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- 81: Creative Story: Mischels Greenhouse
- Creative Story: Mischels Greenhouse While working at the brand new Mischels Greenhouse I found out it was different from any other job I ever had. It was one of the most responsible jobs so far of my life. Four thousand lives were almost totally in my exchange sisters, Tanya, and my hands. By us watering them daily. Because it was so hot out-side, the greenhouse was stifling. Watering mums was a very tedious job be-cause it was repetitious. I started daily at 9 A.M. my whole day consisted of taking care of Forty thousand mums. They sat ...
- 82: Oil Pollution and Its Effect on Wildlife
- Oil Pollution and Its Effect on Wildlife "OIL POLLUTION AND ITS EFFECT ON WILDLIFE" INTRODUCTION: Contamination of the oceans by oil spillage is not a rare occurrence. It is happening all over the world every day, fouling coastlines, killing animals and destroying fisheries. BODY: In 1987, more ... the amount of damages can be into the millions of dollars. Despite the clean©up efforts, once there is an oil spill, it cannot be prevented from causing major damage to wildlife and the environment. EFFECT ON WILDLIFE: All the migrating seabirds like guillemots, puffins, and razorbills are at risk from oil pollution. During migration, they look for calm water where they rest and fish. Oil©covered seas look calm ...
- 83: Steps Towards an Ecosociety: Dealing with Air Pollution
- ... is to define the problem to be remedied. If we can not understand the problem, how are we to know what needs to be fixed. Unfortunately, implementing policies on air pollution has the politically undesirable effect of having extensive economic consequences on all sectors of the economy. Therefore, those policies which lead to the development of an ecosociety must be aimed at having the greatest environmental impact while creating minimal economic ... town; "then they have to be taken away, or else they will die" (Gore 81). There are many reasons that pollution has come to the foreground of twentieth century politics. The most important is the effect it has on human life. This does not place the effects that it has on our natural environment as secondary, however, it seems that unless we as human beings are directly affected, we tend to ... by a mere five degrees, the resulting catastrophe would be immeasurable. It is important to realize that global warming is a direct result of the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere. "A greater variety of greenhouse gases are created by a myriad of essential human activities, including the generation of power, industrial production, transportation, agriculture and forestry. Mitigating climate change will require major changes in life-style, especially those that ...
- 84: The Short Story Theories Of Ed
- ... basis of a contradiction or contrast, and carries the weight of the story at the ending. The action of a novel falls before the ending, with a falling action following. Poe speaks of unity of effect, and how it is not appreciated or understood by the common mind, but also how it is important to the story for the central effect to gravitate toward the end. This finale must make sense with everything which came before. Ejxenbaum quote Poe several times to give insight into how Poe created his unique and famous effects and moods. Poe was a master at creating effect, in most cases one of mystery and gloom, which drove his poems and short fiction. But he also was a storyteller, and like any good storyteller, he forms plots. And with those plots, he ...
- 85: The Effect of Militancy In the British Suffragette Movement
- The Effect of Militancy In the British Suffragette Movement The ideal for women at the turn of the century in Great Britain was to maintain a composed facade, a delicate and demure manner, and a distaste for ... and taken to a hospital, it was far too late; Davison became the movement's first, and only, true martyr.28 These actions by the WSPU, while attracting huge amounts of publicity, had the opposite effect intended; the public began to disapprove of the suffragettes, as well as their cause. While most people, before the outbreak of rampant militancy, supported the cause of women's suffrage, once the new actions started ... would return."32 The government enjoyed the domestic quiet granted by the suffragettes during the war, and were not eager to sink once again into the terrorist and destructive acts of the WSPU. The main effect of World War I on the suffrage movement was that "women's contribution to the war effort was seen and appreciated"33; instead of being insulted for wanting to take part in government, women ...
