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- 571: Jungle and The Rain Forest
- ... high as 60 m (200 ft) above the forest floor. The largest areas of tropical rain forest are in the Amazon basin of South America, in the Congo basin and other lowland equatorial regions of Africa, and on both the mainland and the islands off Southeast Asia, where they are especially abundant on Sumatra and New Guinea. Small areas are found in Central America and along the Queensland coast of Australia ...
- 572: The Ecology of a Rain Forest
- ... be identified. All rain forests are located on earth's "green belt", that is, the area roughly around the equator that covers all the area from Mexico and the northern area of South America, to Africa, to India, streching out to Indonesia, the northern tip of Australia and all the way to New Guinea. This area is heavily covered with flora and fauna, and it abounds with life. In a rain ...
- 573: Endangered Species in Canada
- ... wildlife species are threatened or wiped out, the whole world loses. People in Canada and many other countries are concerned not only about their own endangered animals but also about those in developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Many species that share our world face frightening threats that may ultimately lead to their extinction. But, as we have seen, the picture is not all bleak. Today there are more ...
- 574: Desertification
- ... An Atlas Of Planet Management. Improper irrigation sterilizes the earth with salts and alkalis. Canal irrigation is the method used in many poorer countries to supply the crops with water. Much of northern and southern Africa is at high risk of desertification because of this and other poor irrigation techniques (see map). Better use of the scarce water available in these countries must be practiced. Drip or sprinkler irrigation should be ...
- 575: Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations
- ... advantage of this well spoken of legend, was a reporter for The New York Sun, whose name was John Herschel (1792-1871), Herschel was interested in life on other planets, so he went to South Africa with decent equipment. But what he saw was not what he wrote, when he returned to New York he made up a story about seeing men with flaps over there eyes to shield them form ...
- 576: Immortal Poetry
- ... nature in the acts of well respected western corporations. Would someone who is in-touch with nature orchestrate the slash and burn of beautiful rain forests of South America, or the life giving jungles of Africa and Asia? Would someone who is in-touch with nature dump chemical waste into waters that are home to billions of plants and animals? These and other abominations have surely increased in the last 189 ...
- 577: Atlantis: We Will Never Know
- ... the modern world's perception of Atlantis is Plato (circa 428-circa 347 b.c.). (1) The Greek philosopher spoke in his works Timaeus and Critias of a continent in the Atlantic ocean larger than Africa and Asia Minor combined which rivaled Athens as the most advanced in the world. (2) According to the legend surrounding Plato's dialogues, the island of Atlantis was violently thrown into the sea by the ...
- 578: Ebonics
- ... Phonics", the name referring to the colour black and to the representation of sounds with symbols. The word Ebonics was invented in 1973 as to describe an Afro-American speech pattern with roots in West Africa, but it was not until 18 December 1997 when the Californian Oakland School Board released its declaration on language development policy Ebonics suddenly came into instant fame. An excerpt of the revised declaration is enclosed ...
- 579: The Death Penalty Is An Inappropriate Punishment That Must Be Abolished
- ... the U.S. for monitoring other countries' human rights violations when the U.N. considers capital punishment just as serious as any other violation (Death 72). The other five countries are China, Iraq, Iran, South Africa, and Russia. It is embarrassing for the United States to have something such as capital punishment in common with these infamous violators of basic human rights (Bedeau n.pag.). Taking the life of a convicted ...
- 580: Internet Censorship Laws
- ... is the fact that the Internet sites are not hosted on the servers of only one country. Those servers are located all over the world and unless the government of Russian, Germany, Great Britain, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and all others pass those kind of lows the pornography won't be stopped. Also I don't believe that pornography does as much harm as most people think. There are still a lot ...
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