meat would be the responsibility of the males to hunt the animals without using the process of domestication. The females would be in charge of gathering vegetation from the wild.· The soc ...

(38 pages) 129 0 0.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Martin McDonagh on the Hungarian Stage

n Budapest's Radnóti Színház (Radnóti Theatre) lacks any direct form of domestication.Therefore, through the analysis of both the play and the performance, we are going to ...

(62 pages) 9 0 0.0 Jun/2012

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Struggle in Vain

(3 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers