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Hydrogen Bombs Rain Forests
709 wordsPlanet Earth: Fate of The Earth was a powerful, informative, and inspirational documentary. The narrator, Richard Kiley, progressed through many points about our precious earth including her beginnings, her slow deterioration by man as well as other factors, and theories as to her what could be her end. The beginning images of earth, approximately four million years ago, can be described a barren yet fertile land with the prospect for life to flourish. Prehistoric volcanoes exploded with gases a...
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Billion Years Ago Carbon Dioxide
1,230 wordsOur understanding and our modern perception of our solar system, the Milky Way, has been drastically reshaped from the corresponding perception of only a few hundred years ago. Our Solar System, the Milky Way is probably about 4 - 5 billion years old. Only in the last 400 years or so have we realized that the earth is not the "center", and that in the Universe alone there is an immense 200 billion "Suns" in a galaxy like our own. Although the origin of the solar system is uncertain, most scienti...
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What Would Happen If The Moon Were Destroyed
1,095 wordsWhat would happen if the moon was destroyed? I have often wondered what would happen if the moon were destroyed and how it would be destroyed. Would a crazy scientist nuke it? Maybe an asteroid would hit it. Astronomers have catalogued all large objects in space that are larger than 500 kilometers in diameter and non-of them seem to be headed towards our moon. Based on this information, the only conclusion that I can come up with, was if the moon was to be blown up by some crazy scientist. Many ...
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Love For Nature Lord Byron
709 wordsLord Byron wrote a long poem, published in cantos, about a pilgrim named Childe Harold who he modeled after himself. The journeys he goes on are similar to the ones Lord Byron encounters in his lifetime. The speaker in Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is Childe Harold. In Canto IV, he begins by discussing his love for nature and goes on to apostrophize the In the first stanza, Childe Harold discusses the beauty he sees in nature. He finds pleasure and rapture in nature which he compares t...
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South African Cultural Groups
804 wordsSouth African cuisine is a combination of the recipes from the many cultural groups that have co-existed in the country over the past 350 years. The Khoisan, the first known inhabitants of the country, were mainly hunter-gatherers. Later, the potato, gem squash and other vegetables for their dishes. Local vegetables that play an important role in South African cooking include tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, cabbage, mealies, and pumpkin. Fruits such as quince, peaches, mangoes, citrus, apricots...
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Book Is Told Captured By The Nautilus Professor
526 wordsTitle - 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea Setting - This book usually took place in the giant submarine the Nautilus. The Nautilus roamed the world's oceans. A group of men were captured by the Nautilus which they thought was a sea monster. The ship was run by captain Nemo. Point of View - This book is told by the first narrator. The book is told by Professor Aronnax. He tells about there adventure of being hostages on the Nautilus and what they go through and do on the ship. Main Characters - The m...
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Killer Whales Pacific Northwest
852 wordsKiller Whale, largest member of the dolphin family. Killer whales occur in more parts of the world than probably any other cetacean (see Whale). They occur in all oceans, both in the open ocean and close to shore, but are more common in the colder, more productive waters of both hemispheres than in the Tropics. Resident populations may cover an area of several hundred square kilometers. Transient populations often move through an area rapidly, swimming more than 1000 km (more than 600 mi) along ...
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Billion Years Ago Million Years Ago
687 wordsThe Principle Events in the Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere The literal translation of the word atmosphere is "sphere of vapors." The Earth's atmosphere is a protective sphere of vapors, or air that surrounds the Earth and provides it with a layer of insulation from the harmful rays of the sun. It is a vital part of the Earth, and has changed dramatically since the beginning of time. The earth's atmosphere has gradually changed since the Earth's birth approximately 4. 6 million years ago. In...
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Toxic Wastes Natural Environment
742 wordsCanada and all of the developed countries in the world produce some kind of toxic waste (s). It doesn't matter whether it's a chocolate bar wrapper or a canister of highly radioactive plutonium, they " re potentially dangerous to us and / or our natural environment unless properly disposed of. Toxic waste is defined as any waste that is hazardous to human health or to our natural environment. According to the Institute of Chemical Waste Management, about 15 % of our garbage is classified as toxi...
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Emily Dickinson Sordid Excellence One
1,131 wordsI cannot live with You It would be Life And Life is over there Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to Putting up Our life His Porcelain Like a Cup Discarded of the Housewife Quaintor Broke A newer Sevres pleases Old Ones crack I could not dewitt You For One must wait To shut the Others Gaze down You could not And I Could I stand by And see You freeze Without my Right of Frost Deaths privilege? Nor could I rise with You Because Your Face Would put out Jesus That New Grace Glow plain and for...
