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    Harms of Gold Mining

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    heavy metals damage all of food chain. According to No Dirty Gold people and animals get sick for generations due to byproduct as mercury and heavy metals coming from mine wastes (n.d.). Finally‚ gold mining pollutes air owing to dust and vaporized chemicals. Actually dust is a significant problem for all kind of subsoil mining.

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    The Great Depression was an event that affected everyone from young to old. This severely changed numerous of lives. Many people found themselves out of work and searching for a better life. Funding for education was low and children rather worked. Plus‚ teenagers and their parents were traveling to search for a new life. The years of the Great Depression were very difficult for those who lived through them and they also mark an important era in this country’s history. This era of history did not

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    The Worst Hard Time

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    book isn t theoretical. It isn t a survey of what s happened in other countries. It s about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. It s about what happens‚ right here in the heart of America‚ when the land is misused‚ mistreated‚ and turns on those who depend on it. Centered in the panhandle of Oklahoma and extending south into the panhandle of Texas‚ north into half of Kansas and a quadrant of Colorado‚ the Dust Bowl despoiled 100 million acres. For thousands of years this land had been well suited for grass

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    Okies Road Analysis

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    entire way of life during this unfortunate time period. The demographic that was impacted the worst were arguably the so-called Okies. Okies was a derogatory name bestowed upon the migrant farmers who left Oklahoma and the surrounding states during the Dust Bowl for California in their quest to regain and better their lives. Their constant search highlighted their determination‚ which was one of the group’s brightest qualities as a whole. Woody Guthrie‚ a former Okie himself‚ produced multiple songs pertaining

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    Vostok Ice core report

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    obtained from the Vostok core drilled in East Antarctica‚ at an altitude of 3488m. The ice core has a total length of 2083m. In the sample‚ the temperature‚ composition of CO2‚ CH4‚ and dust in different each ice sheet layer is recorded. Through investigating the relationship between the composition of CO2‚ CH4‚ dust and the age of ice and gas‚ the paleoclimate including local temperature can be shown. It shows the fluctuation of climate in the past hundreds of thousands of years. Due to limited

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    Juicing information

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    Juices for Weight Loss Various types of juices are an important part of fad diets. They are strongly recommended in all types of weight loss diets. Here’s why. Fresh‚ natural juices can help you lose weight in a very effective and nutritious manner. It allows you to lose the extra fat as well as helps to get rid of the toxins in the body. Drinking a glass of vegetable juice before each meal helps reduce your appetite. Parsley juice and carrot juice help to maintain healthy blood sugar

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    dried oregano  or ½ tbsp chopped fresh oregano‚2 tbsp olive oil‚1/2 lemon ‚2 large tomatoes‚ 2 fresh skinless pollock fillets (about 200g) and small handful parsley. First‚ we need to wash the potatoes and cut into wedges‚ the onion bisect and sliced‚ garlic cloves roughly chopped‚ lemon and 2 large tomatoes are cut into wedges ‚and the small handful parsley. Second ‚ after prepared the ingredients ‚heat the oven to 200C/180C fan or gas 6.Tip the potatoes ‚onion‚garlic‚olive oil and oregano into

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    Problems that plagued the American society decades ago still plague it today. People face discrimination because of their race or social status. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ one can see Alabama in the 1930’s through the eyes of a child named Scout‚ and the audience’s perception of the events that take place throughout the book are greatly affected by the resulting naiveté and ignorance. The theme of the existence of racial inequality in the novel is extremely important‚ and Tom Robinson

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    Several things caused the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a rough time in American history that started in 1929‚ when the stock market crashed‚ and it ended in 1939. During the Great Depression‚ around 6‚000 vendors roamed the streets‚ in their effort to sell apples for $0.05. The crash of the stock market is one factor of the Great Depression. On a day known as "Black Thursday"‚ around 13 million shares were traded. Five days later‚ over 16 million shares were traded‚ which caused millions

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    Why Mars Red

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    because in the acticle www.spaceanswers.com states that “iron rusting rocks and soil on the surface of mars contained a dust composed mostly of iron and small amounts of other elements such as chlorine and sulfur. The rocks and soil were eroded by wind and the dust was blown across the surface by ancient volcanoes.” Mars is really weird because the iron oxide forms a rust dust that floats in the atmosphere and sits as a duty eating across much of land land landscape. Iron rusting is mostly why mars

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