-
Directly Or Indirectly Carbon Dioxide
1,155 wordsAn ecosystem is the complex of living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit of space. The principles underlying the study of ecosystems are based on the view that all the elements of a life-supporting environment of any size, whether natural or man-made, are parts of an integral network in which each element interacts directly or indirectly with all others and affects the function of the whole. All ecosystems are contained within the largest...
Free research essays on topics related to: carbon dioxide, living organisms, organic matter, food chains, directly or indirectly -
Puget Sound Heavy Metals
572 wordsIndustry's Toxic Chemical Water Pollution Shipyards, oil refineries, and pulp and paper mills put the health of Puget Sound at risk by not fully meeting their responsibility to control the toxic chemical pollution they generate, according to a detailed report by People For Puget Sound based on the environmental records of 31 facilities. We prepared the report as the result of an eight-month study of the permit system that regulates industrial toxic discharges into waterways. Some facilities are ...
Free research essays on topics related to: heavy metals, executive summary, oil refineries, toxic, puget sound -
Animals Human Ancestors
465 wordsDr. Shepard was a Professor of Natural Philosophy and Human Ecology and wrote a number of books on our complex relationships with the earth and her other inhabitants. Paul Shepard's book, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human is an eye-opening look into our relationship with animals. In The Others, Dr. Shepard's focus is on the topic of domesticating animals. Originally our relationship with other species was simple. Either we ate that species, or we were eaten by it. Simplistic as it sounds, th...
Free research essays on topics related to: eaten, ancestors, pathway, ecology, neuro -
Worlds Population Hudson Bay
1,051 wordsSince more than 70 % of the Earth is covered with water, one would assume that there is enough water for everyone. However, this statement would be incorrect. Only 3 % of that water is considered usable and 2 % of the usable water is locked in the polar ice caps. This leaves 1 % of that water for the use of humans. Canada possesses a substantial amount of this water, while other countries are less fortunate. One of these countries is the United States of America, the biggest users of water in th...
Free research essays on topics related to: unemployment rate, hudson bay, worlds population, economic opportunities, fresh water -
Increasing Returns Diminishing Returns
1,283 words... and most popular in a market, such as DOSs, can only last as long as a particular wave lasts. So, we can usefully think of two economic regimes or worlds: a bulk-production world yielding products that essentially are based on resources with a little knowledge and operating according to Marshalls principles of diminishing returns, and a knowledge-based part of the economy yielding products that essentially are based on knowledge with a little resources and operating under increasing returns....
Free research essays on topics related to: knowledge based, returns, service industries, increasing returns, diminishing returns -
Susan Faludi Jay Belsky Childcare
863 wordsKids are crawling around in the dirt, screaming, and have not yet had their diapers changed because the day care provider seems to be in a trance watching the latest episode of the Montel Williams show. One of the workers strikes a child because she wont stop crying about how hungry she is. The other worker just sits in her chair drinking Jack Daniels with a little Coke mixed in. Not all is well at the Wee World Child Center. But is this the impression that the public perceives of our daycare sy...
Free research essays on topics related to: faludi, day care, susan, daycare, childcare -
Hydrothermal Vents Woods Hole Cavanaugh
396 wordsDr. Cavanaugh is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Cavanaugh's research focuses on the ecology and evolution of bacteria, with special emphasis on symbiotic bacteria, which is associated with marine invertebrates that inhabit deep-sea hydrothermal vents and shallow reducing sediments. Cavanaugh's studies showed the major macro fauna at hydrothermal vents studied to date host symbiotic, chemosynthetic bacteria. These bacteria us...
Free research essays on topics related to: hydrothermal vents, ecology, bacteria, marine, biology -
Technological Progress Species Diversity
1,197 wordsBiogeography Island Biogeography has been of great interest for geographers. The theory is closely connected with the theory of evolution developed by Darwin. Oceanic islands are isolated areas. They are limited in territory to examine the processes which are too complex to implement them in the mainland areas. Island Biogeography attempts to identify the factors which influence the diversity of species of a particular community. Islands are unique in their nature. They are isolated areas. The e...
Free research essays on topics related to: harvard university, technological progress, princeton university, species diversity, robert h -
Science Daily Hot Spots
622 wordsReport on Biology We all know that first life forms appeared in water. Water is the cradle of nature. Millions years ago first Amphibians stepped on the ground and started to conquer new living space. The result we can see all around us. Many people say that few thousands years ago our planet was full of life and promises. Nowadays humanity in its thirst for development turns the Earth into a desert of concrete and stone. The more we build, the more we destroy. We dont value the air we breathe, ...
Free research essays on topics related to: marine, science daily, hot spots, years ago, ocean -
Gulf Of Mexico Hydrothermal Vents
1,247 wordsColleen Cavanaugh Dr. Cavanaugh is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Cavanaugh's research focuses on the ecology and evolution of bacteria, with special emphasis on symbiotic bacteria, which is associated with marine invertebrates that inhabit deep-sea hydrothermal vents and shallow reducing sediments. Cavanaugh's studies showed the major macro fauna at hydrothermal vents studied to date host symbiotic, chemosynthetic bacteria....
