Although the Three Gorges Dam is somewhat a burden on the Chinese people‚ there are many advantages in constructing the Three Gorges Dam‚ and among them are flood control‚ power generation‚ improved shipping conditions and tourism attractions. The dam will control flooding because; the capacity of Three Gorges Dam flood control reservoir is about 22.15 billion cubic meters‚ which can control the upstream flood efficiently. Even in dire flood situations‚ the dam can automatically control the flow
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California ’s Proposition 184: Three Strikes and You ’re Out Last year in California voters approved a controversial ballot initiative. Proposition 184‚ also known as the three strikes and you ’re out law‚ was passed on November 9‚ 1994. Under this new legislation repeat offenders‚ upon committing their third felony offense‚ will be sentenced to a mandatory twenty-five years to life in prison(California 667). The initiative passed by a landslide‚ with 76% of the voters in favor of it. The
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Did you know that pigs are the 3rd smartest animal alongside dolphins and chimpanzees? The story of The Three Little pigs is about three pigs who were set off on their own into the world. All three build their homes one by one. They encounter a wolf who tries to capture each pig individually. The first two pigs built separate homes that were not very stable‚ so the wolf destroyed the homes and eats those pigs. The wolf is mostly successful except when he encounters the third pig who has built a brick
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THREE STRIKE LAW CJ322 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century January 30‚ 2011 Criminal Justice The consequences of the three strike law are causing a strain on the criminal Justice system and the correction subsystem. Boot camps may be one of the solutions to the increasingly over crowded prisons. The challenges are increasing everyday for Correctional Officers‚ especially female officers who are already at a disadvantage. The three strike law became very popular in the 1990s
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Life’s Lessons Learned from Three Little Pigs Artrie R. Allen HU300-28: Arts & Humanities 20th Century and Beyond Prof. Russell Kaplan University March 9‚ 2013 As children growing up‚ we were enriched with stories‚ folk tales and fables passed from generation to generation. These fables served as entertainment and taught life lessons that we still carry on today. These stories helped to preserve our
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I believe the story of the Three Little Pigs should not be read by bacon lovers. They might form a connect to one of the pigs. They also might not want to be compared to The big bad Wolf. Finally they might lose their appetite for delicious bacon! The reader of this story might form a connection to one of the pigs. The third little pig was very hardworking‚ the reader might admire that. He worked day and night to build his home out of brick‚ which would have taken a lot of work. The third little
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Dear Ambassador Yang Jiechi‚ I strongly think that you would not benefit from the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. I think this for three reasons. If the dam breaks‚ your people will be in unimaginable danger‚ you will suffer food shortages‚ and historical sites will be lost. The reasons not to build the dam far outweigh the reasons to build it. I hope you will listen to what I have to say. One reason why the dam shouldn’t be built is that if it breaks‚ the effects will be devastating. People
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The picture I chose came from The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone. Although the picture does not depict the exact moment that I did in my picture‚ there are similarities that make it great to compare with. The drawing done by Galdone is of the wolf in a giant black caldron with steam flowing out of it. His whole body is covered except for his tale. It looks as if the wolf had just descended the chimney and has been caught by the smiling pig‚ who looks at ease. There is a red hot fire burning under
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water to the nuclear reactors to cool them down (Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident 3). Due to this‚ the reactors began to overheat and eventually got to a point where there was an core nuclear meltdown. Thankfully for the U.S‚ the power plant containment walls remained mostly intact and wherein most of the radiation stayed‚ and the event did not become that relatable to Chernobyl or Fukushima (Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident 3). That said‚ it is still arguably the third
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Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) best known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. (1889) Jerome Klapka Jerome was born 2 May 1859 in Belsize House‚ Bradford Street‚ Walsall‚ Staffordshire‚ in the heart of England. He was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp Jerome‚ (1807–1872) a well-respected nonconformist lay preacher and architect who died when Jerome was fourteen. Jerome’s mother was Marguerite Jones‚ (d. 1872) daughter of a solicitor. Jerome’s middle name was in honour of a family friend‚
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