1. Describe the controversy over whether carbon dioxide should be classified as an air pollutant. * 93% of CO2 emissions are natural due to the Carbon Cycle. The rest is from human activities‚ such as burning fossil fuels and clearing out forests. The EPA does not regulate CO2 emissions under the Clean Air Act‚ and many environmentalists disagree with this. However‚ the coal and electric businesses oppose the regulation of CO2 emissions because such a regulation would cost them money to cap
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Many people viewed this new music as stupid and disgusting. It was seen as a ghetto‚ spoken word‚ vulgar‚ type of music. An example of this stereotype is the views of Hip Hop/ Rap through James McBride’s perspective. In James McBride’s essay “Hip Hop Planet” he shares with us his views on hip hop/ rap music and how hard it was for him to appreciate it. Overtime people began to appreciate this new genre of music more. They started realizing that this is not just a bunch of ghetto people cursing and speaking;
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Alien Planet Kepler-452b Our Milky Way Galaxy is filled with exoplanets—statistically speaking at least one for each of the hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy. An astonishing finding is that the most common type of planet in our galaxy are those with sizes between those of Earth and Neptune. This has become a new class of planet that is neither terrestrial nor giant and one without an accepted theory for its formation. Planets on orbits between the hot planets and the cold planets are also
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Once you peek a look at this savage‚ insidious house you’ll fall in love! At 1029 Bloody Apes Pond‚ your heart will thump from all the excitement at admiring this dilapidated and vibrant house. That four score years ago was an asylum. It is too irresistible to pass up. The shriek of the boom box faintly in the distance will beguile all different types of people. Once they trot towards the shrieks‚ barbs bursting from out of the ground will capture all intruders. All you do is swoop in and feast on
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“Out of the Silent Planet” by C.S. Lewis Essay 1 (Character sketch) C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet follows the adventures of Dr. Elwin Ransom‚ a philogy professor at Cambridge University‚ who while on a walking tour of the English countryside was drugged and kidnapped by two men‚ Devine and Westin. He is then taken to the planet of Malacondra. Through his travels of the unknown planet‚ we learn that Dr. Elwin Ransom is a very intelligent man with quick response and philosophical mind
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Park Dr. Wiltse English 1301 26 September 2010 Help Save the Green Planet Do people want more green in the world? Then help save the planet and go green! Going green is an effective way of lessening consumption on natural resources that people use every day. One does not have to be a treehugger and change one’s lifestyle‚ just try to make a change in doing something different everyday to help save the planet. In the United States‚ Americans consume many resources and discard many wastes
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Chapter 11 outline Feeding America I. Human nutrition requirements are not always satisfied A. Nutritional Requirements * Under nutrition- not consuming enough calories to be healthy * Leads to energy deficiency * Malnourished- regardless of the number of calories they consume‚ their diets lack the correct balance of proteins‚ carbohydrates‚ vitamins‚ and minerals‚ and they experience malnutrition * Food security- people have access to sufficient‚ safe‚ and active healthy
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Chapter Outline – Chapter 8 – Environmental Health and Toxicology I. Risk‚ Probability‚ and Hazards Risks and hazards—some avoidable‚ some not—compromise everyday life. A. A risk is a measure of your likelihood of suffering harm from a hazard. 1. Such a hazard may cause injury‚ disease‚ economic loss‚ or environmental damage. 2. Risk assessment is projected as a probability: a mathematical statement about how likely it is that harm will result from a hazard. It gives the
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Dissolved Oxygen (DO) 1. What is dissolved oxygen? Dissolved oxygen is the amount of oxygen mixed into the water and is necessary for aquatic life. 2. How does it get into the water? DO gets into the water in many different way but primarily it is absorbed from the atmosphere and aquatic plants. 3. Why is it important? DO is important because it provides oxygen to aquatic organisms and without it they wouldn’t be able to live. Low levels would cause hypoxia and make it extremely difficult for
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Evolution on Rocky Planets Atmosphere can be defined as a gaseous compound layer surrounding a large body mass suspended by means of gravity and centrifugal force caused by rotation [1]. Atmospheres of planets have not always been the same‚ its evolution comprised of complex development across million years of geologic time affected by various changes of variables inside and outside its planet [2]. Of the interest of this essay is the atmospheric evolution of a rocky planet. Rocky planet is a terrestrial
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