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I Would Rather Dream Vancouver Than Hong Kong
990 wordsI would rather dream Vancouver than Hong Kong. With its beautiful weather conditions and natural atmosphere, Vancouver is regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Hong Kong, on the other hand, is a booming center for industry and business that suffers from high urbanization and pollution. It is this extreme difference in both climate and scenery that makes Vancouver seem like a pleasant dream, compared to the nightmare that is Hong Kong. The mountainous forests and proximity to...
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Clean Air Act Effects Of Acid Rain
1,122 wordsWhen looking at air pollution, we can see that there are many types, one type is acid rain. Scientists have discovered that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels mainly in power stations and industry in countries such as Germany, United Kingdom and other economically developed countries is the major cause of acid rain. Acidic deposition or acid rain as it is commonly known occurs when emissions of sulphur dioxide (so 2) and oxides of nitrogen (no) react in the atmosphere with water, oxy...
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1,073 wordsElaine Morgans 1972 book The Descent of Woman contains eleven chapters that tell about the role of women in the evolution of humans. She begins the book by telling how humans were referred to as man and the pronoun he. She states how this can create images in you head of men, thus making women the afterthought and in conclusion n seem inferior. Morgans book doesnt make the woman seem more intelligent or more powerful just equal to him if not a little higher. She gives the impression that woman w...
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1,629 wordsAnalysis of The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake There is no much written on Romanticism, and about all the various experts totally agree upon is that these poems fit into the Romantic genre. It is often called the romantic period, but people are still writing this kind of poetry and song, so I think it is more a type or genre. Romantic poetry used images of nature, idealistic ideas and very high spiritualistic emotions. It was very symbolic, much more so than modern poetry, which can actuall...
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65 Million Years Millions Of Years
2,448 wordsNatural Selection process by which populations become adapted to the environment. The fitness of an individual is measured by how well its offspring reproduce i. e. how many offspring that survive and reproduce does an individual produce? Charles Darwin studies and close watched peppered moths (Boston Betularia) in their natural habitat. The peppered moths are light colored with darker areas of color. Like humans, however, these moths can be found in a range of pigmentation from very black to ve...
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Hemp Seed Oil Cannabis Sativa
1,633 words? Make Hemp Rediscovered Hemp Rediscovered? Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it every where, ? a quote by George Washington in 1794 (q. In? Get the Scoop? ). In early American history hemp was an essential crop, it was used to make rope, sails, lamp oil, and almost anything else. Henry ford built a car out of hemp that ran on hemp fuel and oil. The original Levi jeans were fashioned out of hemp fibers. And even the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution wer...
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2,314 wordsTo: Michael Meacher Copies: The Deputy Prime Minister Director of EPS All Heads of Division RIO CONFERENCE ON DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST Dear Mr. Meacher, I have prepared the following report for you to read before you attend the Rio Conference on Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. I feel that the key issues for you to consider are global extent of deforestation and the condition of the Amazon rainforest e. g. effects of deforestation. I cannot express how urgent my recommendati...
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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide
966 wordsJustin Greenwood May 15, 2001 Thinking Like a Mountain Environmental Issues Project The Destruction of Our Fragile Planet and the Possibility of Reform It is widely accepted that humans have been a major cause of environmental problems since we began creating our cities and especially since the Industrial Revolution of the 20 th century. All aspects of the Earth have been affected by humans desire to conquer and dominate the planet. Our impact has gone beyond pollution to altering the functionin...
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White Tailed Deer National Park
1,823 wordsAs the deer fed at the marsh's edge, its tail flickering as it nibbled tender and ripe green growth. Then the nervous animal pauses in its feeding and lifted its head to listen. Whatever hint of danger the deer had sensed was ignored once the threat could not be located. It stamped a forefoot, lowered its head and began to eat once more, this deer had failed to detect a Florida panther that was downwind (going into the wind) crouched low in the underbrush. Amber eyes however, estimated the dista...
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Rest Of The World Rocky Mountains
1,394 wordsGive An Overview Of Life Through The Give An Overview Of Life Through The Tertiary, In Relation To Changing Paleogeography And Climate The tertiary consisted of two main epochs. The Paleocene, the Eocene and the Oligocene, which make up the Paleogene; and the Miocene and Pliocene, which make up the Neogene. The close of the Cretaceous Period marked a major transition in Earth s history. Ammonoids and marine reptiles disappeared from the sea. Marine taxa that persist as familiar inhabitants of mo...
