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Clean Air Act Environmental Protection Agency
1,285 words
1990, the federal Clean Air Act was passed to
improve air quality in the United States.
President Bush's proposed amendments to the Clean
Air Act initially would have led to the
introduction of alternative, non-petroleum fuels.
The petroleum and oxygenate industries responded
by offering a reformulated gasoline program as a
substitute for most of the alternate fuel
proposals. As a result, the amendments to the
federal Clean Air Act adopted in 1990 required
steps to achieve lower vehicle emission...
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World War Ii Chinese Americans
1,735 words
The latter half of the nineteenth century was an
important period in Chinese American history. The
story of their migration from their homeland to
America to seek riches with their combined
strength, knowledge and skills changed the face of
Hawaii and the American West. Unfortunately, this
dynamic period also saw the rise of racism and
paranoia over Chinese competition for jobs.
Chinese immigration to the United States in the
mid-nineteenth century was only a part of a
greater exodus from Southe...
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George Washington Carver Booker T Washington
582 words
George Washington Carver was a good innovator and
developed many useful agricultural products.
Carver worked with many agricultural and plants.
He went to a good college and worked and studied
at one. George lived a plantation life in Missouri
and studies in Kansas. Carver won awards and had a
statue in his honor. The stories of his childhood
and his mother will be stated. This information
will be presented in this paper. George Washington
Carver was born in 1861 near Diamond Grove,
Missouri. Di...
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Petrol Kerosene Mineral Turpentine Kerosene Mineral Turpentine Fire
1,221 words
A fire investigation is a difficult task. The
devastation, charred debris, collapsed structures,
water soaked ashes, along with the smoke and
stench, make an investigation uninviting and
seemingly impossible. There are different types of
fires; in homes, factories, brush, and in the
forest. The best way to investigate a fire would
be to use a trained team of personal. Fire
marshals and private investigators with their
experience of fires along with police officers
skills for determining motives ...
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Amount Of Sunlight Ecological Succession Time
319 words
The world around us is slowly and constantly
changing. We might never see the small alterations
happen, but many years later changes will surly be
visible. Over time small changes add up and soon
the whole ecosystem is different. This slow change
in the land and habitat is called ecological
succession. Animals, plants, and weather are some
factors that cause this type of change in an
ecosystem. Ecological succession begins with a
pioneer community. In many cases lichens are the
"pioneers. " Lich...
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Sir Francis Drake Santo Domingo
572 words
Huron Indian myth has it that in ancient times,
when the land was barren and the people were
starving, the Great Spirit sent forth a woman to
save humanity. As she traveled over the world,
everywhere her right hand touched the soil, there
grew potatoes. And everywhere her left hand
touched the soil, there grew corn. And when the
world was rich and fertile, she sat down and
rested. When she arose, there grew tobacco... The
sacred origin of tobacco and the first pipe
(Schoolcraft) c. 6000 BC: Expe...
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Thousand Acres Patriarchal Society
613 words
Books that are chosen to be read in English class
are not always what I would consider to be my
favorite books. However, as I have progressed in
years, I have begun to learn that, although a book
my not appeal to me, that does not mean that the
novel lacks greatness. There are all different
kinds of books and naturally, different reading
levels. There are the Mary Higgins Clark books,
that while entertaining, may not have the depth to
be considered a masterpiece. On the other end of
the spectrum...
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Dust Bowl Historical Context
855 words
For this assignment we are asked mainly to answer
the questions given to use over the reading
material, as a measure of accounting for each
student completing the reading. In class we have
briefly discussed these articles to the extent to
figure out that most saw the article written by
Walter Webb as being less than factual from a
Historical context. On top of the use of
unpoltically excepted terminology, Webbs use of
out dated opinions and knowledge leads to reader
to conclude that his particul...
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Main Root Begins Main Root Begins To Grow Seeds
515 words
Germination is the development of a young embryo
into a young seedling. We need germination for
plants to grow. With no plants there would be less
oxygen and less food for animals. In germination
you need water, the right temperature, sunlight,
minerals, and oxygen. You need water to begin
germination. When water soaks the seed coat, it
splits open. The seed coat is the outer layer of
the seed coat that protects it. Water softens the
seed coat, making it easier to split. The
temperature depends ...
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Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
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Venus is the 2 nd closest planet to the Sun, and
the closest planet to Earth. Venus can reach
visual magnitudes (brightness) of - 4. 4, making
it the brightest object in the night sky,
excluding the moon. Venus was once considered
Earth's twin, a swampy place with oceans and
strange creatures were imagined. After sending
probes such as Mariner, Pioneer Venus, Veteran
(which landed on Venus), Vega, Magellan and
Galileo, we know that Venus is the victim of a
"run-away" greenhouse effect. Mars is t...