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The Spanish American War
1,281 wordsDuring the last years of the nineteenth century, the United States would find itself involved in what John Jay, the American secretary of state, later referred to as a "splendid little war; begun with highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave. " From an American standpoint, because there were few negative results, and so many significantly positive consequences, John Jay was correct in calling the Spanish-American War a "s...
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Las Vegas Casinos Oceans Eleven Time
467 wordsOceans Eleven, a showcase for the tough-guy shenanigans of that glitzy showbiz gang known as the Rat Pack -- Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. , Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and, of course, Frank Sinatra. Booze flows and wisecracks fly when eleven army buddies are reunited; only this time they " re not trading war stories. They " re planning to rob five Las Vegas casinos of several million dollars -- assuming they can steer clear of the big-time racketeer who's gotten wind of their scheme (Video flick...
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Gene Pool Northern Hemisphere
1,207 wordsIntroduction It is unlikely that any family of fish has received as much attention as the Salmoninae. Many have a particularly heart-felt interest in the Salmoninae (trout, salmon, and char) because they love to fish. But man often destroys that which he loves, and the Salmoninae are no exception to this phenomenon. Exploitation of these fish has led to the extinction of certain species in some areas, but the attempt to preserve our valued fisheries has resulted in extensive research on the Salm...
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Living Organisms Magnetic Field
910 wordsCould icy moons of giant planets, such as Europa and Callisto, provide possible habitable environments for living organisms? Until such task is actually accomplished, scientists and researchers all over our world will forever be trying to find life in other parts of both our galaxy, and the Universe. Such fascination with extraterrestrial life has been brought to somewhat of a peak with the recent findings on two of Jupiter's so-called Galilean Satellites: Europa and Callisto. The findings from ...
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Miles Per Hour Large Amount
1,472 wordsDangers and Destructions of Floods and Hurricanes Floods and hurricanes have been effecting the lives of people around the world for years. This research paper is going to state some of the worst floods and hurricanes, and how future ones can be controlled. A flood is an overflow of water on dry land. The two types of floods are coastal and river floods. Coastal floods are the first topic in this research paper. A coastal flood is the flooding of beaches and surrounding areas; including bar spit...
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Ocean Floor Feet Long
597 wordsClassification of Dogfish sharks Kingdom Animalia (animals) Phylum Chordata SubPhylum Vertebrata (vertebrates) Class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Subclass Elasmobranch ii (sharks and rays) Order Squaliformes (dogfish sharks) Family Squalidae Genus Squalus Species acanthus Introduction Sharks are fish that have been around longer then dinosaurs have existed. They live in waters all over the world, in every ocean, and even in some rivers and lakes. Sharks, unlike other fish, have no bones; ...
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Long Slender Beaks Found In Tropical Dolphins
509 wordsThe mammalian dolphins are small, streamlined whales, usually with a well-defined, bearlike snout. They are often called porpoises, but that name is usually reserved for similar, but beatles, whales of the family Phocoenidae (see porpoise). Dolphins are popularly noted for grace, intelligence, playfulness, and friendliness to man. The most widely recognized species are the common and bottle-nosed dolphins (Delphinus delphi's and Tursiops truncated; see photograph); both are of the family Delphin...
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Teddy Roosevelt Wallace Stevens
1,356 wordsPanama Canal It didn t take long for the world to realize that Panama is the narrowest strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. From the early sixteenth century, explorers, conquerors, treasure seekers, settlers, the military and engineers have descended on Panama to find a route that would join the two oceans. A modern day Panamanian anthropologist says, A road, a railroad, or a canal; they didn t concern themselves with the rest. That s been the story here for hundreds of years. ...
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Noise Pollution Air Pollution
740 wordsAs time Pollution 4 Pollution As time advances pollution is every where, humans more and more rely on machines to live their lives. Machines like cars and trucks, airplanes, computer; all of which produce some kind of pollution. Maybe air, water, and even noise pollution are cause by these machines. Efforts to improve the standard of living for humans have resulted in pollution. Much of the worlds air, water, and land are now partially poisoned by chemical wastes. Some places have become uninhab...
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Plate Tectonics Ocean Basins
530 wordsPlate Tectonics is theory of global tectonics (geologic structural deformations) that has served as a master key in modern geology for understanding the structure, history, and dynamics of the earths crust. The theory is based on the observation that the earths solid crust is broken up into about a dozen semirigid plates. The boundaries of these plates are zones of tectonic activity, where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tend to occur. Plate Tectonics also are the cause of major features that...
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