Invasive species means an organism that is not naive to a habitat and may have negative effects on the environment. The creeping water primroses are yellow in all seasons except winter. The yellow flower is very distinctive of creeping water primrose. Flowers vary in size from 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter. It is a perennial aquatic plant whose long stems creeping over mud or shallow water. It came from South America to the U.K. It is introduces as ornamental and water garden plant. It is first
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If you’re looking for something that explains the origins of Boxing Day‚ well‚ you’re not going to find it here. The day-after-Christmas holiday is celebrated by most countries in the Commonwealth‚ but in a what-were-we-doing-again? bout of amnesia‚ none of them are really sure what they’re celebrating‚ when it started or why. The best clue to Boxing Day’s origins can be found in the song “Good King Wenceslas.” According to the Christmas carol‚ Wenceslas‚ who was Duke of Bohemia in the early 10th
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Negative effect of video games on children VIOLENCE Many of today’s video games‚ especially suitable for young boys‚ focus their attention on violent acts‚ whether it be through weapons‚ verbal abuse‚ or fighting. Young minds are easily molded through the violence in these games‚ leading them to believe that weapons and fighting are standard in today’s society. In order to instill the most positive values in these young boys‚ parental guidance is necessary in controlling the video games to which
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Ritchie 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami 1. Explain the causes of the 2004 boxing day Tsunami (6) A Tsunami forms when energy from an earthquake vertically jolts the seabed by several metres‚ displacing hundreds of cubic kilometres of water. Large waves begin moving through the ocean‚ away from the earthquakes epicentre. In deep water the Tsunami moves at great speeds. When it reaches shallow water near coastal areas‚ the Tsunami slows but increases in height. Before the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004
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Violence is a thing very negative thing to most people. Something that is in everyone’s life and something that everyone has experienced. No matter where you live or where you go to school or what race you are we all get hurt and usually in more than one way. As human beings we can’t help but be negative sometimes and hurtful to others. If you eliminate the violence factor from all our lives we would be living in a utopia‚ you would think. But a world with no violence is a world that simply wouldn’t
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How to Clean Boxing Gloves Why is it important to clean your boxing gloves? If you can’t provide a good answer to this question‚ then you may be missing some important information you should know. Cleaning your boxing gloves helps to prevent them from being infested with bacterial. When these gloves are left unattended to‚ bacterial can develop on them and that could lead to bad odor. There are preventive measures you can take to protect your gloves from being attacked by bad odor causing bacteria
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Negative Effects of Social Networking Online social networking sites are very popular and are making a huge impact on today’s society. More than three-fourths of the population between the ages of eighteen and thirty-nine use social networking sites (“Social Networking Site”). Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Instagram and Vine are some examples of some of the most used social networking sites today. Whether posting a status‚ uploading a photo‚ or checking news feeds‚ social networking sites have changed
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signs and cheers‚ “Fight for 15!” While approximately 72% of americans fight for almost a 50 percent increase in the minimum wage‚ the rest have realized how fragile the economy and its businesses are. Raising the minimum wage would create more negative effects than good. Small businesses‚ employees‚ and the cost of living would all be greatly affected if there were to be a raise in wages. Small businesses would stand no chance against a raise in the minimum wage. Across the country‚ these small
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terms of international relations. During the Cold War the balance of power‚ globalization‚ perception‚ and nationalism all came into question‚ especially looking at the effects of the Space Race. To begin the conversation‚ one should look at the balance of power and how that
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Herbert Hoover once said “The use of the atomic bomb‚ with its indiscriminate killing of women and children‚ revolts my soul.” This is the opinion of not only Hoover‚ but for everyone else in the world as well. An atomic bomb is a dangerous weapon‚ no one can stop the power of an atomic bomb. The first place that America used the atomic bomb was Hiroshima‚ Japan. The bomb was too powerful and it killed thousands of people. The bombing in Hiroshima has been the final attack to Japan that stopped the
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