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Island Forests Farming
487 wordsLooking at a map of the southern hemisphere, one wouldn't expect such a seemingly "small" island to be so exotic and bountiful, but the island of Madagascar is just that. A 226, 658 square mile (587, 041 square kilometers) piece of land, with a a coastline of about 2, 480 miles (3, 990 kilometers), it's a beautiful and different view of its large neighbor, Africa. The island itself is made up of ridges, rivers, valleys, and tropical forests sectioning off the different regions of the landscape, ...
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000 Square Miles Acid Rain
1,060 wordsThe Adirondacks are a group of mountains surrounded by many lakes and rivers, that cover over 5, 000 square miles in the northeastern part of New York. There are a lot of large tourist villages on every lake. Motor boating and other water activities take place on almost every lake in the area. It is a vacation paradise for thousands. But, industrial emissions from Canada and the Ohio river valley always drift to this area and cause acid rain. This silent killer is destroying these beautiful lake...
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Native Americans Town Square
757 wordsLocation and Background The early English traders gave the Creek native Americans their name because they usually built their villages on or near creeks or rivers. If they were to still have their villages it would include areas of Northern Florida and Eastern Louisiana and Southern Tennessee. The majority of the villages were located along the banks of the Coosa, Tallaposa, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee rivers. The native word for the most powerful band of Creeks was the Muskogees. The Cre...
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Costa Rica Roman Catholicism
905 wordsCosta Rica, a country of Central America, covers an area of 19, 730 square miles. The capital is San Jos. Extending from northwest to southeast, Costa Rica is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, along its 185 -mile northeastern coastline by the Caribbean Sea, on the southeast by Panama, and along its 630 -mile southwestern coastline by the Pacific Ocean. Costa Rica has a narrow Pacific coastal region that rises abruptly into central highlands. The highlands, forming the rugged backbone of the cou...
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Row By Row Gandhi Followers Indians
536 wordsThe movie Gandhi starts off with the assassination of Gandhi on January 30, 1948. He was killed because of the split of Hindus and Muslims into Pakistan and India, instead of trying to keep the country united (which was impossible at the time). The story then jumps back to Gandhi early in his life, when he is a practicing attorney. He is traveling in South Africa on a train and is thrown off because he refuses to give up his first class seat. The conductor wants him to move because he is Indian....
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Police Station Extraordinary Man
1,382 wordsDostoevsky used confession as a path to forgiveness throughout the novel. From his first thought after the murders to the time that he actually confessed to the crimes. Whether it be from Raskolnikov to Nikolay, the act of confession made then feel better about themselves removing the weight that they had placed upon their shoulders. Confession is to the ordinary man the first step to forgiveness. Through confession, the ordinary man can share his burdens with others. Moreover, let known the dar...
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World War Ii Human Rights Violations
612 wordsThroughout history, the rights of humans have frequently been abused. Human rights are the rights and liberties that are guaranteed to everyone from birth. After World War II, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Right, which stated that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and that everyone has the right to a nationality, religion and his or her own opinion (Document 1). Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, abuses of human rights have continu...
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Special Theory Of Relativity Force Of Gravity
454 wordsAccording to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, light can be bent. This is a concept that seems to contradict the well-known law that states that all light travels in a straight line. But they do not contradict each other. Light does travel in a straight line; only the space-time continuum bends around it causing it to change direction. This bend or warp in the space-time continuum is a result of the presence of mass, also known as gravity. Gravity is a force that is always present, always...
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Pyramids Were Built Funerary Temple Pyramid
724 wordsDuring the Old Kingdom, Egypt's greatest period of glory and power, massive pyramids were created. Though believed to be astronomical observations because of an uncanny alignment to the stars, the pyramids were built to house a pharaoh's remains, while protecting his body and possessions from weather and thieves. These impressive structures ensured the pharaohs union with the gods in the afterlife since the rulers were both kings and gods. With his ownership of everything and supreme authority, ...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,126 words... al assumption is that religion has to do with spiritual vision. And while there may be only one religious reality, this reality must be seen, even if only momentarily through various forms. In this sense he is not a Christian writer, even though there are many references to Jesus in his fiction because his historic Christianity attributes spiritual blindness to sin, not just the lack of sensitivity that Salinger repeatedly depicts. (Lundquist, 33) Zen Buddhism is the closest to Salinger's re...
