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Central Hubei Province Three Gorges Dam Yangtze
412 wordsWhat? A controversial dam construction site in central China, along the Yangtze River. The proposed size of the dam is roughly two kilometers across, and would rise about 185 meters into the air, causing a giant man-made lake. Cost? $ 24. 5 billion United States dollars, or $ 191. 1 billion Chinese dollars. Three Gorges dam in central Hubei province say the structure could possibly increase flooding. When? The dam is to be completed in 2009, was officially started in 1994, after the idea was 75 ...
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Heavy Monsoon Rains Cattle Have Been Killed People
462 wordsIn Nepal hunger is having because of heavy monsoon rains. The heavy rain has been going on sense mid-June. It has caused serious flooding in most parts of the country killing at least 113 people. It has displaced more then 7, 000 households in 62 districts. About 1, 160 hectares of crops have been reported to have been destroyed from the rain and more then 300 cattle have been killed. Also in Bangladesh heavy monsoon rains have done damage. The rain started in the second decayed of July caused e...
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Coal Miners Arnold Palmer
1,187 wordsImagine being woken up in the early morning and having your life be changed by a single horrific even. This situation was like no other coal disaster. This was the result of the irresponsibility of big business not caring for the well being of regular citizens. This case was a first in that the coal miners were not the victims, but their families were. The coal miners were not going to sit around and let this go by, they are ready to fight back. On an early February morning in 1972, one of the c...
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Storm Surge Tropical Storms
1,424 wordsWhat is a hurricane? Hurricanes are part of a family of weather systems known as "tropical cyclones. " The word hurricane is from the West Indian word hurricane, meaning "big wind. " A hurricane begins its life as a disorganized storm system, which forms over warm, tropical waters in the Atlantic. When the storm system become more organized, it is classified as a "tropical depression, " and given a number by the National Hurricane Center. If the winds in a tropical depression grow in intensity t...
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Northern Sudan Northeastern Africa Nile
490 wordsThe Nile, is the longest river in the world, and is located in northeastern Africa. Its principal source is Lake Victoria, in east central Africa. The Nile flows north through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea, with a total distance of 5584 km. From its remotest headstream in Burundi, the river is 6671 km long. The river basin covers an area of more than 3, 349, 000 sq km. Not only is the Nile considered a wonder by Herodotus, but by people all over the world, due to its importan...
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B C E Nile River
359 wordsThe Essential Nile Many features of civilization have evolved over time to become what one commonly thinks of as civilized society. The development of government and writing in the classical civilization of Egypt can be credited to the reliability of the Nile River. The Nile was a source of unification and centralization in the Egyptian society, helping in the development of government and writing with the growth of surpluses. The Nile River, because of its predictable cycles, unified and center...
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Global Warming Carbon Dioxide
429 wordsIn the article? Happiness Is a Warm Planet? it tries to explain and tell how Global Warming is a good thing. It says? mankind should benefit from and upward tick in the thermometer. ? When in fact in today? s society it is proving to not be good. Under global warming, winter temperatures would rise the most and summer temperatures the least. It is said in this article that? more people die of the cold then of the heat; more die in the winter than the summer. ? But the truth is that in the past t...
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Plants And Animals Amazon Rainforest
2,314 wordsTo: Michael Meacher Copies: The Deputy Prime Minister Director of EPS All Heads of Division RIO CONFERENCE ON DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST Dear Mr. Meacher, I have prepared the following report for you to read before you attend the Rio Conference on Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. I feel that the key issues for you to consider are global extent of deforestation and the condition of the Amazon rainforest e. g. effects of deforestation. I cannot express how urgent my recommendati...
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Days And Nights Noahs Ark
415 wordsGilgamesh and the Bible In both the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible a common event takes place, a flood. The flood in both stories destroys all mankind. I feel that each flood serves as a symbol. Each one is a representative of rebirth and of a new beginning for all mankind. In the epic, Gilgamesh the gods decided to destroy mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights Gilgamesh and the other gods decided to destroy mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights. Utnapishtim and Noah wer...
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Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels
1,003 wordsGlobal Warming is something that has been going on now for a long time. Over the years scientist have been telling people, that all the pollutants that we put in the air was doing damage to the earth and the ozone. Some scientist disagreed with that statement and because of that there was nothing done in the past, but now scientist and people alike know what is happening to the ozone and are making a fight to try and get the government to do something about it. Through out this research paper I ...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Average Global Temperature
1,498 wordsGreenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that warms the earth and enables it to support life. Without it, the average temperature on earth would be around - 18 degrees C, instead of the current + 15 degrees C a frozen wilderness. It works on the same principles as the ordinary glass garden greenhouse, where glass allows light to get in, but does not allow for the heat to get out. This makes for a much higher temperature inside the greenhouse. On a planetary scale, similar ...
