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Prince William Sound Christian Science Monitor
1,344 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska proved to be a disaster on many levels. The coastline, wildlife, and people of the all area were all devastated by the spill. Ten years later, the area is showing remarkable progress. Because of the cleanup efforts and new regulations, the Sound is getting ever closer to recovery. A few minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the T/V Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound. A few minutes later the coast gua...
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Junior High School Mentally Retarded
1,352 wordsTake Off That Mask As sad as it seem first impressions often dictate the way people feel about one another. In most cases the way a person looks doesn? t at all reflect on their personality. This stigma of the way a person looks goes far beyond being pretty and ugly. All to often people are assumed mentally retarded because of a facial deformity when in fact that person is as able or in many cases more then able to perform and task they are asked to perform. Ironically in this modern society whe...
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Protective Slime Layer Catch And Release Fish
1,040 wordsCatch and Release Over the years, people have enjoyed the many types of fishing the world has to offer. Some people do it for tournaments, some for the sport and most of us for pleasure. It is hard to say when someone decided to pick up a willow and tie a piece of string to it with a hook and bait, but for some reason it has grown into a magnificent pastime. The type of fishing technologies that we have today would be a surprising site to some of the very first anglers. In all the fun of angling...
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Works Of Literature Library Journal
1,086 wordsCENSORSHIP IN SCHOOL IS NOT RIGHT I believe that Imposing censorship within Americas schools is not only against the First Amendment of the United State Constitution, but it is also against the very moral fiber upon which this country was founded. In an attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remove any and all questionable works of literature from school libraries. The right to interpret the written wor...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet Union
1,030 wordsVlad Smerkis Chapter 27 The Politic of Conflict and Hope (1960 1969) 1. Kennedy and the Cold War a. A Narrow Victory i. Kennedy and Nixon had entered Congress in the same year 1946. ii. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was the son of a very wealthy businessman and ambassador. iii. In contrast, Richard Nixon was always an outsider in the world of wealth and power. iv. Both Candidates pledged to build up the nations military might and ensure continued prosperity. v. Kennedys Catholicism posed one ...
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Santa Claus Stone Table
1,262 wordsThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Chapter Summary Chapter 1: Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe Four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent from their home in London to live in a mansion with an old Professor to avoid war. The children discover a room with a wardrobe Lucy stays in the room. Lucy goes inside. She finds a row of fur coats. She feels the fur. The soft fur becomes hard like a tree. Lucy notices a light. She moves towards the light and finds herself in a snowy wood. Lucy fright...
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Egg Cell Closely Related
944 wordsCloning Technologies and More Science, in the past few years has made great strides in the field of mammal reproduction. They? ve worked for years to find out exactly what happens during a pregnancy, and also how it works. We? ve come so far in these stages as to gain the knowledge needed to make oral contraceptives. However, I am not writing this report to enlighten you on these subjects, or to debate the ethical issues of them. This report is focusing on the creation of life, not the destructi...
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Crime Through Reducing Crime Crime Through Reducing Country
501 wordsCivil Liberties And Crime: Through Reducing Crime Can Civil Liberties And Crime: Through Reducing Crime Can We Still Keep Liberty? Do the ends justify the means? Upon first contemplation of how it could be thought that by reducing crime one takes away liberty, I was confounded. I couldnt envision a situation where it would be necessary to remove liberty in order to reduce and possibly even eliminate crime. I couldnt, however, only until I heard that we had bombed Iraq and were in the country wit...
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One Day First Time
1,073 wordsCreative Writing: The Unforgettable Man Derek Achterfeldt Eng 101 10 / 14 / 96 Remembered Event Revision Being an orderly at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital was a fun job that required a strong heart. The hospital was a great place for me to experience the beauty of life and the unwanted death of humans. Throughout my year of employment at the Community Hospital, I was able to enjoy my work by interacting with many kinds of interesting patients. Without the hospital, I would have never imagined to ...
