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Pollution And The Advance Of Technology
1,196 wordsTechnology is a major part of everyone's life. Everyday we encounter technology at home, school and at work. We use this technology to better our lives. But do we really? With the advancing of technology also comes the issue of polluting the world we live in. We take the automobile for granted, but as we use it, we contribute to the growing pollution problem. Now in the year 2000, car companies have recognized the pollution problem, and have advanced their own technology to help make a differenc...
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Marijuana For Medical Purposes Billion A Year
1,918 wordsPrior to the twentieth century, the marijuana plant (then more commonly referred to as hemp) was the single most important industrial plant, or non-food producing crop in America and the world (German 1990). Archeologists report that marijuana was possibly the first plant cultivated by humans. They estimate that date at approximately 8000 BC (Columbia University). As early as 4000 BC, pottery with marijuana markings and hemp textiles were found in North Central China. In those years, such things...
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The Beginning Of Modern Olympic Games
1,231 wordsThe Beginning of the Modern Olympic Games From the earliest that historians can trace back which was nearly since the beginning of time, people have been putting on and celebrating some type of a festival. The festivals held in the foot hills of College and Erymanthus at Olympia were considered to be religious and athletic. Some historians believe that in the beginning of time, two gods, Zeus and Kronos, the most powerful gods of all, battled for the earth and the games and religious celebration...
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Dry Snow Avalanche Blast Of Air Avalanches
517 wordsWhat is a avalanche? To most of you it is the fall of snow from the top of a slope. Well you are partially right. It is snow but it can also be several other things such as soil, rock, ice, or volcanic lava. Although most of the time a avalanche is snow it can be rock or soil. Most avalanches occur on slopes exceeding 30 degrees (Encarta 1. ) They are caused by temperature, creeping snow, or vibrations. There are three main types of avalanches (Walker 6 - 7. ) They are slab, dry-snow, and wet-sn...
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Organic Foods Organic Farming
517 wordsNevertheless, America's appetite for all-natural, organic food has grown at the remarkable rate of over 20 percent annually for the past 10 years. This makes organic agriculture -- farming and processing food without the use of synthetic chemicals, such as synthetic pesticides and many inorganic fertilizers -- the fastest growing sector of America's agricultural economy. Contrast that to the scarcity of organic items to be found 20 years ago... and those only in specialty shops. Today, organic s...
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Toni Morrisons Bluest Eye
1,549 words... as individuals. While talking about Pecola, Morrison always emphasizes the fact that she comes from lower social strata: She looked at Pecola. Saw the dirty torn dress, the plaits sticking out on her head, hair matted where the plaits had come undone, the muddy shoes with the wad of gum peeping out from between the cheap soles, the soiled socks, one of which had been walked down into the heel on the shoe (Morrison, p. 71). We can say that author strives to manipulate with readers mood, becau...
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U S Constitution Habeas Corpus
490 wordsThe Detainee Case Boumediene v. Bush and Al Oh v. United States are two recent detainee cases. Mustafa Ait Ii was accused in terrorism by the Bush administration. However, the man claims that he is an innocent person, who was caught and arrested by mistake in the legal limbo of Guantanamo Bay. Although he didnt succeed to prove his innocence in 2004, in 2007 he and other 340 foreign-born Guantanamo Bay detainees finally got a possibility to challenge their imprisonment before the Supreme Court t...
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Risk Assessment Of Using Malathion For Mosquito Control
1,272 wordsRisk Assessment of Using Malathion for Mosquito Control Every community project / program , whether it's small or large, complex or simple, will always involve risk. Hazards and menace are part and parcel of every decision a person has to make in his life. What is mind boggling is the fact that whatever choice was decided on will not only affect the decision-makers but will also mark other people as well. As community managers, it is our job to do our best not only to minimize the risk involved ...
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National Labor Relations World War Ii
858 wordsTHE GREAT DEPRESSION In the advent of 1930 s, the United States of America suffered huge loss from the period of what is now known as the Great Depression. As early as October 1929, the stock market of America crashed down that led to obliteration of at least 40 percent of the paper values of common stock. As it was expected, the Great Depression came to worst. The value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange downgraded to less than a fifth compared to what it had been at its peak in 1929. Busi...
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American Ownership Of Canada
1,853 wordsAmerican Ownership of Canada In 1867 Canada was heading down the road of autonomy, in 1931 Canada gained further independence from the empire by negotiating and signing the Treaty of Westminster. But within a period of a few short years of moving away from one empire we just backed into another one. As many of us know today Canada is known to many as an American satellite state. How did this happen, how did a country looking to gain greater autonomy end up having the greatest amount of foreign o...
