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Hydrogen Bombs Rain Forests
709 words
Planet Earth: Fate of The Earth was a powerful,
informative, and inspirational documentary. The
narrator, Richard Kiley, progressed through many
points about our precious earth including her
beginnings, her slow deterioration by man as well
as other factors, and theories as to her what
could be her end. The beginning images of earth,
approximately four million years ago, can be
described a barren yet fertile land with the
prospect for life to flourish. Prehistoric
volcanoes exploded with gases a...
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Billion Years Ago Carbon Dioxide
1,230 words
Our understanding and our modern perception of our
solar system, the Milky Way, has been drastically
reshaped from the corresponding perception of only
a few hundred years ago. Our Solar System, the
Milky Way is probably about 4 - 5 billion years
old. Only in the last 400 years or so have we
realized that the earth is not the "center", and
that in the Universe alone there is an immense 200
billion "Suns" in a galaxy like our own. Although
the origin of the solar system is uncertain, most
scienti...
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What Would Happen If The Moon Were Destroyed
1,095 words
What would happen if the moon was destroyed? I
have often wondered what would happen if the moon
were destroyed and how it would be destroyed.
Would a crazy scientist nuke it? Maybe an asteroid
would hit it. Astronomers have catalogued all
large objects in space that are larger than 500
kilometers in diameter and non-of them seem to be
headed towards our moon. Based on this
information, the only conclusion that I can come
up with, was if the moon was to be blown up by
some crazy scientist. Many ...
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Love For Nature Lord Byron
709 words
Lord Byron wrote a long poem, published in cantos,
about a pilgrim named Childe Harold who he modeled
after himself. The journeys he goes on are similar
to the ones Lord Byron encounters in his lifetime.
The speaker in Lord Byron's Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage is Childe Harold. In Canto IV, he
begins by discussing his love for nature and goes
on to apostrophize the In the first stanza, Childe
Harold discusses the beauty he sees in nature. He
finds pleasure and rapture in nature which he
compares t...
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South African Cultural Groups
804 words
South African cuisine is a combination of the
recipes from the many cultural groups that have
co-existed in the country over the past 350 years.
The Khoisan, the first known inhabitants of the
country, were mainly hunter-gatherers. Later, the
potato, gem squash and other vegetables for their
dishes. Local vegetables that play an important
role in South African cooking include tomatoes,
potatoes, green beans, cabbage, mealies, and
pumpkin. Fruits such as quince, peaches, mangoes,
citrus, apricots...
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Book Is Told Captured By The Nautilus Professor
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Title - 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea Setting -
This book usually took place in the giant
submarine the Nautilus. The Nautilus roamed the
world's oceans. A group of men were captured by
the Nautilus which they thought was a sea monster.
The ship was run by captain Nemo. Point of View -
This book is told by the first narrator. The book
is told by Professor Aronnax. He tells about there
adventure of being hostages on the Nautilus and
what they go through and do on the ship. Main
Characters - The m...
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Killer Whales Pacific Northwest
852 words
Killer Whale, largest member of the dolphin
family. Killer whales occur in more parts of the
world than probably any other cetacean (see
Whale). They occur in all oceans, both in the open
ocean and close to shore, but are more common in
the colder, more productive waters of both
hemispheres than in the Tropics. Resident
populations may cover an area of several hundred
square kilometers. Transient populations often
move through an area rapidly, swimming more than
1000 km (more than 600 mi) along ...
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Billion Years Ago Million Years Ago
687 words
The Principle Events in the Evolution of the
Earth's Atmosphere The literal translation of the
word atmosphere is "sphere of vapors." The Earth's
atmosphere is a protective sphere of vapors, or
air that surrounds the Earth and provides it with
a layer of insulation from the harmful rays of the
sun. It is a vital part of the Earth, and has
changed dramatically since the beginning of time.
The earth's atmosphere has gradually changed since
the Earth's birth approximately 4. 6 million years
ago. In...
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Toxic Wastes Natural Environment
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Canada and all of the developed countries in the
world produce some kind of toxic waste (s). It
doesn't matter whether it's a chocolate bar
wrapper or a canister of highly radioactive
plutonium, they " re potentially dangerous to us
and / or our natural environment unless properly
disposed of. Toxic waste is defined as any waste
that is hazardous to human health or to our
natural environment. According to the Institute of
Chemical Waste Management, about 15 % of our
garbage is classified as toxi...
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Emily Dickinson Sordid Excellence One
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I cannot live with You It would be Life And Life
is over there Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps
the Key to Putting up Our life His Porcelain Like
a Cup Discarded of the Housewife Quaintor Broke A
newer Sevres pleases Old Ones crack I could not
dewitt You For One must wait To shut the Others
Gaze down You could not And I Could I stand by And
see You freeze Without my Right of Frost Deaths
privilege? Nor could I rise with You Because Your
Face Would put out Jesus That New Grace Glow plain
and for...
