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Rest Of The World Indian Ocean
1,954 wordsFor nearly three decades in the early 15 th century China was the most powerful force in the world. They had fine artisans who crafted the most beautiful, delicate porcelains and silks in the known world. They had the technologies of firepower, astronomy, and oceanic navigation. They had the belief that they were the center of the world, the Middle Kingdom, and that the Son of Heaven ruled them. But most importantly, they had the means to bring their influences and culture to the rest of the wor...
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Love For Nature Lord Byron
709 wordsLord 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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Man And The Sea View Of Life
1,959 wordsErnest Hemingway's' colorful life as a big game hunter, fisherman, and Nobel Prize winner began in quiet Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899. In high school Hemingway played football and also boxed and it was the latter which was responsible for a permanent eye injury that caused the army to reject his efforts to enlist in World War I. Boxing, however, finally proved to be an asset to Hemingway, for it gave him a lasting enthusiasm for prizefighting, material for stories, and a tendency to talk of...
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Readers Digest Sound Waves
2,571 wordsThere are many differences between Dolphins and Porpoises. People might think that the two are the same mammal, but they are not. Dolphins have cone-shaped teeth and porpoises have spade-shape teeth. The easiest way to tell them apart is that the porpoise is smaller in size and is broader across the back. Dolphins are classified in the Delphinidae species and there are thirty to fifty different kinds of species in this family (Min asian 204). The Porpoises are classified under the Phoceonidae fa...
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Ocean Currents Pacific Ocean
348 wordsSticking with the theme of ocean currents, (from portfolio # 2), I will reflect on Jan Kay? s Dec. 4, 2000 article titled? Warming taking food from Pacific. ? This article was retrieved from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. According to this article, warmer waters and changing ocean currents within the Pacific Ocean maybe causing a decline in plankton. Ocean plankton are the food source for many larger ocean creatures. According to a 50 year study, conducted by California Cooperative Fisheries In...
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Tropical Rainforests Deep Sea
543 wordsSnelgrove and Grass in The Deep Sea: Desert and Rainforest published in Oceanus, volume 38 in 1995 argue that the popular belief that the deep sea is little more than an ocean desert is a pure fallacy. Contrary to such thinking a multitude of benthic organisms dwell on the ocean bottom; despite the frigid temperatures and high pressure, a large heterogeneity of creatures, rivaling in variety and number those inhabiting tropical rainforests, thrive in this environment. The analogy of the ocean de...
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U S History Panama Canal
1,260 wordsAfter the war with Spain at Cuba, the United Stats realized that a faster route was necessary in order to deploy its warships from Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean. It was because the warships in Pacific Ocean had to take a detour around Cape Horn, which is located at the extreme South end of South America, in order to go to the sea area of Cuba. The total distance amounted to 224, 000 kilometers, and this great distance caused great amount of wasted time during the war. (web) Panama Canal was th...
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National Hurricane Center Atlantic Ocean
1,449 wordsThe term "hurricane" is a name given to violent storms that originate over the tropical or subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or North Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes need warm tropical oceans, moisture and light winds above them in order to maintain themselves active. Those storms other than the ones considered typhoons are known as tropical cyclones, which is the general name for all such storms including hurricanes and typhoons. Hurricanes are named based on ce...
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Oceanic Crust Ocean Basins
1,875 wordsThe Cordilleran Orogeny The earths lithosphere can be divided into two major structural features: ocean basins and continents. Ocean basins, as we discussed in another essay, are formed at spreading ridges and consumed at subduction zones. The continents are a different story. How did the continents originate, and how have they changed over time? The origin of the earliest continental crust is still relatively obscure, but the evolution of the continents over time is not: the continents have cle...
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Science Daily Hot Spots
622 wordsReport on Biology We all know that first life forms appeared in water. Water is the cradle of nature. Millions years ago first Amphibians stepped on the ground and started to conquer new living space. The result we can see all around us. Many people say that few thousands years ago our planet was full of life and promises. Nowadays humanity in its thirst for development turns the Earth into a desert of concrete and stone. The more we build, the more we destroy. We dont value the air we breathe, ...
