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Drunk Driving Accidents Legalize Marijuana
1,684 wordsI am a law abiding citizen, who pays hard earned tax dollars to the state and I want a chance to be heard. This letter will be representing millions of citizens who want to legalize smoking marijuana responsibly. A question that I will state is why alcohol is legal and marijuana is not. Marijuana has many different uses such as medicine, paper, clothing, protein, and could be used a highly taxed product, in which the government could make a tremendous amount of money. I ask the state of Californ...
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Clean Water Act Net Loss
560 wordsEvery year our nations wetlands have an estimated loss of 117, 000 acres. This means every five minutes an area the size of a football field is lost. What people do not understand is that we need wetlands for many beneficial reasons. Most people do not even know what wetlands consist of. There are four major types of wetlands which are: isolated wetlands, bogs of the Northeast, bottomland hardwood forest wetlands, and playa lakes. Isolated wetlands consist of small, seasonal ponds filled with wa...
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Census Bureau Agricultural Products
424 wordsEssay # 1: Agricultural Historical Statistics of the US When trying to come up with a good estimate for items such as total number of farms, average value of land per acre, and total farm population, the US Bureau of the Census had a rather arduous task of defining what is meant by the word farm. The Census Bureau outlined the definition of a farm but that figure varied from year to year. Most recently though a farm was found to be any place of less than 10 acres that had estimated sales of agri...
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613 wordsBooks 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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U S Congress Ice Caps
3,050 words... silly means that any and all assistance that comes from the government to help farmers. Things like disaster insurance, and bonding are all cut from them until they either get a permit or restore the wetland (Mitchell, J. (1992, October) Our Disappearing Wetlands. National Geographic, Pg. 35). It was said before that farming is one of the most destructive forces working against wetlands, which is why theres a whole section devoted to it. Farming has always used wetlands for their water and t...
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Homestead Act Barbed Wire
1,413 words... ches. Others hired phony claimants or bought abandoned land. The General Land Office was under funded and unable to hire a sufficient number of investigators for its widely scattered local offices. As a result, overworked and underpaid investigators were often susceptible to bribery. Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders. Small farmers acquired more land under the Homestead Act in the 20 th century tha...
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Retrieved November 7 2006 Web Retrieved November 7 2006 Wetlands
359 wordsThe Destruction of Wetlands The destruction of wetlands is the issue of the modern American ecology. First of all, lets give definition to a term wetland. Wetland means the territories that were saturated or inundated by ground water or surface. Wetlands usually include bogs, swamps, marshes and other similar areas. The major part of wetlands is located Alaska. Approximately than 103, 000, 000 acres in the lower 48 states remain nowadays and an additional 170 mln acres in Alaska from 215 million...
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Thousand Acres King Lear
468 wordsKing Lear is a most unusual play in that it only deals with the present and neglects the past and the future. The reader is not informed about an earlier time period in the play. The play opens up with Lear immediately choosing to, express our darker purpose (I, i, 35). There is no mention of any of the three daughters childhood. In contrast, Smiley makes a point of adding description to her novel. She constantly describes the three girls childhood, their ancestors, and other memories from the p...
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Wrought Iron Cast Iron
2,384 wordsIn 1851 Great Britain was arguably the leader of the industrial revolution and feeling very secure in that ideal. The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain. Just representing the feats of Britain itself would have excluded many of the technological achievements pioneered by the British in its many colonies and protectorates, so it was decided to make the exhibit truly international with invitations being ...
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Genetically Engineered Foods U S Food
1,512 wordsGenetic Engineering Awareness Week What are you Eating? Campaign for Food Safety and Awareness General Education Honors Project Project Proposal March 31, 2000 Table of Contents Introduction 3 The Project 3 Significance 4 Evaluation 5 Team Budget 6 Bibliography 7 Supplemental Bibliography 8 Team Signatures 9 The technological changes and innovations during the last 20 years have created a remarkable array of new creations. All living organisms are compromised of a substance called deoxyribonucle...
