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Hydrogen Bombs Rain Forests
709 wordsPlanet 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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Hunting And Gathering Modern Societies
1,048 wordsAs we look for a new way to live our lives, we constantly look back to remind ourselves of the way things used to be. Western culture as we know it today, did not start off as it is now, and it certainly is not going to remain the same for very long. Change has always seemed to be the human beings way of life. We strive to find something different and more effective. As we look onto the Pre Modern, Modern, and Post Modern societies we can see that there have been drastic changes throughout the a...
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American Indian Movement Bureau Of Indian Affairs
1,622 wordsOne of the modern Native Americans' most prominent leaders, Leonard Peltier, was arrested in the summer of 1975 and eventually sentenced to two life terms for a crime many believe he did not commit. The conviction and imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is an injustice. His prosecution by the United States government represents yet another attempt to snuff out American Indian culture and leaders. The outspokenness of Peltier and other AIM members may be the only reason why Leonard Peltier has sat in...
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Game Of Golf Grand Slam
1,127 wordsWhat do we know about the game of golf? We know that golfers hit a golf ball with a golf club. We know that they are trying to get that golf ball into a small hole in as few hits as possible. The way that the golfer play on TV play they make it look so easy. They all have nice swings, smooth-putting strokes, and someone carrying that heavy golf bag around. Golf hasnt always been like this though. Golfers carried their own bags, and the equipment wasnt made of state-of-the-art metal. Have you eve...
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Medium Sized Large Amount
1,149 wordsSavannah monitors (Various exanthematicus) are medium-sized monitor lizards that are usually readily available in most reptile specialty stores and from breeders. They are intelligent (for lizards), beautiful, usually tame pretty easily, and do not grow as large as some monitors. Savannahs usually are less expensive to purchase than some of the other monitor species. Savannah monitors hail from Africa, and they are also listed as a "threatened" species in their natural habitat, due to the pet tr...
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Lava Flows Earth Crust
1,090 wordsVolcano: defined is a mountain or hill formed by the accumulation of materials erupted through one or more openings (called volcanic vents) in the earth's surface. The term volcano can also refer to the vents themselves. Most volcanoes have steep sides, but some can be gently sloping mountains or even flat tablelands, plateaus, or plains. The volcanoes above sea level are the best known, but the vast majority of the world's volcanoes lie beneath the sea, formed along the global oceanic ridge sys...
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Birth Control Population Control
978 wordsLetter from Mrs. Hutchinson to The Council of the Village: I am writing to you about the lottery which we hold every year. In this lottery which a person is chosen at random and is stoned to death. I understand that you believe that since it has been tradition for so long and therefore, it is okay. It has been going on for as long as I can remember. This method has been around since the time when Jesus walked the earth. We see it in all kinds of stories in the Bible. We definitely have to pick s...
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Live His Life Free Time
1,288 wordsBill wakes up at about 6: 30 am on a Saturday morning and drinks his cup of coffee as he decides what do with his day off from work. This is not a decision that normally takes a lot of thinking because Bill loves to spend any and all of his free time in the outdoors. As he is sitting at the table he looks out his kitchen window into his backyard. This backyard is unlike the typical American backyard. There are no fences and no neighbors. Well, may one neighbor, but he lives about a mile and a ha...
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Carbon Dioxide Plant Growth
835 wordsSoil, superficial covering of most of the earths land area; an aggregation of unconsolidated mineral and organic particles produced by the combined action of wind, water, and organic decay. Soils vary widely from place to place. The chemical composition and physical structure of the soil at any given location are determined by the kind of geologic material from which it originates, by the vegetation cover, by the length of time that the soil has been weathered, by the topography, and by artifici...
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Amazon Rainforest Amazon River
1,669 wordsThe Amazon River is the second longest river in world. The headwaters begin high in the soaring Andes Mountains and stretches 6, 400 km across the South American continent to the Atlantic Ocean. It discharges between 34 to 121 million liters of water per second, and depositing an average of 3 million tons of sediments near its mouth. The outpouring of water and residue is so vast that the salt content and the color of the Atlantic Ocean are altered for a distance of about 320 km from the mouth o...
