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Full Blown Aids Flow Of Information
1,685 words
AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS
disease is at present a sentence of slow but
inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to
AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual
behavior and that of many of my friends has been
profoundly altered by it. In my part of the
country, one man in 10 may already be carrying the
AIDS virus. While the figures may currently be
less in much of the rest of the country, this is
changing rapidly. There currently is neither a
cure, nor even an effecti...
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Female Desert Tortoise U S Department Tortoises
1,147 words
Vulnerable to the harsh desert conditions, the
desert tortoise spends almost all of its time
waiting out extreme temperatures in its
underground burrow. There, this armored,
terrestrial turtle conserves its energy and stays
relatively cool during summer months, and
relatively warm during winter months. This turtle,
California's official state reptile, carries a
high-domed tan to dark brown carapace (shell),
which protects them from most predators. Yet even
those shells are unable to shield the d...
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Rich And Poor Poor Countries
1,449 words
Every day hundreds of thousands of people are
starving. The issue of who should assist them is
brought up time and time again. Should we give of
our own? If so, how much should we give? Since
only one third of the nations in the world are
rich and the other two thirds are poor can and
should the rich countries be expected to provide
for the less fortunate? Garrett Hardin, author of
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Aid That Harms
states that each country has a carrying capacity
and by helping ou...
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African Cheetah Africa Living
497 words
The cheetah originated about 4 million years ago.
The oldest fossils place it in what is now Texas,
Nevada and Wyoming. It was common throughout Asia,
Africa, Europe. All cheetah in Europe and most of
those in Asia and Africa vanished. This
"bottleneck", as theorized, led to the present
state of cheetah genetics: all cheetah alive today
appear to be as closely related as identical
twins. A unique factor of the cheetah is that it
reaches up to speeds of 110 km / hr (68 Mph).
African Cheetah (A. j...
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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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Chaos Theory Straight Lines
1,201 words
Where Chaos begins, classical science ends. Ever
since physicists have inquired into the laws of
nature, the have not begun to explore irregular
side of nature, the erratic and discontinuous
side, that have always puzzled scientists. They
did not attempt to understand disorder in the
atmosphere, the turbulent sea, the oscillations of
the heart and brain, and the fluctuations of
wildlife populations. All of these things were
taken for granted until in the 1970 's some
American and European scient...
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Word Of God Paramilitary Groups
1,263 words
There are many different forms of militias and
paramilitary groups, whose membership and ideology
often vary from, place to place. However, what
most have in common, is their hatred for the
federal government. In recent years, there have
been far too many violent acts done by these
militias, seeking to prove their points to the
government, and the public at large. They have
threatened to blow up power plants, government
buildings, even the Hoover Dam. They hold many
military exercises and are fr...
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The Paris Peace Treaties
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The Paris Peace Treaties (1919 - 1920) IB History
To the subject and passive onlooker, those
meticulous organizers of the Paris Peace Treaties
allowed for an unfortunate amount of flaws to
enter their task of creating a treaty that could
satisfy all of the nations of not only Europe but
of the world as well equally. Yet one must attempt
to put that passiveness behind and admit that
those of the time of post World War I had truly no
idea what was to come of their decisions. Thus,
the decisions of...
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Commercial Fishing Million Pounds
616 words
Environmental Chinook Salmon Chinook Salmon
Environmental Science Wednesday, February 26, 1997
Among the many kinds of fish harvested each year
by commercial fisheries is the Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha or Chinook salmon. The United States
catches an averages of about three hundred million
pounds of salmon each year. However some Chinook
salmon have been recently listed as threatened.
Man has been the main cause for the decline in
Chinook salmon populations. The populations of
Chinook salmon have d...
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Process Of Cloning One Of The Largest
1,198 words
Cloning A few years ago if you were to ask someone
about the possibilities of cloning they would most
likely say it was impossible. This attitude
towards cloning has been held into belief up until
recently when scientists in Scotland cloned a
sheep. And immediately after scientists in Oregon
cloned a monkey (Fackelmann 276). The most major
breakthroughs of the century in science has
occurred and we are not ready for it. The
scientific breakthrough of cloning has caused a
great deal of controvers...
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Cultural Evolution Cross Cultural
1,119 words
In the middle of this century, both biological and
cultural anthropology experiences a major change
in theory. In biological anthropology, biological
anthropologists adopted an approach which focused
on the gene. They saw the human evolution as the
process of genetic adaptation to the environment.
