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- 331: Mexico
- ... winter. A millennium of human habitation has brought about the virtual elimination of much of the natural fauna throughout the Mesa Central and parts of the Southern Highlands, especially the Oaxaca Valley. In contrast the rain forests of the Gulf Coast and Chiapas and the degraded rain forests of the Pacific coast still provide a largely undisturbed habitat for many animals from monkeys to parrots to jaguars. Mexico's population comprises a wide variety of racial and ethnic groups. At the time ... of the country was covered by forests in the mid-1500s, but indiscriminate exploitation decimated the resource. While conservation methods are now practiced in some of the pine forests in the north, the uprooting of rain forest continues elsewhere. Metallic minerals have been a significant part of the economy throughout the nation's history. Silver was long the most valuable product mined, and Mexico was the world's leading producer ...
- 332: Urban Transportation Alternati
- ... automobiles. In many areas nitrogen oxides are above the stated limit, which is having major impacts on human health and the environment. They are known to cause respiratory problems in humans as well as cause acid rain, which can disrupt sensitive ecosystems . Another major air pollutant is particulates. This suspended particulate matter can be in either solid or liquid form, and includes soil, soot, smoke, metals, salts, acids and pesticides . Particulates are ...
- 333: Tropical Africa: Food Production and the Inquiry Model
- ... resisting easy developmental solutions. Rainfall reliability is closely connected to rainfall quantity The rainfall in the equatorial heart is very plentiful and reliable. However, there is much less rainfall towards the outer edges of the rain belt. Periodic and unpredictable droughts are a characteristic feature of these border zones. There are three climatic zones in Tropical Africa: 1.a region of persistent rain at and near the Equator 2.a region on each side of this of summer rain and winter drought, and 3.a region at the northern and southern edges afflicted by drought. All the climates listed in the previous paragraph are modified in the eastern parts of Tropical Africa by ...
- 334: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... during the mid-morning hours of the 12th. With a cheer and at the double quick, McGowan's Brigade advanced towards the tip of the mule-shoe in support of Harris's Brigade, sloshing through rain and mud and under heavy fire. At the head of each of the brigade's five regiments, two soldiers carried the regimental state flag and the national battleflag. The blue silk state flag featured a ... two sides were only a few yards apart. Now and then a hundred or so Yankees would surge forward over the Confederate trenches, only to be immediately hurled back in desperate hand-to-hand fighting. Rain fell intermittently during the afternoon of the 12th, adding to the misery of the combatants. About 10 o'clock that evening, a large oak, some 22 inches in diameter and cut almost in half by ... at age 42. According to Elizabeth Hard, her Great Uncle Charles "died without fame or glory, as on an early morning walk he suffered an [epileptic] attack and fell in a pool of water from rain collected on the pavement." The man who had survived the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania drowned back home in a few inches of ground water. The story of the flag that Charles Whilden carried so ...
- 335: What Are The Major Components of Biological Membranes And How Do They Contribute To Membrane Function?.
- ... two predominant components of the biological membrane. There are a variety of lipids found in membranes, the majority of which are phospholipids. The phosphate head of a lipid molecule is hydrophilic, while the long fatty acid tails are hydrophobic. This gives the overall molecule an amphipathic nature. The fatty acid tails of lipid molecules are attracted together by hydrophobic forces and this causes the formation of a bilayer that is exclusive of water. This bilayer is the basis of all membrane structure. The significance of ... the hydrophobic forces between fatty acids is that the membrane is capable of spontaneous reforming should it become damaged. The major lipid of animal cells is phospatidylcholine. It is a typical phospholipid with two fatty acid chains. One of these chains is saturated, the other unsaturated. The unsaturated chain is especially important because the kink due to the double bond increases the distance between neighbouring molecules, and this in turn ...
- 336: Are UFOs Real?
- ... one of great controversy. We do however have to take into consideration that, "The ancients were no doubt even more confused," than we are today about odd sightings (Menzel and Taves 19). Take for example rain, the people in biblical times found it very amazing. They considered rain to be caused from some sort of illusional glass window, so what they might have meant by a UFO could have been as small as a simple shooting star. An example of a possible UFO ... a UFO. Whose to say that this was not just a meteor that could have possibly fallen and hit the earth. We will never know just exactly what these biblical sightings really were, but if rain seemed odd then it seems as if anything, just a little out of the ordinary would. "There are also other visions that are described in the Scriptures that suggest mock suns or mock moons ...
- 337: The Dog
- ... is present. GASTRIC DIGESTION The dog’s stomach only contracts when food is present to mix the food intensively. The daily production of gastric juice is between 2 and 3 liters. This mixture of hydrochloric acid and enzymes breakdown proteins and separate the conjunctive tissue of meat. The production of gastric juice happens when food is ingested or when it’s eating time in the dog’s schedule. INTESTINAL DIGESTION The ... rate. This cools the body of the dog but water losses are huge. SENSE ORGANS The smell is the most developed sense in the dog. A dog is capable of smelling a drop of acetic acid which has been diluted in a thousand liters of water. A drop of this solution is diluted in a thousand liters and the dog is still capable of detecting the acetic acid. The olfactory capability of dogs depend on the type of dog, the race. As comparison to the human smell, an average dog has 147 million smelling units… the human only has 500,000. The ...
- 338: Colorado River
- ... River was first navigated by John Wesley Powell, in his 1869 exploration through the Marble and Grand Canyons. The Colorado River begins high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The water begins from melting snow and rain, and is then supplemented by the Gunnison, Green, San Juan, Little Colorado, Virgin, and Gila Rivers. Before any dams were built, the Colorado River carried 380,000 million tons of silt to the Sea of ... that California is again in a drought. Many people will ignore this in view of recent heavy rains. People have to understand that the water is only transported to Southern California. If there is no rain or snow in Colorado (or the Sierra's in California's case) it can result in water shortages. A threat of water allocation is a threat to a person or a communities way of life ... 17 miles wide and about 80 feet deep. After engineers got the Colorado under control it should have dried up through evaporation. The sea has no outlets and only gets about 2.3 inches of rain per year. The sea has been sustained by drainwater from the 500,000 acres of heavily watered and fertilized growing fields of the Imperial Valley, one of the most fruitful desert irrigation projects in ...
- 339: Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes
- ... forgotten all about her. She isolates herself and ends up finding it easier to form emotional relationships with things rather than people. She finally reaches the peak of her loneliness, running out naked in the rain “trying to find some other lonely human and embrace him” (119). Thus she is the only one in the book who actually does take action…but it ironically fails. The only one she meets is a deaf old man and she crawls back in shame finally accepting her self-made fact that “…many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg” (120). This event happens in the rain at night. Darkness, nakedness and rain symbolise the characters’ loneliness in the book over and over again. Respectability also ends with nudity. The mother-in-law gives the woman back to the man naked and vulnerable. He takes it another ...
- 340: E. E. Cummings
- ... winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his ... stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then)they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to ... sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes. Women and men(both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain up into the silence the green up into the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will (kiss me) go out into the morning the young morning with a warm ...
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