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    Word Count: 2‚647 Executive Summary The concept of opening a retail business at Western University London campus is not a new idea to Matthew Zabloski and Richard Joffe. The idea of Dunes Inc. came to them early in the year‚ and for the last several months they have been putting together a business plan. Dunes will offer tanning services and a variety of healthy living products to the persons using Western University facilities. They have the competitive advantage of being within walking distance

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    Introduction Hypothesis To what extent do the dunes at camber show the characteristics typical of this depositional landform? To start my geography GCSE controlled assessment I have gone to Camber sands beach to record a variety of characteristics from the dunes in order to answer my hypothesis‚ shown above. There were a few key concepts and processes we used in our investigation they were Coastal deposition‚ Sand Dunes‚ Psammosere and Plant Succession. These four concepts above all fit in with

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    beach. The coastal processes that are threatening the erosion of the beachfront developments are‚ Erosion/Accretion Cycle (or sediment budget)‚ destructive storm waves and king tides. These processes are slowly undermining the building and causing the dune under the units to become unstable and dangerous for people living in and around them. Also the salts from the waves blowing onto the units causes the metal to rust and the foundation of the building and balcony handrails to be at risk of being unreliable

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    The sleeping bear dunes incident This is only half of the hill T My feet were burning it felt like I was stepping on sand that is on fire. When is this torturous dune climb ever going to be over I thought to myself? “ Are we there yet”my sister Maddie said impatiently. We were going to take a awesome hike through sleeping bear dunes. Then are car came to a stop. We all jumped out of the car and onto the trail. It was beautiful trail wonderful colorful leaves were from every direction

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    Cronulla Beach is a popular tourist attraction and attracts many beachgoers from all over Sydney. It is located on a southern Sydney peninsular‚ surrounded by Botany Bay to the north‚ Bate Bay to the east‚ Port Hacking to the south‚ and Gunnamatta Bay to the west. On the 14th of March 2011‚ year 10 went to Cronulla Beach to investigate how people use and interact with the coastal environment. We investigated three main things and they were: * What impacts local residents and businesses have

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    physical factors which cause change in ecosystems can be seen through succession; for example in the sand dune ecosystem in Talacre‚ North Wales you can see how the vegetation changes with distance from the high mark. The further in land you travel across the sand dunes the more densely the vegetation become and the wider the variety of species that grow there become. This is because the fore dunes have many physical factors which inhibit the growth of flora; there is little soil with almost no shelter

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    Growing up‚ the end of October typically meant playing soccer and finding a costume for trick-or-treating‚ but in 2012‚ my community became saturated and preoccupied by the anticipation of a coming storm. Although northern New Jersey is not normally where hurricanes violently meet land and its inhabitants‚ the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29‚ Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer

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    P H Hoeft State Park: A Mile of Pristine White Sand Beach‚ and Dunes The park is densely wooded. This is one of Michigan’s very first state parks. It lies near the Straits of Mackinac‚ and just 50 miles from the Mackinac Bridge. It’s a popular place‚ but the thick forest means that sounds from other campers come in muffled‚ if at all. Rangers are friendly‚ and chitchat with you as you check in. Whether you’re coming for an afternoon or a lot longer‚ the one thing that can’t be missed is the park’s

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    groynes‚ harbours‚ jetties)‚ people walking on dunes and pollution. Although structures such as a groyne is used to help withstand beach erosion it is stopping sand from replenishing beaches further down a coast. This is because it is stopping the sand normally moved by longshore drift. People walking on dunes increases the rate of erosion. This causes the dune to become extremely unstable‚ making it dangerous - especially if there is a big drop. When the dunes are walked on or when the vegetation is destroyed

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    In some ways it seems that Lynch was miscast as its director: Eraserhead had been one of those sell-your-own-plasma-to-buy-the-film-stock masterpieces‚ with a tiny and largely unpaid cast and crew. Dune‚ on the other hand‚ had one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history‚ and its production staff was the size of a Caribbean nation‚ and the movie involved lavish and cuttingedge special effects. Plus‚ Herbert’s novel itself was incredibly long and

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