Social Research 10/6/13 All over the world‚ from the Bering Sea to the Sea of Japan‚ from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Mexico‚ from China to the Chesapeake‚ any place oceans are in trouble‚ jellyfish are taking over. Jellyfish do well in warmer waters. Our carbon dioxide emissions are both warming the water and causing it to become corrosive. Warmer water -- even a fraction of a degree -- holds less oxygen than cooler water and shifts the balance of who survives and
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Sea otters may look cute and furry from the outside but they have many attributes that help them to survive in their natural habitat. Along with being one of the smartest mammals‚ they also have finely tuned senses that help protect them and help them hunt. Their cute and furry appearance is not deception‚ despite living in the wild‚ they are very social and often swim along side boats and scuba divers. This became very dangerous when poachers realized the value of their pelts‚ and sea otters were
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The Village by the Sea The Village By The Sea (1982) is a novel written by the popular Indian American writer Anita Desai. It is based on the poverty‚ hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural community in India. {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Plot The Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 km (8.7 mi) from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among the four siblings‚ is thirteen years old. Her twelve-year-old brother Hari is the only person with whom
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The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake‚ a body of fresh water‚ although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last 30 years‚ more than 60 percent of the lake has disappeared. The sequence of images above‚ acquired by Landsat satellites‚ shows the dramatic changes to the Aral Sea between 1973 and 2000. Beginning in the 1960s‚ farmers and state offices in Uzbekistan‚ Kazakhstan‚ and Central Asian states
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WHAT ARE SOME TECHNIQUES WRITERS USE TO PARAPHRASE EFFECTIVELY? Integrating Sources Techniques for Paraphrasing When you write a paraphrase‚ you restate other’s ideas in your own words. That is‚ you write the meaning of the author’s ideas. You use some of the author’s key terms‚ but you use many of your own words and sentence structures. You include in‐text citation‚ including the author’s last name and year of publication. WHAT ARE SOME TECHNIQUES WRITERS USE TO PARAPHRASE EFFECTIVELY? Follow
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Mediterranean Sea (35 degrees north‚ 18 degrees east) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe‚ on the south by Africa‚ and on the east by Asia. It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km² (965‚000 mi²)‚ but its connection to the Atlantic (the Strait of Gibraltar) is only 14 km (9 mi) wide. In oceanography‚ it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea of the European Mediterranean Sea‚ to distinguish it from Mediterranean seas elsewhere
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(Mead‚ 2008) This is where SEA reporting plays a role in governmental accounting. The SEA report is an external report aside from the annual comprehensive financial report which ensures that the result of programs and services is communicated effectively to any interested parties. Those interested parties could include elected officials‚ legislative staff‚ citizens‚ and the media. GASB began seeing the importance of SEA reporting as early as its initiation in 1984. SEA reporting at the state
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When reading the novel from a psychoanalytic perspective‚ the sea plays an important role in the ’awakening’ of Edna Pontellier. There is a strong relationship between Edna and the sea from the beginning of the novel to the end. The sea represents Edna’s desire to find her own freedom and identity. In the beginning of the novel‚ Edna’s expression of the sea reflects her awareness of her own identity. "Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf‚ whose sonorous murmur reached her like
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Under the Sea University of Under the Sea Overpowering the lands is water. About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is submerged in water. The Oceans are so massive‚ scientist have only had the opportunity to explore a significantly small portion of it. However‚ the small portion recorded has discovered over 2 million species of marine animals. That is not including the fractions of the animals that live in the unexplored ocean’s floors and surfaces (Science Daily‚ 2011). Besides
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Legal aspects of terrorism at sea Glen Plant* INTRODUCTION On 7 October 1985‚ four armed men claiming to represent the Palestine Liberation Front took control of the Italian-flag cruise liner Achille Lauro on the high seas about thirty miles off Port Said and held the crew and passengers hostage. They had boarded her in port in Genoa posing as legitimate passengers. They demanded the release of fifty Palestinian prisoners held in Israel and threatened to blow up the ship if intervention were
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