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Lightning Bolts 1 St
1,349 words... the Chorus can see evil catching up on Oedipus, and bringing doom to him, which will never end. Peripeteia is mentioned, as the Chorus can see Oedipus future changing. Oedipus has not yet been exiled from Thebes, yet the Chorus can see his luck and fame changing. This can be seen in quote 18 on the handout, which reads: to attack his fame that rings around Thebes. This shows that the Chorus can see something [this being the accusation] changing what the community thinks about Oedipus; the ac...
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Boiling Water Pulled Back
1,165 wordsThis is a brief paragraph or two on each of the major siege weapons. For the not just the besiegers but also the defenders. Please note most of these weapons were not used alone and often had many different versions of the same weapon. KNIGHT At age seven a son of a noble family was sent to a nobleman or lord, often who was a relative. Here he was a page and taught how to ride a horse, and his manners. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a knight. As the squire to the knight he would ta...
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Lavita And Joila Current Of The River Raft
1,371 wordsDear Irene, I would first like to thank you, for encouraging me to enter the competition and I could not believe that I won. As soon as they called out my name on the radio, I went running around my house, crazy, jumping up and down on my small bed, which I think I ruined the springs in it. Although its a pity you could not come with me, because the fact is that I had a spectacular holiday. There was a variety of choices on where to go, but none of them interests me except for one that I have no...
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Coral Reefs Natural History
490 wordsCharles Darwin was born in Shrewsburry, England on February 12, 1809. He is the son of Robert Waring Darwin, a physician. Darwin showed little interest in his education at Shrewsburry School and in medical studies at Edinburgh University (1825 - 27). He decided to turn away from becoming a physician after witnessing several operations performed without anesthesia. At the same time he began to be interested in geology and in natural history. He was sent to study for Holy Orders for the Church of ...
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Knocked Unconscious Lonely Mountain
1,210 wordsThe book begins with Biblo Baggins enjoying a pipe after breakfast. This is one of his favorite pleasures and he feels quite content in doing so. He is middle-aged, and resides in a burrow in the ground. One morning Gandalf, a wizard stops by to talk with Biblo. He tells Biblo that he is looking for someone to go on an adventure with him. Although Biblo is tempted he declines, but not before inviting Gandalf for tea the next morning. The next day Biblo hears his doorbell and he remembers invitin...
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Life On Mars Microscopic Organisms
619 wordsLittle Green Men or Just Little Microscopic Organisms? The question of life on Mars is a puzzle that has plagued many minds throughout the world. Life on Mars, though, is a reality. When you think of Martians, you think of little green men who are planning to invade Earth and destroy all human life, right? Well, some do and some do not. Though believing that there are little green men on Mars is just a fantasy, or is it? The kind of life that may have lived there is the kind you would never cons...
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Boiling Water Pulled Back
1,172 wordsMedieval Siege Weapons Essay submitted by Will This is a brief paragraph or two on each of the major siege weapons. For the not just the besiegers but also the defenders. Please note most of these weapons were not used alone and often had many different versions of the same weapon. KNIGHT At age seven a son of a noble family was sent to a nobleman or lord, often who was a relative. Here he was a page and taught how to ride a horse, and his manners. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a ...
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Boiling Water Pulled Back
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People Of The Town Narrative Structure
1,030 wordsSometimes, evil surfaces from the most ordinary and unpredictable everyday surroundings. This is most apparent on the short story, The Lottery, published in 1948, in which author Shirley Jackson writes of a mysterious and barbaric tradition that stems from seemingly ordinary town settings. Coulthard describes the reason of continuing appeal of The lottery is because of its nihilistic undercurrent, and not the surface attack on subservience to custom (The Explicator 226). Through the use of narra...
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Sarah Jagged Rocks Mother
732 wordsSarah stood at the top of the cliff, her toes curled around the edge of the jagged rocks. She glanced briefly down towards the circular, blue pool, which appeared to be the size of a laundry bucket from this height. She knew from experience that if she hesitated, paused to gather courage, it would only make it harder to take the step into space. She drew in a deep breath, counted to herself, ? One, two, three? and placed her life in the hands of gravity. As she descended, the magical power and s...
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