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- 3361: Types of Land Features
- ... same as the turtles. Aquatic Biome: Lake There are two different types of lakes: freshwater lakes, and salt water lakes. The fresh water lakes have a trace amount of chemicals, while slat water lakes have high concentrates of salts and carbonates. The lake is divided into two zones: euphotic zone, and profundal zone. The euphotic zone is where the light penetrates threw the surface. The profundal zone is the layer where ... the teens and below at night. It is not common for temperatures to reach below freezing at night in the hot desert. Humidity reaches about an average of 10-20 percent, because there is a high evaporation rate due to the lack of rain. The annual rain fall is about 10 inches a year. Because of the dryness, it is sometimes the result in dust and wind storms. Such plants such ... 88 percent. Rain is constantly falling making the average rain fall over 100 inches a year. There are two types of rain forests: cloud forests, and low land forests. The cloud forests are located at high altitudes and get their precipitation from the clouds. The forests are less dense and the trees dont grow as high as the ones do in the low land forests. There is also a ...
- 3362: Social Norms Are Constantly Changing
- ... day can be completely stupid the next. Just look at the clothes they wore in the eighties. Social norms go deeper than just the style of clothing that you wear. One interviewee described a typical school day that was very different from the ones that we encounter today. She went to school in the late fifties in a one-room schoolhouse that included about fifteen kids ranging from first to sixth grade. She mentioned that one time a kid was caught cheating on a test. The teacher tied the kid to a chair and sprayed him down with Raid insect killer. When I expressed disbelief, she swore it was true. Another interviewee that grew up in the early twenties attended school only through the eighth grade. After that he helped his father on the farm. In the typical school day today, a student has to do a lot more than cheat on a test to ...
- 3363: El Nino
- ... and western sides of the Pacific. He noticed that when pressure rises in the west it usually falls in the east and vice versa. He coined this term Southern Oscillation. When it is on its high index state pressure is high on the eastern side of the Pacific and low on the western side (figure 1). The east west pressure contrast drives easterly surface winds. When it switches into low index (figure 2) the easterly surface ... as phytoplankton establish themselves in these waters. When the easterlies are blowing at full strength, the upwelling of cold water along the equatorial Pacific chills the air above it, making it too dense to rise high enough for water vapor to condense and form clouds. As a result, this strip of ocean stays free of clouds during normal years and rain in the equatorial belt is largely confined to the ...
- 3364: William Shakespeare
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
- 3365: Marijuana And Its Effects On Humans
- ... had permitted myself to fall into the reverie I was perfectly unconscious, and knew only that it seemed to have lasted an interminable length of time." The user of cannabis feels the onset of the "high" between 7 seconds (when smoking) and up to 30 minutes (after eating). This involves a relaxed and peaceful, yet sometimes euphoric state of mind. At high doses, it can cause hallucinations. The effects last from 2 to 4 hours after the drug is ingested, and it usually leaves the user in a relaxed state for several hours after the high. One of the main intoxicating properties is that short term memory is inhibited for the duration of the high. Thoughts may seem unclear, and it might be difficult for a user to concentrate on ...
- 3366: Princess Diana 3
- ... at Park House, Sandringham until the death of her grandfather, Earl Spencer VII. The family moved to the Spencer family seat at Althorp in Northamptonshire, in 1975. Diana first went to Riddlesworth Hall, a preparatory school in Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, as a boarder. Diana Had a talent for music as an accomplished pianist, dancing and domestic science. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young ...
- 3367: Monopolies In A Capitalist Eco
- ... capitalist economy in small towns and with public utilities anywhere. For example, on your way to Anza Borrego, there is this one small town that has only one gas station which sells gas at extremely high prices. The advantage that the owner has and makes this similar to a monopoly is that that is the only gas station within twenty miles of any direction. So, if you want gas then you are going to either pay the high and outrageous prices or drive a lot farther for gas somewhere else that is a little bit cheaper. In addition, public utilities out in the boonies (like Barstow) have extremely high water prices, yet it is vital to have enough water for all of the community surrounding. Another contributing factor to the high water prices is because there is only one water company that serves ...
- 3368: Rich Comparison Essay
- ... there views with examples of how either man or woman has been oppressed throughout the history of education. While Adrienne Rich is talking mainly about the college system and David Thomas is talking about the school system in general, their views do conflict each other. Rich believes that women have been exploited throughout the history of time. Thomas on the other hand believes that by being forced to have women teachers ... boisterous. Unconsciously or not, they consistently reinforce and reward more feminine behavior. If all this is true it is understandable that boys should not be as advanced as girls in the hands of woman junior school teachers. There is a direct relationship between a child s academic achievement and a favorable response from the teacher. (Thomas 339) To prove this fact there was an experiment done with seventy-two boys and ... a common ground that the male teachers have with the male students and vice versa. Thomas talks about how a single sex environment is not always the answer either. He attended an all boys boarding school and he was taught in a system that was designed to bring the best out of boys, intellectually, creatively and on the sports field. (Thomas 341) He says that it is a better venue ...
- 3369: The Privatisation Of The Uk El
- ... willing to pay more for a product which they consider superior 3. Barriers to entry must exist within the market. These could include artificial barriers to entry such as legislation or natural barriers such as high start-up costs Oligopolists have a kinked demand curve because the theory assumes that oligopolists will assume the worst case scenario about their competitors reactions to a change in price. In the diagram below, if ... as follows:- In a given market, the actions of one large firm directly affect the strategy employed by the other firms in the market, and thus neither firm is willing to push prices up too high for fear of being undercut or push prices down for fear of bankruptcy. In 1991, when national power and PowerGen took over the UK industry, they were able to increase prices at equivalent levels and ... higher price on average in the SWALEC region, knowing that the inertia of customers to change to another company for a relatively small saving will allow them to charge this higher price and still make high profits. This can be put more simply in economic terms the price elasticity of demand becomes more inelastic as consumers have to spend their time in saving money. It can safely be assumed that ...
- 3370: The Need For Extreme Criminal Justice Reform in California
- ... is currently the case V. Conclusion This proposal provides a policy alternative to the current criminal justice emphasis on incarceration as punishment. It is based on the premise of effectiveness and cost efficiency with a high regard for individual liberty that is essential to a free society. It moves away from the concept of punishment and focuses on a more functional goal of victim and societal repayment. The proposal offers prevention ... time now to look beyond revenge and the emotionalism associated with current justice system practices. "There is only one practical method of reducing crime and the subsequent public's fear and that is through a high level of police presence on the street." (Randy Meyer, M.A.) In essence, this revision allows for a return of the local neighborhood police officer who is familiar with its residents and business owners. In ... system than is currently the case This proposal provides a policy alternative to the current criminal justice emphasis on incarceration as punishment. It is based on the premise of effectiveness and cost efficiency with a high regard for individual liberty that is essential to a free society. It moves away from the concept of punishment and focuses on a more functional goal of victim and societal repayment. The proposal offers ...
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