various organizations with my chorus class also volunteering at Buffalo’s chicken wing festival. The project‚ which I enjoyed most though‚ was volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and helping rebuild a home. The house which Fisher Price employees and I helped rebuild was located in South buffalo. The organization Habitat for humanity is a nonprofit‚ ecumenical Christian housing ministry. That seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world‚ and to make decent shelter a matter of
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Ocean Pollution It is believed that 4.6 billion years ago our Earth was formed. And over 200 million years ago the great body of water on this planet‚ what we call the ocean‚ was able to be formed (History of the Ocean). For 200 million years our ocean has flourished with the life of all matters of creatures from some of the first ever cells to take life‚ to pre-historic dinosaurs‚ to the fish‚ plants‚ and mammals we see today. However‚ today we face a new point in the history of our ocean. Today
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Stacy Servoss Ms. Hines Eng. 090-D01 15 July‚ 2013 The Effects the Moon Has On the Ocean Tide The moon’s gravity affects tides on the earth. The sun and moon together pull on the earth’s oceans in different directions to create tides. But there are several other factors that complicate this process. Friction is the earth’s rotation and axis tilt on the sun and moon’s gravitational pull on the earth. This forces push on the earth’s atmosphere‚ creating high tides and low tides. The gravity
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religious belief. Genetic studies have recently been done that even suggest that religion evolved with humanity. Through all this time‚ religion has had its uses. It has a binding factor that allows subjugated people to band together against their oppressors (or against the forces of nature)‚ and can be useful in distributing help to those who need it most. However‚ it currently hinders humanity more than it helps. Governments have replaced religious charity with social welfare‚ and democracy has
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The birth of Habitat for Humanity started with both Millard and Linda fuller’s visit to Koinonia Farm in 1965. Just outside Americus Georgia one of the most poverty stricken cities in the United states. Biblical scholar Clarence Jordan founded this small christian community farm. Here the Fuller’s learned the concept of partnership housing‚ a tool that habitat uses to create simple decent homes by working with volunteers. Milliard Fuller would leave his comfortable life as a young millionaire and
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Ocean Dumping: Key Issues Liz Gomez Ocean Dumping: Key Issues Marine debris is the official designation and referents to human created wastes that pollutes and are dumped deliberately or accidentally in lakes‚ waterways‚ seas and oceans. While certain debris naturally float on bodies of water (i.e. logs and trees that got cut via natural events)‚ certain communities‚ peoples and industries the world over deliberately dump debris and garbage in bodies of water without much thought into the
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Hitchcock’s abovementioned statement clearly reflects a God not in relationship with humanity‚ a God that is not only distant but above and ultimately beyond humanity and creation. Such an understanding fails to recognize‚ for example‚ liberation theology’s belief that we are called to be agents‚ conduits‚ of the loving and transformative presence and action of the sacred in
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Lust for Power; Destruction of Humanity “Power”‚ the literal meaning of this word is “control”. Unfortunately‚ we are living in a world where the lust for power has resulted in the destruction of humanity. From the lower class clerks to the industrialists of the highest class‚ everyone is involved in a race‚ a race to get to the top. And they are willing to use any means to get there. Leg pulling has become a culture now a days‚ no one can digest anyone else’s success. Everybody is blinded by this
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Discussion Section-1 November 17‚ 2011 The other CO₂ Problem Todays oceans are not the same as they once were prior to the industrial revolution. The ocean serves as a reservoir for the worlds green house gasses. The increase in anthropogenic CO₂ has also resulted in an increase in the uptake by the ocean of CO₂. As a result of this uptake‚ the ocean is becoming progressively more and more acidic. This acidification of the ocean is expected to have great impacts on marine ecosystems. Coral reefs
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Western Humanities The Western Humanities covers a broad scope within the world as me know it today. Many of the influences and inspirations that many claim to motivate them to make continuous advancements are from a basis of our past. Whether it is art‚ literature or social movements we as a civilization must always look at our past as a blueprint. Our history is our blueprint for life. I think the purpose of studying the Western Humanities is to take a look at our past. No matter what race
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