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Refusal To Allow Transit Of American Troops
1,706 wordsAustria's Refusal To Allow Transit of American Troops Introduction In February 2003, Austria refused to grant permission to the United States to transit American troops from its bases in Germany to Italy as part of the mobilization for the invasion of Iraq. In April 2003, Austria refused to allow American aircraft to use its airspace when in transit to forward bases with range of Iraq. The Austrian government appeared to have based this decision on popular anti-American sentiment within its nati...
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Head Of The Family Mississippi River
2,078 wordsPersonnel Assessment Plan Floods have always been some of the most serious natural disasters in the United States. They have resulted in many human lives and billions of dollars of economical losses for the country. The valley of the Mississippi river has been historically an unsafe place for people to live. Every spring and summer there is a danger of a flood or a flash flood in that area. In the recent years, however, both state and federal governments have worked hard to make the river safe f...
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Environmental Protection Agency Ozone Depletion
1,137 wordsThe ozone layer diminishes more each year. As the area of polar ozone depletion (commonly called the ozone hole) gets larger, additional ultraviolet rays are allowed to pass through. These rays cause cancer, cataracts, and lowered immunity to diseases. 1 What causes the depletion of the ozone layer? In 1970, Crutzen first showed that nitrogen oxides produced by decaying nitrous oxide from soil-borne microbes react catalytically with ozone hastening its depletion. His findings started research on...
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Human Potential West Africa
1,142 wordsWhat exactly is desertification? Unfortunately, there are many responses and many contradicting definitions. Some say that it is permanent, others say it is a reversible process. There are even debates on whether the definition should include human involvement or not. It seems that all that can be agreed on is that it is " the most serious environmental problem facing Africa today" (Nsiah-Gyabaah, Kwasi. Environmental Degradation and Desertification in Ghana pg 27). At the United Natio...
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Write A Poem Seamus Heaney
1,122 wordsSeamus Heaney: Physical and Mental Digging In the poem Digging, Seamus Heaney seems to use his fathers and his grandfathers digging into the homeland ground as a comparison to his writing and development of his poetry. Heaney's father and grandfather use their shovels to work with the land, and Heaney is now using a pen to work on his ideas to write poetry. The beginning of this poem starts out with Heaney describing what he might do before he starts to write a poem. Heaney writes, Between my fi...
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World War Ii Stop The War
991 wordsDropping the Atomic Bomb- On August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Tibbetts, was chosen to make the mission. The mission was recorded as successful by Capt. William S. Parson at 9: 20 A. M. This was an extremely controversial military strategy in the United States. Was the United States justified in the dropping of the atomic bomb? Yes, they were justified for many reasons. The primary reason was, that it would stop the wa...
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Number Of Deaths Earth Surface
537 wordsEvery year there are about a million earthquakes. Fortunately, not all of them are destructive. The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the Richter Scale, which goes from zero upward. Major damage generally occurs from earthquakes ranging from 6. 0 upwards. The damaging earthquakes also occur either in the narrow belt, which surrounds the Pacific Ocean or in a line, which extends from Burma to the Alps in Europe. Earthquakes are one of natural wonders of the world that cause the most death...
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Western United States Effects Of Acid Rain
399 wordsEffects of Acid Rain on Water The effects of acid rain are most clearly seen in the aquatic, or water, environments, such as streams, lakes, and marshes. Acid rain flows to streams, lakes, and marshes after falling on forests, fields, buildings, and roads. Acid rain also falls directly on aquatic habitats. Most lakes and streams have a pH between 6 and 8. However, some lakes are naturally acidic even without the effects of acid rain. Lakes and streams become acidic (pH value goes down) when the ...
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Animal And Plant Billion Dollars
795 wordsPerhaps we take it for granted that our beautiful homeland will be forever changed because of the effects of modern civilizations. The environment, local animals, plants, and neighboring niches are all being affected by a few factors. The insensitivity of humans towards our fellow living creatures has caused the Everglades to shrink dramatically in the last one hundred years. The health of the everglades has been compromised because we as humans need more space to live on, bigger roads, and adve...
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Factors That Affect Physical Geography
698 wordsThere are several factors that influence the growth and distribution of a particular regions primary industries. These primary industries, are necessary for an economy to grow. Without a primary industry, which could also be called natural resources, secondary, tertiary and quaternary industries would struggle in a country (excluding Japan etc. ). These factors also affect where people live. If you were at a warm place, near the coast, it is a lot more populated, than interior America. This popu...
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