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Burning Fossil Fuels Average Global Temperature
1,498 wordsGreenhouse Effect The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that warms the earth and enables it to support life. Without it, the average temperature on earth would be around - 18 degrees C, instead of the current + 15 degrees C a frozen wilderness. It works on the same principles as the ordinary glass garden greenhouse, where glass allows light to get in, but does not allow for the heat to get out. This makes for a much higher temperature inside the greenhouse. On a planetary scale, similar ...
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Hemp Seed Oil Marijuana Tax Act
1,928 wordsStephen Mullins Hemp, Why It Should Be Legalized When the subject of hemp is brought up, most of us think of an illegal plant that produces a hallucinogenic high when the flowers or leaves are eaten or smoked. A plant that corrupts our youth, causing our teenagers to drop out of school or use the drug as a stepping stone for harder drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Does any of this sound familiar? What do you think would happen to these beliefs you have if you were to find out the information giv...
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Rain Forests Latin America
437 wordsEndangered Species Study: Jaguars I. The jaguars of Central and South America have been being killed for game and protection. This cat used to have homes around the United States to Uruguay, but ever since the fears of extinction the jaguars have moved to the undeveloped rain forests in Latin America. Jaguars are being killed due to many people fearing for their own lives and many are also being killed to protect cattle. Jaguars do stalk and ambush their prey, however, they rarely ever attack ma...
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Endangered Species Sexual Maturity
1,685 wordsThe Spectacled Bear, or Tremarctos Ornatus, is an endangered species. This rare bear can only be found in a few elusive spots in the world. Many endangered species all over the world don? t deserve the respect and care that they need. That is why many endangered species often become extinct or remain on the endangered species list for the remainder of their survival on Earth. Today, as more species become endangered, more people become involved in their care. Many things are being done to save e...
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Tropical Rain Forest Rain Forests
349 wordsJungle and rain forest are terms that are often used synonymously but with little precision. The more meaningful and restrictive of these terms is rain forest, which refers to the climax or primary forest in regions with high rainfall (greater than 1. 8 m/ 70 in per year), chiefly but not exclusively found in the tropics. Rain forests are significant for their valuable timber resources, and in the tropics they afford sites for commercial crops such as rubber, tea, coffee, bananas, and sugarcane....
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Royal Bengal Tiger Mangrove Forests Prey
1,879 wordsThe majestic tiger was once found in large numbers all over the subcontinent. It was feared, misunderstood, admired, and even worshiped as the vehicle of goddess Durga. In our own times, when man has all but wiped out this wonderful animal, few of us know what a tiger is like up close At a time when tigers were hunted in the name of sport, the Maharaja of Dholpur ordered a beat. Some two hundred men formed a wide semicircle, beating drums and canisters in order to flush out the tiger hiding in t...
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1,514 wordsFor thousands of years the plant cannabis sativa, otherwise known as hemp or marijuana, has been harvested by people and utilized in many different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for clothes, rope, and sails on early ships. The Bible was written on hemp paper, as well as the first draft of the US Constitution. Marijuana has been utilized for its medicinal value since four to five hundred BC. Not until a half-century ago did the hemp plant become illegal ...
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Warsaw Ghetto Gas Chambers
1,124 wordsNazism is known for the crimes of the Holocaust but I believe that contempt for humanity is the most enduring and poisonous legacy. The catastrophic violence off World War I and the subsequent economic distress spawned the movements of the despair Communism and Fascism. Both movements are based on contempt for the average man. Communism assumed that man is a consuming creature, without spiritual needs. Nazism, assumed that man is like an animal, subject to Darwin's laws of survival of the fittes...
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Extremely Long Time Kind Of Forest Group
307 wordsScience- Old growth forest To destroy or not to destroy, that is the question at hand in this assignment. There are two distinct sides in this grand battle, there are the people who want this heritage forest destroyed whilst there are the other group who would like to see it kept as part of Tasmania's history. I think that this forest should be kept as we are already harvesting to much wood, although we are cutting down to sustainable numbers. But this forest is special to our history. The first...
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Endangered Species Million Acres
1,220 wordsWith all the new and advanced technology that is accessible today, who has time to enjoy or care about the great outdoors? Unfortunately, much of the wilderness and the animals within it are gradually fading away. There are many animals that have already been extinct and many more will soon be put on the list of extinction. In the second issue of Target Earth, Tim Stevens found in 1975, the grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species, under the Endangered Species Act. Stevens also stated, To...
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