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The Spanish American War
1,281 words
During the last years of the nineteenth century,
the United States would find itself involved in
what John Jay, the American secretary of state,
later referred to as a "splendid little war; begun
with highest motives, carried on with magnificent
intelligence and spirit, favored by that fortune
which loves the brave. " From an American
standpoint, because there were few negative
results, and so many significantly positive
consequences, John Jay was correct in calling the
Spanish-American War a "s...
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Las Vegas Casinos Oceans Eleven Time
467 words
Oceans Eleven, a showcase for the tough-guy
shenanigans of that glitzy showbiz gang known as
the Rat Pack -- Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. ,
Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and, of course, Frank
Sinatra. Booze flows and wisecracks fly when
eleven army buddies are reunited; only this time
they " re not trading war stories. They " re
planning to rob five Las Vegas casinos of several
million dollars -- assuming they can steer clear
of the big-time racketeer who's gotten wind of
their scheme (Video flick...
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Gene Pool Northern Hemisphere
1,207 words
Introduction It is unlikely that any family of
fish has received as much attention as the
Salmoninae. Many have a particularly heart-felt
interest in the Salmoninae (trout, salmon, and
char) because they love to fish. But man often
destroys that which he loves, and the Salmoninae
are no exception to this phenomenon. Exploitation
of these fish has led to the extinction of certain
species in some areas, but the attempt to preserve
our valued fisheries has resulted in extensive
research on the Salm...
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Living Organisms Magnetic Field
910 words
Could icy moons of giant planets, such as Europa
and Callisto, provide possible habitable
environments for living organisms? Until such task
is actually accomplished, scientists and
researchers all over our world will forever be
trying to find life in other parts of both our
galaxy, and the Universe. Such fascination with
extraterrestrial life has been brought to somewhat
of a peak with the recent findings on two of
Jupiter's so-called Galilean Satellites: Europa
and Callisto. The findings from ...
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Miles Per Hour Large Amount
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Dangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes
Floods and hurricanes have been effecting the
lives of people around the world for years. This
research paper is going to state some of the worst
floods and hurricanes, and how future ones can be
controlled. A flood is an overflow of water on dry
land. The two types of floods are coastal and
river floods. Coastal floods are the first topic
in this research paper. A coastal flood is the
flooding of beaches and surrounding areas;
including bar spit...
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Ocean Floor Feet Long
597 words
Classification of Dogfish sharks Kingdom Animalia
(animals) Phylum Chordata SubPhylum Vertebrata
(vertebrates) Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous
fish) Subclass Elasmobranch ii (sharks and rays)
Order Squaliformes (dogfish sharks) Family
Squalidae Genus Squalus Species acanthus
Introduction Sharks are fish that have been around
longer then dinosaurs have existed. They live in
waters all over the world, in every ocean, and
even in some rivers and lakes. Sharks, unlike
other fish, have no bones; ...
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Long Slender Beaks Found In Tropical Dolphins
509 words
The mammalian dolphins are small, streamlined
whales, usually with a well-defined, bearlike
snout. They are often called porpoises, but that
name is usually reserved for similar, but beatles,
whales of the family Phocoenidae (see porpoise).
Dolphins are popularly noted for grace,
intelligence, playfulness, and friendliness to
man. The most widely recognized species are the
common and bottle-nosed dolphins (Delphinus
delphi's and Tursiops truncated; see photograph);
both are of the family Delphin...
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Teddy Roosevelt Wallace Stevens
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Panama Canal It didn t take long for the world to
realize that Panama is the narrowest strip of land
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. From the
early sixteenth century, explorers, conquerors,
treasure seekers, settlers, the military and
engineers have descended on Panama to find a route
that would join the two oceans. A modern day
Panamanian anthropologist says, A road, a
railroad, or a canal; they didn t concern
themselves with the rest. That s been the story
here for hundreds of years. ...
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Noise Pollution Air Pollution
740 words
As time Pollution 4 Pollution As time advances
pollution is every where, humans more and more
rely on machines to live their lives. Machines
like cars and trucks, airplanes, computer; all of
which produce some kind of pollution. Maybe air,
water, and even noise pollution are cause by these
machines. Efforts to improve the standard of
living for humans have resulted in pollution. Much
of the worlds air, water, and land are now
partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places
have become uninhab...
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Plate Tectonics Ocean Basins
530 words
Plate Tectonics is theory of global tectonics
(geologic structural deformations) that has served
as a master key in modern geology for
understanding the structure, history, and dynamics
of the earths crust. The theory is based on the
observation that the earths solid crust is broken
up into about a dozen semirigid plates. The
boundaries of these plates are zones of tectonic
activity, where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
tend to occur. Plate Tectonics also are the cause
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