Riza De Asis Jenn Kepka WR 121: TR 1:00 p.m. May 14‚ 2013. City or Town? “Riza‚ we are planning to move to Kuala Lumpur.” As soon as my mother said that‚ my eyes incredibly got bigger and I made a little protest‚ “What? No! I want to stay here. I love this place.” “Then‚ what about your dad’s work? You know your dad is working there‚” my mom added. I argued‚ “Well‚ what about my schooling here?” Then she said‚ “We will have to move you to another school.” “No‚ I don’t want to!” At
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14/03/2014 CITIES VS TOWNS The selection of cities and towns for residency is the issue which has attracted the attention of people for a long time. More people argued this issue from different aspects. Some people think that cities are the key element for a modern and sophisticated life; while‚ others’ vision is different from them and believe that towns are places for a peaceful‚ simple and relaxed life. There are many differences between the facilities of towns and cities. Firstly‚ towns are the
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Environmental Problems The poisoning of the world’s land‚ air‚ and water is the fastest-spreading disease of civilisation. It probably produces fewer headlines than wars‚ earthquakes and floods‚ but it is potentially one of history’s greatest dangers to human life on earth. If present trends continue for the next several decades‚ our planet will become uninhabitable. Overpopulation‚ pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation‚ ozone depletion
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Environmental problems In my opinion the most interesting problem is the environmental problems . Our Earth is our home.Everything around us is the environment .We need pure water to drink ‚clean air to breath and clean soil to grow grains and vegetables.So the environment must be clean and healthy .But the air‚soil and water are polluted by different harmful substances. The air is polluted by smoke and gases from cars‚buses ‚airplanes.Air pollution can cause different diseases . Breathing
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Environmental problems Everyone has heard about global problems. Television and the press often writes about storms‚ droughts‚ melting of glaciers‚ or hunger in Africa. But not too many of us know the details‚ and the stories behind those problems. These days the biggest environmental problems are: Global warming‚ Pollution‚ drought‚ overpopulation‚ deforestation‚ Endangered species. Let’s start from global warming. Global warming is the process by which the Earth’s average atmospheric temperature
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to increase fertile land in one area‚ they must divert needed resources from another area • altering natural waterways which can increase the risk of flooding • Interfering with the natural fire cycles of an area (one cause of increased bushfire problems in Australia) • overuse of natural resources‚ resulting in depletion of some of these resources • climate change and the development of extreme weather conditions: scientists continue to debate how much humans actually contribute to climate change
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2. (A) Two environmental problems that are associated with water diversion are decrease sediment downstream of dam and decreased water volume in waterways down/upstream. The decrease in sediments downstream of dams causes nutrients not to transfer so without valuable nutrients plant and animal growth is decreasing. The decrease in water volume in waterways is interfering with the reproductive cycle of plants and animals downstream. For example‚ the Chinook salmon aren’t able to spawn since there
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Feu Fern College Sampaguita st. mapayapa village Diliman quezon city Environmental issues Ritcheal z. lambating 1st semester‚ DY 2013-2014 Geronimo j. fiedalun jr. (professor) COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (LOCAL ENVIRONMENT ISSUE) SUMMARY Summary 1. Coastal landscapes are being transformed as a consequence of the increasing demand for urban infrastructure to sustain commercial‚ residential and tourist activities. A variety of man-made structures‚ such as breakwaters‚ jetties
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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS Environmental problem is the biggest menace to the human race on the planet nowadays. Although environmental problems cannot be coped hundred percent‚ we should contribute our efforts to minimize the environmental problems. This essay attempts to examine the causes and effects of environmental problems that happened in Malaysia. Firstly‚ let me look at deforestation that is the main cause of environmental problems. Deforestation is an activity of
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Environmental Problems The environment is everything around us. It is the air‚ water‚ land‚ climate and so on. Since many years ago‚ people interferences with the environment which causes several problems. Some of these problems are air pollution‚ water pollution‚ rain forest destruction‚ smog‚ overpopulation‚ and global warming. The worst problems now affecting the world are global warming and overpopulation. First of all‚ global warming‚ which means increasing the temperature
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