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Computer Virus Computer Computer Into Running Viruses
473 wordsComputer Computer Virus Computer Virus Computer viruses are well known for their wrong doings. They are thought of as harmful programs that can affect your computer greatly. That is partly true except that they can be removed very quickly and easily. There is an interesting history of how viruses got there name and how the first one appeared in public. There are a couple of different kinds of viruses but millions of them are created. All viruses are intended for malicious acts but there is a sol...
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Don T Care Winston Smith
834 wordsSociety divides people into two categories; those who conform to what is expected, and those who do not. Webster s dictionary defines conformity as, similarity in form or character; correspondence; agreement; action or behaviour in correspondence with current customs, rules or styles. When a person fails to measure up to certain expectations, those in power inflict consequences. Under these circumstances, it is human nature to feel the need to rebel, either externally or internally. These statem...
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Vicious Circle Copyright Law
865 wordsCanadas Copyright Law Canadas copyright law is one of our hardest laws to enforce. The reason the police have so much trouble enforcing this law, is due to technology. This law is very easy to break, and once broken, it is very hard to track down violators. So although some form of a copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too many holes to be effective. There are three main ways in which the copyright law is broken in everyday life. They is audio / video tape copying, plagiarism, and soft...
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Hard Drive Video Card
1,057 wordsThe computer is a commonly used machine in todays society. Building the right system is important factor to having a stable running PC. Knowing what you need the computer for, the parts inside the computer, and installing all the components correctly is also very important to this process. Knowing what the computer is being purchased for is very important. First you must think about who the users are going to be. Whether it is yourself, the kids, or even for the office. This is important because...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Washington D C
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666 wordsCuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. The crisis was a major confrontation between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The confrontation was caused by the Soviets putting missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States of America. The world was in the hands of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev. These two men would have to reach a compromise or else t...
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Cystic Fibrosis Endoplasmic Reticulum
717 wordsCystic Fibrosis Commonly found in young children, Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disease that is caused by a genetic disorder. The disease originates in the production of a critical protein that transports chloride ions from one place to another called a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). The DNA of an infected person is missing three building blocks called nucleotides causing the CFTR protein to be missing one amino acid called phenylalanine. Normally, a healthy CFTR p...
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Hard Disk Digital Audio
517 wordsDigital Multi-Track Audio Recording The art of multiple track audio recording has been around since the invention of audio tape, which was actually created to record multiple tracks to mix down into a stereo pair on a vinyl record. Lately, with the fast growing technology in the area of digital audio, a plethora of mediums are now available for recording multiple tracks of audio. The first, and still most widely used, form of digital audio recording is the DAT (Digital Audio Tape). The tape itse...
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Amount Of Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels
1,430 words1. Explain why any one species cannot live everywhere. Any species cannot live everywhere because this would effect the natural balance. Also one species cannot adapt to all the different environments of our planet. For example a marine creature can only live underwater and cannot live on ground. 2. Explain how the activities of some species can lead to: a) an increase b) a decrease in the population size of another species. Some species act as population controllers of other species. There must...
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Form Of Art Taking Place
1,500 wordsDouglas Barmore What constitutes as graffiti? Graffiti is defined as any type of writing on a surface of any type. If that is the case, then would a cave mans drawings be considered graffiti? If it is considered graffiti, then what is different about then and now that would change the worlds views about graffiti. Why is graffiti against the law? Is graffiti an art form? Can something that is done against the law, and with a total disregard for others property be considered art? The definition of...
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Gates Of Yaru Feather Of Truth Afterlife
475 wordsEgyptian View on Afterlife Most of the Egyptian life was preparing for their afterlife. This resulted in the pyramids and other great tombs for the Pharaohs and other nobility. The Egyptians also believed the bodies of the dead had to be preserved if the Ka (indestructible essence) of the person were to live on. The manner in which they preserved these bodies is called mummification. To embalm the mummy the Egyptians first had to remove the brain. They did this through either the nose or from be...
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