Never Take a Chance The CDC reports that from 2005-2009‚ there were an average of 3‚533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. Swimming is a summertime activity that many people enjoy. Swimming can be very relaxing‚ therapeutic‚ and entirely enjoyable. Sometimes though‚ there are terrible mishaps involved with swimming. Maybe someone slips and bursts open their head; maybe someone accidentally inhales water into their lungs
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Brandi Wright Period 4 The Bottle Blowfish Life History/Introduction: There was a time in history when the oceans were overly polluted with trash of various sorts. The water was so polluted and the food source for the ocean life was diminishing. This was the habitat of the blowfish. Their food became so scarce they began to eat the very things that were polluting the waters. The blowfish began to mutate with what they were eating. The Bottle Blowfish came to be from a mutation between
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Informative Speech: Endangerment of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles In 1947 it was reported that over 40‚000 Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles were nesting along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and today only 200 Kemp Ridley’s remain on those grounds‚ making these sea turtles one of the most endangered animals in the United States. When I was younger I remember visiting South Padre Island and seeing holes a long the shore line with little eggs inside them‚ I also remember this man who drove up and down the
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Wait‚ what’s that in the water? Oh no‚ it’s coming near our ship! What could be that giant and undiscovered? What 12th century Norway didn’t know was that the giant squid was actually a Kraken. The Kraken is a giant creature‚ has lots of fascinating legends‚ and has a interesting history. The Kraken is a giant creature. Not lots of people have heard of the Kraken‚ which lives off the Northern part of Norway and is an old Norwegian tale. Some people even said that he was the largest creature in the
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“Welcome to the world of the plastic beach”. This is the title of a song on the Gorillaz Album Plastic beach. But for The community of Gorillaz and the band it is much more. The plastic beach is a fictional location that the band came up with to be a harbor that they could live on. It is an island in the middle of the pacific ocean that is made up entirely of plastic bottles and waste. The characters of Gorillaz discovered this mountain of garbage when they were escaping the clutches of bruce willis
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Today I’m going to talk about plastic bags and whether they should be banned. As you may know‚ plastic bags are one of the main sources of rubbish that end up polluting our rivers and oceans. In fact‚ the problem has become so immense that a huge island of rubbish containing plastic bags and other items has formed in the middle of the Northern Pacific Ocean. The area polluted by this rubbish is so vast that it covers an area greater than the size of Australia. So should plastic bags be banned
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Abigail Gallegos December 9‚ 2014 BIOL 2406 Response to Documentary: “Addicted to Plastic” This documentary enlightened me on how plastic influences our lives. For instance‚ in the beginning of the film the filmmakers mention that they wouldn’t have been able to create to movie if it wasn’t for plastic. Almost everything we use has plastic or plastic residue in it. I believe that it’s going to take a very long time until we can be completely weaned off plastics. I also believe that
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Did you know that by washing our clothes we could be polluting our oceans ? Well i didn’t until i read an article written by Carrie Boyle titled “ microfibers: how the tiny threads in our clothes are polluting the bay “ . In this article Boyle explains what microfibers are and how they ruining the earth . She begins by explaining that when we wash tiny pieces of thread come off some our clothes. These threads then eventually make their way into the ocean and cause a tons of damage. she explains
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From the time we hit our plastic alarm clock in the morning until the time we squeeze tooth paste out of its plastic sleeve onto our plastic tooth brush when we go to bed‚ we are surrounded by plastic. Our food is packaged in it‚ our children play with toys made from it‚ we talk on plastic cell phones‚ and we sit on chairs of plastic at work writing with plastic pens‚ drinking from plastic water bottles. Plastic is everywhere. Where does all this plastic end up? It does not just disappear when we
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In the High Island Geopark area‚ there is some coastal management. East dam of High Island Reservoir is located in the southeast of Hong Kong. In Hong Kong‚ the waves with the greatest energy break along the southeastern and eastern coast‚ causing the strongest erosion. Because the strongest prevailing wind is from the southeast and east and the longest fetch is also from the southeast and east as the coast is exposed to the sea which is Pacific Ocean. As East dam of High Island Reservoir is located
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