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Amount Of Money Civil Action
1,035 words
The movie A Civil Action brings up an interesting
idea that many people in the public don't see or
hear about very often. The idea that the big
corporations often don't take into account the
safety of the people that work for them or the
people that live around the factories. These big
corporations are run entirely by money and the
idea of what things will cost and how much money
they can possibly make. Too many times money is
more important than the lives of human beings and
the people that run...
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Types Of Cancer Type Of Treatment
1,345 words
One of the many complications with cancer is that
there are so many different types. Currently,
there are 112 types of cancer, and there is an
estimated 80 more types of cancer that are
undiscovered. (United States Cancer Rates) That
leads to as many different treatments as there are
types of cancer. Figure 1, located after the
Recommendations section, on page 8 displays the
number of recorded cancer cases over the past 15
years. I propose to look at several types of
treatments and decide which ...
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Collapse Of The Aral Sea
768 words
The breakup of the Former Soviet Union has forced
those now independent states into a state of
confusion. Republics that were once one nation now
are separate governments. They now must compete
for trade alliances, industrial resources,
financial resources, and most importantly,
agricultural resources. An area of developed
concern is the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea was once the
fourth largest lake in the world, located in
Kazakstan and Uzbekistan, but between 1960 and
1990, the Aral Sea dropped into ...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Sanitary Landfill
1,561 words
What is the largest construction you can think of?
Does a landfill come to your mind? Probably not.
One of the largest buildings on the face of the
earth is the Pyramid of the sun, constructed in
Mexico and covers approximately thirty million
cubic feet of space. Now if you think that is big
just imagine an even larger structure: a landfill
that occupies over seventy million cubic feet of
biosphere, we are talking about the Durham Road
landfill, outside San Francisco. It is a sad
monument, indee...
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Patients With Als Fact That Glutamate Skin
641 words
This theory is based on the fact that glutamate,
an amino acid present in proteins, can cause
neuronal cell death when present in high
concentration. The specific evidence for the
excitotoxic theory comes from the demonstration of
decreased levels of glutamate in ALS spinal cord,
with the assumption that glutamate must have been
released and must have been present in high
concentrations that would have been toxic. In
addition, there is a decreased ability of
glutamate to be taken up in fractions...
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Everyday Lives Drinking Water
666 words
Fluorine, with a chemical symbol of F and an
atomic number of 9, was discovered by Karl
Schedule in 1771 but not isolated until 1886 by
Henri Moissan. The world fluorine comes from the
Latin word four, meaning, flow. The element is a
chemically reactive, poisonous, and highly
corrosive Halogen gas that is found in group 17
(or View) of the periodic table. The electron
configuration of Fluorine is (He) 2 s 22 p 5.
Fluorine is the most chemically active nonmetallic
element and the most electronega...
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Environmental Protection Agency Billion Dollars
332 words
During the 1970 s Richard Nixon took office. His
administration had many goals for the future.
During these years people were ready to change the
way our society was going by helping the
environment. Before it could get any worse the
government decided to form an environmental
protection agency after chemical pesticides were
used. They formed what is still today called the
Environmental Protection Agency or EPA. The EPA
combined with existing federal agencies concerned
with air pollution as the ...
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Bone Tissue Mining Operations
777 words
Physical changes in the land, soil, water, and
air, associated with industrialization directly
and indirectly affect the biological environment.
Direct impacts include deaths of plants, animals,
or people, caused by mining activity or contact
with toxic soil or water from mines. Indirect
impacts include changes in nutrient cycling, total
biomass, species diversity, and eco-system
stability due to alterations in groundwater or
surface water availability or Water resources are
particularly vulnera...
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Organic Compounds Soil Particles
1,280 words
H 2 > Introduction to Septic Systems The
septic system is a grouping of components working
together to decompose household waste water. The
septic tank holds the waste and breaks the organic
compounds into a solid, liquid or gas. The solid
waste (called sludge) settles to the bottom of the
tank and must periodically be removed. The liquid
waste is flushed to the distribution box and is
then allowed to drain into the ground through a
series of perforated pipes (often called lines or
a leac...
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Metabolic Bone Disease Caused By A Lack Diseases
848 words
Bone diseases most directly influence the ability
to walk or to move any part of the body hands,
limbs, neck, and spine. They are related to joint
disorders ARTHRITIS, COLLAGEN DISEASE, DISLOCATION
of joints, and RHEUMATISM. The medical specialty
pertaining to bone disorders is ORTHOPEDICS.
Fractures are the most common bone disorders. They
can occur as the result of an accident or be
secondary to metabolic diseases. Fractures are
life-threatening to aged people having the
metabolic bone disease...
