OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION: A GLOBAL TRAGEDY FOR OUR OCEANS AND SEA LIFE Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone‚ 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags‚ straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. Plastics pollution has a direct and
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Confederation Final Project Paragraph New Brunswick joined Confederation on July 1‚ 1867. New Brunswick was one of the first province/territory to join Confederation along with Nova Scotia and a few other colonies. New Brunswick joined the Confederation because if they joined it‚ Britain would help with funds to build railways to help increase trade‚ it would help New Brunswick defend against the Fenians‚ and since New Brunswick had a small population‚ if they joined Confederation‚ they
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Canada: Top Festivals And Events Canada is festival HQ. Across the length and breadth of the country‚ if there is an opportunity for a festival or an event‚ you can count on a city‚ town or village to arrange one. Festivals range from the internationally acclaimed Montreal Jazz Festival in Quebec to the lesser known Moose Jaw Kinsmen International Band & Choral Festival in Saskatchewan... and everything in between. The change of seasons‚ rural fairs‚ agricultural displays‚ rodeos‚ comedy festivals
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devices‚ plastics are now used in almost every aspect of everyday life‚ creating a much simpler and safer world. Although plastics carry hundreds of benefits‚ these do not completely counter the harmful effects that they have on the environment and on the health of humans. The amount of plastic that has been created since 2000 is nearing the total amount that was created in the entire last century‚ and as this demand increases‚ so does the knowledge of their environmental costs. Plastics are now known
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BIGGER AND BETTER IN PLASTICS Factory-assembled towers boast competitive advantages over those that are field-erected Cooling towers – bastions of wood‚ fiberglass‚ steel or concrete – could someday go the way of galvanized pipe‚ aluminum cable and other equipment that has been materially altered by plastics. It’s not that plastic cooling towers are new; on the contrary‚ they have been around for more than 30 years. Rather‚ it is the fabrication of these plastic structures in larger
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knowledge on how to solve this problem effectively. plastic is everywhere and the reason that plastic is everywhere is be ABSTRACT Plastic Pollution has become a global issue in our oceans. Although we hear about this from time to time the problem has grown tremendously beyond our knowledge. There are a growing number of animals dying each day due to plastic particles that either get stuck around their head‚ or that they swallow. If we do not stop plastic pollution in our oceans the ocean will eventually
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Architect Patrick Hodgkinson‚ who worked for the likes of Alvor Aalto and Leslie Martin‚ designed the Brunswick Centre‚ often described as a ‘Superblock’ or ‘Mega structure’ located in the heart of Bloomsbury. Hodgkinson gained recognition for his completion of this building‚ which he inherited from Leslie Martin. The raw concrete bunker‚ built in 1968-1972‚ became one of the most controversial structures in London of the time. With Hodgkinson’s original design somewhat compromised‚ the project fell
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Nova Scotia‚ one of the three Maritime and one of the four Atlantic provinces of Canada‚ bordered on the north by the Bay of Fundy‚ the province of New Brunswick‚ Northumberland Strait‚ and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and on the east‚ south‚ and west by the Atlantic Ocean. Nova Scotia consists primarily of a mainland section‚ linked to New Brunswick by the Isthmus of Chignecto‚ and Cape Breton Island‚ separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso. On July 1‚ 1867‚ Nova Scotia became one of the
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French Village and the Loyalists The division of Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick in 1784 set forth a wave of migrating Loyalists to settle this new province. Many of them settled on the ruins of abandoned Acadian villages where many Acadians had settled their families. After the destruction of the “Pointe-Saint-Anne” village in the winter of 1759 by Lieutenant Moses Hazen and a group of rangers‚ where he was only able to capture three of its families‚ many of the Acadians
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country‚ loyal to them‚ as their way out. The problem for them was they had little or no presence in the area west of the great lakes except for the the coast of what is now BC. "Victoria & Westminster" The mealtimes "PEI Nova Scotia & New Brunswick " were an economic disaster having lost their secure market in England‚ Upper Canada. "Ontario" was land locked in many respects and France had lost their interest in the new world. They lost Lower Canada at the battle of
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