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Twenty Four Hours Lost Their Lives
555 wordsOn JuneHurrican Hurricane Erie On June 12, 3005, Hurricane Erie made land fall on the coast of Virginia. At 4: 56 am the eye of Hurricane Erie had moved across the city of Fredericksburg. Hurricane Erie huddled over the town of Fredericksburg for an amazingly twenty-four hours. Those twenty-four hours set a record for the most consecutive hours a hurricane sustained in one area. Most hurricanes do not stay in one are for more than ten hours. One day later the town of Fredericksburg was no longer...
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Tropical Storms Pacific Ocean
456 wordsTropical CYCLONE formed Hurricanes Hurricanes Tropical CYCLONE formed over the North Atlantic, E North Pacific, W South Pacific, and Indian oceans in which the winds attain speeds greater than 75 mph (121 km / hr ). A tropical cyclone passes through two stages, tropical depression and tropical storm, before reaching hurricane force. An average of 3. 5 tropical storms per year become hurricanes; one to three of these approach the U. S. coast. Hurricanes usually develop between July and October. A...
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Plantation Leiningen Fight
251 wordsIn the story Leiningen Versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson, Leiningen is the owner of a plantation, in threat of being destroyed, by an enormous herd of ants. This story shows that one may not always win against nature, even when he is determined. Leiningen, representing mankind, he foolishly believed that he could defeat nature because he had modern technology and people. The ants, representing nature, prove themselves, by taking down Leiningen and his plantation. Leiningen may have survived th...
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Part Of Life Stay Alive
576 wordsThroughout Nectar in a Sieve Ruku and Nathan s family suffer terribly. Through monsoons, flooding, droughts, poverty, and starvation they struggle to stay alive. Though they suffer, they accept it as a part of life and go on with their ways. Ruku and Nathan keep on looking towards a brighter future without complaining about their misfortune. When the monsoons break out early, Nathan and Ruku are unprepared to protect themselves against the storms and flooding. All their crops are lost and they h...
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End Of The World Southern California
968 wordsThe Y 2 K scare has gotten the entire world s attention with the radical headline that the world may come to an end. Although disputable, January 1 st 2000 or January 1 st 2001 is the deadline which electric appliances, computer databases, and many other necessities in our culture will cease to work. There is another date very little attention has been given, however. May 5 th 2000 has been speculated for many centuries as an important date for mankind. It is the day five of the nine planets and...
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Life After Death Egyptian People
1,560 wordsIs there really life after death? Different cultures and people interpret the afterlife in a variety of ways, depending on their view of their gods and their interaction with those gods. In this paper, I will discuss the Mesopotamian's, Egyptians, and Indians and their beliefs about what happens to a soul after death. Mesopotamia Between the two rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates, lies a land that is now the eastern half of Iraq. However, many years ago, around 5000 B. C. E. , this land was ...
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Mao Tse Tung China
1,578 wordsWhoever controls the river, controls China, or so said Hu the great. Hu was referring to the Huang He (Yellow River) located in central China, which was the start and support of Chinese civilization eight hundred and fifty thousand years ago, and still maintains that standard of support for many Chinese people today. The Huang He has made contributions primarily to the areas of democratization, industrialization, geography, imperialism, and traditionalism, thereby making the Chinese people the l...
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Muriel Rukeyser Quot Quot
2,301 wordsLouise Kertesz We are meant to hold these clusters of meaning in the mind as they reveal the fullness of reality. Some of the meanings the poet is allowing to expand into their constellations are these: in " Power" death is both finality and source of power; but in another sense, one cannot say that power has any source, any beginning or end thus the first line of " The Dam. " But that line is followed by Rises in the green season, in the sudden season the white the budded an...
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Cities And Towns Gulf Of Mexico
1,854 wordsHalloween Storm 199 The Storm? s beginning It was Halloween Eve 1991, the weather was crisp and pleasant in western Massachusetts and New England. However, it was not the children that would be playing tricks on the people of this region, it was instead nature. The day before a storm of surprising intensity had brought waves of 25 feet crashing onto the short and swells of more than 100 feet at sea. Thousands of costal homes were seriously damaged, and Atlantic City recorded its second highest r...
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