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    Ilagiit Research Paper

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    activated‚ while those people with whom one has active co-production relations actually become included as kin. This argument is very similar to that advanced by Turner and Wertman for the Shamattawa Cree. Mark Nuttall’s careful study of kinship in Arctic Homeland adds another dimension to the analysis. He carefully places social relations within the relations of people to land through his concept of

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    Frankenstein goes through a lot of turmoil at the beginning of his life. After being found in the icy cold arctic and growing up with Elizabeth‚ his sister‚ and unfortunately losing Caroline‚ he found a love for science‚ grabbed it and ran with it. Victor continued to pursue science and then had a thought to create‚ who most know now‚ as Frankenstein. Robert Walton travels through the Arctic Ocean through Russia to get to the North Pole. He finds Victor Frankenstein‚ weak and cold‚ afloat an ice

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    Ural Mountains

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    Ural Mountains are a rugged spine across Russia‚ running 1‚300 miles from the fringe of the Arctic in the North‚ to the bend of the Ural River in the South. Traditionally they form a boundary between Europe and Asia. The north- south course of the Urals is relatively narrow‚ varying from about 20 to 90 miles in width‚ but it cuts across the vast latitude landscape regions of the Eurasian landmass‚ from Arctic waste to semidesert; the Urals also are part of the Ural economic region‚ a highly developed

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    Robert Walton is on a ship trying to find out a passage from Russia to the Arctic Ocean. The beginning is where Walton on a ship and his crew find Victor Frankenstein in bad shape on the ice. There are many letters that are written and sent between Walton and his sister that lives in England explaining what goes on in Victor’s story. An orphan named Elizabeth was adopted by Victor’s family his mom basically sets him up to marry her because she thinks that she is a sweet girl. Victor grows up in Geneva

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    Resolute desk

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    Oval Office desk. It was built from the timbers of the British Arctic Exploration ship Resolute and it was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. HMS Resolute was part of a five-ship group under Edward Belcher sent from Britain in April 1852 to search for the missing British explorer Sir John Franklin‚ who had departed Britain in 1845 in search of the fabled Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. In September 1855 an American whaler named James Buddington‚

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    Website #1 URL: https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/indigenoustraditions/sacred-lands/3483-2/ Name of Indigenous culture/religion presented in Web site Indigenous People of Arctic Russia What is the main purpose of the website you found? The main purpose of the article was to educate about the people of Arctic Russia. It goes into detail about the oppression of the people and the plan to erase the culture that they hold as an important part of their lifestyle. It also explains the current

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    MUN policy paper

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    Indigenous people speak about 4000 different languages. They have unique cultural traditions which are still practiced. They have their own land and territory‚ to which they are tied in numerous ways. Examples of Indigenous Peoples are the “Inuit of the Arctic”‚ Native Americans‚ hunter-gatherers in the Amazon‚ and tribal peoples in the Philippines. The Indigenous people: Indigenous people are a significant and are an important part of humanity. Their heritage‚ their ways of life‚ their stewardship of

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    Global Warming

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    and dry soils that are caused by human activities such as fossil fuel burning. For instance‚ the polar bears will be the first one to die because they use arctic summer sea ice to hunt for their food. As the ice is broken down‚ the bears have less food hunting time. The University of Washington scientists predicts that by the year 2040‚ the Arctic summer sea ice will disappear completely and they will negatively change the habitat for beluga whales‚ ring seals‚ sea birds and penguins. In the year 2007

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    Climate Change Term Paper

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    INTRODUCTION Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average (e.g.‚ more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change may be limited to a specific region or may occur across the whole Earth. The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of

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    Broder‚ John. "U.S. Issues New Rules on Offshore Drilling." New York Times. 30 Aug. 2010. Web. 27 Oct. 2014. Goldenberg‚ Suzanne. "The Oil Industry Is Unprepared to Handle Spills in the Arctic. “Oil Spills. Ed. Tamara Thompson. Farmington Hills‚ MI: Greenhaven Press‚ 2014. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Arctic Oil Spill Clean-up Plans Are ’Thoroughly Inadequate ’‚ Industry Warned." Guardian 11 Nov. 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 21 Oct. 2014. Howell‚ Kate‚ and Patrick Reis. "Interior

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