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- 6051: Capital Punishment - History
- ... and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies. Although the death was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late-eighteen century, opposition to the death penalty gathered enough strength to lead to important restrictions ...
- 6052: The Forever Moving Land
- ... York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1986), p. 13. 8. Waltus Sullivan, Continents in Motion. 2nd. ed. (New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1991), p. 96. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bird, John M. and Isacks, Bryan, ed., Plate Tectonics. Washington American Geophysical Union, 1972. Broecker, Wallace S. How to Build a Habitable Planet. Palisades, New York: Eldigio Press, 1985. Christopherson, Robert W. Geosystems. 2nd. ed. New York: MacMillan College Publishing Company, 1994. Erickson, Jon Volcanoes and ...
- 6053: Fossil Fuel Consumption, CO2 and Its Impact on Global Climate
- ... and wood. Each stage in the evolution of human society (the development of farming, domestication of animals, harnessing of wind and water power) increased the average per capita energy use, but it was the Industrial Revolution and the exploitation of fossil fuels which marked the transformation of societies into the energy-intensive economies of today. Since the eighteenth century the industrialising countries have come to rely on non-renewable energy resources ...
- 6054: Copper and Molybdenum Deposits in the United States
- ... harder, more useful metals such as bronze (copper+tin; 2500 B.C.) and brass (copper+zinc; 0 A.D.). The growth of copper production in the United States has been a relatively recent occurrence. North American French explorers knew of sources of native copper in the region of Lake Superior and the area natives had copper jewelry and ornamentation. Earnest copper mining began in Simsbury, Connecticut about 1709 and copper was ...
- 6055: Arizona Concrete
- ... of Arizona, cement is manufactured primarily from suitable limestone and shale rocks. Arizona had two dry-process cement plants in 1969, namely the Arizona Portland Cement Company plant in Pima County, near Tucson, and the American Cement Corporation plant at Clarkdale, in Yavapai County (52-53). The use of cementing materials goes back to the ancient Egyptians and Romans, but the invention of modern portland cement is usually attributed to Joseph ...
- 6056: Time To Change
- ... Seager states ( The Eco-Fringe: Deep Ecology, Pg. 636), "In Australia, Earth-First protesters buried themselves up to their necks in the sand in the middle of logging roads to stop lumbering operations; in the American Southwest, Earth Firsters handcuffed themselves to trees and bulldozers to prevent logging; and in California, they dressed in dolphin and mermaid costumes to picket the stockholders' meeting of a tuna-fishing company." The Earth-Firsters ...
- 6057: Environment Report: Tidal Power In The Bay of Fundy
- ... fresh water to turn the waterwheel that provided power for grinding grain. The first mill in the would was built in 1607 by Samuel de Champlain on the Lequille River. By 1910 Turnbull and an American engineer, designed a double basin scheme that would cross the international boundary between New Brunswick and Maine. CONCLUSION Given the grave environmental challenges such as global warning or environmental pollution facing many kind in the ...
- 6058: Temagami
- ... has been eliminated. The Environmentalist The environmentalists do not have the same long-standing base that foresters do. The environmentalist movement itself is a recent thing, beginning in the 1960s and 70s with the Green Revolution. Since that time, such individuals and groups have sprung up all around the globe; in the beginning no more than a minor annoyance to industrialists, farmers and average citizens, yet eventually becoming a major factor ...
- 6059: The Rain Forest
- ... size of a human are also among the larger animals in the forest. A wide variety of monkeys including the tiniest monkeys in the world, the pigmy marmoset, live among the trees in the South American rainforests (Nichol 61). One of the rarest primates in the world, the golden lion tamarin, lives in a very small portion of the rainforest in Brazil. These breathtakingly beautiful little monkeys resemble golden toys and ...
- 6060: Purple Loosestrife
- ... loss of habitat and food for wetland animals, this destroys the well balanced, wetland ecosystem. Across the Maritimes, prarie sloughs are becoming increasingly infested with purple loosestrife thus destroying the breeding ground of many North American waterfowl. This additional stress compiled with urbanization and pollution could cause theextinction of North America's waterfowl population. The invasion of purple loosestrife across the Maritimes is causing extra labor for farmers as well as ...
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