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Cruise Ships Cruise Lines
1,150 wordsOutline Thesis Port Everglades Pujalt i Outline Thesis Statement: Port Everglades has experienced steady financial and geographical growth over the past decade. The purchase of more land will create more business and an increase of profit that would benefit investors as well as the community. I. Land Purchase A. Benefits B. Cost II. Broward County Government A. Buying Decisions B. Tax Breaks III. Increased Business A. Cruise Ships B. Containerized Cargo IV. Projections A. Revenues B. New Jobs Pu...
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Square Mile Job Growth
1,034 wordsFrom homeowners worried about crime and property values om Frog town to Burnsville commuters whose drive on Interstate 35 W gets slower each year, no one is immune to sprawls effects. It sets Bloomington against Lakeville in competition for new industry and pits Brookdales comedown against Maple Groves hope to attract a new regional mall. It makes highways more crowded and mass transit less viable. It requires more roads and sewers and higher taxes to pay for them. It has economic effects as wel...
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Tropical Rain Forest Plants And Animals
1,722 wordsA decade ago the rain forests seldom came up in every day conversation. Today the tropical woodland is the theme and setting for popular movies such as the Medicine Man, and Arachnophobia. In addition there is an International restaurant chain called the Rain Forest Caf, the caf has a rain forest theme, and is located in such countries as the United States, England, and Australia. The Rain Forest Cafe actually donates a percentage of their profits toward rain forest conservation. Rain forests ar...
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Census Bureau Agricultural Products
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Washington D C House Of Burgesses
3,583 wordsDuring the last 300 years that people have been living in America, the United States has had many great leaders and George Washington is the greatest of all. While Abraham Lincoln may be remembered as the greatest president, and Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant as the greatest general, George Washington was the most important figure the country has ever known. Washington not only led the colonials that won the war of independence, but he also adjourned the committee that wrote the constitution ...
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Thousand Acres King Lear
436 wordsIt is amazing to me the extraordinary job that Jane Smiley has done with her book A Thousand Acres. The parallels that she draws with Shakespeare's classic story of King Lear are unsurpassed by any book to which I have had the pleasure of reading. These two works represent an excellent example of literature that is able to engage readers young and old. In A Thousand Acres, I read Ginny as being the reserved quiet daughter who, up until the very end, bends to her fathers tyranny. As a result of h...
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National Forest Black Hills
673 wordsHELENA, Mont. (AP) Beleaguered firefighters in Montana enjoyed something of a lull in their battle against dozens of wildfires, but a new blaze near Yellowstone National Park forced the evacuation of up to 150 homes. And a firestorm in a remote Idaho forest destroyed most of the buildings at a guest ranch, and another guest ranch was ordered evacuated. There were concerns the entire town of Red Lodge, a resort community near Yellowstone in south-central Montana, might have to be evacuated in the...
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Wildlife Habitat Clear Cutting
3,231 wordsThe Roadless Area Final Rule: Conservation or Preservation? In 1978, the United States Forest Service (USFS) began the management of roadless areas, i. e. , all areas greater than 5, 000 acres and without constructed roads, in a study called Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II (RARE II). The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of these roadless areas for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. On October 13, 1999, twenty-one years later, President Clinton ...
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Grand Canyon Coal Burning
3,623 wordsCOLORADO RIVER PROJECT 1. The current problem is that a 1922 compact for dividing the Colorado River assumed it would flow nearly 17 million acre-feet per year to be divided between 7 states, 20 million people, and 2 million acres of farmland. Currently, the Colorado is flowing at only 9 million acre-feet per year. And 1. 5 million acre-feet are for Mexico every year. The upper basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah) believe that the lower basin states get too much of the water. T...
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Acres Of Land Thousand Acres
245 words1234 N. Array Vista Dr. E Enterprises, After extensive research of ten possible mining sites, Turn? Co. purchased thirty-six hundred acres of mineral rights. At every site we ran several tests determining the copper content. We generally purchased land from every site that had some copper in the ground. After surveying the land for a general description, we obtained mineral rights and took samples of the rocks. We checked the ions found for traces of copper. When copper was found we obtained ass...
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