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Cattle Ranching Tropical Forests
1,623 words... way. This leaves a bare plot thats not very useful for anything anymore. Slash and burn agriculture in essence ruins the very delicate ecosystem that promoted growth in that area. Something as simple as opening up an area to direct sunlight throws the balance out of whack. Because the soils are left less fertile, the farmers must slash and burn new lands to raise more crops. This is a continuing process thats repeated over and over again, leaving behind it a deadly trail of unprotected land ...
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Van Der Main Function
1,101 wordsThis is an introductory essay on C programming. It assumes that you know varying amounts about computers and programming in general. First, I recommend that you purchase The C Programming Language, Second Edition by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie (referred to by everyone as K&R 2), and also Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden, and keep both at your side while you program. They are very useful and very handy books. The C language has changed some since the publi...
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Sula Toni Morrison Poetic Language
1,984 wordsAccording to Aldous Huxley, the life of any epoch can only be synthesised by poets: Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good reason that they affect only the intellectual surface of a mans life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched. 1 I like this, particularly the idea of the intellectual surface - a mere surface, with much beyond it - and combined with Jacobson's aforementioned theory, I take this as my starting point: the idea that poetic langu...
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Large Amount Living Room
1,496 wordsI will never forget that cold December day, December 20 th to be exact. My parents decided to move because of their new jobs, I remember thinking big deal. Christmas is about being with friends and family, muttering to myself, not this year. Were my parents punishing me for a crime that I did not commit? The worst part about living on Droopy-Willow Drive was that there were no kids in my neighborhood. This could not be happening to me; I was surrounded by old people. I knew that I would be bored...
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Panic Attacks Mayo Clinic
726 wordsPanic Attacks Panic attacks are a type of anxiety disorder. They can be characterized with sudden overwhelming feelings of intense fear, discomfort or anxiety, accompanied with the thoughts of coming danger and doom. Such episodes may happen frequently or rarely and last from some minutes up to hours. As a rule, the reasons and causes of such attacks are not obvious. Medical specialists recognize three types of panic attacks: situational, when an individual has sudden attacks of fear always in d...
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People Per Square People Of China
1,218 wordsChinas Population Problem The Chinese government has taken the enforcement of family planning and birthrate laws to an extreme by violating the civil rights of its citizens, which has had bad effects on the morale of its people (Whyte 161). Chinas population has grown to such an enormous size that it has become a problem to both the people and government. China, the most populous country in the world, has an estimated population of about one thousand-one hundred-thirty three point six million (H...
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Rain Forest Forest Destruction
2,578 words" This land is where we know where to find all that it provides for us food from hunting and fishing, and farms, building and tool materials, medicines. This land keeps us together within its mountains; we come to understand that we are not just a few people or separate villages, but one people belonging to a homeland" (Colin's 32). The " homeland" is the Upper Mazaruni District of Guyana, a region in the Amazon rain forest where the Akawaio Indians make their home (32). The ...
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