Kyle Smyre June 6 2011 Period 2 Mr. Watts Our Energy Future Currently‚ it’s clear that there is an immense problem with the prospect of society’s energy needs for the future. Such a large dependency on limited fossil fuels are already dampening the world’s economy‚ and following this path will simply ensure a destitute future. However‚ changes could be made in today’s time to prevent such an event from occurring‚ but it will require many separate state entities to work together and no longer
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greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide is one of the culprits trapping the heat on Earth‚ and raising global temperatures. The raise in temperature of the Earth may seem nothing to you‚ however they have devastating impacts on all of our lives. I daresay‚ our lives are threatened! Natural disasters such as heat waves will happened often due to the increase in temperature. However‚ this is not it. The rising global temperature will cause the glaciers and icebergs up at the North Pole and Greenland
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When people talk about plating a tree to save the environment and the world‚ they think it’s a metaphor or a joke‚ but in reality one tree can make a massive difference in today’s society. Planting a tree is such a simple thing to do but it has many long-term benefits and it can make a huge difference towards the environment. Trees have played a critical role in maintaining safe levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere for millions of years. Trees remove and store CO2 from the
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The fault in our stars The fault in our stars is a young adult literature written by John Green. The main characters on this novel is sixteen year old Hazel Grace and a seventeen year old boy named Augustus Waters who fall in love yet are quite aware of the fact that cancer is a part of both their lives. They still go on with their everyday teenage life which includes playing video games‚ flirting‚ falling in love‚ helping friends out with rough patches in their lives. I will be writing about the
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Question chosen: Do you agree that a human life can be sacrificed in the research to save many? To me‚ a human life is easiest to define according to the time mothers lose their right to abort their baby‚ which is when the foetus is 25 weeks old. As for sacrifices‚ it encompasses all acts that take away or use an integral part of a person’s life or body unnaturally or prematurely‚ regardless of the persons’ consent. My stand is that human lives should never be intentionally sacrificed‚ regardless
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continues to destroy our environment‚ what happens when we get to the point of not having one? How are future generations supposed to breathe without air and trees? A Native American proverb says‚ "Man did not inherit the earth. He merely borrowed it from his grandchildren". This says to me that we need to save our earth so that our grandchildren have a chance to swim‚ climb trees‚ and enjoy the wonderful gift that we have "borrowed". One way that we can do this is to conserve our natural resources
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Environmental Science Laboratory BIOL 1132 Name:__________________________________ “Kilowatt Ours” Please answer the following questions. 1. What’s the cheapest and easiest way to obtain coal? They remove the mountains. 2. Is nuclear power a “green” form of energy? Why or why not? No it is very polluting and creates lots of radioactive waste (but some people think its clean energy). 3. How has Great Smoky Mountains National Park been affected by
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Technology in our lives Imagine your life without technology and how often we use it. Technology plays a vital role in our everyday life’s we use it for everything from doing math to reading a book. Technology has made some huge advances in the past couple years. They have made it part of our daily lives to the point where I think we might start to become too dependent on it‚ which would not be good for us in the long run. There might be a day where our technology stops working and we might not
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The poetess writes this in reminiscence of the Casuarina tree that grew in the courtyard of her childhood home. The poem opens with a description of the tree‚ tall enough to make it seem like it touches the stars‚ strong enough to continue growing despite scars on its trunk and despite all this it provides support to a creeper. And yet she gives it the air of a Gentleman when she describes how the tree is forever adorned with flowers and birds and bees. Thus we see the tree in her childhood was not
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Animals Are Not Ours to Abuse There needs to be stricter laws to protect the rights of animals and stop the cruelty that they witness. Animals withstand a huge amount of pain and torture for human beings. Many people do not realize how much animals suffer only to benefit ourselves. Whether it is known by society or not the abuse and torture that these animals withstand for our entertainment‚ food‚ cosmetics and household products can be very inhumane and unethical. Many of these animals
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