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Effects Of Acid Acid Deposition
770 words
Acid Rain is a type of air pollution, formed when
oxides of sulfur and nitrogen combine with
atmosphere moisture to yield sulfuric and nitric
acids, which may then be carried long distances
from a source before they are deposited by rain.
This pollution may also be snow, fog, or a dry
form of precipitation. Acid rain is currently a
subject of great controversy because of widespread
environmental damage for which it has been blamed,
including eroding structures, injuring crops and
forests, and th...
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Effects Of Marijuana Smoke Marijuana
954 words
The third largest agricultural good in the nation
and a ten billion-dollar industry has nothing to
do with the agriculture we are use to. This good
is Marijuana, an illegal drug. It is "the most
widely used illicit drug in America" n (Gold v).
In Florida alone, marijuana sales are greater than
all businesses except tourism (Gold v). What is
marijuana? Marijuana, a plant, known as Cannabis
Sativa, labeled that by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753
(Grinspoon 1), is "one of nature's hardiest
specimens" (Abe...
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Women And Children Wounded Knee
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Wounded Knee was a terrible event in US history.
It showed how the US government didn't understand
the Native Americans and treated them badly and
unfairly. Big Foot was the chief of a subtribe of
the Lakota called Miniconjou. He was very old and
had pneumonia. He was taking his tribe to the Pine
Ridge Reservation in south-western South Dakota.
Most of the women and children in Big Foot's tribe
were family members of the warriors who had died
in the Plains wars. The Indians had agreed to live
on...
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In Th Lif Of A Slav Girl Is
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Incidents in th Lif of a Slav Girl is a narrative
that describe a young girls trials and
tribulations will bing an involuntary member of th
institution of slavery. Jacobs, lik very othr
victim of th atrocity known as slavery, wish's
that popl in th north would do mor to put a stop
to this harmful practice. Slavery is an understood
dishonor of th past. This is tru, not only because
of th injustice don to th slavs, but for th native
facts that th slav hours and the wiv's underwent.
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Battle Of Bull Run George Gordon
666 words
social studies George Meade Do you know who was
the general for the Second Battle of Bull Run?
Everyone knows what the Second Battle of Bull Run
is but who was the general? Some people even know
that the North won that battle. Most people do not
know that General George Meade defeated General
Lee at that battle. General George Mead
accomplished much during wartime. General George
Meade had many accomplishments during wartime.
First of all, he defeated General Lee at the
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George Washington Carver Crop Rotation Peanuts
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George Washington Carver Agricultural chemist
George Washington Carver developed crop rotation
methods for conserving nutrients in soil and
discovered hundreds of new uses for crops such as
the peanut, which created new markets for farmers,
especially in the South. Born of slave parents in
Diamond Grove, Missouri, Carver was rescued from
Confederate kidnappers as an infant. He began his
education in Newton County in southwest Missouri,
where he worked as a farm hand and studied in a
one-room sch...
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Phrase Quot Poem Quot
792 words
In C. K. Williams " Grief, " the speaker
explores the all too common experience of losing a
loved one. The speaker describes the pain involved
in sitting helplessly by, only able to watch,
while another human being slowly withdraws into
death. The poem " Grief, " like many of
C. K. Williams poems, is a maelstrom of memories,
thoughts, emotions, and other human experiences.
In this particular poem, the speaker is torn by
the slow death of his elderly mother. His attempts
to co...
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World War Ii Chinese Americans
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Research Paper Immigration of the Eastern Dragon
Kok, Steven ID# 102951 B. Ellington English 201
Immigration of the Eastern Dragons The latter half
of the nineteenth century was an important period
in Chinese American history. The story of their
migration from their homeland to America to seek
riches with their combined strength, knowledge and
skills changed the face of Hawaii and the American
West. Unfortunately, this dynamic period also saw
the rise of racism and paranoia over Chinese
competit...
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Nitrogen Fixation Atmospheric Nitrogen Bacteria
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a) Production of food: cheese, yogurt, vinegar,
wine, sour cream, etc. b) Industry: cleaning up
petroleum, remove waste products from the water,
synthesize drugs and chemicals. Symbiosis: The
interdependence of different species, which are
sometimes called symbiont's. There are three main
types of symbiosis, based upon the specific
relationship between the species involved:
mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Symbiosis
that results in mutual benefit to the
interdependent organisms is common...
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World Book Nervous System
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An insecticide is used to kill insects. There are
many kinds of insecticides, but organic
insecticides are the most commonly used (World
Book, 1999). Organic insecticides are split into
three different categories: Chlorinated
hydrocarbon insecticides, organophosphate
insecticides, and carbamate insecticides (World
Book, 1999). In this paper, Ill explore how toxic
each of these insecticides are, how they affect
wildlife, humans, and the environment, and what we
can do to help. WHY USE INSECTICIDE...
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