- 86: The Effect of the Russian Orthodox Religion on the Cult
- The Effect of the Russian Orthodox Religion on the Cult Orthodox Christianity has had an immense effect on the culture of Russia. The adoption of the Orthodox faith from Constantinople by Prince Vladimir in 988 introduced cultural influences that profoundly affected the Russian consciousness. As the people embraced Orthodoxy it developed a ... that God had sent Ivan to rule Russia as a punishment for her sins. The split between the two factions caused the losers, the Non-Possessors, to be reviled as heretics. This had a negative effect because the church came to be represented by a faction instead of through a consensus. This led to only one set of ideas being developed in the church and the culture and as a ...
- 87: Cause and Effect: Students' Grades
- Cause and Effect: Students' Grades When a student's grades are at the lowest, chaos occurs. His or her car is taken away, late night privileges are taken away, the curfew suddenly goes up, and "No TV!" A ... certain courses just because "everyone else", will not realize that the course is difficult and hard until it is too late. Bad grades have many effects and can cause problems. Bad or low grades can effect what college you will get into. A student must know that, what grades he or she gets from day one of his or her freshman class, will matter to college administrations. Low grades will also effect your feelings and attitude. A student will feel sad and depressed if he or she does not get anywhere with low grades. Of course, grades will affect parents. Parents will be very disappointed and ...
- 88: How Do The Past And Present Effect Sexuality On Television And The Adolescent Mind?
- How Do The Past And Present Effect Sexuality On Television And The Adolescent Mind? Mass Media Research (MMA 315) Mr. Stewart Clark Atlanta University Sex is everywhere. Turn on any television between the hours of eight to eleven p.m. and what ... to see. From our mid-day soaps and talk show to our favorite prime time television programs, sex really does sell. Yet how does the sexually activity that is displayed today affect minors? Does this effect change throughout the past ten to fifteen years? Have there been any major changes that we, the American viewing audience, have seen in the way network television handles human sexuality? What lessons can be learned the way that the American adolescence viewed sexuality ten to fifteen years ago? What can we learn now about the American adolescence and sexuality on network television? How will sexuality on network television effect adolescence for the future. What role does cable television play in the new sexual revolution of television. Is sexuality on television really a problem or is it just hype brought on by other outlets ...
- 89: Acid Rain
- ... 23.1 million tons of sulfur dioxide and 20.5 million tons of nitrogen oxides to our atmosphere worldwide. When fossil fuels are ignited like oil and coal, they release carbon dioxide, a so-called greenhouse gas that traps heat within the earth's atmosphere which causes global warming that is taking place right now. Also, it releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and various metals (mercury, aluminum) that are released into ... by acid rain is in the European countries, yet central Europe face a much greater threat since it has a large amount of forest area and about 8% of German's forest face the lethal effect of Waldsterben or forest death of acid rain. Acid rain kill about 50 million hectares of forest that have been damaged in Europe and in Central and Eastern Europe's thousands of tons of pollution ... their problems with acid rain. Yet, most emissions are primarily located in eastern North America, Europe, and China. That is why acid rain is so threatening because it is concentrated and it has a devastating effect on soil because most of the trees get their nutrients from soil, which lakes, ponds, streams, and other waterways, which receives runoffs from soils uphill which humans. When gets into the lakes and river ...
- 90: Hume
- ... with such temptations to believe, with such sirens sounding for sensible, systematic sureness. The Design Argument has been mortally wounded by David Hume. The god arrived at by arguments on the one-way street of effect to the cause is dead; we should never have allowed him to live. In Section XI of the Enquiry, and throughout the Dialogues Hume subjects the Argument from Design to searching and searing philosophical analysis ... dialogue form to embody his attacks. The argument of the former is mistitled. Fourteen of the seventeen pages have nothing to do with immortality or "particular providence." Hume's argument here is from the particular effect to the existence of a cause sufficient for its production. Causes are to be known from effects alone; to ascribe to it any superfluous qualities goes beyond the bounds of strict logical reasoning. The imagination ... out this point you allow that your conclusion fails; and you pretend not to establish the conclusion in a greater latitude than the phenomena of nature will justify. The cause must be proportioned to the effect. To Hume it is sinful to assume greater effects to an actually lesser cause. No sooner have we engodded the gods with power and intelligence and benevolence than we summon "exaggeration and flattery" to ...
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