INTRODUCTION HISTORY Endosulfan‚ a highly toxic organochlorine pesticide was sprayed in the cashew plantations in Kasargod District since 1978‚ till 2001 regularly three times every year. The aerial spraying of Endosulfan was undertaken to contain the menace of the tea mosquito bug. Endosulfan is a harmful insecticide. It causes several health hazards in human beings. The terrain was unsuitable for aerial spraying considering the relatively high rainfall and its geological structure. Unusual
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Be Cool to the Pizza Dude I really liked this essay because it was a personal creed based on life experience and taught me a lot about being respectful and kind and valuing honest work. I really liked how she divided her believes and thoughts into principles. Also‚ my impression after reading this essay was strong based on author’s well-focused thesis‚ organized and engaging paragraphs. Her well focused thesis grabbed my attention and I was engaged with the essay. She started with
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10-26-12 3RD Block Mrs. Sneed Hot Air Balloon Report Hot air balloons fill up slowly and then rise in the sky. Two important principles of physics: the ideal gas law and Archimedes’ principle are the reasons hot air balloons fly. The mathematical relationship between the volume pressure and the temperature of a gas is called the ideal gas law. When a gas is heated‚ as in a hot air balloon‚ then its volume will increase. However‚ there is a heater located in the balloon’s basket that heats the
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Marshall McLuhan sees that technology is evolutionary and he claims that everything has grown from electricity and he links this to the human nervous system. McLuhan’s core argument is “the medium is the massage”‚ in which he goes further on explaining the claim that each medium influences the human sensations and perception. In his text‚ Raymond Williams explains how the social practices have a dominance over the technological practices in the development of human processes. Williams is a cultural
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As I’m sitting there‚ watching a hot potato – a literal hot potato‚ fly towards me‚ I’m wondering what I got myself into. Rewind a couple of days and I’m in school talking to the new girl named Jocelyn. She wore converse and had these cool long side bangs that everyone in the eighth grade was jealous of and had come from some far off place called Falls City. As the new kid with the cool hair‚ everyone was competing to lure her into their posses’. I‚ a typically quiet‚ reserved person‚ tended to stick
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“Media Ecology” “Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman laid down the foundational principles of media ecology‚ a term that is increasingly being used to describe the totality of our media environments.”(Source: mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com). Media ecology is about how the technology changes the society and the environment we’ve grown from. Marshall McLuhan‚ a media scholar is the one who conceptualize the term media ecology. And Neil Postman is the one who introduced it to the
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the poem “We Real Cool”. Brooks was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry with the poem‚ “Annie Allen”. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the first person ever to receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Robinson’s poetry did not capture the attention of the public until he was almost 50 years old. President Theodore Roosevelt discovered some of his poetry. He was so impressed that he offers him a clerk position at the New York Customs House. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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the same stuff the poem speaks of. The poem We Real Cool was written in 1950 on page 521. I will try to explain the parts of this poem to help people understand my interpretation of it. By using the title‚ I didn’t struggle with taking the first line of the poem as friends or friendship when it states “The Pool Players”. I know a lot of friends usually get together and go shoot pool usually guys but some females enjoy it also. The words “real cool” make you believe the poem is talking about anyone
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Running head: HOT BUTTON ISSUE PAPER Hot Button Issue Paper Introduction Technologies evolve‚ but sex and violence have always been and remain hot button issues in the media. The pace of the new technological change can be so great that we can no longer wait on formal media effects research to guide our personal decisions. There have been many changes that have been taken place with media sex and violence today since I was a child. I believe that the media technologies have increased the negative
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The Fifth Sense of Cool Barnes and Noble‚ along with countless bookstores around the world‚ act as a social hub. It has magazines‚ different types of books‚ a coffee house and people. While my friends try to look for another sequel to a book‚ I notice different types of people in the store. Some are there with their families to buy Burt’s Bees while others are looking for different translations of the bible. Each person at Barnes and Noble is part of one of the groups of cool. Chuck Klosterman
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