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Solid Waste Million Tons
847 wordsReusing products is one way to cut down on what we throw away this is called recycle. Recycle reduces the amount of waste that needs to be buried in a landfill. This reduction in volume may result in reduced disposal costs to add to the useful life expectancy of a landfill. And recycling puts discarded material to valuable use, cutting down on a litter and conserving natural resources. In some localities, recycled materials are sold. A person living in an industrialized, wealthy nation may produ...
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Rail Road Farquhar Neck
629 wordsAmbrose Bierce's short story transpires in Northern Alabama at Owl Creeks Bridge. This bridge is used for railroads to crossover the river unearthed below. The scenery as describes in the story is a forested area on a bright sunny day and carries over night until the next mourning. This time frame is in the eyes of the main character, Peyton Farquhar, but in actuality the events in the story occurs in less than a day, realistically in a few hours. Farquhar is minutes from being hung from the Owl...
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Environmental Protection Agency Tobacco Smoke
268 wordsEnvironmental Tobacco Smoke Mark Ritter Matt Porter Research Paper November 25, 1996 Tobacco smoking has long been recognized as a major cause of death and disease, responsible for an estimated 434, 000 deaths per year in the United States. After the Environmental Protection Agency and the Surgeon General stated that cigarettes cause lung cancer there was a tremendous movement to make cigarettes illegal. Now the debate is on environmental tobacco smoke also known as secondhand smoke, passive smo...
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Jerry Springer Talk Shows
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Sits On The Horizon White Owl Time
656 wordsFrom the mountains, you can see it coming. Time sits on the horizon like rain clouds, holding out. In the cities you carry it around in your pocket. Time is organized around where you have to be. You dash blindly around busy corners, always racing against it. But in the mountains, the world sits on the horizon, refusing to move. Before I ever went to the city, I used to know what that meant. Now I found myself trying to remember, waking up every morning to look at the mountains and see what they...
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Green Prairie Grass Close My Eyes Child
422 wordsThe vivid memory of the Nebraska plains never leaves me. I can return to this place at any moment. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. My lungs are filled with the clean and pure air, a welcome change from the thick hazy air of the outside world. I am alone with only my thoughts and emotions to keep me company. The summer breeze, warm upon my face is filled with the sweet smell of the tall billowing grass. Soft green hills surround me. I am not certain where they begin or where they end. Far...
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Type Ii Diabetes Type I Diabetes
1,064 wordsDiabetes: The Silent Killer You sink into your oversized bean bag, tears flowing down your face. You just got back from the doctors office. Your test came back and you are the results are positive-your diabetes has been confirmed! You knew you had to be careful because your dad has it, but now you? Your life is falling apart. Just as you are about to break down crying again, your email system rings on your computer, You have mail. You open it, expecting junk mail, instead it is titled Diabetes. ...
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Blood Stream Cause Death
739 wordsAlot of people who have tried drugs have experienced side-effects which are sometimes dangerous. If the users do not understand what they are doing it could end up in fatality. Not everyone reacts to drugs in the same way as others People with mental disorders may be pushed over the edge by their experiences with LSD (Lysergic acid diethyl amide, a hallucinogenic drug) and similar drugs that produce hallucinations. Effects vary with body weight. Lighter people will get bigger effects to heavier ...
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Back Into Space Greenhouse Gases
1,088 wordsGlobal Warming Several issues concerning the environment are brought to the publics attention every year, but none has more of a direct effect on earth and its environment than global warming. Coincidentally it appears to be the least of the populations concern. Global warming is the theory that our planet is getting hotter due to an increase in the greenhouse effect brought about by the increase of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere. Global warming is caused by the greenhouse gase...
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Ray Bradbury Guy Montag
1,000 wordsNo books and the governments promotion of television dishes society's ability to think and to communicate is what Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 displays. Firefighters of the future have a different job then presently. In the future, they are to burn books to stiffly the intellects of the society for the government. Because the homes are fire proof, there is no need for them to focus on the homes. The government promotes television to occupy society from conversation with each other and expanding ...