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Edna Feels First Time
792 wordsInThe Awakening The Awakening In the book The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier is an unhappy, married, mother who finds an outlet from her life through a welcoming ocean. A certain ungovernable dread hung about her when in water, unless there was a hand nearby that might reach out and reassure her. (p. 27) Edna is frightened by the ocean and very overwhelmed by its massive strength. Then she learns to swim and becomes fascinated by what was once an intimidator. How easy it is! It is no...
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Stop Global Warming Carbon Dioxide
1,721 wordsEFTHIMIOS MARIAKAKIS The greenhouse effect and global warming are issues that are talked about by geologists all the time. The greenhouse effect is a natural process that keeps the earth at temperatures that are livable. Energy from the sun warms the earth when its heat rays are absorbed by greenhouse gasses and become trapped in the atmosphere. Some of the most common greenhouse gasses are water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane. If there were no greenhouse gasses, very few rays would be absor...
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Million Metric Tons Gulf Of Mexico
2,560 wordsCommercial Commercial Fishing COMMERCIAL FISHING Commercial fishing is a worldwide enterprise that involves the capture of marine and freshwater fish and shellfish and their preparation for market. Fishing equipment ranges from small boats whose nets are cast and hauled in by hand to factory ships equipped with the most advanced technologies for finding, harvesting, and preparing huge amounts of fish. These large catches are very costly, however, not only in the price of their equipment and fuel...
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Coral Bleaching Coral Reefs
1,512 wordsImagine yourself observing one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth. Thousands of species of plants and animals provide a dizzying array of color and motion. Massive structures provide a canopy that shelters hundreds of exotic species in a myriad of microclimate's. As land-based observers, we almost automatically assume that this is a description of the rich ecosystem of a tropical rainforest. However, if we take ourselves off the safety of dry land and immerse ourselves in the ocean, we will...
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Earth Surface Theory Is Based
1,417 wordsAccording to the Bible, God created the first man, Adam, from the soil and the first woman, Eve, from Adam? s rib. These events happened in the Garden of Eden almost six thousand years ago. That is one of the many beliefs of how carbon based life forms, otherwise referred to as living organisms, came to exist on Earth. Since the beginning of man? s reign on earth he has tried to explain his origins. He has used various religions and myths of being created by some higher power and he has looked t...
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2 5 Million Columbia River
2,056 wordsThe 1, 000 plus species of Salmon and Steelhead that live off the western coast of the United States and breed in the rivers and tributaries of California, Washington, and Oregon have greatly fallen in population. 106 species have become extinct and 314 more are at risk of extinction in the Columbia River Basin, the focus of this report. The causes of this are dams on the rivers stopping salmon from breeding and smolt from returning to the ocean, and commercial fishing boats depleting mature pop...
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Toxic Chemicals Heavy Metals
1,067 wordsMarine Contamination and Pollution According to the United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP) of 1972, marine pollution is? the introduction by man directly or indirectly, of substances or energy to the marine environment resulting in deleterious effects such as harm to living resources, hazards to human health; hindrance of marine activities including fishing, impairing the quality for use of sea water, and reduction of amenities? (Clark 3). Si...
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Noahs Ark Persian Gulf
6,495 wordsSkeptical view of the flood myth As skeptics have long been aware, there was no global flood in the last 5000 years, a boatload of animals did not ground on so-called Mount Ararat or on any mountain, and the worlds animals are not descended from two or seven pairs of each species that lived during the third millennium BC. Nor is there any archaeological proof that a man survived a flood by being on a boat loaded with animals, food, and drinking water. The Noahs Ark book summarized here does not ...
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Achieve This Goal Lewis And Clark
2,426 wordsBy the late 1700 s, the young United States began to look westward and dream about the possibilities it presented. They wondered if there was in fact an all water route from the Mississippi to the Pacific, what the whole continent actually looked like, and really, what was out there. There were many individual and groups of people that helped pave an opening for the eventual settlement of the American west. Two of the most recognizable and important groups that opened up the west were the Lewis ...
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Belle Dame Sans Merci Quot Quot
5,864 wordsElizabeth H. Davis In nearly all transformations of syllabics, deletion disturbs the stanzas into free verse. That process is physically evident in typescripts of " To a Snail" and " A Grave. " pivotal typescript / manuscript of " A Grave" also shows the close relationship between excision and free verse (Rosenbach I: 02: 14). The key syllabic draft, itself a revision, begins the same way the final draft does? " Man looking into the sea. " Four types of mar...
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