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Yellow Throated Toucan Tail Is Nearly Square Bill
936 wordsToucan is the Brazilian name for a bird of the family, Ramphastidae, with approximately 42 different species of the bird. These peculiar birds belong to the order Piciformes, whose members have feet with the first and fourth toes reversed and are all cavity nester's. The toucan is an unusual looking bird, characterized by an enormous but light-weight bill, that has many useful qualities. Most species, posts a brilliant solid or multi-colored bill. They live in the tropical and subtropical forest...
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Controlling Deer Overpopulation Through Increased Hunting
1,554 wordsLong Island comprises about 1, 200 acres and is home to more that 500 families. During the 1960 s, deer on the island were kept in check through restricted hunting. But in the 1970 s, this limited population control was ended when residents made hunting illegal on Long Island. By 1983, overpopulation had created a stunted sickly herd of deer serious problem for the Fish and Game Department. Since most residents were still opposed to killing deer, the department was forced to use supposedly more ...
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Rain Forests Major Threat
1,200 wordsIn this melanistic form the cats are more difficult to separate, however the jaguars large head and stocky forelimbs are often a good way to differentiate between the two cats. In the wild, identification would not be an issue as the cats inhabit different continents - the jaguar is the only member of the panther family to be found in the Americas and its is by far the biggest cat on the continent. The Jaguars range, which once spanned from the southern states of the USA down to the tip of South...
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Law Enforcement Officer Washington D C
952 wordsSince disarming the citizens of this country is the objective of the federal government, and since the federal government proclaims this to be a democratic country based upon equality, then any gun control measures adopted by the government should be democratically applied. If law abiding citizens are to have their guns taken from them then let the law abiding police agencies of the state be disarmed also. (Those in law enforcement who are crooked can keep their guns just as the drug pushers and...
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Winston And Julia Emmanuel Goldstein
1,528 words... if they wake up one day and realize that they are not living the kind of life they could be. But will they wake up? Tormented by memories and searching for answers, Winston walks aimlessly through a prole area. He tries to talk to an old man about the past, but can't seem to get anywhere. Eventually, he finds himself in front of the antique shop where he had bought the diary. He enters, starts to chat with Mr. Charrington (the proprietor), and wanders through the quaint antiques. He buys a b...
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Gross National Product Prime Minister
1,103 wordsOverall History of Norway The Kingdom of Norway is located on the west part of the Scandinavian peninsula. Geographically, it extends northward from the North Sea over 1, 000 miles along the Norwegian Sea into the Arctic Circle, farther north than any other European land. Sweden, Finland, and the U. S. S. R. all share borders with Norway on the east and the northeast. With an area of over 125, 000 square miles, Norway is slightly larger than New Mexico. The Kingdom of Norway is located on the we...
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John W Mauchley High Speed Electronic
999 wordsThere have been few inventions that has grown an attached itself to as many lives as the invention of the computer. Computers can be found in almost every aspect of our lives, if not direct, indirectly. When I think of the different ways I come in contact with computers in one day its astounding. When I wake in the morning its usually by the assistance of an alarm clock that I program to alarm at a specific time. When I use my Metro Card to gain entrance to the train, a computer reads the funds ...
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Rain Forests Biological Diversity
934 wordsDestruction of the Rainforests TABLE OF CONTENTSPAGETITLE 1 Title Page 2 Table of Contents 3 What is Happening 4 Other Effects 5 The problem of Protecting the Forest 6 What is Being Done for the Forest 7 Bibliography DESTRUCTION OF THE RAIN FORESTS The destruction of the rainforests is happening at a great rate and must be stopped now. A delegate from U. S. Congress, Al Gore, says 1 / The devastation of the rainforest is just unbelievable. Its one of the great tragedies of all history. Last year...
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Ramses Ii Time Life
647 wordsThe Magnificence of Ramses II The history of Ancient Egypt consisted of a number of very powerful rulers known as pharaohs. These pharaohs were regarded as gods by the Egyptian people. Every aspect of daily Egyptian life including the weather, and the success of the crops, was supposedly controlled by the pharaohs attitude. Many Egyptians would devote their entire lives to the construction of the tomb for their pharaoh. Egyptians believed that by helping the pharaoh, they were securing their own...
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19 Th Century 18 Th Century
1,339 wordsThe History of Pi A little known verse in the bible reads? And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about (I Kings 7, 23). ? This passage from the bible demonstrates the ancient nature of the irrational number pi. Pi in fact is mentioned in a number of verses throughout the bible. In II Chronicles 4, 2, in the passage describing the building of the great temple of Solomo...
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