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    The Don River

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    THE DON RIVER The Don River has always played an important part in the development of the city of Toronto. It actually cuts right down the centre of the city. This river was once rich with many species of fish‚ wildlife‚ and plants. Today‚ it is obvious that it is extremely polluted due to human activity. The ways in which the Don River gets polluted are many. The examples of polluters damaging the Don River are residential areas/houses‚ parks‚ roads‚ golf courses‚ cemeteries

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    Cuyahoga River

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    Cuyahoga River” “The Return of the Cuyahoga River” The Cuyahoga River was the heart of the land and the quality of the river was a direct reflection of how people viewed the quality of their life. The river is 100 miles long and it’s a place where tycoons and legends were made but the wild river was tamed but then poisoned and the environment was destroyed. Oil‚ debris and pollution accumulated on top of the water. People eventually woke up to the danger and tried to save the river and the

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    River Yamuna

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    river yamuna Information  River Yamuna (यमुना)‚ with a total length of around 1‚370 kilometers (851 mi)‚ is the largest tributary of the Ganges River Ganga गगां in northern India. Yamuna is considered the most sacred among all the rivers as per Hindu mythology. Its source is at Yamunotri‚ in the Uttarakhand Himalaya‚ in the Himalayan Mountains.It flows through the states of Delhi‚ Haryana and Uttar Pradesh‚ before merging with the Ganges at Allahabad. The cities of Delhi‚ Mathura and Agra lie on

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    Yamuna river

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    the pollution of the Yamuna River located in India‚ this river has become so polluted with industrial and human waste that it is becoming no longer a safe source to use. Yamuna is viewed as a source worshiped by Hindu religion because it is named after a goddess of selfless love and is believed to be a prerequisite to heaven‚ as well free of sin. It is explained that rituals are being lost from all this pollution because the water is no longer safe to use. The river is a victim of the utilitarian

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    river blindness

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    benefit the people who are affected by river blindness. I believe many pharmaceutical in the area that river blindness occurs will invest in the cure for river blindness. 3. However‚ Merck could not justify such an investment in terms of financial at all‚ because this development is a big financial risk. Merck works for a company that is committed to the people‚ so they take risk to better the people. This is the main reason they would create a cure for river blindness 4. Merck could tell them that

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    Mekong River

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    The Floating Villages The Mekong River runs through Cambodia and Vietnam where it flows out into the South China Sea. This hugely important river is home to a number of floating villages throughout Cambodia and Vietnam. However changes in the river levels and the effects of pollution threaten these established communities and there place in society as well as how they utilise the space around them. On a boat trip of the Mekong River in July this year I got to see‚ firsthand‚ how these floating

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    River Island

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    http://www.riverisland.com/Online/ [pic] Logo [pic] DESCRIPTION/PURPOSE The logo is placed in the top left of the website page. The word River Island are shown above is in black and in Capital which this emphasis their company name. The purpose for this logo is that people would know what website they are visiting and seeing company’s image. This logo’s size has the height of 76px and width 172 px. TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience is for teenagers and adults aged 13-35.

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    By the River of Babylon

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    river of babylon Olivia pickernsil Mrs. Sheridan English 2- honors 13 September 2011 “By the Rivers of Babylon” Literary Analysis Questions 1) Stephen Vincent Benet gives John‚ the son of a priest and the narrator‚ a brave‚ ambitious persona that thinks with his heart and is determined and religious The first-person point-of-view is incredibly helpful to the reader in this story because John lives in a world that is not our time period‚ and in a culture that is very unusual and foreign to

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    River Otter

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    The North American river otter (lontra Canadensis)‚ also known as they river otter‚ are small semi-aquatic mammals commonly found in the North American continent along the waterways and coasts. River otters have existed for a very long time. Archeologists have discovered fossils that date back as old as 200 B.C. Otters body form have remained unchanged for 30 million years. They have gone under slow subtle evolutionary changes over that time period‚ but have retained the same body shape. The

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    River Sutra

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    BELL 1 Danielle Bell English 150 Professor Browsher A River Sutra Essay 5 May 2009 A River Sutra Gaits Mehta’s A river Sutra is an accumulation of stories connected by the theme of love‚ the holy Narmada River and the narrators inability to comprehend various stories involving the human heart—which are provided by the quick encounters of different characters throughout the novel. By the end of the book the narrator comes to an increasingly better understanding about the spiritual

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