Why do I do it? Why do I scare myself with the ocean…? It is true‚ it is merciless‚ literally; it’s not conscious‚ so it has no feelings‚ no remorse‚ no pity‚ no awareness. It would be wrong to say it is inanimate‚ because it is certainly animate. And not alive‚ yet contains so much life within it might as well be. Like a Frankenstein body filled with cells and bacteria and nerve impulses yet no consciousness. My worst nightmare – I don’t have it very often but it’s a strong one – can take
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Congo Basin Moist Forests “The Congo Basin makes up one of the most important wilderness areas left on Earth. At 500 million acres‚ it is larger than the state of Alaska and stands as the world’s second largest tropical forest” (Congo Basin). The Amazon is the only moist tropical forest that is bigger than the Congo Basin moist forest. The Congo Basin moist forest is four times the size of France and contains about one fourth of the closed canopy forest left on Earth (Managing Congo Basin Forests:
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Kohat-Potwar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production The first oil well drilled in present-day Pakistan was at Kundal on the Potwar Plateau in 1866. The first commercial oil discovery was made in the Greater Indus Basin in 1914 when the Attock Oil Company completed a 214 ft well on a thrust-faulted anticline near Khaur on the Potwar Plateau (Khan and others‚ 1986). Early success in the Kohat-Potwar geologic province served to focus much of the early exploration activity in that area. The Sui
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In Northern Africa and the Middle East‚ where political unrest has caused violent civil wars and riots‚ climate change has deteriorated people’s lifestyles and drastically changed the weather. According to Christopher Schär‚ a rise in temperature and humidity around the Persian Gulf will create extreme conditions that are intolerable to humans within the next century. Statistically‚ with the temperature rise of 0 .65°C for the past century‚ nearly 200 million people are living in regions that are
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event in the deep ocean; it simply has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore‚ and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long)‚ which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea‚ forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean. Tsunamis have been historically referred to as tidal waves because as they approach land they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing tide rather than the sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people
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* Flooding in the Ganges basin - human factors Deforestation in many parts of the river basin‚ e.g. Nepal‚ Bhutan and Northern India. This is a result of population growth (more wood is needed for cooking and heating. Also more forests are cleared for farm land). This has led to increased flooding. This is a result of: * More erosion of soil as roots no longer hold soil together * Less take-up of water by plant roots * Less interception of rain fall by vegetation cover Positive
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Introduction Franklinian basin is one of the oldest basins in North America. It is a passive margin basin in arctic Canada that extends from northeast Canada to North Greenland (Ineson‚ 1988). The origin of Franklinian basin has not been extensively studied‚ but some authors (Miall & Blakey‚ 2008; Henriksen & Higgins‚ 1998) suggested a late Precambrian origin which began with the rifting of Rodinia (a supercontinent) about 700 Ma. Since the rifting of the Rodinia‚ Franklinian basin has undergone several
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A PLACE WHICH NEEDS ATTENTION: THE EAST The term Orientalism‚ was used by the West‚ to define the East. Orientalism is the perspective of the West‚ the way they see the East. The West here‚ is the Western Europe and the East is rest of it. Also Said divided Orientalism into two groups which are “latent and manifest Orientalism.” Nineteenth century scholars were mostly interested in Manifest Orientalism which is things we can observe about the Orient like language‚ literature‚ art‚ history. Most
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Introduction The Brunette Basin Watershed is a 73 square kilometre watershed that stretches into several municipalities in the Lower Mainland‚ including portions of Vancouver‚ Burnaby‚ New Westminster‚ Coquitlam and Port Moody (Greater Vancouver Regional District [GVRD]‚ 2001a; see appendix A). This watershed is centralized within a highly developed urban area‚ meaning that humans and the natural environment interact on a regular basis. However‚ the impact of humans on this watershed has degraded
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ENGLISH ESSAY OH EAST IS EAST Oh‚ East is East‚ and West is West‚ and never the twain shall meet. This is a part of Raudyard Kippling’s poem The Ballad of East and West. This poem is perfect to use as an explanation to why Brick Lane is so different. Brick Lane is dominated by people from the east‚ especially Hindis and Bangladeshis. The cultural differences between the East and West are major. They have different religion‚ food‚ language and even clothes. The West has more of a modern way of thinking
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