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Civil War Task Force
1,645 wordsTask Force Montagua: New Horizons II "And that's when my consciousness was born" In the early part of 1999 Guatemala was hit with both a hurricane and an earthquake. The United States government agreed to activate troops to be sent to Guatemala and several of its neighbors. My unit, being Military Police, was sent to provide force protection for all American service members working in and around Guatemala. I will provide some information on Guatemala and then provide a detailed account of my mis...
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Hot Spot Marine Life
562 wordsI often wonder how I want to spend the rest of my life. My dream is to explore the ocean and discover the many secrets that still lie beneath the waters surface. I am approaching a time in my life when decision making will pave the way for my future. To have the best of both worlds, a rewarding career and a life revolving around aquatic life, marine biology looks very appealing to me. The study of marine biology would allow me to study and eventually have a profession in the area of marine life ...
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Million Years Ago Hot Spot
346 wordsA hot spot is said to be a volcano that is recognized by an age progression from one end of the chain to the other. An active volcano commonly serves as an "anchor" at one end of the chain. After minutes of searching the web I found a hot spot that was not included in the Hawaii or Yellow Stone hot spots. I found my hot spot near India by the island of About 66 - 68 million years ago present-day India was above the hot spot and great volumes of basaltic lava erupted to produce the Deccan Traps. ...
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Seismic Waves Plate Boundaries
1,198 words... dates. An example of the most well known and studied fault is the San Andreas Fault located of the coast of California. The origin of volcanoes: Hot spots, can be found on plate boundaries or inside the plates. The hot spot is a place deep inside the Earth that begins to form molten lava from extreme heat conditions. It will quickly rise up, pushing and melting its way to the surface resulting in a volcano. Because of the constant moving of the plates, the volcano will be carried away from t...
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Oceanic Crust Mid Ocean
1,629 wordster> Describe the frequency, origin and distribution of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, subduction zones and continental shields. Earthquakes are happening almost everyday all over the world. Most of the time earthquakes are not strong enough to be felt by people, but the shaking caused by an earthquake is recorded by a seismogram. These are located all over the world at different points. Only occasionally will a larger magnitude earthquake strike and cause damage to the...
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Lava Flows Hot Spot
448 wordsMt. Kilauea is one of the worlds most active volcanoes. The Hawaiian name Kilauea means spewing or much spreading. Located on the big island of Hawaii, it has had 61 major eruptions in its huge lifetime. Mt. Kilauea has an elevation of 4, 200 feet and has an area that consists of 552 square miles. Common questions asked about Kilauea are: What kinds of forces cause Mt. Kilauea erupt constantly over a long period of time, and why dont any other volcanoes do this? In response, the answers to these...
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Oriented Policing Criminological Theories
2,255 words... response strategies is given greater weight and importance under problem-oriented policing than under community policing. Problem-oriented policing specifically promotes using alternatives to the formal criminal justice system, redefining the nature of the police's relationship to this and other systems; community policing does not explicitly address this relationship. Community policing strongly emphasizes organizing and mobilizing the community, almost to the point that doing so becomes a ...
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Shield Volcanoes Volcanic Activity
435 wordsKilauea Hawaii consists of a string of islands, or an archipelago. Kilauea is located on one of these islands, the central Hawaii island. Kilauea is one of the world? s most active volcanic craters. Craters are formed either by the massive collapse of material during volcanic activity, by unusually violent explosions, or later by erosion during dormancy (Compton's). It is situated on the southeastern slope of the great volcanic mountain Mauna Loa. Its elevation is 1111 m (3646 ft. ) above sea le...
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