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    environmentalists agree and other times they don’t agree on the best way to go. For the past few years there has been an ongoing debate about oil drilling in Alaska. Alaska is often referred to as America’s last frontier. It is wild and natural and it has undisturbed resources that are currently being looked at for the future. Drilling for oil in Alaska has become a controversial issue for several reasons. Environmentalists and scientists remain at odds over the affect the drilling will have on the future

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    The Alaska Department of Fish and Game In the beginning‚ Game management in Alaska was almost non-existent. It started in 1949 just as a fishery service put into place by the Territorial Legislator. The idea of the this wasn’t to control all the fish‚ but to influence the federal government ’s way of looking at fish management in Alaska. It wasn’t until 1957 when the Alaska Fishery Service was changed to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The first commissioner of the Alaska fishery

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    miner‚ can seem like a dystopia. In the text “Klondike Gold Rush” ‚ the author describes a plot of ambitious miners baring treacherous conditions only for a chance to strike fortune. From a conflicting viewpoint ‚ the passage “A Woman Who Went to Alaska” by May Kellogg Sullivan shares a slightly different view‚ considering the miners got the pleasure of coming across a property of riches but only to have their riches stolen from their grasp by the government. Going over these excerpts I can gather

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    [pic] Introduction and company overview Alaska Airlines was founded in Anchorage in 1932 and expanded to 22 aircraft operating within the state by 1934. In the late 70s‚ the airline began expansion to the lower Western states and by 1987 had acquired Horizon Air and Jet America bolstering its North South route structure and complementing the seasonal nature of travel to Alaska Today Alaska Air Group‚ Inc. (Alaska Air) is the holding company for Alaska Airlines‚ Inc. and Horizon Air Industries

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    Looking for Alibrandi Essay A good book leaves us thinking with things to say‚ and Looking for Alibrandi is a good example of one of those books. It captures the exact thoughts of a seventeen year old girl‚ stressed out from her upcoming HSC exams as well as the problems going on in her social life. Melina Marchetta engages us in the themes of multiculturalism‚ love‚ rites of passage and coping with death and encrypts these themes beautifully and expresses them with emotion and thought. One

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    North America struck in the heart of Prince William Sound at 5:36pm. Buildings fell and entire towns were washed away by the tsunami that followed in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake. However‚ considering the sheer magnitude of the earthquake‚ Alaska suffered minimal damage to its residents and economy for a number of reasons. On the contrary‚ the Alaskan economy temporarily prospered from the ’64 earthquake by receiving additional federal support and funding in a time when military presence was

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    A freezing winter morning it was‚ the breeze beating against my chest makes me wonder… Wait‚ how did I get here? I thought I was reading Pacino’s Looking for Richard Review? That’s exactly what you’re doing‚ and this pleasant surprise is about all the insight I can give you about the fantasy sto… I mean ‘docudrama type thing’. Yes ‘Docudrama type thing’ as described personally by the narrator Al Pacino. The opening scene with the cold winter background‚ leave less grounds and the grey skies that

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    Bagas Yudhiswa Putera 120222415482 The Causes of Christopher McCandless’ Journey to Alaska In Into the Wild Movie Introduction Into the wild is a movie which is based on a true story of Christopher McCandless‚ a good-fortune man who suddenly decided to live into the wild. This movie is directed by Sean Penn and released in 2007. The main character‚ Christopher McCandless‚ is played by Emile Hirsch.Before the movie was made‚ Jon Kraukauer has published Cristopher McCandless’ life in a novel with

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    Cold environments Case Study- Alaska Background Location * State in the United States-international boundary with Canada to the east‚ arctic ocean to the north * Largest state in United States by area‚ however least densely populated Economy * GDP in 2007: $64‚333 * Per capita personal income : $40‚042‚ rank :15th in nation * Oil and gas industry dominates the Alaskan economy * More than 80% of states revenues derived from petroleum extraction * Main export :

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    United States of America‚ French‚ etc. they treat minorities and also immigrants with inappropriate‚ although now there are laws that protect this problem‚ but the minorities and immigrants are still often feel unfairly by the state. The story ‘Looking for Mr. Green’ took place in Chicago in the depressed time 1930s‚ when the justice and human rights problems were rife in that era. The protagonist of this story is George Grebe‚ a thirty five year old lecturer of classical languages‚ in his new job

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