Free research essays on topics related to: bacteria, gulf of mexico, ribosomal rna, energy source, hydrothermal vents -
Industrial Revolutions Christian Theology
2,202 wordsLynn White Having written his famous article "The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis" in 1967 Lynn White placed himself among the first environmental ethicist's, who successfully criticized and caricatured Christianity. Some scholars and critics even now still do not know how that article should be considered: as an ecological appeal or as religious one. This single article woke up all the Christian community up and provoked a lot of talks on this matter. This process became even more com...
Free research essays on topics related to: martin heidegger, christian theology, present day, industrial revolutions, modern technology -
England Who Relied Northern New England European
594 wordsIn his book, Changes in the Land, William Cronon explores the relationship between the European and indigenous populations and local ecologies between 1620 and 1800. As he states at the outset of the book: My thesis is simple: the shift from Indian to European dominance in New England entailed important changes well known to historians in the ways these people organized their lives, but it also involved fundamental reorganizations less well-known to historians in the regions plant and animal com...
Free research essays on topics related to: patterns, populations, human population, agricultural, ecosystems -
Cultural Evolution Cross Cultural
1,119 wordsIn the middle of this century, both biological and cultural anthropology experiences a major change in theory. In biological anthropology, biological anthropologists adopted an approach which focused on the gene. They saw the human evolution as the process of genetic adaptation to the environment. In the mean time, there were also cultural analogies to evolution. Cultural evolution also followed a process of adaptation. In the field of anthropology, a very important theory is that of the sociobi...
Free research essays on topics related to: cross cultural, human evolution, natural selection, universal law, cultural evolution -
Teach Ins Ten Thousand
1,346 wordsEarth DayEarthday Earth Day Earth Day is April 22. Earth Day is most often observed by the media, hundreds of local groups and noted on calendars on April 22. Many people also observe Earth Week and Earth Month. Since most events and festivals need to take place on a weekend, Earth Day is observed on the weekends before and after April 22. Others also observe it on March 21, the Vernal Equinox or on World Environment Day, June 6. Remember, that really, every day is an Earth Day we just need to l...
Free research essays on topics related to: political arena, ten thousand, high schools, teach ins, college campuses -
Greenhouse Gases Nitrous Oxide
1,193 wordsQUESTION 1: Technology owes Ecology an Apology. Indeed, in my opinion, technology does owe ecology an apology. This is because ecological imbalances were as a result of the Industrial revolution, which could be said to be the beginning of the non-ending technological advancement cycle. During Industrial revolution, we began altering or climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the industrial revolution, human activity released very few gases into the ...
Free research essays on topics related to: greenhouse gases, fossil fuel, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, technological advancement -
Flying Swan Scorpion Cherry Monster Tree Food
642 wordsOn the Ecology Ecology Paper On the Planet Venus there is an eco system which produces food and makes food for all the animals on the planet. I am going to tell u about some of the animals and what part they have in this system. There are producer, consumers, carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. Some of the Producers on the planet venus are Grass, Apple Tree, Bushes, Grape Fruit Tree, Orange Tree, Maple Tree, Pond Sum, and Berry Blue Bush. The grass is food for the Plane bird, The Apple Tree i...
Free research essays on topics related to: venus, apple tree, eats, planet, bird -
Meat Eating Vegetarian Diet
747 wordsVegetarianism is a good idea for anyone, whether young or old, healthy or sick. Reasons supporting vegetarianism are inarguable since becoming a vegetarian is scientifically proven to improve one? s lifestyle in several different ways. First and most importantly to many, vegetarianism improves one? s health tremendously. Secondly, it can improve or display one? s spirituality and beliefs. Another reason for changing to a vegetarian lifestyle that most people don? t know is for the ecology and ou...
Free research essays on topics related to: one , health, vegetarian diet, meat eating, life -
Quot How Long Warblers Of America Man
1,625 wordsFrom " Ecology, or the Art of Survival" (1958). This excerpt is taken from a review of Ludlow Griscom and Alexander Spring, Jr. , eds. , The Warblers of America and Guy Mountfort, Wild Paradise, in Nation, 187 (Nov. 15, 1958). When I say that as I perused these two books the question of survival kept up a dull continuo in my head, intruding itself on my pleasure at intervals like the sound of a faucet left running somewhere, I do not mean to comment adversely on the books. Nor am I per...
Free research essays on topics related to: wild, egg, bird, survival, life and death -
Four Principles Decision Making
1,179 wordsStatement of Philosophy Peter Senge, in his book, The Fifth Discipline, argued that there is interconnectedness, a relationship, between all forces of matter that act and react upon each other. Not only do they act and react on each other, but act across time and space. These relationships, built upon an exchange of information past and present, transform interrelated processes that act upon us and create our state of being. A social-psycho Darwinian evolution, if you will. This state of being i...
Free research essays on topics related to: decision making, circumstances, four principles, awareness, evolving -
Socially Acceptable Social Development
923 wordsAn individuals social development begins in the very early years of life, even as early as the first few months. Social developmental learning is a very important part of life. As individuals progress from infancy to adulthood, their thoughts develop due to the outcome of a long history of growth. Beginning in infancy, ones thinking grows and changes progressively. Through social learning, the child learn to a adapt to the social and cultural norms and values. It plays a part in mental and emoti...
Free research essays on topics related to: early years, social development, socially acceptable, children learn, role models
Customer center
