Imagine a life without water. How dry the ground would be‚ how little produce would be created‚ and how outside fires (such as bonfires) would be banned due to the scare of a forest fire appearing. The south has been dealing with a drought the past few months‚ yet California has been battling with this for years. Due to this drought‚ the government has placed restriction on water usage. Farmers are not a part of this governor’s restriction though. Many argue that farmers should conserve water better
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A mural seems to be an ordinary piece of street art in some neighborhoods. But what about right on the lawn of the Illinois Capitol building? The capitol has many pieces of artwork but when colorful pieces of glass and metal comes together there is a change in the scenery. The piece of street art titled The illinois “Very Special Mosaic Mural” was created by the participants of the 1982 Illinois Very Special Arts Festival. The participants came from all over illinois‚ including the schools Northern
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“extreme to exceptional drought‚” a crisis has caused cities and towns to cut water use by as much as 36 percent. Laws have been put in place to limit the length of time and days during which citizens can water their lawns‚ and said citizens are encouraged to switch to fake-lawns and plant-life that require little water like cacti. For many‚ the process of overusing water cannot be traced to any one specific reason. Rather‚ it is due to a lack of incentive to not use it. Many individuals do not
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get to them‚ so the strong-shelled turtles pass on their hard shells to their offspring. Another plant adaption I recall from school was a video I saw about weeds or dandelions. Weeds would grow out like normal‚ however when people started mowing lawns with the old
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The No- Guitar Blues 1. In the beginning of the story Fausto‚ the little boy wanted to buy a guitar because he had watched a show on TV which flashed in his mind what he wanted to be when he grew up‚ he wanted to be in an band and be a rock star but in his case‚ his family was not that wealthy with the little they make they could barely make it through with their expenses‚ and he thought if he asked them for a guitar he would probably get it but he knew what they would say since they always told
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different types of pollutants. Nonpoint-source pollution is another term for polluted runoff; Point-source pollution and Air pollution are a factor as well. Whether it is from precipitation‚ water washing over the land‚ car washing or watering crops or lawns‚ it picks up an array of contaminants including oil‚ sand and salt from roadways‚ agricultural chemicals‚ as well as nutrients and toxic chemicals from both rural and urban areas. Those are a few major contributing factors to the pollution taking place
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Rhetorical Analysis Is our youth doomed? Mark Edmundson begs this question in his essay‚ “Dwelling in Possibilities.” His essay explains how the lives of young people have changed drastically over the years. Edmundson‚ professor at the University of Virginia‚ says his students are constantly “going” and that they never stop; they never settle in fear of missing something great. In lieu of this‚ Edmundson says that they are‚ “victims of their own hunger for speed” (Edmundson2). He also adds
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Genetic transformation happens when an organism is altered by the introduction of new genetic information which is merged into the organism’s genome. Bacterial transformation is a type of genetic transformation that was used in lab and mainly used due to the single celled nature of bacteria. In this lab‚ the engineered pGLO plasmid is integrated into E. Coli bacteria‚ and adds the genes which code for the proteins GFP in the modified bacteria’s genome (Hanahan‚ Studies on transformation of Escherichia
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gallons of water wasted. 9. Buy powdered laundry and dish detergents. The liquid versions simply have water added to them‚ making them a waste of water‚ money‚ and packaging. 10. Collect rainwater. Use this water for your garden and lawn. Or don’t water your lawn at all; grass goes “dormant” in extended dry periods and will return to normal after a few good rains.
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In Richard Wilbur’s poem “The Death of a Toad‚” he describes the finals moments of a toad’s life and the first changes to the toad upon its death. Wilbur makes the transition of a toad’s death that is tragic because of the lack of attention and concern given to it. As he continues the poem‚ he shifts the tone from tragic to the peacefulness and respect of a hero. Wilbur exercises heavily loaded diction and vivid imagery corresponding to the tones in order to depict the toad’s death as tragic and
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