Shelby Wilkins Instructor Beck GSW 10:30-11:20 31 August‚ 2012 Determination‚ Admiration‚ Preservation Every year the BGSU Common Read Experience Committee selected the common read book for the incoming freshmen. This year the committee chose A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean as the common read experience. This book is a rip-roaring adventure that really catches your attention and really explains in great detail the struggles a hardworking woman has went
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1 Degree Warmer: * The Artic is ice-free for half the year. * Opening the legendary north-west passage for ships. * Tens of thousands of homes around the Bay of Bengal are flooding. * Hurricanes begin hitting the South Atlantic. * Servere droughts in the Western US causing shortages global grain and meat markets. 2 Degrees Warmer: * Greenland glaciers are disappearing. * So much ice has melted‚ polar bears struggle to survive. * Insects migrate in strange
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James Cook was a high ranking officer that played a major part in exploration which founded the Hawaiian islands and was one of the best explorers in the world. He went on many great expeditions to the Pacific ocean‚ Antarctic‚ New Zealand‚ Bering Strait‚ Australia‚ North America‚ and a few parts of Canada. Born on October 27‚ 1728 during the Colonial period and Age of Enlightenment(DISCovering Biography). At a young age James Cook did not do much of exploring. His father was a farmer and a small
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The volcanic islands known as the Galapagos Islands are found 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador and are home to the Galapagos penguins‚ the only species of penguins in the world to live north of the equator. Despite the common belief that penguins only live in the Arctic‚ the Galapagos Islands have temperatures that vary from 70-90º Fahrenheit over the course of the year. The distribution of these birds in their environment correlates with the “Cromwell Current‚ which provides cold nutrient-rich
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English One November 17‚ 2013 The Common Traveler For most the term traveler can be described as the adventurer‚ or to go to new exotic places frequently‚ or as the person who moves from place to place and never settles down. In order to track down a true traveler one has to seek out these common elements. To begin‚ one must determine what a traveler actually is. A good way to find out what a traveler is would be to look it up in the dictionary‚ ask a friend or do some research. A definition
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1 Title: The Marine Biome #2 Biome Description and Definition The Marine Biome is made of all the oceans in the world. It holds many diverse species in animals and plants and since it is so enormous‚ there is some species that have not been discovered yet. The ocean is a mysterious thing because it is different in each part of the world‚ the climate depends on the location and the location depends on what species are located in that part. Australia is home to the coral reef‚ where today it is
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A deep subsurface rock core for paleoclimate reconstruction was collected in October and November 2007 during the South McMurdo Sound Project (SMS) of the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL). To allow for deeper penetration and more efficient core recovery‚ water-based saline drilling fluids were utilized. A total of 5.6x105 L of fluids was lost in the subsurface. The fluid was comprised of surface seawater from the sound‚ as the wetting agent mixed with densifying compounds (mainly potassium
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Name:_______________________ Date:________________________ Subject:______________________ Travel Brochure or Front Page Assignment (Instruction sheet) Objectives: Students will demonstrate ability to write a paragraph in Step-Up format Students will practice research skills in the media center Students will identify with and research information on a specific desert Students will describe characteristics of a desert Students will create travel page/brochure about a world desert Students
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Arctic sea ice loss Main articles: Polar ice packs and Climate change in the Arctic The decline in Arctic sea ice‚ both in extent and thickness‚ over the last several decades is further evidence for rapid climate change.[60] Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats on the ocean surface. It covers millions of square miles in the polar regions‚ varying with the seasons. In the Arctic‚ some sea ice remains year after year‚ whereas almost all Southern Ocean or Antarctic sea ice melts away and reforms
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The explorers pushed themselves against the harsh‚ cold winds. The helpless dogs whimpered at the men as they hauled four fully-loaded sledges across the ice. The unpredictable weather made the more than 800-mile journey tough‚ but the explorers were up for the challenge. Roald Amundsen‚ a Norwegian explorer‚ was the first person to reach the South Pole‚ and the first expedition leader to fly over the North Pole. Amundsen was a man with big dreams‚ and followed his motivation of wanting to risk his
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