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Uv Light Respiratory System
1,069 words
Print Carbon CARBON process, The Print fading was
a common occurrence in the earliest days of
photography, and several people sought to address
themselves to this problem. In the mid 1850 s some
began to experiment with carbon, and in 1864
Joseph Wilson Swan perfected the process, which he
also patented. Prints made using this process came
in any colour, and were permanent. The sensitizing
solution consisted of a mixture of carbon,
gelatin, the colouring material, and potassium
bichromate. Once ...
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Prince William Sound Advancement Of Science
1,394 words
Cleaning Up after the Exxon Valdez Was A Mistake
Through many hours of research I have determined
that the spill cleaning techniques used to clean
the Prince William Sound area of Alaska did more
harm than leaving the oil where it was. The
Alaskan oil spill has become the most studied and
managed event of its kind. Although there is not
much that can be done about the marine life that
came into direct contact with the crude oil, the
geologic effects that the oil introduced into the
area should h...
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Environmental Protection Agency Agent Orange
1,129 words
Dioxin is one of the most toxic chemicals known. A
report released for public comment in September
1994 by the US Environmental Protection Agency
clearly describes dioxin as a serious public
health threat. The public health impact of dioxin
may rival the impact that DDT had on public health
in the 1960 s. According to the EPA report, not
only does there appear to be no " safe"
level of exposure to dioxin, but levels of dioxin
and dioxin-like chemicals have been found in the
general US ...
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Carbon Dioxide Uric Acid
925 words
Aim: Exretory System Excretory System Aim: To
examine and understand the structure, function and
differences between different types of excretory
systems. The difference between excretion and
egestion is that whereas excretion is the process
of removing toxic waste by-products of the body s
metabolism, egestion is the removal of
indigestible remains / substances through the
alimentary canal. Through egestion, substances
that were not able to be used in the body are
removed, and through excretion...
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United States Canada Effects On The Environment
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Globalization: A Policy of Apocryphal Benefits The
idea of globalization is a greatly misconstrued,
detrimental policy to those countries and people
outside of the North American sphere of life.
Corporations are globalizing not only to reduce
production costs, but also to expand markets,
evade taxes, acquire knowledge and resources, and
protect themselves against currency fluctuations
and other risks (Brecher and Costello 18). Three
hundred companies own an estimated one-quarter of
the productio...
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Agricultural Practices Natural Resource
1,996 words
As nations around the globe enter the 21 st
century, one of the most pressing concerns facing
each is the notion of sustainable development.
Sustainable development, simply put, refers to
maintaining a rate of industrialization which
minimizes the destruction of the environment. And
while issues such as the price and accessibility
of crude oil dominate trade talks and newspaper
headlines, there is an ever-more important concern
emerging: access to water. Despite its relatively
small population s...
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Handmaids Tale Margaret Atwood
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In the course Y 2 k and The End of The World, weve
studied apocalyptic themes, eschatology, and for
some, teleology. Apocalypse, which is to unveil or
reveal, eschatology, which is a concept of the
end, and teleology, the end or purpose to which we
are drawn, are all themes used in Margaret
Atwood's The Handmaids Tale. The book is
apocalyptic in that it revolves around dystopian
ideals. Atwood creates a world in which worst-case
scenarios take control and optimistic viewpoints
and positive attit...
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Conventional Ways Of Farming Producing Crops For The Public Organic
499 words
Micheal Pollan? s? Playing God in the Garden?
addresses the many unseen aspects of farming and
the technologies that are being designed to make
planting effortless and safe. Pollan discusses how
New Leaf (the plant company which has created the
new biotechnological seeds) advertises a safer and
less expensive way of farming, while concealing
the harmful aspects of its product. The idea of
genetically altering organisms has always made me
uncomfortable. When I began to read this article,
I assume...
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Miles In Four Source Of Pollution Trash
682 words
Pollution is the introduction of harmful
substances and products into the environment. It
is a major problem in Canada and as well as the
world. Pollution not only damages the environment,
but damages us also. It has caused lots of
problems from lung cancer to the hole in the earth
s atmosphere. It is affecting our lives but we
still continue living. I think I can narrow it
down to two basic pollution, air pollution, and
water pollution. In this essay I will show you how
they affect our lives an...
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Aerosol Sprays Ozone Layer
768 words
Ozone The problem which I decided to adress in my
campaign was the problems that are currently
facing our Earths ozone layer and breathable air.
In this report I wish to educate you about the
effects of ozone and hopefully I will motivate you
to change your attitudes and actions to help with
the problem. Ozone is defined as an odorless,
colorless gas made up of three atoms of oxygen. It
exists in our Earths upper atmosphere and at
ground level. In the upper atmosphere, ozone
serves as a protecti...
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