In the mean time, there were also cultural
analogies to evolution. Cultural evolution also
followed a process of adaptation. In the field of
anthropology, a very important theory is that of
the sociobi...
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Genetic Drift Antibiotic Resistance
920 words
Essay on Evolution There are many mechanisms that
lead to evolutionary change. One of the most
important mechanism in evolution is natural
selection which is the differential success in the
reproduction of different phenotypes resulting
from the interaction of organisms with their
environment. Natural selection occurs when a
environment makes a individual adapt to that
certain environment by variations that arise by
mutation and genetic recombination. Also it favors
certain traits in a individua...
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Blood Vessels Social Behavior
1,527 words
Insect, small, air-breathing animal characterized
by a segmented body with three main parts head,
thorax, and abdomen. In their adult forms, insects
typically have three pairs of legs, one pair of
antennae, and in most instances, two pairs of
wings. Insects rank among the most successful
animals on Earth. About one million species of
insects have been identified so far, which is
about half of all the animals known to science.
That is why for every pound of human on the earth
there are 10 pounds ...
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Native Americans Domesticated Animals
972 words
The Exploitation And Demise Of A World: The
Exploitation And Demise Of A World: The
Destruction Of The Native American Civilization
Through US Expansion. The history of the expansion
of the American frontier has been one mired in
controversy. Historians, such as Frederick Turner,
have always referred to American expansion and the
Western frontier as the settlement of an untamed
wilderness. This view, however, is false. Long
before Columbus even reached the? New World? a
vast civilization, compar...
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Alternative Energy Sources Parts Per Million
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Global Climate Change Climate change is not a new
concept; in fact there is evidence of major
climate changes throughout the earths history.
However since the industrial revolution and
especially since world war two, there has been an
unprecedented change in the earths atmosphere
(Gates 4). As of March 1999, scientists reported
the construction of a thousand-year record of the
average temperature on earth. The results of their
study concluded that a nine hundred-year cooling
trend has been decis...
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Biological And Cultural Adaptive Radiation Erectus
457 words
About one million years ago, Homo erectus
populations began migrating out of East Africa.
They soon spread into South and West Africa, Asia
and Europe. This adaptive radiation was the result
of several biological and cultural factors. H.
erectus was physically larger than earlier
hominids. This probably allowed them to fun faster
and further than their ancestors and could have
given them an advantage in hunting and escaping.
It may also have increased their food gathering
abilities by expanding ...
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Music Therapy Ancient Times
658 words
Music therapy is the systematic application of
music in the treatment of the physiological and
psychosocial aspects of an illness or disability.
It focuses on the acquisition of non musical
skills and behaviors, as determined by a board
certified music therapist through systematic
assessment and treatment planning. Music therapy
in the United States of America began in the late
18 th century. However, using music as a healing
medium dates back to ancient times. This is
evident in biblical script...
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Uv Radiation Ozone Depletion
993 words
Our Radiant Planet- Depletion of the Ozone Layer
Ozone is a relatively unstable form of molecular
oxygen containing three oxygen atoms produced when
upper-atmosphere oxygen molecules are split by
ultra violet light. Stratospheric ozone is found
in a broad band, extending generally from 15 to 35
km above the earth. Although the ozone layer is
surprisingly thin, it acts as a protective shield
to the earth, as it filters out most of the
harmful solar ultraviolet radiation (in particular
UV-B) that ...
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Factors That Affect Physical Geography
698 words
There are several factors that influence the
growth and distribution of a particular regions
primary industries. These primary industries, are
necessary for an economy to grow. Without a
primary industry, which could also be called
natural resources, secondary, tertiary and
quaternary industries would struggle in a country
(excluding Japan etc. ). These factors also affect
where people live. If you were at a warm place,
near the coast, it is a lot more populated, than
interior America. This popu...
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Individual Or Group Racist Beliefs
1,188 words
While looking back on history or while watching
the latest daily news, it is apparent that racism
was and still is alive and well within our society
resulting in isolation, persecution, and even
wars. Although in Canada we celebrate our
diversity, individuals, on a daily basis, suffer
with freshly opened scars caused by racist
attitudes. It is up to individuals within our
society to use our Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
as well as the federal and provincial human rights
acts as tools to help s...
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