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- 3601: Acid Rain 7
- ... to 4.6. They believed that such a high jump could not be attributed to natural causes. They believed that it was due to air pollution. They were right. Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution in England pollution had been affecting all the trees,soil and rivers in Europe and North America. However until recently the loses of fish was contained to the southern parts of Europe. Because of the ... then a substance is acid. It is this sulphate ion that we are interested in. When the rain causes rivers to overboard onto the banks the river water passes through the soil. Since the industrial revolution in britain there has been an increasing amount of sulphur in the soil. In the river there is not enough sulphur for the acid to react in great quantities. However in the soil there is ...
- 3602: Acting To Save Mother Earth
- ... do not have to feel helpless. We can each learn practical ways to better our environment. For example, saving and recycling newspapers has a number of positive results. First, recycling newspaper saves trees. The average American consumes about 120 pounds of newsprint a year-enough to use up one tree. That means close to 250 million trees each year are destroyed for paper in this country alone. If we recycled only ... in materials that will decay naturally or that can be recycled. The idea is to prevent unrecyclable materials from even entering the home. For instance, 60 of the 190 pounds of plastic-especially styrofoam-each American uses a year are thrown out as soon as packages are opened. Be kind to your planet by buying eggs, fast food, and other products in cardboard instead of styrofoam cartons. Buy beverages in glass ...
- 3603: Resources On Internet
- ... uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html Martindale's: The Reference desk. This award-winning website contains links to thousands of reference resources; more efficient for some searches than using web search engines. http://www.americancomm.org/ American Communication Association. Communications law, including First Amendment issues; communication studies, including organizational, management, and intercultural communication; Internet resources. http://lcweb.loc.gov/ Library of Congress http://www.hbs.edu/dor Harvard Business School Search engine ... apacrib.htm APA Style Resources: Writing Manuals, Documentation, and Style Guides http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles Xia Li and Nancy Crane, Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information. When you get the home page, select "American Psychological Association (APA) Embellished Styles." (UMUC teachers usually prefer APA style over MLA style.) http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html Janice Walker, MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources http://www.law.cornell ...
- 3604: Over Population
- ... global problem. There are several things that cause this problem to come about. A major cause is the rise of living standards as the world approaches the twenty-first century, which resulted from the industrial revolution. With the help of medicine, better doctors, better housing, and a better way of life than before, the living standards are raised, which increases life expectancy of almost every human on earth. Everyday newer medicines ... more. This also causes more families to have more children because they have money to support a larger family. Another cause of overpopulation is the better food processing methods that came out of the agricultural revolution. With newer technological advances in farming methods, crops are grown in larger amounts and are better stored now than it was the past, which creates a huge surplus. This allows people to live healthier and ...
- 3605: No Title
- ... blacks make this assumption are things that do not contribute to their career success-except for that handful…”(544). Raspberry explains in the essay, we have to show our kids how to make it in American mainstream, not just black subculture (544). Raspberry finishes by explaining, “we have to make our children understand that they are intelligent, competent people, capable of doing whatever…”(544). Work Cited Raspberry, William. “The Handicap of ... blacks make this assumption are things that do not contribute to their career success-except for that handful…”(544). Raspberry explains in the essay, we have to show our kids how to make it in American mainstream, not just black subculture (544). Raspberry finishes by explaining, “we have to make our children understand that they are intelligent, competent people, capable of doing whatever…”(544). Work Cited Raspberry, William. “The Handicap of ...
- 3606: Hazing
- By: ed truelove Hazing has been known as the right of passage into American colleges in the past and even still today. Primarily in fraternities hazing has been more so a problem than any other organization. The definition, application, and the prevention of hazing have been on going problems ... major roll in the elimination of hazing in today society. The definition, application, and the prevention of hazing have been on going problems in past years and are still, in some areas are still problems. American colleges in the past and even still today continue to use hazing as a right of passage into fraternities and sororities. Word Count: 351
- 3607: What Is The Definition Of Marr
- ... of the same sex. Throughout history marriage has always been between a man and a woman and that’s the way many want to keep it. Many people believe that gay marriage would cause the American family to break down. Others say they are citizens just like you and me and deserve equal rights. Lisa Bennett poses the issue like this: What the people who have the power to rule on ... sex marriage know of a relationship like mine, I cannot say. I know they claim that our marriage would make a mockery of theirs; they warn that our families would cause the decline of the American family; and they label our love immoral, disgusting, even dangerous. The shocking thing is that before I knew what it meant to fall in love with a person of the same sex, I might have ...
- 3608: Watergate Scandal
- ... time was Richard M. Nixon, who was involved in the scandal himself and which lead to the cause of his resignation. The Watergate scandal should not have happened, but it did and it caused the American people to judge less of their government system. The scandal began on June 17, 1972, with the arrest of five men who were caught in the offices of the Democrat’s campaign headquarters. Their arrest ... of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. Plus, they had written false and slanderous documents accusing Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of moral improprieties. In the end, the Watergate scandal shook the faith of the American people in the presidency and turned out to be a supreme test for the United States Constitution. Yet, as the Founding Fathers intended, through the whole ordeal the constitutional system of checks and balances was ...
- 3609: Trying Juviniles As Adults
- ... on juvenile violence varies. Juvenile crime went on the rise in the 1980-1990¡¦s. Murder has been the leading felony among juveniles. However, in 1994, 60% of juvenile offenders who committed murder were African American black men (Silverstein 12). Our legal system has two different court systems. One, Juvenile court is where we hear a lot of our cases on custody battles, child support payments, and even misdemeanors committed by ... SIRS Researcher on the Web. 26, Jan. 1999 http://researcher.sirs.com/cgi-bin/res-article Justice, Law, And Society. One Jail Fits All, But Is That The Solution? February 27,1999. http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/JOURNALS/jurist/9.98/ juvenile.html Landau, Elaine. Teenage Violence. Englewood Cliffs: Simon S. Schuster, Inc., 1990. Pitts, Leonard. ¡§Average Teens Don¡¦t rob, Kill.¡¨ Dayton Daily News. February 27,1999: 12-A ...
- 3610: The Lost Art Of Typography
- ... history has changed at critical points. These critical points include the development of the alphabet, the development of the printing press, the development of the telegraph and the development of the television. Postman argues that American society in particular is in danger since it relies so much on television. Postman's book is divided into two parts. Part one documents the development of communication in Western civilization. The main course of ... honestly say that I don't think I could have lasted that long myself. The point that Postman is trying to make here however is that with mass electronic communication in the 20th century (television), American attention spans would never last even a fraction of that amount of time. Think of political debates on television today. To begin with the entire debate itself lasts only an hour at most. This includes ...
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