Archive for the 'education' Category

Online Education for Medical Assistants

Distance education is a field of education that focuses on the use of instructional systems designed to deliver education to students who are not physically on site of a school campus. Rather than attending courses in person, teachers and students may communicate at times of their own choosing by exchanging printed, electronic media or through […]

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You Don’t Need Wikipedia To Understand Some Basic Flower Terms

Dish gardens…corsages…tussie mussies…the language of the floral industry can be really confusing for those who aren’t familiar with it. Sometimes it can make you feel like you need to log in to Wikipedia and look it all up before you can place an order. Don’t start clicking yet, though-it’s not as difficult as it might […]

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Cultural Crossings: 10,000 Years of Memories

The First Nations - literally, the first peoples here - likely began settling in Alberta as early as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, after the glaciers that helped carve the Rocky Mountains and the prairies finally receded. In the south, peoples such as the Blackfoot, Blood and Peigan hunted the bison that in the early […]

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History Of Green Tea

Green tea has a history that dates back thousands of years. Although this particular type of tea is only now gaining major notoriety in the West, it has been known to the Chinese and Japanese for centuries. This type of tea is less heavily processed than its counterpart made from the same leaves, but despite […]

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Impacts On China - Green Tea And The Global Trade

5/19/2008 9:48PM China’s love affair with green tea is believed to have begun thousands of years ago. It took centuries for the Chinese to share this secret with their neighbors in Japan and even longer for the country to begin exporting this bountiful crop to destinations all over the world. As China’s second biggest export […]

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Time Keeping and Weather Predictions

These days, when we want to know what the weather is going to be like, most of us listen to the radio or turn on the TV - in most cases, we don’t even need to wait for the weather report on the news; we simply turn to a network that focuses only on providing […]

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Greenwich Mean Time: What Is It and Why It Matters

For some people, time is simply the standard by which we hope to get to where we are supposed to be. We set an alarm to get us up in the morning; we rush out the door to be to work on time and then watch as the hours pass before we get to go […]

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