The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake‚ a body of fresh water‚ although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last 30 years‚ more than 60 percent of the lake has disappeared. The sequence of images above‚ acquired by Landsat satellites‚ shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000. Beginning in the 1960s‚ farmers and state offices in Uzbekistan‚ Kazakhstan‚ and Central Asian states
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South Beach Diet The South Beach Diet is a relatively new weight loss diet. It was developed by Miami cardiologist Arthur Agatston‚ M.D.‚ who is the director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center. The diet is meant to promote weight loss but not at the expense of heart health. Unlike other wildly popular low-carb plans‚ South Beach calls for keeping tabs on saturated fats and favors lean meats and proteins over bacon‚ cheeseburgers‚ and steaks. With this diet there is no calorie counting
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Social Research 10/6/13 All over the world‚ from the Bering Sea to the Sea of Japan‚ from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Mexico‚ from China to the Chesapeake‚ any place oceans are in trouble‚ jellyfish are taking over. Jellyfish do well in warmer waters. Our carbon dioxide emissions are both warming the water and causing it to become corrosive. Warmer water -- even a fraction of a degree -- holds less oxygen than cooler water and shifts the balance of who survives and
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On May 21‚ 2016 Hannah‚ Jake‚ and Brett were on their way to Daytona‚ Florida for vacation. After traveling several hours they finally arrive‚ check into a hotel‚ change and head to the beach. They swam for a little bit‚ talked‚ and ate their lunch on the beach. After a while of talking they decided to go deep sea fishing. They paid forty dollars and got on the boat. After an hour of driving they finally got to the spot where they could fish. After fishing for about 30 minutes‚ a shark hit the
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Mediterranean Sea (35 degrees north‚ 18 degrees east) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe‚ on the south by Africa‚ and on the east by Asia. It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km² (965‚000 mi²)‚ but its connection to the Atlantic (the Strait of Gibraltar) is only 14 km (9 mi) wide. In oceanography‚ it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea of the European Mediterranean Sea‚ to distinguish it from Mediterranean seas elsewhere
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(Mead‚ 2008) This is where SEA reporting plays a role in governmental accounting. The SEA report is an external report aside from the annual comprehensive financial report which ensures that the result of programs and services is communicated effectively to any interested parties. Those interested parties could include elected officials‚ legislative staff‚ citizens‚ and the media. GASB began seeing the importance of SEA reporting as early as its initiation in 1984. SEA reporting at the state
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When reading the novel from a psychoanalytic perspective‚ the sea plays an important role in the ’awakening’ of Edna Pontellier. There is a strong relationship between Edna and the sea from the beginning of the novel to the end. The sea represents Edna’s desire to find her own freedom and identity. In the beginning of the novel‚ Edna’s expression of the sea reflects her awareness of her own identity. "Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf‚ whose sonorous murmur reached her like
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Phuket Beach Resort Case AnalysisGraduate School of BusinessDe La Salle University I.Statement of the Problem Should the management of Phuket Beach Resort accept the offer made by PlanetKaraoke Pub to set up an outlet inside the hotel or should the managementoperate a pub‚ Beach Karaoke Pub‚ by itself? II.Case Background Mike Campbell‚ General Manager of Phuket Beach Hotel is considering an offermade by Planet Karaoke Pub‚ a fast expanding company‚ which is looking for avenue in Patong beach area
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“Welcome to the world of the plastic beach”. This is the title of a song on the Gorillaz Album Plastic beach. But for The community of Gorillaz and the band it is much more. The plastic beach is a fictional location that the band came up with to be a harbor that they could live on. It is an island in the middle of the pacific ocean that is made up entirely of plastic bottles and waste. The characters of Gorillaz discovered this mountain of garbage when they were escaping the clutches of bruce willis
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Riders to the sea is written by famous Irishman drama writer John Millington Synge as one of his magnum opus. Riders to the sea was written in 1903 and performed on 1904 at Irish National Society. It is a one-act tragedy with four characters: Maurya(mother)‚ Bartley(son)‚ Cathleen(daughter) and Nora(another daughter)‚ based on how Irishmen struggle with the ferocious sea and being hopeless. The whole play talks about one main story: the family’s struggle with the sea because their income money for
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