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Metric Tons Rocky Mountains
2,028 wordsGold Gold Antwan Lucas Gold Gold, symbol Au, soft, dense, bright yellow metallic element. Gold is one of the transition elements of the periodic table (see Periodic Law); its atomic number is 79. Pure gold is the most malleable and ductile of all the metals. It can easily be beaten or hammered to a thickness of 0. 000013 cm (0. 000005 in), and 29 g (1. 02 oz) could be drawn into a wire 100 km (62 mi) long. It is one of the softest metals (hardness, 2. 5 to 3) and is a good conductor of heat and ...
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Low Birth Weight Tobacco Smoke
1,286 wordsTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in Malaysia. Under the current law, smoking is banned in all public places. These include amusement centres, theatres, hospitals, clinics, public vehicles and air-conditioned restaurants. Likewise, anyone under age of eighteen is not allowed to buy cigarettes or any tobacco products. If the seller is not sure of the buyers age, then it is advisable to check his identity card. Free cigarette samples are not allowed to be distributed at the...
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Sleeping Bear Lament Bear Lament Death
747 wordsGrim reaper Assorted Fire Events David Means 165 pp, Fourth Estate The penultimate story in David Means extremely rewarding first book is the one that gives the collection its title. In it there is a paragraph that begins like this: One morning in Rochester, my aunt mother of five, member of a fine, upstanding family with no deep-felt hardships (apparent from the outside), on the way to her job at the high school took a can of gasoline, placed it in her car, drove to a quiet cul-de-sac and poure...
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Evidence To Support Lot Of Money
1,325 wordsHAARPHAARP is an extremely low frequency radio wave generator. It stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It is a massive antennae array up in Alaska on the Copper River Basin. It s altitude fluctuates between 1000 and 3000 feet above sea level. It is operated by the US military, more specifically the Navy and Air Force. It operates between 2. 8 and 10 MHz. It was also voted one of the 10 most under reported news stories of the year by journalists. Scientific Perspectives- HAA...
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Ralph D Spencer Jimmy Valentine Tools
339 wordsHenry As Ralph D. Spencer strolled down the sidewalk, he knew of a few things he had to do. For he liked being Ralph Spencer and did not want to return to being Jimmy Valentine. First, he went back to the bank where everyone was still trying to grasp ahold of what just happend. He took his soon to be wife by the hand anda's they walked to the shoe store, he tried to explain. He told her everything about his previous life. The way he broke into safes, the many times he had been in and out of jail...
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End Of Book Greek Army
1,604 wordsThe essay of Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. From the heroic efforts in the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his time were highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus case, valuable, order. In ...
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Fell In Love Jean De
752 wordsJean de Florette Love is one of the biggest parts in this movie, if not the biggest part. Jean de Florette to me is a love story, throughout the movie the talk of love was always present. Even the place it was set in is about love France; love is the first thing I think of when people talk about France. In this move almost every character has thoughts of love. Jean de Florette had the most passion for life in this movie. When he talked he showed so much life, with every word he spoke he expresse...
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Juan Ponce De Leon Puerto Rico
769 wordsJuan Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De Leon was born 1474 in Terms de San Campos, Spain. He served as a page for a powerful lord. Schooled in warfare from an early age, he took part in many campaigns waged by the Spaniards to expel the Moors. In 1493, at the age of 19, he volunteered to accompany Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. They sailed through the island chain of the Lesser Antilles. Ponce spent the next few years as a soldier and distinguished himself for bravery. He also acted as...
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Early Morning First Day
450 wordsNick and the River by Kirk Winter mute In Ernest Hemingway's short story Big Two-Hearted River, there are very few obvious relationships. But the relationship that is most important to the story is that of the main character, Nick, and the river itself. Nicks feelings towards the river extend beyond the banks and the waters to its inhabitants. While Nick may not actually speak to the river during the story, he does relate to it and show definite feelings of contentment and fondness towards it th...
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Face Becoming Glass Janet E Kaufman Quot
461 wordsStephanie Harm" Arthur Peyton, " describes another workers body in the act of assuming the characteristics of his materials, this time employing more explicitly technological imagery. The speaker, also a miner with silicosis, asks the woman he would have married to testify for him" O love tell the committee that I know" so that she can project his haunting, ghostly voice into the official avenues of the legal system. He describes himself and his world taken over by glass, in ...
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