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    Water Pollution in Vietnam

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    Vietnam is Facing the Threats from Water Pollution With the rapid growth of industrialization in urban cities‚ the water around them is getting more and more polluted. One time I casually crossed by To Lich River‚ one of the big rivers in the capital Hanoi‚ behind the industrial zone. The river water there was polluted seriously and smelt really fetid. A lot of small fishes and other sea creatures were dead and floating on the surface of the river. I was thinking about how people could live

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    the river nile

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    The River Nile The Nile is famous as the longest river in the world. The river got its name from the Greek word Neilos‚ which means valley. The two rivers that combine to make the Nile are the Euphrates and Tigris. The Nile floods the lands in Egypt‚ leaving behind black sediment. That’s why the ancient Egyptians named the river Aar‚ meaning black. The Nile River is actually 6695 kilometers (4184 miles) long. With such a long length‚ the Nile River is speculated to be the longest river in the

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    River Essay

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    advantages and disadvantages to come of river valleys and bad stuff to come of too. Egypt and Mesopotamia both had developed river valleys that provided transportation‚ irrigation‚and trade. However‚ they both had different views on the afterlife because of different flood patterns‚ as cultural diffusion slowly changed their civilization. Rivers usually bring great ideas and water for irrigation. Egypt would have never been as great of a civilization if it had no river to use to make crops and then Egypt

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    American Water Pollution

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    over 40% of Americas Rivers and 46 percent of America’s lakes are too polluted for fish to live in? Water pollution can also have an effect on animals outside of the water for example animals in the area need a reliable water source‚ if the water is to polluted for animals to drink and they drink it‚ it could cause very serious internal injury or even death. Water pollution can also effect animal that eat things from the lakes or rivers such as fish that are in the lakes or rivers. This is just some

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    River Town

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    River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter

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    Frozen River

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    Frozen River Learning Integration Paper This essay analyzes family methods of interaction‚ strengths‚ and barriers of Ray’s family and Lila. It describes the family and community roles‚ rituals‚ and belief systems that sustain their life processes. It also identifies the role of grief‚ values‚ and symbols that describe the family and community system. Lastly‚ the paper targets systems for intervention. From a micro/mezzo perspective the methods of interaction between Ray and her family appeared

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    Pollution is not a new phenomenon. In fact‚ pollution has been a problem since the appearance of our earliest ancestors. Increasing human population have opened the door to more bacteria and disease. During the Middle Ages‚ diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever broke out all across Europe. These epidemics were directly related to unsanitary conditions caused by human and animal wastes‚ and garbage. In 1347‚ the bacterium Yersinia pestis‚ carried by rats and spread by fleas‚ caused the "Black

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    River Safari

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    Marcom Objectives for River Safari Scheduled for a grand opening in mid 2012‚ the primary marketing objective would be to package the River Safari like a brand and create initial knowledge about the River Safari and what it has to offer to both the locals and tourists alike. This knowledge would be induced via 2 main methods: creating brand awareness and building a unique brand image for the River Safari. An initial curiosity would be induced among key targeted segments about what exactly entails

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    River Competence

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    Competence Competence id the maximum size (calibre) of load a river is capable of transporting whereas capacity refers to the total volume of sediment a river can transport. At low velocity only fine particles may be transported (clays‚ silt and fine sands). Large-calibre material can be moved when velocity increases. Because the maximum particle mass that can be moved increases with the sixth power of velocity‚ when discharge levels are high‚ for example during a flood‚ much larger boulders can

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    Ba River

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    Phuc Ngoc Thuy THE BA RIVER The Ba River is the largest river in Phu Yen province and it is also the spectacular river in Central Viet Nam with 380 km long stretching from Kom Tum‚ Gia Lai‚ Dak Lak to Phu Yen province before mixing the sea. With poetic beauty‚ The Ba River goes down in Phu Yen people’s heart through the famous songs and poems. Also it brings many valuable benefits to people’s life along the river as well as province’s economy. The Ba River is derived from Ngoc Ro

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